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Renaissance (Movements & Periods, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Renaissance (Movements & Periods, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $11.99, median 15 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 24/100 (highly competitive).

24Opportunity / 100
$11.99Median price
15Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$5.99 – $19.25
Average rating4.5
New releases (90 days)5%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 5% of the parent category Movements & Periods (278), one of the easier corners under it.
  • At $11.99 its median price beats 93% of Kindle eBooks categories, leaving more margin per copy.
  • Its review barrier is lower than in 76% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has only 15 reviews, so new books can chart with few.

Top 10 Renaissance best sellers

  1. Utopia by Thomas More: A Visionary Exploration of Equality, Justice, and the Ideal Society book cover by Thomas More

    Utopia by Thomas More: A Visionary Exploration of Equality, Justice, and the Ideal Society (Grapevine Edition)

    by Thomas More

    • List rank#1
    • Price$0.39
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews2,631

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  2. Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival book cover by Stephen Greenblatt

    Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

    by Stephen Greenblatt

    • List rank#2
    • Price$9.50
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews361

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  3. Montaigne (Pushkin Collection) book cover by Stefan Zweig

    Montaigne (Pushkin Collection)

    by Stefan Zweig

    • List rank#3
    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews621

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  4. Shakespeare's Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom book cover by C. L. Barber

    Shakespeare's Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom

    by C. L. Barber

    • List rank#4
    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews11

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  5. King Lear: The New Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics) book cover by William Shakespeare

    King Lear: The New Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)

    by William Shakespeare

    • List rank#5
    • Price$6.99
    • Rating3.0
    • Reviews1

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  6. The Complete Essays book cover by M.E. De  Montaigne

    The Complete Essays

    by M.E. De Montaigne

    • List rank#6
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews760

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  7. El Príncipe: Edición Completa en Español del libro de Maquiavelo | Lord Kaizen (Spanish Ed book cover by Nicolás Maquiavelo

    El Príncipe: Edición Completa en Español del libro de Maquiavelo | Lord Kaizen (Spanish Edition)

    by Nicolás Maquiavelo

    • List rank#7
    • Price$6.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews89

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  8. The Tempest: The New Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics) book cover by William Shakespeare

    The Tempest: The New Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)

    by William Shakespeare

    • List rank#8
    • Price$5.99
    • Rating4.1
    • Reviews8

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  9. The New Atlantis book cover by Sir Francis Bacon

    The New Atlantis

    by Sir Francis Bacon

    • List rank#9
    • Price$0.52
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews156

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  10. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne book cover by Katherine Rundell

    Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

    by Katherine Rundell

    • List rank#10
    • Price$12.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews855

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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 15 reviews and sells for $11.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Renaissance?

The median best seller has 15 reviews, and 80% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Renaissance best sellers cost?

The median price is $11.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $5.99 and $19.25.

Can new books break into Renaissance?

5% 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.