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Politics (Subjects & Themes, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Politics (Subjects & Themes, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 32 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 21/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $14.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 8% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 5% of the parent category Subjects & Themes (692), one of the easier corners under it.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $14.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Politics best sellers
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On Tyranny: Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence
by Leo Strauss
- List rank#1
- Price$21.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews60
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The Souls of Black Folk: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition ( W.E.B. Du Bois Classics)
- List rank#2
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews3,397
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
- List rank#4
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews1,938
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The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington & The Last Chronicle ... romance - Classics of English Literature
by Anthony Trollope
- List rank#5
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews561
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Project 2025 • A Mandate for Authoritarian Leadership: The Heritage Foundation’s Conservative Promise for A Second Trump Administration
by Simon Pierce
- List rank#6
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews637
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
- List rank#7
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews476
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
- List rank#8
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews724
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Colección integral de León Tolstoi (Guerra y Paz, Ana Karenina, La muerte de Iván Ilich, Resurrección) (Spanish Edition)
by León Tolstoi
- List rank#10
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews396
FAQ
Is Politics a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 21/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 32 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Politics?
The median best seller has 32 reviews, and 71% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Politics best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $14.99.
Can new books break into Politics?
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.