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Sword & Sorcery (Children's eBooks › Fantasy, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data

Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Sword & Sorcery (Children's eBooks › Fantasy, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $6.99, median 1,696 reviews, average rating 4.7 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 16/100 (highly competitive).

16Opportunity / 100
$6.99Median price
1,696Median reviews
Price range (middle 50%)$3.99 – $9.99
Average rating4.7
New releases (90 days)7%
Books on the list100
StoreKindle eBooks

What stands out

  • Its median reviews are 21% of the parent category Fantasy (7,979), one of the easier corners under it.
  • Its review barrier is higher than in 92% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 1,696 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
  • Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $9.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.

Top 10 Sword & Sorcery best sellers

  1. Wildwood: A Fantastical Adventure and Basis for the LAIKA Film (Wildwood Chronicles Book 1 book cover by Colin Meloy

    Wildwood: A Fantastical Adventure and Basis for the LAIKA Film (Wildwood Chronicles Book 1)

    by Colin Meloy

    • List rank#1
    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.4
    • Reviews1,386

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  2. Dark Times: (The Path of Dragons, Book 9) book cover by Pedro Urvi

    Dark Times: (The Path of Dragons, Book 9)

    by Pedro Urvi

    • List rank#2
    • Price$6.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews146

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  3. Howl's Moving Castle: A Spellbinding Fantasy Adventure of Magic, Curses, and a Moving Cast book cover by Diana Wynne Jones

    Howl's Moving Castle: A Spellbinding Fantasy Adventure of Magic, Curses, and a Moving Castle (Howl's Castle Book 1)

    by Diana Wynne Jones

    • List rank#3
    • Price$11.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews24,186

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  4. The Secret Zoo: A Fast-Paced Middle Grade Fantastic Tale About Kids Discovering a Zoo's Da book cover by Bryan Chick

    The Secret Zoo: A Fast-Paced Middle Grade Fantastic Tale About Kids Discovering a Zoo's Dark Secret

    by Bryan Chick

    • List rank#4
    • Price$9.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews6,257

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  5. Warriors: A Shadow in RiverClan (Full-Color Adventure): A Full-Color Clan Adventure About  book cover by Erin Hunter

    Warriors: A Shadow in RiverClan (Full-Color Adventure): A Full-Color Clan Adventure About Forgiveness, Trust, and Rebuilding After War

    by Erin Hunter

    • List rank#5
    • Price$13.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews2,981

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  6. Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three book cover by Erin Hunter

    Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, Part One of Three

    by Erin Hunter

    • List rank#6
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.8
    • Reviews1,155

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  7. Warriors: A Thief in ThunderClan (Full-Color Adventure): A Full-Color Clan Adventure About book cover by Erin Hunter

    Warriors: A Thief in ThunderClan (Full-Color Adventure): A Full-Color Clan Adventure About Trust, Suspicion, and a Hidden Culprit

    by Erin Hunter

    • List rank#7
    • Price$13.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews1,233

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  8. The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia Book 1) book cover by C.S. Lewis

    The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia Book 1)

    by C.S. Lewis

    • List rank#8
    • Price$10.99
    • Rating4.6
    • Reviews12,667

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  9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Classic Fantasy Tale for Kids (The Chronicles of Nar book cover by C.S. Lewis

    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Classic Fantasy Tale for Kids (The Chronicles of Narnia Book 2)

    by C.S. Lewis

    • List rank#9
    • Price$13.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews22,958

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  10. The Green Ember (The Green Ember Series Book 1) book cover by S. D. Smith

    The Green Ember (The Green Ember Series Book 1)

    by S. D. Smith

    • List rank#10
    • Price$2.99
    • Rating4.7
    • Reviews9,599

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FAQ

Is Sword & Sorcery a good niche for Amazon KDP?

Its KDPTop opportunity score is 16/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 1,696 reviews and sells for $6.99.

How many reviews do you need to rank in Sword & Sorcery?

The median best seller has 1,696 reviews, and 9% of them have fewer than 100.

What do Sword & Sorcery best sellers cost?

The median price is $6.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $9.99.

Can new books break into Sword & Sorcery?

7% 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.