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Alternate History: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Alternate History, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $6.99, median 752 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 34/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $14.95 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 28% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 1% of the parent category Fantasy (50,648), one of the easier corners under it.
- 28% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 96% of Books categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
- At $6.99 its median price is below 97% of Books categories, so it is a volume game.
Top 10 Alternate History best sellers
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The Queen's Witch (The Tudor Witches Book 1)
by Nancy Kress
- List rank#1
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews1,086
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1984
- List rank#3
- Price$18.69
- Rating4.6
- Reviews126,655
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution—An Historic Fantasy of Dark Academia
by R. F. Kuang
- List rank#4
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews30,482
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An Angry Giant: Book 4 of The American War
- List rank#5
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews34
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The Once and Future Witches
- List rank#6
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews12,844
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1492 The Relativity of Tomorrow
by Johnny JJ Hernandez
- List rank#7
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.9
- Reviews148
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Lost in Time
by A.G. Riddle
- List rank#8
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews26,479
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The Silo Series Boxed Set: Wool, Shift, Dust, and Silo Stories
by Hugh Howey
- List rank#9
- Price$31.60
- Rating4.7
- Reviews5,711
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Portal to Nova Roma: Empire
by J.R. Mathews
- List rank#10
- Price$32.95
- Rating4.8
- Reviews695
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FAQ
Is Alternate History a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 34/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 752 reviews and sells for $6.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Alternate History?
The median best seller has 752 reviews, and 18% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Alternate History best sellers cost?
The median price is $6.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $14.95.
Can new books break into Alternate History?
28% 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.