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Religious Studies & Reference: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Religious Studies & Reference, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9, median 1,436 reviews, average rating 4.7 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 29/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $1.99 – $14.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.7 |
| New releases (90 days) | 11% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 91% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 1,436 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $1.99 to $14.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Religious Studies & Reference best sellers
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The Touch Remedy: Hands-On Solutions to De-Stress Your Life – Empowering Acupressure and Reflexology for Anxiety, Pain, and Immunity
by Michelle K. Ebbin
- List rank#2
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews47
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The World's Greatest Book: The Story of How the Bible Came to Be
by Jerry A. Pattengale
- List rank#3
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews222
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The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
by Lee Strobel
- List rank#4
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews15,801
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The Apocrypha Complete 180-Book Edition: Including Deuterocanon, Pseudephigrapha, Nag Hammadi Scriptures, Gnostic Gospels, 1-3 Enoch, Jasher, Jubilees, Ethiopian Bible and More
- List rank#5
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews220
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Church History in Plain Language, Fifth Edition: The Story of the Church for Today's Readers
by Bruce L. Shelley
- List rank#6
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews677
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Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis Signature Classics)
by C. S. Lewis
- List rank#8
- Price$13.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews10,958
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The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
by Jonathan Kirsch
- List rank#9
- Price$1.99
- Rating3.9
- Reviews165
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Subcategories
- Education34
- Leadership29
- Ethics29
- Controversial Knowledge29
- Science & Religion28
- Sociology28
- Church & State28
- Antiquities & Archaeology26
- Eschatology26
- Reference26
- Philosophy26
- Psychology25
- Gnosticism25
- Theology25
- Faith Deconstruction25
- Comparative Religion25
- Essays25
- History24
- Christian Literature & Art24
- Fundamentalism23
- Ecumenism22
- Religious Intolerance21
- Religious20
- Blasphemy17
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FAQ
Is Religious Studies & Reference a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 29/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 1,436 reviews and sells for $9.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Religious Studies & Reference?
The median best seller has 1,436 reviews, and 17% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Religious Studies & Reference best sellers cost?
The median price is $9; half of the best sellers are priced between $1.99 and $14.99.
Can new books break into Religious Studies & Reference?
11% 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.