Rising on Substack this week: Literature

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

kiki

66k followers · #98 Literature Bestsellers

+25 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 51 in all

51 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Tara Kruyt

52k followers · #22 Literature Rising

+24 in 30 days 50 in all

50 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Suleika Jaouad

378k followers · #1 Literature Bestsellers

+23 in 30 days · +2 in 7 days 98 in all

54 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Thee Book Club

451k followers · #79 Literature Bestsellers

+22 in 30 days 51 in all

50 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

chicgirlmoment

95k followers

+20 in 30 days 50 in all

36 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Margaret Atwood

404k followers · #20 Literature Bestsellers

+19 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 69 in all

44 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Reese's Book Club

567k followers · #46 Literature Bestsellers

+17 in 30 days 51 in all

46 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

George ~ FWN

44k followers · #16 Literature Bestsellers

+16 in 30 days · +2 in 7 days 55 in all

49 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Arts & Letters Daily

174k followers · #60 Literature Bestsellers

+15 in 30 days 59 in all

38 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Pandora Sykes

149k followers · #5 Literature Bestsellers

+15 in 30 days 83 in all

38 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Elle Reads Library Books

11k followers

+14 in 30 days · +2 in 7 days 50 in all

34 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Remote Writing Jobs

49k followers · #76 Literature Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 50 in all

30 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live. Outlined weeks are incomplete: Substack lists only a publication's 50 newest recommenders, so for busy writers older weeks can't be counted, and a 30-day count marked + is a floor.