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LGBTQ+ Fiction: Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for LGBTQ+ Fiction, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $4.99, median 854 reviews, average rating 4.4 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 32/100 (highly competitive).

32Opportunity / 100
$4.99Median price
854Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$3.99 – $9.99
Average rating4.4
New releases (90 days)47%
Books on the list100
StoreKindle eBooks

What stands out

  • 47% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 99% of Kindle eBooks categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
  • At $4.99 its median price is below 91% of Kindle eBooks categories, so it is a volume game.
  • Its review barrier is higher than in 86% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 854 reviews, so new books need time to build up.

Top 10 LGBTQ+ Fiction best sellers

  1. This Is How It Always Is: A Novel book cover by Laurie Frankel

    This Is How It Always Is: A Novel

    by Laurie Frankel

    • List rank#1
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews41,868

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  2. 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#2
    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.3
    • Reviews4,277

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  3. Thin Ice (Triple Shot Book 1) book cover by Kayla Grosse

    Thin Ice (Triple Shot Book 1)

    by Kayla Grosse

    • List rank#3
    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews456

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  4. 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#4
    • Price$5.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews228

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  5. The Daughters of Rosebud: A Novel book cover by Sonny Buttar

    The Daughters of Rosebud: A Novel

    by Sonny Buttar

    • List rank#5
    • Price$4.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews3,969

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  6. Canon: A Novel book cover by Paige Lewis

    Canon: A Novel

    by Paige Lewis

    • List rank#6
    • Price$1.99
    • Rating4.0
    • Reviews115

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  7. Fabulous Bodies book cover by Chuck Tingle

    Fabulous Bodies

    by Chuck Tingle

    • List rank#7
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating3.8
    • Reviews319

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

    Under Water (Storm Season Book 2)

    by E.M. Lindsey

    • List rank#8
    • Price$5.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews301

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  9. The Song of Achilles: A Novel book cover by Madeline Miller

    The Song of Achilles: A Novel

    by Madeline Miller

    • List rank#9
    • Price$13.99
    • Rating4.5
    • Reviews136,196

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  10. Stitched: A Novel book cover by Eli McCann

    Stitched: A Novel

    by Eli McCann

    • List rank#10
    • Price$11.49
    • Rating4.2
    • Reviews717

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Subcategories

Same niche in Books: Genre Fiction

FAQ

Is LGBTQ+ Fiction a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 32/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 854 reviews and sells for $4.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in LGBTQ+ Fiction?

The median best seller has 854 reviews, and 16% of them have fewer than 100.

What do LGBTQ+ Fiction best sellers cost?

The median price is $4.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $9.99.

Can new books break into LGBTQ+ Fiction?

47% 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.