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Westerns (Genre Fiction, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Westerns (Genre Fiction, Books), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $3.49, median 1,386 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 30/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $0.99 – $8.98 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 38% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 3% of the parent category Genre Fiction (43,722), one of the easier corners under it.
- 38% of its best sellers came out in the last 90 days, more than in 99% of Books categories: readers here keep buying new titles.
- At $3.49 its median price is below 99% of Books categories, so it is a volume game.
Top 10 Westerns best sellers
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Lonesome Dove: A Novel
by Larry McMurtry
- List rank#1
- Price$26.19
- Rating4.8
- Reviews33,235
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People of Darkness: A Gripping Southwest Mystery Where a Navajo Detective Confronts a Ruthless Assassin (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Book 4)
- List rank#2
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews5,057
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Vintage International)
- List rank#3
- Price$10.61
- Rating4.3
- Reviews22,041
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A Week from Never (Murphy's Law Book 2)
- List rank#4
- Price$9.41
- Rating4.7
- Reviews521
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Have Courage: Longmire Stories (A Longmire Mystery)
- List rank#5
- Price$24.36
- Reviews-
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Roped in Rawhide: An Enemies to Lovers Small Town Romance
by Harloe Rae
- List rank#6
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews213
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The Giant of Cold River (American Post-Civil War Westerns)
- List rank#7
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews600
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Joe Pickett: A Mysterious Profile (Mysterious Profiles)
by C. J. Box
- List rank#8
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews2,602
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Dead Man's Walk
by Larry McMurtry
- List rank#9
- Price$16.95
- Rating4.5
- Reviews7,538
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In the Great Quiet: A Novel
by Laura Vogt
- List rank#10
- Price$4.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews17,941
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FAQ
Is Westerns a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 30/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 1,386 reviews and sells for $3.49.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Westerns?
The median best seller has 1,386 reviews, and 15% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Westerns best sellers cost?
The median price is $3.49; half of the best sellers are priced between $0.99 and $8.98.
Can new books break into Westerns?
38% 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.