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Mushrooms: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Mushrooms, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $16.44, median 214 reviews, average rating 4.7 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 31/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $11.46 – $21.12 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.7 |
| New releases (90 days) | 4% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 18% of the parent category Plants (1,192), one of the easier corners under it.
- The same niche in Kindle eBooks scores 19, 13 points lower than here.
- Only 4% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 82% of Books categories: established titles hold the list.
Top 10 Mushrooms best sellers
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The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants | book
by U.S. Department of the Army
- List rank#1
- Price$8.75
- Rating4.4
- Reviews3,530
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by Merlin Sheldrake
- List rank#2
- Price$11.38
- Rating4.7
- Reviews9,093
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Peterson Field Guide To Mushrooms Of North America, Second Edition: The Classic Illustrated Nature Reference for Safe Foraging
by Karl B. McKnight
- List rank#3
- Price$19.77
- Rating4.8
- Reviews1,439
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Scientific American September 2026
- List rank#4
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews13
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Scientific American October 2026
- List rank#5
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews7
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Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather Wild Mushrooms and Other Fungi
by DK
- List rank#6
- Price$15.29
- Rating4.8
- Reviews3,520
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Mushrooming Without Fear: The Beginner's Guide to Collecting Safe and Delicious Mushrooms
by Alexander Schwab
- List rank#7
- Price$9.09
- Rating4.5
- Reviews4,357
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All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms
by David Arora
- List rank#8
- Price$14.69
- Rating4.8
- Reviews3,923
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Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
by Paul Stamets
- List rank#9
- Price$25.07
- Rating4.8
- Reviews4,774
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Go Forth and Forage: A Guide to Foraging Over 50 of the Most Common Edible & Medicinal North American Mushrooms
by Whitney Johnson
- List rank#10
- Price$13.34
- Rating4.8
- Reviews658
Same niche in Kindle eBooks: Fungi & Mushrooms
FAQ
Is Mushrooms a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 31/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 214 reviews and sells for $16.44.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Mushrooms?
The median best seller has 214 reviews, and 39% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Mushrooms best sellers cost?
The median price is $16.44; half of the best sellers are priced between $11.46 and $21.12.
Can new books break into Mushrooms?
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.