Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Echoing through cobblestone streets. 🕯️

Channel
Best books | Ebooks & Audiobooks | Top lists | Recommendations
@book_lists
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
32,570subscribers
+111 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 30 November 2023— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 7 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/book_lists |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Aug 2026, 08:42 | 32,570 | +22 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 10:35 | 32,548 | +32 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 11:41 | 32,516 | +22 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 15:17 | 32,494 | +18 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 15:45 | 32,476 | +17 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:45 | 32,459 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:34 | 32,459 | first reading |
Engagement
34 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 16 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 5.04%
- avg views ÷ 32,570 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 1,640
- 34 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 0.22%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 34
- of 34 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 26 of 34 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 34 (1 August 2026 – 12 August 2026) |
| Views total | 55,794 |
| Reactions total | 98 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 21:13 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
- ≈1,960
- Videos
- ≈22
- Links
- ≈331
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 12 August 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
98 reactions across 26 posts, in 8 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 53.1% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 52 | 53.1% | |
| 👍 | 29 | 29.6% | |
| 🗿 | 6 | 6.12% | |
| 😘 | 3 | 3.06% | |
| 🤷♂ | 3 | 3.06% | |
| 💯 | 2 | 2.04% | |
| 🙏 | 2 | 2.04% | |
| 😭 | 1 | 1.02% |
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 26 of the 34 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 98reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 34 most recent posts we hold, published 1 August 2026 to 12 August 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.
Recent posts
Books where time is a puzzle, not a straight line The Night Watch — Sarah Waters Moving backward from 1947 to 1941, this novel reveals how four Londoners’ lives connected during the Blitz, unspooling secrets in reverse. Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell Six nested stories from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, each interrupted and completed in a mirror structure that echoes across time. A Tale for the Time…
❤1👍1
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
❤3
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft A little reminder of the magic we carry. 📚
Books about female friendship that feel real and raw My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante A lifelong, intense bond between two girls growing up in a poor Naples neighborhood, full of rivalry, love, and the struggle to rise above. Sula — Toni Morrison A devastating portrait of two Black women whose childhood friendship is tested by betrayal and the weight of their community’s expectations. Conversations with Friend…
❤1
Donna Tartt, The Secret History A dark truth from the halls of Hampden College. 🏛️
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan A timeless reminder to seek beauty in the dirt.
When the wilderness is more than a setting — 5 books where nature breathes, haunts, and transforms Where the Crawdads Sing — Delia Owens A girl survives alone in the marsh, entangled in a murder mystery; a spellbinding ode to the wild. The Overstory — Richard Powers Multiple lives connected by trees, from activists to scientists; a sprawling, humbling look at the secret world of forests. Drive Your Plow Over the B…
❤1👍1
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita A truth that outlives every fire. 🔥
❤1👍1
Road trips that lead to unexpected destinations The Lincoln Highway — Amor Towles A teen set to start fresh in California gets detoured by two charismatic stowaways, turning a simple drive into a grand American odyssey of mishaps and brotherhood. Mosquitoland — David Arnold When her family falls apart, 16-year-old Mim boards a Greyhound bus for Ohio and meets an eccentric cast that makes the thousand-mile journey a…
❤5👍2
A timeless reminder that ideas are unchained. 🔑 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
❤8💯2
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye A feeling every true reader knows. 📚
❤3
Showing the 12 most recent of 34 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 · 328,436
Telegram ranks this channel #3 of 62 here — alongside 61 others — read 12 August 2026
@books · 214,056
Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 12 August 2026
@bookshub25 · 277,127
Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 64 here — alongside 63 others — read 12 August 2026
@Novels_English_Books_Magazines · 218,257
Telegram ranks this channel #22 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 12 August 2026
This channel appears in 4 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. 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 12 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Best books | Ebooks & Audiobooks | Top lists | Recommendations” (@book_lists), 32,570 subscribers as measured 12 August 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.