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Social Activists (Biographies, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Social Activists (Biographies, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $6.99, median 196 reviews, average rating 4.7 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 16/100 (highly competitive).

16Opportunity / 100
$6.99Median price
196Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$3.99 – $9.99
Average rating4.7
New releases (90 days)2%
Books on the list100
StoreKindle eBooks

What stands out

  • Only 2% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 93% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $9.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Social Activists best sellers

  1. I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edit book cover by Malala Yousafzai

    I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

    by Malala Yousafzai

    • List rank#1
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews9,639

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  2. Helen Keller (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 2) book cover by Kitson Jazynka

    Helen Keller (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 2)

    by Kitson Jazynka

    • List rank#2
    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews245

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  3. Martin Luther King, Jr. (My Early Library: My Itty-Bitty Bio) book cover by Emma E. Haldy

    Martin Luther King, Jr. (My Early Library: My Itty-Bitty Bio)

    by Emma E. Haldy

    • List rank#3
    • Price$12.79
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews51

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  4. For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture  book cover by Rebecca Langston-George

    For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books)

    by Rebecca Langston-George

    • List rank#4
    • Price$7.17
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews363

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  5. Harriet Tubman (My Early Library: My Itty-Bitty Bio) book cover by Czeena Devera

    Harriet Tubman (My Early Library: My Itty-Bitty Bio)

    by Czeena Devera

    • List rank#5
    • Price$12.79
    • Reviews-

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  6. I Am John F. Kennedy (I Am #9) book cover by Ms. Grace Norwich

    I Am John F. Kennedy (I Am #9)

    by Ms. Grace Norwich

    • List rank#6
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews29

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  7. I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives book cover by Martin Ganda

    I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

    by Martin Ganda

    • List rank#7
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews4,991

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  8. Colin Kaepernick: From Free Agent to Change Agent (Gateway Biographies) book cover by Eric Braun

    Colin Kaepernick: From Free Agent to Change Agent (Gateway Biographies)

    by Eric Braun

    • List rank#8
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews24

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  9. Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court book cover by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court

    by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    • List rank#9
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews763

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  10. The Story of Jane Goodall: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers book cover by Susan B. Katz

    The Story of Jane Goodall: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers

    by Susan B. Katz

    • List rank#10
    • Price$7.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews1,522

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FAQ

Is Social Activists a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 16/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 196 reviews and sells for $6.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Social Activists?

The median best seller has 196 reviews, and 36% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Social Activists best sellers cost?

The median price is $6.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $9.99.

Can new books break into Social Activists?

2% 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.