This post covers some of the best rated indie authors in the Kindle Store. There might be some overlap with the Click here – However, the aim is to feature authors not on that list (do check it out as there are lots of great books at $1 or less).

This is a rough list and it includes a few books from published authors. Only books with very good reviews and prices close to $1 are included.

If your book is not on the list and is rated 4 stars or higher on 7 or more reviews please leave a comment.

Top 10 Highest Rated Indie Authors in the Kindle Store

1. Click here by Colleen Houck for just $1. It’s rated 4.5 stars on 157 customer reviews – people love it. A children’s book.
2. Click here by Robert Kroese. Rated 4.5 stars on 125 reviews. A parody. 
3. Click here by Dennis Batchelder. Rated 4 stars on 116 reviews. A Technothriller that explores the metaphysical.
4. Click here by Elisa Lorello is rated 4 stars across 100 reviews.
5. Click here by Lensey Namioka. Rated 4.5 stars on 86 reviews. Asian and Asian American stories.
6. Click here by Joe Hill is rated 4 stars on 84 reviews. A collection of stories.
7. Click here by John Pearson. Rated 5 stars on 62 reviews.
8. Click here by J. A. Konrath. Rated 4.5 stars on 56 reviews. A Police Procedural.
9. Click here by Gary Hansen. Rated 4.5 stars on 49 customer reviews. A technothriller/spy story. 
10. Click here by Richard Phillips. Rated 4.5 stars on 47 reviews. It’s Book 1 of the Rho Agenda and a high-tech SciFi adventure.

More after the break (please click on the ‘Read more’ link to see the remaining books).

11 through 50 best rated indie authors in the Kindle Store

1. Click here by Bill Clem is a $1.99 technothriller rated 3.5 stars on 47 reviews.  
2. Click here by Lynda Hilbert. Rated 4 stars on 47 reviews.
3. Click here by April Hamilton – rated 4.5 stars on 46 reviews. On motherhood.
4. Click here by Ruth Francisco. Rated 4 stars on 43 reviews. Political Fiction.
5. Click here by Imogen Rose. Rated 4.5 stars on 39 reviews. Alternate Dimensions Romance.
6. Click here by Zoe Winters. Rated 4.5 stars on 38 reviews. Vampire Romance and Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost Romance.
7. Click here by Kimberly Raiser. Rated 4 stars on 38 reviews. A riveting horror thriller with twists, thrills, and chills.
8. Click here by Michael Balkind. Rated 4.5 stars on 37 reviews. A murder mystery centered around Golf.
9. Click here by Kathy Bell. Rated 4 stars on 36 reviews. A technothriller.
10. Click here by Jon F. Baxley. Rated 4.5 stars on 36 reviews. A war/fantasy/movie tie-in novel.
11. Click here by J. J. Herbert. Rated 5 stars on 35 reviews. An inspirational book on religion and spirituality.
12. Click here by Lee Goldberg. Rated 4.5 stars on 35 reviews. It’s a comic/horror mix.
13. Click here by Lisa C. Hinsley. Rated 4.5 stars on 35 reviews. It seems to be a mix of mythology and mystery.
14. Click here by R. W. Ridley. Rated a perfect 5 stars on 33 reviews. A very good fantasy/adventure/survival novel.
15. Click here by Jim Chambers. Rated 5 stars on 32 reviews. Classified as Humor, Parenting and 20th century.
16. Click here by Debbie Mack. Rated 4.5 stars on 30 reviews. A hard-boiled mystery.
17. Click here by Kevin Bohacz. Rated 4 stars on 29 reviews. A scientific mystery thriller/technothriller.
18. Click here by Calvin A. L. Miller II. Rated 4.5 stars on 29 reviews. A good and evil novel from the zombie’s perspective.
19. Click here by Sierra Rose. Rated 4.5 stars on 28 reviews. Occult Horror.
20. Click here by Heather Killough-Walden. Rated 4.5 stars on 28 reviews. Vampire Romance and Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost.
21. Click here by James Sperl. Rated 4.5 stars on 28 reviews. It’s science fiction and action+adventure and horror. 
22. Click here by Keith Knapp. Rated 3.5 stars on 28 reviews. Horror and Occult. It began with a power outage.
23. Click here by David Derrico. Rated 4 stars on 27 reviews. Science Fiction, Technothriller.
24. Click here by Ellen O’Connell. Rated 5 stars on 26 reviews.  
25. Click here by J. L. Penn. Rated 4.5 stars on 26 reviews. How far would you go in vindicating your high school obsession?
26. Click here by Christine Rose and Ethan Rose. Winner of the Indie Excellence Award for YA Fiction in 2008. Historical Fantasy/Magic/Fairy Tale.
27. Click here by CJ West. Rated 4.5 stars on 25 reviews. Winemaking, bad company, and a fast paced and dynamic plot.
28. Click here fby Karen McQuestion is rated 5 stars on 24 reviews.
29. Click here by Andrew W. Mitchell. Rated 5 stars on 24 reviews. It’s classified as evolution/science fiction/adventure.
30. Click here by Maureen A. Miller. Rated 4 stars on 24 reviews. A romantic suspense novel.
31. Click here by Brad Marlowe. Rated 4.5 stars on 24 reviews. Modern Fantasy, Family Relationships.
32. Click here by Dave Duncan is a Fantasy Novel that’s just $3.21. Rated 5 stars 24 reviews. It’s the first book in the ‘Seventh Sword’ series.
33. Click here by J. Gregory Smith. Rated 4.5 stars on 23 reviews. A police procedural.
34. Click here by H. Beam Piper. Rated 5 stars on 23 reviews. A Sci-Fi classic categorized as Space Opera/SciFi Adventure.
35. Click here by R. J. Keller. Rated 4.5 stars on 23 reviews. It’s contemporary romance/drama.  
36. Click here by K. L. Brady is $1 and rated 4.5 stars on 22 reviews. It’s classified as love, sex, and marriage.
37. Click here by James R. Strickland. Rated 4.5 stars on 22 reviews. High-tech science fiction.
38. Click here by Heather Killough-Walden. Rated 4 stars on 22 reviews. Epic Fantasy and SciFi Adventure.
39. Click here by David J. Guyton. Rated 4 stars on 22 reviews. A fantasy novel with politics and rationalism mixed in.
40. Click here by Rebecca Lerwill. Rated 4 stars on 21 reviews. A romantic thriller.

