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Oceania (Australia & Oceania, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Oceania (Australia & Oceania, Books), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $18.73, median 94 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 30/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $14.56 – $27.03 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 6% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 36% of the parent category Australia & Oceania (259), one of the easier corners under it.
Top 10 Oceania best sellers
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- List rank#1
- Price$10.59
- Rating4.5
- Reviews11,086
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Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World
by Joan Druett
- List rank#2
- Price$12.09
- Rating4.4
- Reviews7,993
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
by Christina Thompson
- List rank#3
- Price$18.37
- Rating4.5
- Reviews2,012
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
- List rank#4
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews1,318
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A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic (Holt Paperback)
by Walter Lord
- List rank#5
- Price$9.92
- Rating4.4
- Reviews5,461
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Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
- List rank#6
- Price$25.59
- Rating4.6
- Reviews963
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The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding
by Robert Hughes
- List rank#7
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews1,570
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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
by Lincoln Paine
- List rank#8
- Price$25.59
- Rating4.4
- Reviews420
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Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island – A Provocative Archaeological Study of Colonial Legacy, Indigenous Reclamation, and the Collapse Myth
by Mike Pitts
- List rank#9
- Price$17.44
- Rating4.0
- Reviews98
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FAQ
Is Oceania a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 30/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 94 reviews and sells for $18.73.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Oceania?
The median best seller has 94 reviews, and 52% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Oceania best sellers cost?
The median price is $18.73; half of the best sellers are priced between $14.56 and $27.03.
Can new books break into Oceania?
6% 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.