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Sustainability & Green Design: Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Sustainability & Green Design, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $28, median 72 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 33/100 (highly competitive).

33Opportunity / 100
$28Median price
72Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$20.55 – $40.49
Average rating4.6
New releases (90 days)5%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 13% of the parent category Architecture (554), one of the easier corners under it.
  • At $28 its median price beats 87% of Books categories, leaving more margin per copy.
  • Only 5% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 75% of Books categories: established titles hold the list.

Top 10 Sustainability & Green Design best sellers

  1. Homesteading: A Backyard Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Genera book cover by Abigail Gehring

    Homesteading: A Backyard Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More (Back to Basics Guides)

    by Abigail Gehring

    • List rank#1
    • Price$23.25
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews1,077

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  2. Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition: Guiding Principles to book cover by Brad Lancaster

    Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape

    by Brad Lancaster

    • List rank#2
    • Price$28.31
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews310

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  3. Polyface Designs: A Comprehensive Construction Guide for Scalable Farming Infrastructure book cover by Joel Salatin

    Polyface Designs: A Comprehensive Construction Guide for Scalable Farming Infrastructure

    by Joel Salatin

    • List rank#3
    • Price$45.48
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews852

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  4. The Rocket Mass Heater Builder's Guide: Complete Step-by-Step Construction, Maintenance an book cover by Erica Wisner

    The Rocket Mass Heater Builder's Guide: Complete Step-by-Step Construction, Maintenance and Troubleshooting

    by Erica Wisner

    • List rank#4
    • Price$24.19
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews648

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  5. Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California book cover by David Jacob Kramer

    Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California

    by David Jacob Kramer

    • List rank#5
    • Price$59.97
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews2

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  6. The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse: How to Design and Build a Net-Zero Energy Greenhouse book cover by Lindsey Schiller

    The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse: How to Design and Build a Net-Zero Energy Greenhouse

    by Lindsey Schiller

    • List rank#6
    • Price$19.41
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews858

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  7. Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition: Water-Harvesting Eart book cover by Brad Lancaster

    Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2, 2nd Edition: Water-Harvesting Earthworks

    by Brad Lancaster

    • List rank#7
    • Price$35.30
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews208

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  8. Prescriptions for a Healthy House, 4th Edition: A Practical Guide for Architects, Builders book cover by Paula Baker-Laporte

    Prescriptions for a Healthy House, 4th Edition: A Practical Guide for Architects, Builders and Homeowners

    by Paula Baker-Laporte

    • List rank#8
    • Price$58.52
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews87

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  9. BioGeometry Signatures: Harmonizing the Body's Subtle Energy Exchange with the Environment book cover by Ibrahim Karim Dr.Sc.

    BioGeometry Signatures: Harmonizing the Body's Subtle Energy Exchange with the Environment

    by Ibrahim Karim Dr.Sc.

    • List rank#9
    • Price$28
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews1,002

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  10. Technical Landscape Architecture: A Working Handbook for Technical Landscape Architects book cover by Nazila Keshavarz

    Technical Landscape Architecture: A Working Handbook for Technical Landscape Architects

    by Nazila Keshavarz

    • List rank#10
    • Price$25
    • Rating5.0
    • Reviews3

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FAQ

Is Sustainability & Green Design a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 33/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 72 reviews and sells for $28.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Sustainability & Green Design?

The median best seller has 72 reviews, and 57% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Sustainability & Green Design best sellers cost?

The median price is $28; half of the best sellers are priced between $20.55 and $40.49.

Can new books break into Sustainability & Green Design?

5% 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.