What fiction's
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NovelRadar scores every fiction sub-niche across web-novels, KDP, and Reddit — every 24 hours. See what's accelerating before the trend pieces do.
Niches
50
tracked
Sources
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cross-validated
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Cultivation · Overview
Cultivation · Overview
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74.2
Qi, sects, and realm breakthroughs from the xianxia tradition — a rising crossover family with deep KDP revenue.
Open nicheLatest scan / 2026-10-15
Top-scoring niches right now
Cultivation · Overview
Qi, sects, and realm breakthroughs from the xianxia tradition — a rising crossover family with deep KDP revenue.
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74.2
Sci-fi · Space Opera
Galaxy-spanning fleets, rogue captains, and empire politics — the evergreen sci-fi engine, strong on trend and channel.
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65.0
Progression · Magic-System Mastery
Hard-magic progression — mastering rules, runes, and spell engineering. Very high reader demand on Royal Road.
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62.4
LitRPG · Overview
Stat sheets, skills, and game-System fiction — the genre that built Royal Road. High demand across the whole family.
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60.5
Fantasy · Overview
The widest genre family — epic, urban, grimdark, cozy and more. Maps demand and trend across every fantasy subgenre.
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59.1
Index
Every tracked niche
LitRPG
Fantasy
Mystery
Cyberpunk
Urban Fantasy
Cozy Fantasy
Martial Arts
Reincarnation
Portal Fantasy / Isekai
Slice of Life
Grimdark
Magitech
Dungeon Crawler
Survival
Apocalypse
Monster Evolution
Kingdom Building
Crafting
Dystopia
Tower
Post Apocalyptic
School Life
Wuxia
War and Military
Hard Sci-fi
Mecha
How we score
Four axes,
no opinions.
Every score is a weighted geometric mean across four independent signals. We reward niches that win on multiple dimensions — not ones that spike on one and crater on another.
Demand
78Reader appetite minus title supply. High = hungry market, thin shelf.
Trend
6090-day momentum across Royal Road, Reddit, and NovelUpdates.
Revenue
75KU penetration, paperback price depth, audiobook arbitrage.
Channel
87Series friendliness and cross-channel readability.
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