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Drugs: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Drugs, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $11.99, median 23 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 19/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $6.99 – $17.88 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 1% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- 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 $11.99 its median price beats 93% of Kindle eBooks categories, leaving more margin per copy.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $6.99 to $17.88, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Drugs best sellers
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by Beth Macy
- List rank#1
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews5,266
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Bad Therapist (Exposure collection)
by Evan Wright
- List rank#2
- Price$0.99
- Rating3.9
- Reviews483
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Breaking Midnight: A True Story (Nonfiction Addiction Book 2)
by Lynn Walker
- List rank#3
- Price$7.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,476
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Hide And Seek: The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS (Inspector Rebus Book 2)
by Ian Rankin
- List rank#4
- Price-
- Rating4.1
- Reviews7,008
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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
by Ben Westhoff
- List rank#5
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews538
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Killer in a White Coat: The True Story of New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher and the Team that Brought Him to Justice
by Charlotte Bismuth
- List rank#6
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews68
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Seattle Vice: Strippers, Prostitution, Dirty Money, and Crooked Cops in the Emerald City
by Rick Anderson
- List rank#7
- Price$9.99
- Rating3.8
- Reviews56
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The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
by Benjamin T. Smith
- List rank#8
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews576
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Underworld: The New Era of Gangs in New Zealand from the bestselling author of GANGLAND and GANGSTER'S PARADISE
by Jared Savage
- List rank#9
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews53
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Gangster's Paradise
by Jared Savage
- List rank#10
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews206
FAQ
Is Drugs a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 19/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 23 reviews and sells for $11.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Drugs?
The median best seller has 23 reviews, and 78% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Drugs best sellers cost?
The median price is $11.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $6.99 and $17.88.
Can new books break into Drugs?
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.