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Renaissance (Europe, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Renaissance (Europe, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $7.99, median 191 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 24/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $11.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 3% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 31% of the parent category Europe (618), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 3% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 88% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $11.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Renaissance best sellers
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
by Ross King
- List rank#1
- Price$1.96
- Rating4.6
- Reviews880
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Machiavelli: A Biography
by Miles Unger
- List rank#2
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews93
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
- List rank#3
- Price$28.35
- Rating4.4
- Reviews63
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Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
by Stephanie Storey
- List rank#4
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews7,143
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- List rank#5
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews3,588
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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
by Ada Palmer
- List rank#6
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews225
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Dressed to Impress: Queen Elizabeth I and the Art of Fashioning Power
by Sylvia Barbara Soberton
- List rank#7
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews13
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Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
by Ann M. Blair
- List rank#8
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews40
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age
by William Manchester
- List rank#9
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews1,618
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Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530–1603 with a Forward by Mary McAleese
by Anne Chambers
- List rank#10
- Price$11.49
- Rating4.4
- Reviews170
FAQ
Is Renaissance a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 24/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 191 reviews and sells for $7.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Renaissance?
The median best seller has 191 reviews, and 42% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Renaissance best sellers cost?
The median price is $7.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $11.99.
Can new books break into Renaissance?
3% 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.