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Olympics & Paralympics (Sports & Outdoors, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Olympics & Paralympics (Sports & Outdoors, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.99, median 191 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 17/100 (highly competitive).

17Opportunity / 100
$9.99Median price
191Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$4.99 – $11.99
Average rating4.5
New releases (90 days)6%
Books on the list100
StoreKindle eBooks

What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 7% of the parent category Sports & Outdoors (2,573), one of the easier corners under it.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $4.99 to $11.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Olympics & Paralympics best sellers

  1. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olym book cover by Daniel James Brown

    The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

    by Daniel James Brown

    • List rank#1
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews92,410

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  2. David Halberstam on Sports: Summer of '49, October 1964, The Amateurs, Playing for Keeps book cover by David Halberstam

    David Halberstam on Sports: Summer of '49, October 1964, The Amateurs, Playing for Keeps

    by David Halberstam

    • List rank#2
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews52

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  3. Sticks & Stones: A Winter Olympics Novella book cover by Jillian Arly

    Sticks & Stones: A Winter Olympics Novella

    by Jillian Arly

    • List rank#3
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews256

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  4. The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in book cover by Kent Alexander

    The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle

    by Kent Alexander

    • List rank#4
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews849

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  5. The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal book cover by David Halberstam

    The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal

    by David Halberstam

    • List rank#5
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews429

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  6. Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympi book cover by Lopez Lomong

    Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games

    by Lopez Lomong

    • List rank#6
    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews2,496

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  7. Norwegian Method: The Culture, Science, and Humans Behind the Groundbreaking Approach to E book cover by Brad Culp

    Norwegian Method: The Culture, Science, and Humans Behind the Groundbreaking Approach to Elite Endurance Performance

    by Brad Culp

    • List rank#7
    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews344

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  8. Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step book cover by Ryan Hall

    Run the Mile You're In: Finding God in Every Step

    by Ryan Hall

    • List rank#8
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews861

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  9. Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence book cover by Gary Mack

    Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

    by Gary Mack

    • List rank#9
    • Price$9.12
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews2,439

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  10. Building the Gymnastic Body: The Science of Gymnastics Strength Training by Christopher So book cover by Christopher Sommer

    Building the Gymnastic Body: The Science of Gymnastics Strength Training by Christopher Sommer

    by Christopher Sommer

    • List rank#10
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews6

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FAQ

Is Olympics & Paralympics a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 17/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 191 reviews and sells for $9.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Olympics & Paralympics?

The median best seller has 191 reviews, and 42% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Olympics & Paralympics best sellers cost?

The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $11.99.

Can new books break into Olympics & Paralympics?

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.