51 through 109 best rated indie authors in the Kindle Store

1. Click here by nova. Rated 4.5 stars on 21 reviews. America after an economic fallout.
2. Click here by Robert Williams is rated 4 stars on 21 reviews.
3. Click here by Scott Nicholson. Rated 4.5 stars on 20 reviews. A spine-tingling mystery thriller. Also listed as romantic suspense.
4. Click here by Linda Welch. Rated 4.5 stars on 20 reviews. Genre: Horror, Ghosts.
5. Click here by Bruce Thomason. Rated 4.5 stars on 19 reviews. An action packed cop thriller.
6. Click here by Brandon Massey. Rated 4.5 stars on 18 reviews.
7. Click here by Maria Rachel Hooley. Rated 4.5 stars on 18 reviews. A novel for Girls & Women.
8. Click here by Steven H. Jackson. Rated 5 stars on 17 reviews. A novel of mystery, suspense, and action.
9. Click here by Eric Christopherson. Rated 4.5 stars on 17 reviews. A technothriller with action and adventure elements.
10. Click here by April Henry. Rated 4.5 stars on 17 reviews. A thriller.
11. Click here by Lewis E Aleman is rated 4 stars on 16 reviews.
12. Click here by Rebecca Forster. Rated 5 stars on 16 reviews. A legal thriller. The other books in the Witness series are also very well rated.
13. Click here by John Luciew. Rated 4.5 stars on 15 reviews. Hard-boiled political mystery.
14. Click here by C. S. Marks. Rated 5 stars on 15 reviews.
15. Click here by Joseph Rhea and David Rhea. It’s a Science Fiction Technothriller – rated 4.5 stars on 15 reviews.
16. Click here by Joel M. Andre. Rated 4 stars on 15 reviews.  
17. Click hereby Riley Noehren. Rated 5 stars after 15 reviews. A Legal thriller.
18. Click here by Edmond Hamilton. Rated 4 stars on 14 reviews. High Tech Science Fiction.
19. Click here by David McAfee. Rated 4.5 stars on 14 reviews. Vampire Horror.
20. Click here by Jaron Lee Knuth. Rated 4 stars on 14 reviews. Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost Romance.
21. Click here by M. H. Sargent is rated 4.5 stars on 13 customer reviews. A fast paced thriller. 
22. Click here by Steve Ward. Rated 4.5 stars on 13 reviews. Classified as Family Saga.  
23. Click here by Amanda Hamm. Rated 4.5 stars across 13 reviews.
24. Click here by Stuart Vaughn Stockton. Rated 5 stars on 13 reviews.
25. Click here by Reese Reed. Rated 4 stars on 13 reviews. All about Parenting, Marriage, and Motherhood.
26. Click here by Denny Swartzlander. Rated 4.5 stars on 13 reviews. About Faeries.
27. Click here by Chuck Austen. Rated 4.5 stars on 12 reviews. A screwball comedy in the P. G. Wodehouse tradition. It is very good though it gets a bit preachy.
28. Click here by Susanne O’Leary. Rated 4.5 stars on 12 reviews. About an Irish girl tracing her roots to Sweden and discovering her real identity.
29. Click here by Jamie Lynn Braziel. Rated 4 stars on 12 customer reviews.
30. Click here by Marva Dasef. Rated 5 stars on 12 reviews. Historical Fiction and Farm Life.
31. Click here by Jenna Anderson. 4.5 stars on 12 reviews. A Romance Novel that’s around #6,350 in Kindle Store sales rank.
