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Tao Te Ching (Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Tao Te Ching (Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.95, median 200 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 27/100 (highly competitive).

27Opportunity / 100
$9.95Median price
200Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$4.00 – $12.99
Average rating4.6
New releases (90 days)3%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 27% of the parent category Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts (748), one of the easier corners under it.
  • Only 3% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 88% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $4.00 to $12.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Tao Te Ching best sellers

  1. The Art of Thinking Clearly: The International Bestseller That Improves Decision Making an book cover by Rolf Dobelli

    The Art of Thinking Clearly: The International Bestseller That Improves Decision Making and Counters Faulty Reasoning with Research-Backed Good Sense

    by Rolf Dobelli

    • List rank#1
    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews8,318

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  2. The Iliad (Penguin Classics) book cover by Homer

    The Iliad (Penguin Classics)

    by Homer

    • List rank#2
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews274

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  3. Tao Te Ching book cover by Lao Tzu

    Tao Te Ching

    by Lao Tzu

    • List rank#3
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews5,210

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  4. The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Chuang Tzu, Mencius book cover by David Hinton

    The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Chuang Tzu, Mencius

    by David Hinton

    • List rank#4
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews276

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  5. Tao Te Ching: Text Only Edition book cover by Lao Tzu

    Tao Te Ching: Text Only Edition

    by Lao Tzu

    • List rank#5
    • Price$8.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews903

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  6. Tao Te Ching book cover by Lao Tzu

    Tao Te Ching

    by Lao Tzu

    • List rank#6
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews1,798

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  7. 365 Days of Tao: A Daily One-Page Guide to the Tao Te Ching for Simplicity, Stillness, and book cover by Dae Lee

    365 Days of Tao: A Daily One-Page Guide to the Tao Te Ching for Simplicity, Stillness, and a Calmer Life (The Everyday 365 Books)

    by Dae Lee

    • List rank#7
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews225

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  8. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety book cover by Alan Watts

    The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

    by Alan Watts

    • List rank#8
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews6,944

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  9. Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way book cover by Lao Tzu

    Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way

    by Lao Tzu

    • List rank#9
    • Price$0.49
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews1,759

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  10. Tao Te Ching: A Study of Taoist Philosophy and the Way of Balance (Perennial Classics) book cover by Stephen Mitchell

    Tao Te Ching: A Study of Taoist Philosophy and the Way of Balance (Perennial Classics)

    by Stephen Mitchell

    • List rank#10
    • Price$14.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews1,589

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Same niche in Books: Tao Te Ching

FAQ

Is Tao Te Ching a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 27/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 200 reviews and sells for $9.95.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Tao Te Ching?

The median best seller has 200 reviews, and 31% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Tao Te Ching best sellers cost?

The median price is $9.95; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.00 and $12.99.

Can new books break into Tao Te Ching?

3% 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.