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So many books, so little time. This is a moderated subreddit. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres, or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Weekly Recommendation Thread, Suggested Reading page, or ask in r/suggestmeabook. Founded 2008 · 27.3M members

27.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 181.4K upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.

7peak upvotes per 1,000 members
27.3Mmembers
181.4Kbest post
27.2Kmost comments
1.9Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

49% 40% 11%
Link 49% Text 40% Question 11%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

WeeklyThread 51 meta 9 spoilers in comments 1 spoilers 1 Misleading title 1 Misleading Title - inaccurate price comparison, see comments 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Join the Battle for Net Neutrality!! We need to stop them from allowing ISPs to charge us extra fees to access ebooks, games or anything else!

↑ 181.4K 💬 2.1K link 2017

It's July 29, 2020, the day George R.R. Martin said we could imprison him if Winds Of Winter wasn't done

↑ 109.4K 💬 5.6K link 2020

Amazon removes books promoting autism cures and vaccine misinformation

↑ 81.5K 💬 2.5K link 2019

‘Reading Rainbow’ Host LeVar Burton Wants to Read to Families for Free, Neil Gaiman Offers Entire Catalog

↑ 72K 💬 921 link 2020

Incarcerated Pennsylvanians now have to pay $150 to read. We should all be outraged.

↑ 68.7K 💬 1.8K link 2018

Stephen King briefly talks about the controversial orgy scene in the 'IT' novel. 'It’s fascinating to me that there has been so much comment about th…

↑ 67.5K 💬 4.5K link 2017

In 2018 Jessica Johnson wrote an Orwell prize-winning short story about an algorithm that decides school grades according to social class. This year …

↑ 66.4K 💬 1.5K link 2020

Kids get a $2 discount if they read a book aloud to their barber while getting their haircut in Michigan

↑ 63.7K 💬 1.1K link 2017

Illinois House passes bill prohibiting book bans

↑ 63.1K 💬 1.3K link 2023

Textbook costs have risen nearly 1000% since the 70's

↑ 61.8K 💬 2.9K link 2019

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/books, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/books?
r/books ("So many books, so little time") describes itself this way: This is a moderated subreddit. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres, or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Weekly Recommendation Thread, Suggested Reading page, or ask in r/suggestmeabook. It was founded in 2008 and has 27.3M members.
How many members does r/books have?
r/books has about 27.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.9K of its posts; the biggest reached 181.4K upvotes, which is 7 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/books?
"Join the Battle for Net Neutrality!! We need to stop them from allowing ISPs to charge us extra fees to access ebooks, games or anything els" reached 181.4K upvotes and 2.1K comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/books.
What subreddits are similar to r/books?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/therewasanattempt, r/me_irl, r/nextfuckinglevel, r/WatchPeopleDieInside, r/oddlysatisfying, r/MadeMeSmile.
What kind of posts do best on r/books?
Of the posts we hold, 49% are link posts and 40% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/books?
Across 1.9K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 01:00 UTC (29.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 20:00 UTC (22.1K avg upvotes), Friday at 11:00 UTC (20.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/books?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/books has 52.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 218 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/books, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.