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Middle Eastern (Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Regional & Cultural, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Middle Eastern (Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Regional & Cultural, Books), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $15.97, median 218 reviews, average rating 4.6 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 28/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $12.63 – $20.38 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.6 |
| New releases (90 days) | 6% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 10% of the parent category Regional & Cultural (2,222), one of the easier corners under it.
Top 10 Middle Eastern best sellers
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
- List rank#1
- Price$10.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews4,608
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The Prophet (Reader's Library Classics) (Illustrated)
- List rank#2
- Price$5.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,916
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NKJV, End-of-Verse Reference Bible, Compact, Leathersoft, Brown, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version
- List rank#3
- Price$16.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,695
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The Prophet
- List rank#4
- Price$8.76
- Rating4.8
- Reviews2,948
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
by Stephen Mitchell - translator
- List rank#5
- Price$9.69
- Rating4.6
- Reviews1,768
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The Conference of the Birds (Penguin Classics)
by Farid ud-Din Attar
- List rank#6
- Price$14.91
- Rating4.6
- Reviews815
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The Prophet (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
- List rank#7
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews13,712
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Anonymous
- List rank#8
- Price$13
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,977
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KJV Holy Bible with Apocrypha and 73,000 Center-Column Cross References, Black Leathersoft, Red Letter, Comfort Print: King James Version
- List rank#9
- Price$21.26
- Rating4.7
- Reviews434
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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Penguin Classics)
by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
- List rank#10
- Price$22.90
- Rating4.7
- Reviews536
FAQ
Is Middle Eastern a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 28/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 218 reviews and sells for $15.97.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Middle Eastern?
The median best seller has 218 reviews, and 33% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Middle Eastern best sellers cost?
The median price is $15.97; half of the best sellers are priced between $12.63 and $20.38.
Can new books break into Middle Eastern?
6% 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.