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Fungi & Mushrooms: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Fungi & Mushrooms, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.99, median 88 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 19/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $5.99 – $12.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 8% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 30% of the parent category Plants (294), one of the easier corners under it.
- The same niche in Books scores 31, 13 points higher than here; worth checking both.
Top 10 Fungi & Mushrooms best sellers
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The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants
by Department of The Army
- List rank#1
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews3,530
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by Merlin Sheldrake
- List rank#2
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews9,093
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Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
by Paul Stamets
- List rank#3
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews4,774
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A Beginner’s Guide To Microdosing and Growing Psilocybin Mushrooms At Home: An Easy 9-Step Method for Growing Indoor Medicinal Mushrooms in as Little as ... and Hormone Cycle-Syncing Collection)
by Julie Garner
- List rank#4
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews207
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
by Paul Stamets
- List rank#5
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews3,036
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The Book of Fungi: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World
by Peter Roberts
- List rank#6
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews112
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Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
by Paul Stamets
- List rank#7
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,941
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Foraging Mushrooms Identification Field Guide of the Midwest: Wild Edible Mushrooms and Recipes of North America (Regional Edible Foraging Series)
by Bleu Sayles
- List rank#8
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews132
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The Beginner's Guide to Mushrooms: Everything You Need to Know, from Foraging to Cultivating
by Britt Bunyard
- List rank#9
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews60
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Spalting 101: The Ultimate Guide to Coloring Wood with Fungi
by Dr. Seri C. Robinson
- List rank#10
- Price$19.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews51
Same niche in Books: Mushrooms
FAQ
Is Fungi & Mushrooms a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 19/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 88 reviews and sells for $9.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Fungi & Mushrooms?
The median best seller has 88 reviews, and 54% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Fungi & Mushrooms best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $5.99 and $12.99.
Can new books break into Fungi & Mushrooms?
8% 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.