Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Authors
Monthly median sales (top 30)
$30,429
The median book price
$15.75
Bestseller's daily sales
1,617
50th book's daily sales
17
Average number of pages per book
296
Monopoly/Olygopoly detected
Yes
Performance tracking
Matching KDP categories
nonfiction > biography & autobiography > entertainment & performing arts
54.77%
juvenile > nonfiction > biography & autobiography > performing arts
54.77%
nonfiction > biography & autobiography > women
44.72%
nonfiction > biography & autobiography > sports
44.72%
Keyword requirement
Best selling keywords
Median title & subtitle length is 7 words:
- Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir (book)
- Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
- A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir
- Indie success
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- Volatility
- New releases
- KDP Select
Extract of the best seller list's front page
Front-page bestsellers:
Book title | Author | Publisher | Absolute rank | Monthly sales volume | Price | Amazon stars | Amazon reviews | |
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1 | Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder | Salman Rushdie | Self published | 33 | $573,652 | $25.20 | 0 | |
2 | Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder | Salman Rushdie | Random House Audio | 69 | $291,522 | $17.92 | 1 | |
3 | My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me | Caleb Carr | "A love story of the best, most ethereal kind...Tears will flow, and they will be warranted."― | 92 | $399,056 | $28.00 | 2 | |
4 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir (book) | Jeannette Walls | Self published | 914 | $24,122 | $9.68 | 41,763 | |
5 | Black Boy | Richard Wright | HarperAudio | 932 | $62,068 | $25.19 | 2,853 | |
6 | Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer | Anchor Books; 1st edition | 1,056 | $20,149 | $8.67 | 20,312 | |
7 | Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent | Judi Dench | Macmillan Audio | 1,420 | N/A | $-1.00 | 347 | |
8 | A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré | John le Carré | Self published | 1,441 | $35,227 | $17.72 | 166 | |
9 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir | Jeannette Walls | Simon & Schuster Audio | 1,486 | $30,371 | $15.72 | 41,763 | |
10 | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King | Simon & Schuster Audio | 1,527 | $37,984 | $19.95 | 19,562 | |
11 | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue)) | Stephen King | Scribner; Reissue edition | 1,529 | $20,772 | $10.91 | 19,562 | |
12 | Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette | Judith Thurman | Random House Audio | 1,638 | N/A | $-1.00 | 125 | |
13 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | Random House Audio | 1,854 | $26,460 | $15.75 | 35,164 | |
14 | The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner | Joan Didion | Self published | 1,986 | $16,710 | $10.29 | 11,516 | |
15 | The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Harper; Reprint edition | 2,821 | $2,395 | $1.99 | 327 |