r/BookRecommendations↗
For book recommendations and book discussion
44k subscribers240 posts / mo in Sep 2026208 authors / mosince 2012
r/BookRecommendations has 44k members (+40% over the last 12 months). It gets about 240 posts a month from 208 people. Top topics: Comfort Reads & Mental Health, Romance Recommendations and Lesbian Books & Literature.
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Top topics
Share of the subreddit's posts
- Comfort Reads & Mental Health3.6%
- Romance Recommendations2.5%
- Lesbian Books & Literature2.2%
- Starting Readers2.2%
- Books That Feel Like This1.7%
Brands people mention
Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- Goodreads
- Substack
- NovelFlow
- Amazon
- The StoryGraph
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