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Surgery (Specialties, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Surgery (Specialties, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $11.41, median 80 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $7.99 – $22.48 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 7% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 8% of the parent category Specialties (1,042), one of the easier corners under it.
- At $11.41 its median price beats 92% of Kindle eBooks categories, leaving more margin per copy.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $7.99 to $22.48, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Surgery best sellers
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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery
by Frank T. Vertosick Jr., MD
- List rank#1
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews3,000
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When Breath Becomes Air: Pulitzer Prize Finalist
- List rank#2
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews120,214
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
- List rank#3
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews15,234
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
by Henry Marsh
- List rank#4
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews16,364
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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
by Mary Roach
- List rank#5
- Price$9.02
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,491
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- List rank#6
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews4,915
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War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
by David Nott
- List rank#7
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews6,083
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Emergency War Surgery: The Survivalist's Medical Desk Reference
by Department of the Army
- List rank#8
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews875
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl – The Riveting New York Times Bestseller About Medical Arrogance and Personal Triumph
by John Colapinto
- List rank#9
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews933
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Wretched Results: A Medical Thriller (The Outlander Physician Series Book 2)
by Barbara Ebel
- List rank#10
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews1,108
Subcategories
FAQ
Is Surgery a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 80 reviews and sells for $11.41.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Surgery?
The median best seller has 80 reviews, and 52% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Surgery best sellers cost?
The median price is $11.41; half of the best sellers are priced between $7.99 and $22.48.
Can new books break into Surgery?
7% 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.