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r/mysterybooks

15.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 153 upvotes, which works out to 10 per 1,000 members.

10peak upvotes per 1,000 members
15.9Kmembers
153best post
369most comments
62posts 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.

60% 31% 8%
Text 60% Question 31% Link 8% Image 2%

The topics it labels

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

Recommendations 34 Discussion 21 News and Reviews 3 We are better together! πŸ₯‚ 1 Help Me Find This Book 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

What's the BEST mystery book you've ever read?

↑ 153 πŸ’¬ 173 question 2026

Japanese Mystery Writer Keigo Higashino Has Passed Away at 68.

↑ 113 πŸ’¬ 22 link 2026

Any modern procedural detective novels that are not centered around personal life of the detective?

↑ 97 πŸ’¬ 50 question 2026

Should the reader be given enough to solve the mystery?

↑ 92 πŸ’¬ 59 question 2026

The 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century

↑ 91 πŸ’¬ 50 link 2026

Looking for the most well-crafted mysteries of the past 10-15 years

↑ 88 πŸ’¬ 80 text 2026

Modern day Agatha Christie-style locked room mysteries?

↑ 86 πŸ’¬ 62 question 2026

What is your favorite Detective book series? (And why?)

↑ 82 πŸ’¬ 304 question 2026

If you’re murdered, which fictional detective would you hope is investigating the case?

↑ 82 πŸ’¬ 369 question 2026

I just finished β€œThe 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” and HOLY CRAP.

↑ 80 πŸ’¬ 40 text 2026

Communities its size

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

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/mysterybooks, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.