Top Literature Substacks
Dive into the world of literature with Substack newsletters that offer book reviews, literary analysis, and discussions on classic and contemporary works.
Top Literature Substacks
Dive into the world of literature with Substack newsletters that offer book reviews, literary analysis, and discussions on classic and contemporary works.
#1 ✿ shit you should care about ✿
𖦹 ꩜ ✦ giving you the news without giving you the blues 𖦹 ꩜ ✦
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#2 Love letters to literature
A literary archive of essays and musings A book club for lovers of language, feeling, and everything in between💐
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#3 Story Club with George Saunders
A place to explore the way the short story works.
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#4 Books Worth Reading
The best books about everything.
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#5 The Booker Prizes
Sign up to the Booker Prizes newsletter, where you can discover our long reads, book recommendations, exclusive interviews and much more, from the world's greatest writers of fiction.
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#6 Patti Smith
The reader is my notebook
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#7 Dracula Daily
Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens.
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#8 The Bookrat
Just as gym rats live for the next workout, book rats live for the next page. Weekly book summaries by Anthony Pompliano.
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#9 Read Your Color
Get custom book recommendations that are based on YOUR tastes. Take the assessment at ReadYourColor.com.
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#10 In the Writing Burrow
Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.
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#11 Arts & Letters Daily
The best literary and arts writing on the internet
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#12 perfume & letters
personal notes on growing up, slowing down, and finding beauty in ordinary days.
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#13 postcards by hasif
Letters, stories, journals, essays & the soft, messy beauty of everyday life.
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#14 Literature Quotes
✱ For those who cherish literature.
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#15 Dead Poets Daily
No commentary, no ads, just poetry from the greats.
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#16 Words That Matter
Writers, thinkers, and creators share the reading that matters most to them.
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#17 Poetry Unbound
Open your world with poetry
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#18 postcards by elle
curated recommendations, brain food, and longform essays. postcards delivered to you every week.
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#19 Cheryl Strayed Writes About Things
Welcome to Cheryl Strayed's newsletter. Everything is free right now. The paid "Dear Sugar" newsletter is on a long-time hiatus.
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#20 Emily’s Grocery List
reading recommendations, writing tips, book news, and more!
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#21 World Builders
Exploring the art and science of story to help you become a more effective storyteller.
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#22 No More Shitty Books
The stuff you need to know so you don't waste your time on books that suck
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#23 Romance Bookworms Free Book Alert
Romance ebook deals and steals
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#24 Dead Language Society
English is weirder than you think. A weekly dive into the hidden history of everyday words.
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#25 Poetic Outlaws
A place for the outlaws of poetry and the written word.
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#26 The Next Big Idea Club Book of the Day Newsletter
Transform your day in 10 minutes. Enjoy daily, bite‑sized insights from breakthrough nonfiction books—audio or text—straight from the authors. Trusted by 94K+ learners, our editors choose only the books that matter.
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#27 The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
A twice weekly newsletter chock-full of guidance and support from publishing industry insiders. Expect author interviews, guest blogs, giveaways, and more!
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#28 Sub Club
Submission opportunities for creative and professional writers.
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#29 odetoapoet
Written devotion to the human condition.
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#30 Astro Poets
poetry | astrology | mystery
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#31 The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor
A celebration of poetry and historical interest pieces
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#32 chicgirlmoment
about literature and cinematography, the love of smelling perfumes, the thoughts that appear in my head after waking up in the middle of the night and everything else that will start to excite me tomorrow.
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#33 The Hyphen by Emma Gannon
✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. Books, work, wellbeing & creativity. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" — The Times
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#34 Summer Never Ends with MKA
Greetings from MKA Worldwide Industries. This is my newsletter where I will share news about my forthcoming books and tour dates, as well as updates from Friends & Fiction—the web show, podcast, and online community I host with three fellow authors.
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#35 Lo que no digo en voz alta
Donde las palabras no pronunciadas encuentran su lugar, su hogar. Un espacio seguro para todo lo que no puedo decir en voz alta.
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#36 R.F. Kuang
on what i'm writing, what i'm reading, and where to find me
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#37 Good Thing Going
A considered collection of book recommendations, along with behind-the-scenes glimpses, favorite links, important Etsy discoveries and whispered dreams from Lena Dunham and the Good Thing Going team—published with intention rather than routine.
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#38 Atticus
Poetry, Publishing Tips, and Weekly Sneak Peeks - a mix of inspirations that have caught my eye and sparked my creativity. From captivating reads to hidden gems, here's what I'm loving right now—hope it fuels your imagination too.
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#39 The Ghost
On writing and life. Long-form musings on the nature of creativity and the essence of everything. Some poems, too.
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#40 Escaping Flatland
I write essays about relationships, thinking, and agency, sometimes with my wife. We live on a windswept island in the Baltic Sea with our two daughters.
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#41 Tobe’s Thoughts
this is a piece of me, I hope you enjoy it x.
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#42 Athenaeum Book Club
An online book club studying the great texts of Western Civilization.
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#43 The Reading List
A new list of book recommendations or reading how to/guide every Sunday
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#44 ✍️ Make Writing Your Job
Land high-paying remote writing jobs, pitch calls, grants, residencies, and contests -- delivered straight to your inbox. Plus access our exclusive class library. ✨ New jobs posted 5x/week. Writers are getting hired every day — don’t miss out.
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#45 doechii
the journal entries I don’t mind you reading..
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#46 Livros Imperdíveis
A sua newsletter de promoções e indicações de livros 📕🤑🙂
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#47 Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak
For those who love literature and the art of storytelling, I want to offer humble tales, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred on my personal, unpublished notebooks
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#48 The Open Letters
An open magazine of essays, ideas, and letters to the world. Written by many, read by all.
