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Gay Fiction: Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Gay Fiction, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $5.99, median 1,584 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).

28Opportunity / 100
$5.99Median price
1,584Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$4.99 – $6.24
Average rating4.4
New releases (90 days)37%
Books on the list100
StoreKindle eBooks

What stands out

  • 37% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 97% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
  • Its review barrier is higher than in 92% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 1,584 reviews, so new books need time to build up.

Top 10 Gay Fiction best sellers

  1. Monstrous Serpent: A Dark MMM Hockey Romance (South Shore Serpents Book 1) book cover by E.V. Olsen

    Monstrous Serpent: A Dark MMM Hockey Romance (South Shore Serpents Book 1)

    by E.V. Olsen

    • List rank#1
    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews4,277

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  2. Goalie Interference: An unputdownable spicy MM hockey romance (On Thin Ice Book 3) book cover by K.C. Carmichael

    Goalie Interference: An unputdownable spicy MM hockey romance (On Thin Ice Book 3)

    by K.C. Carmichael

    • List rank#2
    • Price$5.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews228

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  3. Under Water (Storm Season Book 2) book cover by E.M. Lindsey

    Under Water (Storm Season Book 2)

    by E.M. Lindsey

    • List rank#3
    • Price$5.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews301

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  4. Theirs To Tend: A Straight to Gay MMMM Omegaverse Poly Romance With Knotting and MPreg (BL book cover by Audra Roslin

    Theirs To Tend: A Straight to Gay MMMM Omegaverse Poly Romance With Knotting and MPreg (BL Poly Omegaverse)

    by Audra Roslin

    • List rank#4
    • Price$0.99
    • Rating3.7
    • Reviews307

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  5. Fruit Fly: A Novel book cover by Josh Silver

    Fruit Fly: A Novel

    by Josh Silver

    • List rank#5
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews7,283

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  6. The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles Book 1) book cover by TJ Klune

    The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles Book 1)

    by TJ Klune

    • List rank#6
    • Price$12.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews95,903

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  7. Stitched: A Novel book cover by Eli McCann

    Stitched: A Novel

    by Eli McCann

    • List rank#7
    • Price$11.49
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews717

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  8. Stormy: An M/M Romance (The Florida Panhandle Series Book 1) book cover by Wren Wilds

    Stormy: An M/M Romance (The Florida Panhandle Series Book 1)

    by Wren Wilds

    • List rank#8
    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews5,595

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  9. Heated Rivalry (Game Changers: Heated Rivalry Book Series 2) book cover by Rachel Reid

    Heated Rivalry (Game Changers: Heated Rivalry Book Series 2)

    by Rachel Reid

    • List rank#9
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews67,484

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  10. Levi : An M/M Romance (The Florida Panhandle Series Book 3) book cover by Wren Wilds

    Levi : An M/M Romance (The Florida Panhandle Series Book 3)

    by Wren Wilds

    • List rank#10
    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews2,050

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FAQ

Is Gay Fiction a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 1,584 reviews and sells for $5.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Gay Fiction?

The median best seller has 1,584 reviews, and 17% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Gay Fiction best sellers cost?

The median price is $5.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $4.99 and $6.24.

Can new books break into Gay Fiction?

37% 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.