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Japanese & Haiku (Themes & Styles, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Japanese & Haiku (Themes & Styles, Books), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $13.10, median 114 reviews, average rating 4.7 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 25/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $10.54 – $15.84 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.7 |
| New releases (90 days) | 8% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 11% of the parent category Themes & Styles (995), one of the easier corners under it.
Top 10 Japanese & Haiku best sellers
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Love is a Dog From Hell: Bukowski’s Raw Poetic Reflections on Life and Heartbreak
- List rank#1
- Price$17.70
- Rating4.6
- Reviews2,364
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics)
by Matsuo Basho
- List rank#2
- Price$11.48
- Rating4.6
- Reviews594
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The Wild Iris: Winner of the Nobel Prize
by Louise Gluck
- List rank#3
- Price$15.83
- Rating4.6
- Reviews758
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Anne Carson
- List rank#4
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews314
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The Last Night of the Earth Poems: A Poetry Collection on Writing, Death, and City Life
- List rank#5
- Price$15.29
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,294
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IKIGAI AND JAPANESE PHILOSOPHY: 3 books in 1: Ikigai, Kaizen and Shinrin-yoku – Unlock the secrets of Japanese wisdom for a long and happy life by discovering your purpose
by TETSUGAKU GROUP
- List rank#6
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews122
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A Book Of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry ― An Anthology of 300 Poems From Around the World
by Czeslaw Milosz
- List rank#7
- Price$11.08
- Rating4.5
- Reviews404
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The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
by Rita Dove
- List rank#8
- Price$16.13
- Rating4.6
- Reviews350
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Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
by Yoel Hoffmann
- List rank#9
- Price$10.51
- Rating4.7
- Reviews828
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Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
- List rank#10
- Price$14.48
- Rating4.5
- Reviews781
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FAQ
Is Japanese & Haiku a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 25/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 114 reviews and sells for $13.10.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Japanese & Haiku?
The median best seller has 114 reviews, and 45% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Japanese & Haiku best sellers cost?
The median price is $13.10; half of the best sellers are priced between $10.54 and $15.84.
Can new books break into Japanese & Haiku?
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.