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Contemporary Fiction: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Contemporary Fiction, updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $5.99, median 23,140 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 21/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $9.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.4 |
| New releases (90 days) | 24% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 99% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 23,140 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- 24% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 91% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
- 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 Fiction best sellers
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Wild Dark Shore: Reese's Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- List rank#1
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews74,288
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Partita: A Novel
- List rank#2
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews1,525
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Three Fates
by Nora Roberts
- List rank#3
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews5,114
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Insatiable (The Edge of Darkness: Book 1) (The Edge of Darkness Trilogy)
by Leigh Rivers
- List rank#4
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews82,678
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The Carnage We Keep: A Dark Forced Marriage Mafia Romance (Dark Descendants)
by Jagger Cole
- List rank#7
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews708
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Voracious (The Edge of Darkness: Book 2) (The Edge of Darkness Trilogy)
by Leigh Rivers
- List rank#8
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews61,938
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The Last Letter
- List rank#9
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews231,013
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Love You More: A Novel
by Emily Giffin
- List rank#10
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews8,600
Subcategories
Same niche in Books: Contemporary
FAQ
Is Contemporary Fiction a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 21/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 23,140 reviews and sells for $5.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Contemporary Fiction?
The median best seller has 23,140 reviews, and 8% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Contemporary Fiction best sellers cost?
The median price is $5.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $9.99.
Can new books break into Contemporary Fiction?
24% 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.