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Classical & Early: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Classical & Early, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $3.50, median 74 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 25/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $0.99 – $9.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 1% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 8% of the parent category Drama & Plays (908), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 1% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 97% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- At $3.50 its median price is below 97% of Kindle eBooks categories, so it is a volume game.
Top 10 Classical & Early best sellers
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
- List rank#1
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews11,541
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The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- List rank#2
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews5,894
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The Agatha Christie Collection
- List rank#3
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews7,323
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Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)
by Euripides
- List rank#4
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews26
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
by Robert Fagles
- List rank#5
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews2,653
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The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Modern Library Classics)
by Sophocles
- List rank#6
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews669
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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
by Sophocles
- List rank#7
- Price$7.93
- Rating4.6
- Reviews519
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Faust, Part One (AmazonClassics Edition)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- List rank#8
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews1,183
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The Complete Plays of Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House, Ghosts, and others (Grapevine Press)
by Henrik Ibsen
- List rank#9
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews6
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FAQ
Is Classical & Early a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 25/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 74 reviews and sells for $3.50.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Classical & Early?
The median best seller has 74 reviews, and 53% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Classical & Early best sellers cost?
The median price is $3.50; half of the best sellers are priced between $0.99 and $9.99.
Can new books break into Classical & Early?
1% 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.