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Asian (Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Regional & Cultural, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Asian (Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Regional & Cultural, Books), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $13.90, median 136 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 29/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $11.29 – $16.84 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 7% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 6% of the parent category Regional & Cultural (2,222), one of the easier corners under it.
Top 10 Asian best sellers
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The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Chuang Tzu, Mencius
by David Hinton
- List rank#1
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews276
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HSK 1 Chinese Characters Workbook for Beginners - Volume 1: New Words, Pinyin, Stroke Order, Popular Phrases, Example Sentences, Daily Dialogues, Quiz ... for Lesson 1 - 7 (Master Chinese Characters)
by Shu Ping
- List rank#3
- Price$25.98
- Rating4.7
- Reviews214
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Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
by Lao Tzu
- List rank#4
- Price$16.68
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,759
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Love is a Dog From Hell: Bukowski’s Raw Poetic Reflections on Life and Heartbreak
- List rank#5
- Price$17.70
- Rating4.6
- Reviews2,364
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Anne Carson
- List rank#6
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews314
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The Wild Iris: Winner of the Nobel Prize
by Louise Gluck
- List rank#7
- Price$15.83
- Rating4.6
- Reviews758
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The Way of Chuang Tzu
- List rank#9
- Price$13.65
- Rating4.6
- Reviews834
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A Book Of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry ― An Anthology of 300 Poems From Around the World
by Czeslaw Milosz
- List rank#10
- Price$11.08
- Rating4.5
- Reviews404
Subcategories
- Chinese29
FAQ
Is Asian a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 29/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 136 reviews and sells for $13.90.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Asian?
The median best seller has 136 reviews, and 31% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Asian best sellers cost?
The median price is $13.90; half of the best sellers are priced between $11.29 and $16.84.
Can new books break into Asian?
7% 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.