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Contemporary (Poetry, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Contemporary (Poetry, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $7.99, median 186 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 29/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $9.99 |
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| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 7% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 14% of the parent category Poetry (1,350), one of the easier corners under it.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $9.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Contemporary best sellers
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Libertine
by Vega Starlight
- List rank#2
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.0
- Reviews1
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Anne Carson
- List rank#3
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews969
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Welcome Darkness: Poetry (Life's Tree Spins On. . .)
by Aubrey E Drummond
- List rank#6
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews4
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Devotions: A Read with Jenna Pick: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
by Mary Oliver
- List rank#7
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews6,578
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On Cats: Funny, Moving Essays and Poems About Felines, Beauty, and Love by Charles Bukowski
- List rank#8
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews728
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Sidelined: An M/M College Romance (LSU Book 2)
by Becca Steele
- List rank#9
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews3,751
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
by Jesmyn Ward
- List rank#10
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews644
FAQ
Is Contemporary a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 29/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 186 reviews and sells for $7.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Contemporary?
The median best seller has 186 reviews, and 41% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Contemporary best sellers cost?
The median price is $7.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $9.99.
Can new books break into Contemporary?
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.