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Ascend Book Club has 16,464 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #33 on Substack's Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers board. 52 publications recommend them, 2 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 2.

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
16,464
read Nov 1
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
14K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
100+
bestseller badge 100+
Recommended by
52
+2 in 30 days
Recommends
2
Bestsellers rank
#33
Faith & Spirituality

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.

16,00016,20016,40016,60016,800 Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 12 more days to fill this frame 16,464
16,00016,20016,40016,60016,800 Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 8 more days to fill this frame 16,464
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 Ascend Book Club on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Nov 1, 202616,464+414K+
Oct 31, 202616,46014K+

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers#33#324 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
Faith & Spirituality Bestsellers32323233▼1

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

52 publications recommend Ascend Book Club; 2 started in the last 30 days. Ascend Book Club recommends 2, and 2 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

Recommend Ascend Book Club Ascend Book Club recommends The Culturist441k followers · mutualThe Habsburg Way20k followers · mutualAlden Lee McRae2.7k followersОлимпия's Substacknot trackedSupreme Soul ♾️🔯♾️🦋🦚👑🔱✨🪷not trackedJim's Substacknot trackedRob Dillardnot trackedAudrey Wohltmannnot trackedAwenydd Pressnot tracked The Culturist441k followers · mutualThe Habsburg Way20k followers · mutual Ascend Book Club 16k followers
Recommend them They recommend The Culturist441k followers · mutualThe Habsburg Way20k followers · mutualAlden Lee McRae2.7k followersОлимпия's Subst…not trackedSupreme Soul ♾️…not trackedJim's Substacknot tracked The Culturist441k followers · mutualThe Habsburg Way20k followers · mutual Ascend Book C… 16k 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

4Aug 253Sep6Oct4Nov1Dec4Jan 262FebMar2Apr1May6Jun9Jul3Aug4Sep3OctNov
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 2025 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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MonthStarted
2025-084
2025-093
2025-106
2025-114
2025-121
2026-014
2026-022
2026-042
2026-051
2026-066
2026-079
2026-083
2026-094
2026-103

Recommended by

  • The Culturist441k followers · started Aug 2025 · mutual
  • The Habsburg Way20k followers · started Aug 22, 2026 · mutual
  • Alden Lee McRae2.7k followers · started Oct 30, 2026new
  • Олимпия's Substackstarted Oct 8, 2026new
  • Supreme Soul ♾️🔯♾️🦋🦚👑🔱✨🪷started Oct 3, 2026
  • Jim's Substackstarted Sep 27, 2026
  • Rob Dillardstarted Sep 19, 2026
  • Audrey Wohltmannstarted Sep 17, 2026
  • Awenydd Pressstarted Sep 4, 2026
  • The Pursuitestarted Aug 28, 2026
  • JENALEE's Substackstarted Aug 4, 2026
  • Apotheca Unicornisstarted Jul 28, 2026
  • Lovely Bits Magazinestarted Jul 24, 2026
  • Scafuri,'s Substackstarted Jul 23, 2026
  • Oscillating's Substackstarted Jul 13, 2026
  • Diapsalmastarted Jul 10, 2026
  • Rebekah's Substackstarted Jul 8, 2026
  • Mũrĩgiti's Substackstarted Jul 8, 2026
  • Kataphasisstarted Jul 7, 2026
  • Yomistarted Jul 6, 2026
  • Credo & Cultuurstarted Jun 20, 2026
  • Kiera Kellystarted Jun 20, 2026
  • Isabel's Substackstarted Jun 16, 2026
  • Matritensisstarted Jun 15, 2026
All 52
  • Poetic Knowledgestarted Jun 9, 2026
  • Overthinkersstarted Jun 8, 2026
  • Zilla's Substackstarted May 7, 2026
  • Christina's Substackstarted Apr 12, 2026
  • James's Substackstarted Apr 4, 2026
  • The Good Fightstarted Feb 13, 2026
  • To Arcanastarted Feb 2, 2026
  • The Slow and Studied Lifestarted Jan 21, 2026
  • Beauty Mattersstarted Jan 20, 2026
  • Jim's Substackstarted Jan 11, 2026
  • Jeff's Substackstarted Jan 10, 2026
  • Liam's Substackstarted Dec 27, 2025
  • El Substack de ROSAstarted Nov 25, 2025
  • Siska's Substackstarted Nov 25, 2025
  • Taryn Lourensstarted Nov 23, 2025
  • God's-eye's Substackstarted Nov 18, 2025
  • Kgberg's Substackstarted Oct 2025
  • Ethan's Substackstarted Oct 2025
  • Angelique's Substackstarted Oct 2025
  • Christ In Your Careerstarted Oct 2025
  • Sarah's Substackstarted Oct 2025
  • El Substack de fabianstarted Oct 2025
  • Audrey’s Substackstarted Sep 2025
  • The Culture Crusaderstarted Sep 2025
  • The Existential Mysticstarted Sep 2025
  • Mindful Momentumstarted Aug 2025
  • Mia’s Substackstarted Aug 2025
  • The Principiastarted Aug 2025

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 Faith & Spirituality writers with 10,000 to 50,000 followers (77 writers in that group), but not Ascend Book Club.

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