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Elif Shafak has 102,299 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #45 on Substack's Literature Bestsellers board. 70 publications recommend them, 6 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 17.

Followers read · Boards read

Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers
102,299
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
62K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
100+
bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by
70
+6 in 30 days
Recommends
17
Bestsellers rank
#45
Literature

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

100k102k104k106k Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 102,299
100k102k104k106k Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 102,299
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Elif Shafak on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 2026102,29962K+

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
Literature Bestsellers#45#454 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
Literature Bestsellers454545450

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Recommendations

70 publications recommend Elif Shafak; 6 started in the last 30 days. Elif Shafak recommends 17, and 6 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Oct 23AprOctAprOctAprOct
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear. Substack shows only the 50 newest recommenders, so before Jun 2026 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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MonthStarted
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Recommended by

All 70
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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

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Publications that recommend at least two other Literature writers with 50,000 or more followers (44 writers in that group), but not Elif Shafak.

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