— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” Some feelings endure not because they remain unchanged, but because we keep choosing to make room for them.

Channel
Best books | Ebooks & Audiobooks | Top lists | Recommendations
@book_lists
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Stars · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
32,310subscribers
-149 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001902423868 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @book_lists |
| Description | Sharing our love of books 📚❤ @boris_sz book search and other questions |
| Created | Between 1 March 2023 and 31 January 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 18 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 33 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 18 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/book_lists |
Topic
Literature — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 9 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Sept 2026, 04:57 | 32,310 | -44 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 23:41 | 32,354 | -39 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 09:38 | 32,393 | -48 |
| 12 Sept 2026, 16:00 | 32,441 | -45 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 13:58 | 32,486 | -88 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 07:54 | 32,574 | -77 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 15:17 | 32,651 | -28 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 04:39 | 32,679 | -31 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 01:52 | 32,710 | -24 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 02:05 | 32,734 | -29 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 00:53 | 32,763 | -27 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 03:37 | 32,790 | -18 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 06:25 | 32,808 | +19 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 08:55 | 32,789 | +4 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 06:37 | 32,785 | +23 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 06:22 | 32,762 | -1 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 06:27 | 32,763 | -3 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 06:16 | 32,766 | +22 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 12:09 | 32,744 | +12 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 22:57 | 32,732 | first reading |
Engagement
153 posts held, back to 1 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 82 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 2.91%
- avg views ÷ 32,310 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 941
- 79 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0.294%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 79
- of 153 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 54 of 79 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 26 September 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 153 (1 August 2026 – 26 September 2026) |
| Views total | 74,346 |
| Reactions total | 155 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 26 Sept 2026, 19:43 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
- Photos
- ≈2,090
- Videos
- ≈22
- Links
- ≈331
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 26 September 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Reaction mix
399 reactions across 117 posts, in 19 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 60.9% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 243 | 60.9% | |
| 👍 | 99 | 24.8% | |
| ❤🔥 | 10 | 2.51% | |
| 💯 | 6 | 1.50% | |
| 🗿 | 6 | 1.50% | |
| 🤡 | 5 | 1.25% | |
| ✍ | 4 | 1.00% | |
| 🙏 | 4 | 1.00% | |
| 🥰 | 4 | 1.00% | |
| 😐 | 3 | 0.752% | |
| 😘 | 3 | 0.752% | |
| 🤷♂ | 3 | 0.752% | |
| 👻 | 2 | 0.501% | |
| 🙉 | 2 | 0.501% | |
| 👾 | 1 | 0.251% | |
| 🕊 | 1 | 0.251% | |
| 😎 | 1 | 0.251% | |
| 😭 | 1 | 0.251% | |
| 🤪 | 1 | 0.251% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 119 of the 153 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 399 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 153 most recent posts we hold, published 1 August 2026 to 26 September 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Telegram Stars
- Stars received
- 1
- across the posts below
- Posts paid on
- 1
- of 153 we hold a reading for · 0.7%
- Most on one post
- 1
- single highest reading
A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @book_lists. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.
Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.
This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.
Counted over the 153 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 1 August 2026 to 26 September 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.
Recent posts
Five books for a reset, a risk, and a new direction Wild — Cheryl Strayed After loss tears her life apart, a woman walks the Pacific Crest Trail alone. Raw and quietly transformative. The Midnight Library — Matt Haig Between life and death, Nora explores paths she might have taken. Accessible, hopeful, and built around one irresistible question. Convenience Store Woman — Sayaka Murata Keiko finds comfort in her jo…
❤2🤡1
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Courage is not the absence of weather. It is the patient art of finding your course.
🤡1😐1
“The moment of truth is the moment of decision.” — Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Some doors open only after we stop waiting for certainty.
Five bright, unruly books about finding your people Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin Two gifted friends build video games across decades, navigating ambition, love, resentment, and the intimacy of making something together. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet — Becky Chambers A found family travels through space aboard a small ship, where everyday kindness matters as much as adventure. Warm,…
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick Some journeys begin where certainty ends.
👍3
Five books where the landscape changes everything Crossing to Safety — Wallace Stegner Two young couples build a lifelong friendship through work, illness, ambition, and disappointment. Thoughtful and quietly devastating. The Shipping News — Annie Proulx After a personal collapse, a timid man returns to ancestral Newfoundland and begins again amid harsh weather, complicated relatives, and a fiercely local community…
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” John Green, Looking for Alaska Some doors open inward.
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Five clever, fast-paced books for readers who love a brilliant puzzle The Westing Game — Ellen Raskin A strange will brings sixteen heirs together to solve a millionaire’s final game. Playful, witty, and intricate. And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie Ten strangers arrive on an isolated island, where an unseen host reveals their secrets one by one. A classic mystery with relentless momentum. The 7½ Deaths of…
— Toni Morrison, Beloved “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” Freedom does not end at the open door. Sometimes, the harder journey begins after it.
❤1
“I am rooted, but I flow.” Virginia Woolf, The Waves Some truths arrive as a paradox: to remain yourself is not always to stay still.
❤1
Showing the 12 most recent of 153 posts we hold for @book_lists. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@eBookRoom · 333,607
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Telegram ranks this channel #8 of 69 here — alongside 68 others — read 21 August 2026
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Telegram ranks this channel #10 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 24 August 2026
@Indian_History_Books_PDF_UPSC · 57,554
Telegram ranks this channel #10 of 57 here — alongside 56 others — read 23 August 2026
@AudiobooksArchive · 132,253
Telegram ranks this channel #10 of 61 here — alongside 60 others — read 13 August 2026
@booksmania · 76,799
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@THE_INDIAN_EXPRESSSSS · 111,496
Telegram ranks this channel #30 of 45 here — alongside 44 others — read 15 August 2026
@selfimprovementbooks1 · 43,473
Telegram ranks this channel #31 of 69 here — alongside 68 others — read 28 August 2026
@eBooksCafe · 62,270
Telegram ranks this channel #31 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 21 August 2026
@muscatnonfiction · 66,287
Telegram ranks this channel #32 of 62 here — alongside 61 others — read 21 August 2026
@Activeenglishplus · 54,343
Telegram ranks this channel #36 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 23 August 2026
@English_BBC_Learning · 65,720
Telegram ranks this channel #41 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 21 August 2026
@dailynewspaper88 · 56,268
Telegram ranks this channel #44 of 53 here — alongside 52 others — read 23 August 2026
@eMagzinewspars · 61,876
Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 53 here — alongside 52 others — read 22 August 2026
@Englishmade_easy · 52,412
Telegram ranks this channel #48 of 86 here — alongside 85 others — read 24 August 2026
@trunkietrunk · 53,847
Telegram ranks this channel #50 of 66 here — alongside 65 others — read 24 August 2026
@Psycho_Todays · 44,424
Telegram ranks this channel #54 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 28 August 2026
@EngMasters · 74,796
Telegram ranks this channel #54 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 19 August 2026
@Success_Skills_keys · 43,850
Telegram ranks this channel #57 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 28 August 2026
@Motivational_Quotes_Thoughts · 95,361
Telegram ranks this channel #67 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 16 August 2026
@English_World2013 · 48,747
Telegram ranks this channel #69 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 26 August 2026
This channel appears in 29 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 18 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Best books | Ebooks & Audiobooks | Top lists | Recommendations” (@book_lists), 32,310 subscribers as measured 18 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/book_lists.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.