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Poetry (Subjects & Themes, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Poetry (Subjects & Themes, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $6.99, median 71 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 30/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $2.99 – $11.99 |
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| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 3% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 10% of the parent category Subjects & Themes (692), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 3% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 88% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $2.99 to $11.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Poetry best sellers
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Letters to a Young Poet (Penguin Classics)
- List rank#1
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews874
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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
by Emily Wilson
- List rank#5
- Price$9.50
- Rating4.5
- Reviews193
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Complete Works of Robert Frost: Collection of Poems, Prose & Plays – Timeless American Poetry, Nature, Rural Life, Reflections, and Classics from a Beloved Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet
by Robert Frost
- List rank#6
- Price$0.51
- Rating3.7
- Reviews32
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The Complete Works of W. B. Yeats: Verse and Prose (Grapevine Press)
by William Butler Yeats
- List rank#7
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews9
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A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry
by Mary Oliver
- List rank#8
- Price$8.49
- Rating4.6
- Reviews2,139
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Unabridged and Complete Edition (A Walt Whitman Classics)
by Walt Whitman
- List rank#10
- Price$0.52
- Rating4.4
- Reviews4,333
FAQ
Is Poetry a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 30/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 71 reviews and sells for $6.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Poetry?
The median best seller has 71 reviews, and 54% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Poetry best sellers cost?
The median price is $6.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $2.99 and $11.99.
Can new books break into Poetry?
3% 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.