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Thomas des Garets Geddes has 12,495 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #17 on Substack's International Bestsellers board. 59 publications recommend them, 2 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 50.

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
12,495
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
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rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
none shown
Recommended by
59
+2 in 30 days
Recommends
50
Bestsellers rank
#17
International

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.

12,20012,40012,60012,800 Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 12,495
12,20012,40012,60012,800 Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 12,495
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 Thomas des Garets Geddes on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 202612,495

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
International Bestsellers#17#174 of 4
International Rising#18#184 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
International Bestsellers171717170
International Rising30444418▲12

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

59 publications recommend Thomas des Garets Geddes; 2 started in the last 30 days. Thomas des Garets Geddes recommends 50, 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 22AprOctAprOctAprOctAprOct
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 Nov 2024 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
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2024-113
2024-122
2025-011
2025-023
2025-031
2025-042
2025-052
2025-072
2025-083
2025-092
2025-102
2025-112
2025-121
2026-015
2026-021
2026-033
2026-044
2026-053
2026-061
2026-072
2026-081
2026-094
2026-102

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  • Mark Leon Goldberg34k followers · started Mar 26, 2026
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  • Peter Frankopan18k followers · started Mar 2025 · mutual
  • Dr. Prashanth Parameswaran15k followers · started Jun 2023
  • Stephen Roach12k followers · started Jul 2024 · mutual
  • Cindy Yu3.8k followers · started Sep 12, 2026
  • Manya Koetse3.3k followers · started Oct 2025 · mutual
  • Sarah Cook2.9k followers · started Mar 2025
  • Unpropheticstarted Oct 24, 2026new
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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.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other International writers with 10,000 to 50,000 followers (40 writers in that group), but not Thomas des Garets Geddes.

  • Captain Tim world news about politics and the ongoing wars
    recommends 6 of them
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    recommends 4 of them
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    recommends 2 of them
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    recommends 2 of them
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    recommends 2 of them
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    recommends 2 of them
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    recommends 2 of them
  • sugira’s Substack
    recommends 2 of them
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    recommends 2 of them

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