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Anthologies (Poetry, Books): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Anthologies (Poetry, Books), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $13.99, median 379 reviews, average rating 4.7 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 26/100 (highly competitive).

26Opportunity / 100
$13.99Median price
379Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$10.99 – $18.56
Average rating4.7
New releases (90 days)6%
Books on the list100
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What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 21% of the parent category Poetry (1,780), one of the easier corners under it.
  • Its review barrier is higher than in 73% of Books categories: the median best seller has 379 reviews, so new books need time to build up.

Top 10 Anthologies best sellers

  1. Dr. Seuss's Beginner Book Boxed Set Collection: The Cat in the Hat; One Fish Two Fish Red  book cover by Dr. Seuss

    Dr. Seuss's Beginner Book Boxed Set Collection: The Cat in the Hat; One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish; Green Eggs and Ham; Hop on Pop; Fox in Socks

    by Dr. Seuss

    • List rank#1
    • Price$26.47
    • Rating4.9
    • Reviews26,262

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  2. Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings book cover by Shel Silverstein

    Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings

    by Shel Silverstein

    • List rank#2
    • Price$11.29
    • Rating4.9
    • Reviews12,372

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  3. The Sneetches and Other Stories book cover by Dr. Seuss

    The Sneetches and Other Stories

    by Dr. Seuss

    • List rank#3
    • Price$9.33
    • Rating4.9
    • Reviews6,659

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  4. The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition book cover by Jalal al-Din Rumi

    The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition

    by Jalal al-Din Rumi

    • List rank#4
    • Price$10.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews4,608

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  5. The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost book cover by Harold Bloom

    The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost

    by Harold Bloom

    • List rank#5
    • Price$12.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews427

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  6. 100 Best-Loved Poems (Thrift Editions) book cover by Philip Smith

    100 Best-Loved Poems (Thrift Editions)

    by Philip Smith

    • List rank#6
    • Price$4.65
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews2,091

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  7. The Collected Poems: The Complete Poetry Collection from the Pultizer Prize Winner (Harper book cover by Sylvia Plath

    The Collected Poems: The Complete Poetry Collection from the Pultizer Prize Winner (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    by Sylvia Plath

    • List rank#7
    • Price$19.45
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews1,651

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  8. Four Quartets: A Poem ― A Modernist Poem in Four Parts book cover by T. S. Eliot

    Four Quartets: A Poem ― A Modernist Poem in Four Parts

    by T. S. Eliot

    • List rank#8
    • Price$8.32
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews1,176

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  9. Spoon River Anthology book cover by Edgar Lee Masters

    Spoon River Anthology

    by Edgar Lee Masters

    • List rank#9
    • Price$0.49
    • Rating4.0
    • Reviews259

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  10. 101 Famous Poems book cover by Roy J. Cook

    101 Famous Poems

    by Roy J. Cook

    • List rank#10
    • Price$10.26
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews1,078

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Same niche in Kindle eBooks: Anthologies

FAQ

Is Anthologies a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 26/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 379 reviews and sells for $13.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Anthologies?

The median best seller has 379 reviews, and 16% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Anthologies best sellers cost?

The median price is $13.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $10.99 and $18.56.

Can new books break into Anthologies?

6% 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.