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Special Groups: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Special Groups, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $7.99, median 1,474 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 16/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $1.99 – $12.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 6% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 91% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 1,474 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $1.99 to $12.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Special Groups best sellers
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
by Saidiya V. Hartman
- List rank#1
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews381
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All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
by bell hooks
- List rank#2
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews15,090
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The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America
by Edward Laxton
- List rank#3
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews291
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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
by Andrew Solomon
- List rank#4
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews2,125
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- List rank#5
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews25,354
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- List rank#6
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews23,680
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by Edward E Baptist
- List rank#7
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews2,427
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Intellectuals and Race
- List rank#9
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.9
- Reviews959
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The Book of Delights: Essays
by Ross Gay
- List rank#10
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews2,120
Subcategories
FAQ
Is Special Groups a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 16/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 1,474 reviews and sells for $7.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Special Groups?
The median best seller has 1,474 reviews, and 16% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Special Groups best sellers cost?
The median price is $7.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $1.99 and $12.99.
Can new books break into Special Groups?
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.