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Practical Politics: Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Practical Politics, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 196 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).

28Opportunity / 100
$9.99Median price
196Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$4.24 – $13.99
Average rating4.5
New releases (90 days)9%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 40% of the parent category Elections & Political Process (494), one of the easier corners under it.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $4.24 to $13.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Practical Politics best sellers

  1. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 book cover by Hunter S. Thompson

    Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

    by Hunter S. Thompson

    • List rank#1
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews1,409

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  2. The Fight Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Standing Up to Dictators book cover by Maria Ressa

    The Fight Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Standing Up to Dictators

    by Maria Ressa

    • List rank#2
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews15

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  3. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities book cover by Rebecca Solnit

    Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

    by Rebecca Solnit

    • List rank#3
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews1,079

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  4. How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will—A Senator's Funny and Perce book cover by John Kennedy

    How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will—A Senator's Funny and Perceptive Takedown of Washington Politics

    by John Kennedy

    • List rank#4
    • Price$13.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews15,723

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  5. Not Today, Fascists: The Lies That Got Us Here, and the Truths That Will Reunite Us – An I book cover by Jennifer Welch

    Not Today, Fascists: The Lies That Got Us Here, and the Truths That Will Reunite Us – An Incisive Political Science Analysis of American Democracy

    by Jennifer Welch

    • List rank#5
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.9
    • Reviews86

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  6. The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left book cover by Yuval Levin

    The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

    by Yuval Levin

    • List rank#6
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews441

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  7. Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt — A Pla book cover by Arthur C. Brooks

    Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt — A Plan to Fight Contempt

    by Arthur C. Brooks

    • List rank#7
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews1,030

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  8. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln book cover by Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

    by Doris Kearns Goodwin

    • List rank#8
    • Price$18.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews9,845

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  9. Why I Quit the Dems: And So Should You! (confessions of a reluctant Republican*) book cover by Alan Dershowitz

    Why I Quit the Dems: And So Should You! (confessions of a reluctant Republican*)

    by Alan Dershowitz

    • List rank#9
    • Price$16.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews25

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  10. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals book cover by Saul D. Alinsky

    Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

    by Saul D. Alinsky

    • List rank#10
    • Price$7.99
    • Rating4.1
    • Reviews4,109

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FAQ

Is Practical Politics a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 196 reviews and sells for $9.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Practical Politics?

The median best seller has 196 reviews, and 37% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Practical Politics best sellers cost?

The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.24 and $13.99.

Can new books break into Practical Politics?

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.