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r/TrueLit

94.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2K upvotes, which works out to 21 per 1,000 members.

21peak upvotes per 1,000 members
94.4Kmembers
2Kbest post
636most comments
100posts 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.

72% 11% 10%
Link 72% Text 11% Image 10% Question 5% Gallery 1% Video 1%

The topics it labels

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

Article 57 Discussion 15 Review/Analysis 6 Annual 3 Meta 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

TrueLit's 2024 Top 100 Favorite Books

↑ 2K 💬 636 image 2025

Truelit's 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century

↑ 1.8K 💬 271 image 2024

TrueLit's 2023 Top 100 Favorite Books

↑ 1.7K 💬 457 image 2024

The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone

↑ 1.2K 💬 592 link 2024

László Krasznahorkai Awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

↑ 871 💬 133 link 2025

The Guardian's 100 Best Novels of All Time, as voted by 172 authors, critics and academics

↑ 731 💬 232 link 2026

I just finished The Alchemist. It sucked.

↑ 726 💬 115 text 2020

Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 goes to Han Kang

↑ 708 💬 226 link 2024

/r/TrueLit's Top 100 All-Time (Favorite) Works of Literature, 2021

↑ 696 💬 610 image 2022

An addendum to The Bad Art Friend

↑ 695 💬 310 text 2021

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/TrueLit, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.