32. Click here by April Hamilton is rated 4.5 stars on 12 reviews. A darkly comic tale of dueling schemers and incompetents.
33. Click here by Lucius Artorisu Castus, Thomas Brookside. Rated 5 stars on 12 reviews. A very original concept. Occult Horror and Ancient Rome.
34. Click here by Sandy Nathan. Rated 5 stars on 12 reviews. Mysticism and Native American Mythology.
35. Click here by Lee Doty. Rated 4.5 stars on 12 reviews. A science fiction adventure.
36. Click here by R. E. Conary. Rated 5 stars on 12 reviews. A detective novel with sarcastic humor and gritty realism.
37. Click here by Skip Crayton. 4.5 stars on 11 reviews. Another Romance Novel – this one’s sales rank is 1,330. 
38. Click here by Madison McGraw. Rated 4 stars on 11 reviews. A vigilante who targets paedophiles.
39. Click here by Donna Callea. Rated 4.5 stars on 11 reviews.
40. Click here by Karen McQuestion. Rated 5 stars on 11 reviews. Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and Myths. Lots of her books are great.
41. Click here by Gayle Wigglesworth. Rated 4.5 stars on 11 reviews. The first book in the Claire Gulliver Mystery series and classified as Travel, Wales, Great Britain.
42. Click here by Rebecca Lerwill. Rated 4.5 stars on 10 reviews. A suspense/thriller with an absolutely gorgeous cover.
43. Click here by Liam James Leaven. Rated 4.5 stars by 10 reviews.
44. Click here by Terry Cloutier. Rated 4.5 stars on 10 reviews. A fantasy that reads like a thriller.
45. Click here by Frank Tuttle. Rated 4.5 stars on 10 reviews. Seems to be a mix of humor and fantasy.
46. Click here by Gregory Holden. Rated 4.5 stars on 9 reviews.
47. Click here by David Dalglish. Rated 5 stars on 9 reviews. An epic fantasy novel.
48. Click here by Rosanne E. Lortz. Rated 4.5 stars on 9 reviews. Dramatic historical fiction.
49. Click here by Andrew Chapman. Rated 4.5 stars on 9 reviews. A novel about a vampire hunter in a world ruled by vampires.
50. Click here by K. A. Thompson – Rated 5 stars on 9 reviews.
51. Click here by N. A. Stolfo Corti. Rated 4 stars on 9 reviews. A book about marriage, relationships, and divorce set in Tuscany.
52. Click here by Daniel Arenson. Rated 5 stars on 8 reviews. A fantasy novel.
53. Click here by T. C. Beacham. Rated 5 stars on 7 reviews. A Suspense Thriller with a female sleuth. Sales rank 723 in the Kindle Store.
54. Click here by Christian Cantrell – rated 5 stars on 7 reviews. 
55. Click here by Marshall Thornton. Rated 4.5 stars on 7 reviews. A hard-boiled mystery. 
56. Click here by Stephen Davison for $1 and rated 5 stars on 7 reviews. A fast, furious, and well plotted thriller. 
57. Click here by Johnny Tangerine. A twisted beach novel rated 4.5 stars on 7 reviews. 
58. Click here by David L. Erickson. Rated 4.5 stars on 7 reviews. Space War.
59. Click here by L. C. Evans. Rated 5 stars on 7 reviews. Family relationships, horror, and romance.

More to be added later. Hopefully you found some books you thought were interesting. Please do add other indie books you liked and that have received good reviews.

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