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The Hidden Life Is Best has 2,802 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 14 publications recommend them, and they recommend 1.

Followers 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
2,802
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
1.8K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
none shown
Recommended by
14
none new in 30 days
Recommends
1
Bestsellers rank
not on a board

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.

2,7002,7502,8002,8502,900 Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 2,802
2,7002,7502,8002,8502,900 Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 2,802
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 The Hidden Life Is Best on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 20262,8021.8K+

Leaderboard positions

Not on a category leaderboard right now

Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.

Recommendations

14 publications recommend The Hidden Life Is Best. The Hidden Life Is Best recommends 1. Lists read Oct 31.

Recommend The Hidden Life Is Be… The Hidden Life Is Be… recommends Hans G. Schantz11k followersThe Duke Report™️10k followersMatt Prestinot trackedIrma’s Substacknot trackedForum Borealisnot trackedAngusnot trackedstevenot trackedDark2Light55not trackedReal Art in a False Worldnot tracked Richard Medhurst32k followers The Hidden Life Is Best 2.8k followers
Recommend them They recommend Hans G. Schantz11k followersThe Duke Report…10k followersMatt Prestinot trackedIrma’s Substacknot trackedForum Borealisnot trackedAngusnot tracked Richard Medhurst32k followers The Hidden Li… 2.8k followers
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

Sep 24DecMarJunSepDecMarJunSep
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.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2024-091
2024-101
2025-022
2025-072
2025-081
2025-093
2025-112
2026-042

Recommended by

  • Hans G. Schantz11k followers · started Sep 2024
  • The Duke Report™️10k followers · started Sep 2025
  • Matt Prestistarted Apr 26, 2026
  • Irma’s Substackstarted Apr 9, 2026
  • Forum Borealisstarted Nov 17, 2025
  • Angusstarted Nov 2025
  • stevestarted Sep 2025
  • Dark2Light55started Sep 2025
  • Real Art in a False Worldstarted Aug 2025
  • The Transcendent Framestarted Jul 2025
  • Gibbons Burkestarted Jul 2025
  • MFTIC Research started Feb 2025
  • Susanstarted Feb 2025
  • Francis’s Substackstarted Oct 2024

Recommends

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.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other History writers with 1,000 to 5,000 followers (51 writers in that group), but not The Hidden Life Is Best.

  • The Intellectual Investor
    recommends 8 of them
  • Holly A Brown@hollyabrown
    recommends 4 of them
  • Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson@bruceivargudmundsson
    recommends 2 of them
  • Prateek Dasgupta@prateekdasgupta
    recommends 2 of them
  • Emily’s Walking Book Club
    recommends 2 of them
  • Christopher Messina, Enlightentaining Host of Messy Times
    recommends 2 of them
  • Masses and Edges
    recommends 2 of them
  • Pictish Puzzles and Cryptic Celts
    recommends 2 of them
  • Projectkin
    recommends 2 of them
  • Stories Behind the Records
    recommends 2 of them

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