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Military & Wars (Children's eBooks › Historical Fiction, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Military & Wars (Children's eBooks › Historical Fiction, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $5.99, median 470 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 13/100 (highly competitive).

13Opportunity / 100
$5.99Median price
470Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$4.23 – $8.88
Average rating4.6
New releases (90 days)1%
Books on the list100
StoreKindle eBooks

What stands out

  • Only 1% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 97% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
  • Its median reviews are 21% of the parent category Historical Fiction (2,260), one of the easier corners under it.
  • Its review barrier is higher than in 79% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 470 reviews, so new books need time to build up.

Top 10 Military & Wars best sellers

  1. Your Life As A Viking Warrior: (Illustrated Book) (Your Life As...) book cover by Chase Faraday

    Your Life As A Viking Warrior: (Illustrated Book) (Your Life As...)

    by Chase Faraday

    • List rank#1
    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews77

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  2. Salt to the Sea book cover by Ruta Sepetys

    Salt to the Sea

    by Ruta Sepetys

    • List rank#2
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews17,607

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  3. Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner – An Inspiring Story of Courage and Friendship du book cover by Lois Lowry

    Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner – An Inspiring Story of Courage and Friendship during the Danish Resistance for Children (Ages 10-12)

    by Lois Lowry

    • List rank#3
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews22,166

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  4. A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story book cover by Linda Sue Park

    A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

    by Linda Sue Park

    • List rank#4
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews27,713

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  5. The War that Saved My Life: (Newbery Honor Award Winner) book cover by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

    The War that Saved My Life: (Newbery Honor Award Winner)

    by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

    • List rank#5
    • Price$5.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews10,693

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  6. I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived Graphic Novel #14) (I Survived Gr book cover by Lauren Tarshis

    I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived Graphic Novel #14) (I Survived Graphix)

    by Lauren Tarshis

    • List rank#6
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews191

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  7. I Escaped The World's Deadliest Shark Attack: The USS Indianapolis Disaster, WW2 book cover by Scott Peters

    I Escaped The World's Deadliest Shark Attack: The USS Indianapolis Disaster, WW2

    by Scott Peters

    • List rank#7
    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews692

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  8. An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story book cover by Michael Morpurgo

    An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story

    by Michael Morpurgo

    • List rank#8
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews6,267

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  9. Refugee book cover by Alan Gratz

    Refugee

    by Alan Gratz

    • List rank#9
    • Price$10.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews11,645

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  10. Time for Courage book cover by Rob Currie

    Time for Courage

    by Rob Currie

    • List rank#10
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews52

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FAQ

Is Military & Wars a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 13/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 470 reviews and sells for $5.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Military & Wars?

The median best seller has 470 reviews, and 20% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Military & Wars best sellers cost?

The median price is $5.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.23 and $8.88.

Can new books break into Military & Wars?

1% 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.