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Sea Stories: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Sea Stories, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $11.95, median 3,737 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 35/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $9.96 – $13.96 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 8% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 9% of the parent category Genre Fiction (43,722), one of the easier corners under it.
- Its review barrier is higher than in 96% of Books categories: the median best seller has 3,737 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- At $11.95 its median price is below 83% of Books categories, so it is a volume game.
Top 10 Sea Stories best sellers
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The Hobbit And The Lord Of The Rings: Deluxe Pocket Boxed Set
- List rank#1
- Price$27.56
- Rating4.7
- Reviews18,668
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
- List rank#2
- Price$21.71
- Rating4.3
- Reviews16,888
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The Old Man and the Sea
- List rank#3
- Price$11.24
- Rating4.5
- Reviews42,776
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Dawnshard: Stormlight Archive
- List rank#4
- Price$15.19
- Rating4.7
- Reviews31,280
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Old Man and the Sea
- List rank#5
- Price$11.37
- Rating4.7
- Reviews10,865
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A new fantasy series set a thousand years before The City of Brass (An Amina al-Sirafi Adventure Book 1)
by Shannon Chakraborty
- List rank#6
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews6,428
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The Fisherman
by John Langan
- List rank#7
- Price$18.19
- Rating4.2
- Reviews8,093
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The Terror: A Novel
by Dan Simmons
- List rank#8
- Price$32.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews10,372
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The Amalfi Curse: A Bewitching Tale of Sunken Treasure, Forbidden Love and Ancient Magic on the Amalfi Coast from the Author of The Lost Apothecary
by Sarah Penner
- List rank#9
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews6,058
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The Identicals: A Novel
- List rank#10
- Price$26.39
- Rating4.4
- Reviews24,181
FAQ
Is Sea Stories a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 35/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 3,737 reviews and sells for $11.95.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Sea Stories?
The median best seller has 3,737 reviews, and 12% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Sea Stories best sellers cost?
The median price is $11.95; half of the best sellers are priced between $9.96 and $13.96.
Can new books break into Sea Stories?
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.