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United States (Nonfiction › Travel, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for United States (Nonfiction › Travel, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $8.94, median 384 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 26/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $12.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 10% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 24% of the parent category Travel (1,602), one of the easier corners under it.
- Its review barrier is higher than in 77% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 384 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $12.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 United States best sellers
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
- List rank#1
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews8,442
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A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
- List rank#2
- Price$16.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews3,948
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)
by Bill Bryson
- List rank#3
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews26,953
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Blue Highways: A Journey into America
by William Least Heat-Moon
- List rank#4
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews2,045
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One Man's Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition: An Alaskan Odyssey
by Richard Louis Proenneke
- List rank#5
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews3,107
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival — A Frontier Saga
by Peter Stark
- List rank#6
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews5,279
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)
- List rank#7
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews76,870
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PrairyErth: A Deep Map
by William Least Heat-Moon
- List rank#8
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews226
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Downtown: My Manhattan
by Pete Hamill
- List rank#9
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews341
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Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home
by Peter Santenello
- List rank#10
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews280
Subcategories
Same niche in Books: United States
FAQ
Is United States a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 26/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 384 reviews and sells for $8.94.
How many reviews do you need to rank in United States?
The median best seller has 384 reviews, and 24% of them have fewer than 100.
What do United States best sellers cost?
The median price is $8.94; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $12.99.
Can new books break into United States?
10% 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.