It’s easy to see that we are captivated by biographies and memoirs of famous people. The number in brackets is the average Amazon ranking of the top five books in each category. This is the top ten list for print book categories (paperbacks and hardcovers) on on November 17, 2017. Here are the results: The Top 10 Non-Fiction Categories on Amazon in Print Books I did this for both print Books and Kindle eBooks. Then I calculated the average ranking for each category to see which Amazon category is the most popular. The highest ranking non-fiction book, Obama: An Intimate Portrait has an Amazon Best Seller ranking of #3 as of today. I looked at ten major non-fiction categories and noted the Amazon Bestsellers Rank for each of the top five books in each one.įor example, in the Biographies & Memoirs category, the top five books had Amazon Best Seller rankings of #3, #6, #7, #16 and #20 (the lower the number, the higher the book’s ranking). So I decided to do some research to find out what the best selling non-fiction books are today on Amazon. While this makes sense intuitively (most of us aspire to the things that these books promise), I wondered if there was any empirical evidence to support her suggested list. One of my mentors once told me that the five most popular self-help book topics are money, success, happiness, relationships, and dieting. Which non-fiction book topics are the most popular? And, if you’re writing a non-fiction book should you choose a best selling genre that has an established audience or risk lower sales by publishing a book in a less popular category? The 5 Most Popular Non-Fiction Book Topics Posted by Geoff Affleck on NovemFebruary 1, 2019

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