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Middle East (History, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Middle East (History, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 476 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 29/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $14.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 12% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 79% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 476 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $14.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Middle East best sellers
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The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
- List rank#1
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews301
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Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
by Eckart Frahm
- List rank#2
- Price$17.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews577
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Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
by Noa Tishby
- List rank#3
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews3,990
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Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
- List rank#4
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews53
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Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
- List rank#5
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,950
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Going to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran
by Flynt Leverett
- List rank#6
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews199
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
- List rank#7
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews5,118
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
by Mir Tamim Ansary
- List rank#8
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews2,233
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
by Roger Crowley
- List rank#9
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,066
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The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East
by Kim Ghattas
- List rank#10
- Price$16.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews24
Subcategories
Same niche in Books: Middle East
FAQ
Is Middle East a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 29/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 476 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Middle East?
The median best seller has 476 reviews, and 23% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Middle East best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $14.99.
Can new books break into Middle East?
12% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
About this data
Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.