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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"

59k subscribers112 posts / mo in Sep 202699 authors / mosince 2022

r/IfBooksCouldKill has 59k members (+56% over the last 12 months). It gets about 112 posts a month from 99 people. Top topics: Reading Recommendations, Podcast Episodes and Podcast Recommendations.

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How r/IfBooksCouldKill has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+56%in 12 months · +6.6% in 3 months · +1.4% in 1 month
Oct 202659k
Growing59k subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (Nov 2022)
Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−16%vs Sep 2025 · −8.3% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026112
QuieterPeaked at 202 in Jan 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/IfBooksCouldKill

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Reading Recommendations1.5%
  2. Podcast Episodes1.3%
  3. Podcast Recommendations1.0%
  4. Self Improvement Books0.7%
  5. Ezra Klein Podcast Discussions0.6%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Substack
  2. Bluesky Social
  3. The Atlantic
  4. Bluesky
  5. Apple

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research