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Solo Travel (Specialty Travel, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Solo Travel (Specialty Travel, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $5.99, median 28 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 26/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $8.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 14% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 6% of the parent category Specialty Travel (460), one of the easier corners under it.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $8.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Solo Travel best sellers
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Confessions of a Middle-Aged Backpacker: A Solo Travel Memoir
by Chris Gattanella
- List rank#1
- Price$2.49
- Rating4.4
- Reviews553
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Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home
by Peter Santenello
- List rank#2
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews280
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The Wilder Way: A Memoir of Adventure, Freedom, and an Uncharted Life
by Eva zu Beck
- List rank#3
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews705
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Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 2)
by Patrick Taylor
- List rank#4
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews2,693
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Walking in Wonder on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Adam Segel-Moss
- List rank#5
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews47
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America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
by Blythe Roberson
- List rank#6
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews294
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Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon — An Amazon Memoir
by Paul Rosolie
- List rank#7
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,925
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Sailing into the Unknown: A True Story of Solo Adventure and Freedom Around the World (Book 1)
by Frederic Lemoine
- List rank#8
- Price$1.99
- Rating3.6
- Reviews99
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Dove: An Extraordinary Around-the-World Adventure—The Solo Voyage of Five Years and 33,000 Miles
by Robin L. Graham
- List rank#9
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,563
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A Rosie Life In Italy 7: A Humorous Memoir of Life, Love, and Letting Italy Do Its Thing
by Rosie Meleady
- List rank#10
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews523
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FAQ
Is Solo Travel a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 26/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 28 reviews and sells for $5.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Solo Travel?
The median best seller has 28 reviews, and 65% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Solo Travel best sellers cost?
The median price is $5.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $8.99.
Can new books break into Solo Travel?
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.