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Places (Themes & Styles, Books): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Places (Themes & Styles, Books), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $15.06, median 141 reviews, average rating 4.7 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 29/100 (highly competitive).

29Opportunity / 100
$15.06Median price
141Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$12.33 – $18.61
Average rating4.7
New releases (90 days)9%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 14% of the parent category Themes & Styles (995), one of the easier corners under it.

Top 10 Places best sellers

  1. Between Heaven And Earth: Poems about Losing & Finding Yourself book cover by TheFallen Poet

    Between Heaven And Earth: Poems about Losing & Finding Yourself

    by TheFallen Poet

    • List rank#1
    • Price$17
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews596

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  2. The Odyssey book cover by Homer

    The Odyssey

    by Homer

    • List rank#2
    • Price$19.59
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews68

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  3. Begin Again book cover by Alex Aubrey

    Begin Again

    by Alex Aubrey

    • List rank#3
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews22

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  4. The Odyssey (Penguin Clothbound Classics) book cover by Homer

    The Odyssey (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

    by Homer

    • List rank#4
    • Price$14.54
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews1,316

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  5. You Better Be Lightning (Button Poetry) book cover by Andrea Gibson

    You Better Be Lightning (Button Poetry)

    by Andrea Gibson

    • List rank#5
    • Price$15.52
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews1,328

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  6. The Collected Poems: The Complete Poetry Collection from the Pultizer Prize Winner (Harper book cover by Sylvia Plath

    The Collected Poems: The Complete Poetry Collection from the Pultizer Prize Winner (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    by Sylvia Plath

    • List rank#6
    • Price$19.45
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews1,651

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  7. The Wild Iris: Winner of the Nobel Prize book cover by Louise Gluck

    The Wild Iris: Winner of the Nobel Prize

    by Louise Gluck

    • List rank#7
    • Price$15.83
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews758

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  8. Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original S book cover by Sylvia Plath

    Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (Modern Classics)

    by Sylvia Plath

    • List rank#8
    • Price$10.44
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews1,976

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  9. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) book cover by Andrea Gibson

    Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

    by Andrea Gibson

    • List rank#9
    • Price$12.65
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews976

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  10. We book cover by Layli Long Soldier

    We

    by Layli Long Soldier

    • List rank#10
    • Price$20
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews2

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Same niche in Kindle eBooks: Places

FAQ

Is Places a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 29/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 141 reviews and sells for $15.06.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Places?

The median best seller has 141 reviews, and 36% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Places best sellers cost?

The median price is $15.06; half of the best sellers are priced between $12.33 and $18.61.

Can new books break into Places?

9% 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.