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United States (Regions, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for United States (Regions, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $8.49, median 130 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $2.99 – $11.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 5% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 34% of the parent category Regions (383), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 5% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 76% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $2.99 to $11.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 United States best sellers
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The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings: Complete Psychological and Existential Works of 19th-Century Russia
- List rank#2
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews195
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
- List rank#3
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews253
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One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
by Brian Doyle
- List rank#4
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews912
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoir of Nature, Observation, and the Seasons in Virginia
- List rank#5
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews1,530
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The Wizard of Oz 15 Book Collection: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Box Set, The Marvellous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, The Road ... by L. Frank Baum (2014) Paperback
- List rank#6
- Price$0.49
- Rating4.7
- Reviews47
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Unabridged and Complete Edition (A Walt Whitman Classics)
by Walt Whitman
- List rank#7
- Price$0.52
- Rating4.4
- Reviews4,333
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Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited
by Tracy Daugherty
- List rank#8
- Price$17.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews28
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Salinger: A Biography
by Paul Alexander
- List rank#9
- Price$2.99
- Rating3.8
- Reviews37
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Los hermanos Karamazov: Clásicos de la literatura (Spanish Edition)
- List rank#10
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,942
Subcategories
FAQ
Is United States a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 130 reviews and sells for $8.49.
How many reviews do you need to rank in United States?
The median best seller has 130 reviews, and 41% of them have fewer than 100.
What do United States best sellers cost?
The median price is $8.49; half of the best sellers are priced between $2.99 and $11.99.
Can new books break into United States?
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.