Medium “Books” tag statistics
How busy the Books tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is moderate, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 10.3 days
Busier than 48% of 73 tracked tags
27% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 78 stories a day, Books is busier than 48% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (77,152 followers per daily story) is higher than 81% of tags — more readers per story than average.
68% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 27% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 28% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 4.3 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Books stories
| Publication | Followers | Books stories (last 10.3d) |
|---|---|---|
| Books Are Our Superpower | 121K | 16 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 11 |
| NEW LITERARY SOCIETY | 3.4K | 11 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 8 |
| The Story Well | 553 | 8 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 6 |
| Quirky Rants | 6.7K | 4 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 4 |
| Hooked on Books | 1.7K | 4 |
| The Riff | 49K | 4 |
Top Books stories right now
- My Bookreading Habits are a Little… Weird.
- The Ultimate Freedom Is Being Freed From Ambition
- Why the Years Keep Getting Shorter
- The Quiet Person at the Other End of the Thread
- I Couldn’t Believe This Was Happening to Me for Years Without Me Noticing
- Here’s How Cortisol Impacts Our Daily Energy.
- Lucian Darsen, Before We Forgot. Why Was He Allowed to Keep the Notes?
- Evangelicals Admit Their Great Sex Teacher Was Queer
- Time for more Silly, Spooky — and Sappy — Cat Cards
- “You Have to Read This Book!”
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Books tag on Medium?
- About 78 per day (543 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 10.3-day window before our last scan. The tag has 239,651 stories in total.
- Is the Books tag competitive?
- Competition is moderate: it is busier than 48% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 77,152 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Books?
- 27% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 68% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.