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Roxane Gay has 307,720 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #27 on Substack's Culture Bestsellers board. 86 publications recommend them, 16 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 27.

Followers read · Boards read

Last read Nov 1, 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
307,720
read Nov 1
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
188K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
Thousands
bestseller badge 1,000+
Recommended by
86
+16 in 30 days
Recommends
27
Bestsellers rank
#27
Culture

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. 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.

300k305k310k315k Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 12 more days to fill this frame 307,720
300k305k310k315k Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 8 more days to fill this frame 307,720
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 Roxane Gay on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Nov 1, 2026307,720+122188K+Thousands
Oct 31, 2026307,598188K+Thousands

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
Culture Bestsellers#27#274 of 4
Culture Rising#44#441 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
Culture Bestsellers272727270
Culture Rising44new

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

86 publications recommend Roxane Gay; 16 started in the last 30 days. Roxane Gay recommends 27, and 7 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

Apr 22OctAprOctAprOctAprOctAprOct
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 Aug 2026 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2022-042
2022-051
2022-062
2022-072
2022-081
2022-101
2022-112
2023-012
2023-041
2023-064
2023-071
2023-091
2023-101
2023-111
2024-011
2024-031
2024-111
2025-011
2025-031
2025-042
2025-081
2025-091
2025-111
2026-011
2026-031
2026-072
2026-088
2026-0921
2026-1021

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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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