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Social & Cultural: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Social & Cultural, updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $10.06, median 947 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 30/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $1.99 – $14.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 14% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 87% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 947 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- At $10.06 its median price beats 88% of Kindle eBooks categories, leaving more margin per copy.
- 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 Social & Cultural best sellers
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
by Chester Nez
- List rank#1
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews4,850
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The Girl Behind the Gates: The gripping, heartbreaking historical bestseller based on a true story
by Brenda Davies
- List rank#2
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews67,009
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The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women
- List rank#3
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews658
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Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
by Kate Hubbard
- List rank#4
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews80
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Man's Search for Meaning
- List rank#5
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews101,090
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A People's History of the United States: The Classic National Bestseller—American History from the Bottom Up, from Columbus to Clinton
by Howard Zinn
- List rank#6
- Price$12.49
- Rating4.7
- Reviews17,647
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
by Tony Horwitz
- List rank#7
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews756
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
by Jeremy D. Popkin
- List rank#8
- Price$17.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews875
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by Jimmy Soni
- List rank#9
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews909
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Summer of '71: Five Months That Changed America
by John A. Jenkins
- List rank#10
- Price$14.54
- Rating4.4
- Reviews24
Subcategories
FAQ
Is Social & Cultural a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 30/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 947 reviews and sells for $10.06.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Social & Cultural?
The median best seller has 947 reviews, and 19% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Social & Cultural best sellers cost?
The median price is $10.06; half of the best sellers are priced between $1.99 and $14.99.
Can new books break into Social & Cultural?
14% 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.