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Genres & Styles: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Genres & Styles, updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $11.96, median 1,801 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 29/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $9.01 – $17.70 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 4% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 91% of Books categories: the median best seller has 1,801 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Only 4% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 82% of Books categories: established titles hold the list.
- At $11.96 its median price is below 82% of Books categories, so it is a volume game.
Top 10 Genres & Styles best sellers
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Hieronymus Bosch: A Mysterious Profile (Mysterious Profiles)
- List rank#1
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews4,379
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Hamlet
- List rank#2
- Price$6.32
- Rating4.5
- Reviews11,510
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Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
- List rank#3
- Price$5.73
- Rating4.6
- Reviews3,520
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Letters to a Young Poet (Penguin Classics)
- List rank#4
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews874
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Dragons Love Farts: They're More Fun Than Tacos!
by Hollywood Kay
- List rank#5
- Price$12.98
- Rating4.7
- Reviews2,542
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Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
- List rank#6
- Price$5.78
- Rating4.6
- Reviews3,237
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The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) (Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales; Fingerprint! Classics)
by Jacob Grimm
- List rank#7
- Price$15.78
- Rating4.7
- Reviews3,210
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The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
- List rank#8
- Price$17.36
- Rating4.7
- Reviews3,738
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Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
- List rank#9
- Price$7.37
- Rating4.7
- Reviews356
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Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
- List rank#10
- Price$19.44
- Rating4.8
- Reviews4,075
Subcategories
FAQ
Is Genres & Styles a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 29/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 1,801 reviews and sells for $11.96.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Genres & Styles?
The median best seller has 1,801 reviews, and 5% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Genres & Styles best sellers cost?
The median price is $11.96; half of the best sellers are priced between $9.01 and $17.70.
Can new books break into Genres & Styles?
4% 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.