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Southern (Europe, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Southern (Europe, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $7.99, median 458 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 22/100 (highly competitive).

22Opportunity / 100
$7.99Median price
458Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$2.99 – $12.99
Average rating4.4
New releases (90 days)6%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its review barrier is higher than in 79% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 458 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $2.99 to $12.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Southern best sellers

  1. The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance book cover by Ross King

    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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  2. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World book cover by Martyn C.  Rady

    The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

    by Martyn C. Rady

    • List rank#2
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews689

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  3. The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God book cover by Jonathan Kirsch

    The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God

    by Jonathan Kirsch

    • List rank#3
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating3.9
    • Reviews165

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  4. The Odyssey book cover by Homer

    The Odyssey

    by Homer

    • List rank#4
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews4,904

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  5. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture book cover by Ross King

    Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

    by Ross King

    • List rank#5
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews2,683

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  6. The Prince book cover by Niccolò Machiavelli

    The Prince

    by Niccolò Machiavelli

    • List rank#6
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews1,485

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  7. River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage through the Amazon book cover by Buddy Levy

    River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage through the Amazon

    by Buddy Levy

    • List rank#7
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews2,103

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  8. Jackie's Back: An American Tank Crew in World War II Italy (The Iron Cavalry Series Book 1 book cover by Richard Hendrix

    Jackie's Back: An American Tank Crew in World War II Italy (The Iron Cavalry Series Book 1)

    by Richard Hendrix

    • List rank#8
    • Price$3.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews94

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  9. The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, book cover by Martin Dugard

    The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery

    by Martin Dugard

    • List rank#9
    • Price$11.44
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews1,299

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  10. Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain (The Middle Ages Series) book cover by Joseph F. O'Callaghan

    Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain (The Middle Ages Series)

    by Joseph F. O'Callaghan

    • List rank#10
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews65

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FAQ

Is Southern a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 22/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 458 reviews and sells for $7.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Southern?

The median best seller has 458 reviews, and 22% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Southern best sellers cost?

The median price is $7.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $2.99 and $12.99.

Can new books break into Southern?

6% 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.