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Narratives (Sailing, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Narratives (Sailing, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $5.99, median 80 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 15/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $4.99 – $9.95 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 8% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 48% of the parent category Sailing (164), one of the easier corners under it.
Top 10 Narratives best sellers
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Great Loop Escape (Escape Series Book 3)
- List rank#1
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews83
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All Good, K.: Along the Way to Victory in the Golden Globe Race 2022
by Kirsten Neuschäfer
- List rank#2
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.9
- Reviews138
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Escape from the Ordinary (Escape Series Book 1)
- List rank#3
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews2,572
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Thicker Than Ice: A Sailing Family Finds Their Place at the Edge (Five Oceans)
by John Pennington
- List rank#4
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews843
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Odysseys and Oddities: Maritime Memoirs of a Seafaring Captain (The Captain Frank H. Shaw Maritime History Series)
- List rank#5
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews11
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Quest and Crew: A True Sailing Adventure
by David Beaupre
- List rank#6
- Price$5.88
- Rating4.2
- Reviews712
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Young Salt at Sixty: Becoming Better Than Retired
by Deborah Hammett
- List rank#7
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews157
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Passages: Cape Horn and Beyond - Sailing through life’s changing currents
by Lin Pardey
- List rank#8
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews163
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Against the Current: A Family’s Sailing Adventure - Vol1: The nautical tribulations of a family who left everything behind… only to complicate their routine!
by Christine JIMENEZ-MARIANI
- List rank#9
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews23
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Get Real, Get Gone: How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Away Forever
by Rick Page
- List rank#10
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews2,348
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FAQ
Is Narratives a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 15/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 80 reviews and sells for $5.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Narratives?
The median best seller has 80 reviews, and 54% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Narratives best sellers cost?
The median price is $5.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $9.95.
Can new books break into Narratives?
8% 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.