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r/IfBooksCouldKill

If Books Could Kill. A fan-run subreddit for the podcast 'If Books Could Kill'. Description: "The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds" Founded 2022 · 58.2K members

58.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 17.1K upvotes, which works out to 293 per 1,000 members.

293peak upvotes per 1,000 members
58.5Kmembers
17.1Kbest post
968most comments
392posts 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.

45% 24% 17%
Image 45% Link 24% Text 17% Question 6% Gallery 4% Video 3%

What the ceiling looks like

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

We tried doing nothing and we're all out of ideas

↑ 17.1K 💬 218 image 2025

The Bad NYT Take to Rule Them All

↑ 11.8K 💬 704 image 2024

A Peter sighting

↑ 7.9K 💬 19 image 2025

Dead on!

↑ 7.8K 💬 49 image 2025

Futher proof that atheists can be stupid

↑ 7K 💬 249 image 2024

Congrats to the WaPo editorial page on having the worst take of all time

↑ 7K 💬 383 image 2026

No notes

↑ 6.2K 💬 214 image 2026

So Peter's doing.... well

↑ 5.8K 💬 214 gallery 2026

Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’

↑ 5.8K 💬 376 link 2025

Never has 10 000 Hours been debunked so beautifully

↑ 5.8K 💬 47 image 2024

Communities its size

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

r/IfBooksCouldKill, in numbers

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What is r/IfBooksCouldKill?
r/IfBooksCouldKill ("If Books Could Kill") describes itself this way: A fan-run subreddit for the podcast 'If Books Could Kill'. Description: "The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds". It was founded in 2022 and has 58.2K members.
How many members does r/IfBooksCouldKill have?
r/IfBooksCouldKill has about 58.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 392 of its posts; the biggest reached 17.1K upvotes, which is 293 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/IfBooksCouldKill?
"We tried doing nothing and we're all out of ideas" reached 17.1K upvotes and 218 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/IfBooksCouldKill.
What subreddits are similar to r/IfBooksCouldKill?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/IfBooksCouldKill?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are image posts and 24% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/IfBooksCouldKill?
Across 392 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 22:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 04:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 23:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/IfBooksCouldKill?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/IfBooksCouldKill has 3.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 7 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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