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Modern Renaissance: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Modern Renaissance, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $16.30, median 35 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $11.99 – $24.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 2% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 2% of the parent category Western (1,405), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 2% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 93% of Books categories: established titles hold the list.
Top 10 Modern Renaissance best sellers
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The Prince (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) (Fingerprint Classics)
- List rank#1
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews8,332
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Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
by Michel de Montaigne
- List rank#2
- Price$26.02
- Rating4.6
- Reviews760
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Pensées (Penguin Classics)
by Blaise Pascal
- List rank#3
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews684
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The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)
by Michel de Montaigne
- List rank#4
- Price$12.05
- Rating4.6
- Reviews288
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The Decline of the West
by Oswald Spengler
- List rank#5
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews314
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
by Michel de Montaigne
- List rank#6
- Price$23.57
- Rating4.6
- Reviews175
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Three Books of Occult Philosophy
by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
- List rank#7
- Price$17.06
- Rating4.5
- Reviews386
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El Príncipe (Spanish Edition)
- List rank#8
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews504
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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
by Steven Nadler
- List rank#9
- Price$13.97
- Rating4.5
- Reviews376
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Aquinas: An Audio Guide
by Edward Feser
- List rank#10
- Price$16.32
- Rating4.6
- Reviews660
FAQ
Is Modern Renaissance a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 35 reviews and sells for $16.30.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Modern Renaissance?
The median best seller has 35 reviews, and 74% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Modern Renaissance best sellers cost?
The median price is $16.30; half of the best sellers are priced between $11.99 and $24.99.
Can new books break into Modern Renaissance?
2% 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.