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Modernism (Movements & Periods, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Modernism (Movements & Periods, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $10.99, median 24 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 21/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $5.99 – $16.19 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 3% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 9% of the parent category Movements & Periods (278), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 3% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 88% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- At $10.99 its median price beats 90% of Kindle eBooks categories, leaving more margin per copy.
Top 10 Modernism best sellers
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American Lit 101: From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an essential guide to American writers and works (Adams 101 Series)
by Brianne Keith
- List rank#1
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews63
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How To Read A Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry (Harvest Book)
by Edward Hirsch
- List rank#2
- Price$9.96
- Rating4.3
- Reviews276
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After Nature
by W.G. Sebald
- List rank#3
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews95
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Making Us New: From Eugenics to Transhumanism in Modernist Culture (Oxford Studies in Disability Ethics and Society)
by Maren Tova Linett
- List rank#4
- Price$27.99
- Reviews-
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Letters to a Young Poet
- List rank#5
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews256
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Hardy: Selected Poems
by Thomas Hardy
- List rank#6
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews51
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Voronezh Notebooks (NYRB Poets)
by Osip Mandelstam
- List rank#7
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.1
- Reviews13
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David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity (Jews in Eastern Europe)
by Harriet Murav
- List rank#8
- Price$0.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
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Sontag: Her Life and Work
- List rank#9
- Price$17.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews380
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Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)
by Franz Kafka
- List rank#10
- Price$10.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews663
FAQ
Is Modernism a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 21/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 24 reviews and sells for $10.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Modernism?
The median best seller has 24 reviews, and 80% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Modernism best sellers cost?
The median price is $10.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $5.99 and $16.19.
Can new books break into Modernism?
3% 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.