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#49 people's archive
postcards and letters by people, to people.
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#50 CRAFT TALK
CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight.
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#51 Serious Literary Author
An unprecedented insight into the life of an SLA.
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#52 Oxford Poetry’s Substack
Dispatches from our latest issues and our century’s worth of archives, as well as exclusive new writing by some of today’s leading poets and critics.
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#53 Silent Book Club
No homework. No pressure. Just reading with friends.
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#54 Footnotes and Tangents
Slow reads of great books. Book guides and a reading community to help you get more from the best stories.
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#55 David Perell's How I Write
Before book sales and PR buzz, your favorite writers began with two things: the blank page and an idea. Each week on How I Write, we go behind-the-scenes with the world's great writers to uncover the meta-mechanics of writing and the lifestyle behind it.
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#56 For Dear Life with Maggie Smith
A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame
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#57 La Octava Poesía
Un espacio para hablar poéticamente de todo. Con pasión, sensibilidad e intensidad sobre las cosas que nos mueven.
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#58 Cultural Capital
A newsletter about ideas, literature and the arts
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#59 Looking at Picture Books
Conversations about how picture books work.
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#60 Bookfox Writer
I'm an editor who helps novelists through courses and coaching.
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#61 Showcase
Object & Idea. Objets d'Art & Ideas behind the words. Showcase, under new editorial direction by Bethany Leger, explores writing (NF, F, P) focused on religious & family trauma, cults & high control groups, institutional coercion.
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#62 letters in bloom
falling in love w life through words 🙆🏻♀️
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#63 The Commonplace
Essays on places, books, & growing up — helping you 'be joyful though you have considered all the facts.'
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#64 Athenaum Kulübü
Athenaum, düşünceyi, sanatı ve bilimi bir araya getiren çağdaş bir entelektüel topluluktur. Salon geleneğinden ilham alır, dijitalde yaşar. Bültenler, öneri kürasyonları, online buluşmalar ve kayıtlı dersler ile düşüncenin ve aidiyetin yeniden üretir.
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#65 Chapter Break
Writing advice and book publishing insights from industry leaders and established authors put together by your friendly neighborhood book editor!
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#66 Jack Edwards: Constant Reader
In the late 1920s, Dorothy Parker wrote a column for The New Yorker called "Constant Reader" -- these are my book reviews, a century later. Brought to you by Jack Edwards, the internet's resident librarian.
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#67 Before and After the Book Deal
Real talk about the writing + publishing industry from an author who doesn’t want you to feel confused, bewildered, or alone. Plus: craft tips, reading recommendations, writing support + solidarity (unless you are a jerk to people in the comments).
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#68 THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES
Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.
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#69 Books & Culture
Let's read the classics of literature together!
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#70 personal canon
finding meaning in life through literature, art, design, and culture ✦✧ through weekly posts and enthusiastic conversations
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#71 Ron Charles
I write about books, authors, and literary culture. Formerly a book critic at The Washington Post.
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#72 Noted
Tips from the world's best note takers
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#73 Memoir Land
Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.
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#74 Andrius Tapinas
Kronikos ir Echoskopijos. Podcastai. Paveikslų analizės. Rašomo romano fragmentai ir komentarai. Knygų draugija. Ir dar daug visko
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#75 Amie McNee
Words for Creatives
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#76 Salman's Sea of Stories
An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.
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#77 Johnathan Bi
Studying the great books, sharing my learnings through lectures & interviews
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#78 a twenties pov
reflections and personal guides from the pov of someone in her twenties
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#79 Big Think Books
A dedicated space for exploring the books and ideas that shape our world.
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#80 The Clearing by Katherine May
A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.
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#81 americanbaron
writings about my life and stuff.
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#82 Emergency Talks - ou Conversas Urgentes
literatura, corpo e encruzilhadas| por Jéssica Balbino
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#83 The Common Reader
Nerdy literature newsletter. Helping you make the most of your reading.
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#84 Patti Callahan Henry
Everything is Better With a Story: Letters and thoughts on writing, reading, and inspiration for the creative life with NYT bestselling author of nineteen novels, and Founder and co-host of Friends and Fiction.
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#85 bookbear express
help-self
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#86 Hungry Dogs with James Patterson
Telling stories, combating insanity, and talking to humans.
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#87 Monday Monday
Personal essays and creative quandaries
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#88 Agents and Books
Agents & Books has moved. Please go to www.agentsandbooks.com to sign up!
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#89 John Paul Brammer
Writing, art, and more from John Paul Brammer.
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#90 Obvious State
In pursuit of wisdom and beauty. A graphic artist's take on classic literature and modern culture.
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#91 Alphabet Soup
Stories, poems, thoughts & more stories: the Alphabet Soup in my mind just keeps simmering.
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#92 Libros Gratis
Recibe libros gratis para Kindle cada semana en tu email
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#93 Club Bubbly by Beach Reads & Bubbly
A place to celebrate all of your (not-so-guilty) reading pleasures! Welcome to the club.
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#94 Daily Kafka
Daily Franz Kafka’s letters to Felice Bauer
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#95 The Good Journey with Ijeoma Oluo
Writing, life, and writing life
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#96 Rene Webb’s Newsletter
The weekly newsletter for USA TODAY Bestselling Romance Author Rene Webb.
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#97 The Elif Life
Dispatches from the author of The Idiot
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#98 SubMakk
Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity
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#99 How to Write (and Edit) a Book
Writing and editing advice from a literary agent and editor
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#100 Camilla Isley
Writer, book worm, cats lover, coffee addict, shoe hoarder.
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