- Following 2.1K
- Followers 25K
- Engagement 1.14%
- Avg likes 257
- Avg comments 2
About Category Is Books
Category Is Books (@categoryisbooks) is a Bookstore creator on Instagram. The account has 24,986 followers and 1,565 published posts. Recent posts average 257 likes and 2 comments, an engagement rate of 1.14%.
With 25K followers, Category Is Books is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Category Is Books follows 2,055 accounts, so the audience is roughly 12 times the size of the list followed. Category Is Books is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Category Is Books under a single category, Bookstore.
The Instagram bio for Category Is Books runs to 17 words across 4 lines. Emoji sit alongside the words. The bio also includes contact details, which Flinque does not republish. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Category Is Books dates from January 2026.
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1,565 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Category Is Books, 6 are single images and 4 are carousels. That mix leans toward single images. Category Is Books has built a substantial archive of 1,565 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 16 followers for each post published. Category Is Books also keeps 2 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 75 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include open, queer, bookshop, history and full.
🍜Palaver by Bryan Washington - a new Bryan Washington (!!!) a personall favourite of the contemporary queer novelists, cannot wait to read! Set in Japan, a story of family, love, and the beauty of a life among others.
🍒Dissapoint Me by Nicola Dinan - now in paperback! funny, moving and poignant exploration of modern romance and the allure of domesticity
🔥Good Girl by Aria Aber - also now in paperback! portrait of a young queer artist in Berlin
💜Uneven by Sam Mills - another out in paperback:) history of nine bisexual lives
🏺Queer Crafts by Daniel Fountain - critical craft queer theory on the intersection of queerness and craft
⚡️Love and Lightning by Sarah Van Binsbergen, Liz Allan, Jessica Gysel, Sara Kaaman - a collection of queer and feminist manifestos
🐸Tales for Fairies by Alba Morollon Diaz-Faes - Tracing queer fairy-tale retellings!
🏳️🌈Outrage by Ellen Jones - another fresh to paperback, on the fight for LGBTQ+ lives
🕵♀️Divine Ruin by Margot Douaihy - queer catholics celebreate, it is time for more lesbian nun crime mysteries!
🦇Blood and Roses by AnnieSummerlee - queer fantasy! set in a school full of vampires (and vampire hunters) in the Scottish highlands.
✨️Cursebound by Saara El-Arifi - book 2 in th Faebound series! now in paperback too.
🌟and! last photo is a big stack of many additional new in titles 🌟 open 11-5pm Thurs-Sun 🌟
📚 give us a few days to catch up on those emails, delivery of fresh queer books expected in for the weekend! (Yes, we will have copies in of the ice boys) 📚🔥❤️
thank you for a genuinely fantastic year in here - again, the world feels increasingly impossible, but reminded daily of the enduring love, strength and power of the queers. 💜✨️
🌟Monday 22nd: 11-5pm
🌟Tuesday 23rd: 11-5pm
🌟Wednesday 24th: 11-3pm
📚 then CLOSED for bookseller hibernation
25th December - 15th January 2026 📚 🕯🌿🌙
Big love and heart holding to you all! ❤️❤️❤️
🌟Black Flame by Gretchen Felker Martin
🌟Model Home by Rivers Solomon
🌟Terry Dactyl by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
🌟Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
🌟Books of Blood 1-3 by Clive Barker
🌟Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
🌟What it Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill
🌟Fierce Salvage edited by Ryan Vance and Michael Lee Richardson
🌟The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin
🌟Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
🌟Thank you for Calling the Lesbian Line by Elizabeth Lovatt
🌟Valencia by Michelle Tea
🌟Love in Exile by Shon Faye
🌟Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle
🌟Black Flame by Gretchen Felker Martin
🌟Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth (this is YEAR 2! in the top for this book)
🌟Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta
🌟Who's Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler
🌟Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
🌟What it Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill
🌟Small Town Joy by Carrie Marshall
🌟Cuckoo by Gretcehn Felker Martin (thats TWO for Gretchen!)
🌟Fierce Salvage edited by Ryan Vance and Michael Lee Richardson
❤️🔥 extra mention for BUTT MAGAZINE ❤️🔥 which is the #1 selling item in the bookshop overall this year!
🌿 Glasgow Rebel History - full of facts, almost everyday(!) about history happening around the Clyde by
⛓️ Stolen Skies - prisoner solidarity and resistance. Incredible lino prints on different aspects of prison struggle.
🍄 Medicinal Mushrooms! Herbalism Without Borders - beautiful art and knowledge sharing from
Truely delightful, need to be seen to be believed! 😍 💜 limited stock 💜
Open 11-5pm till Christmas Eve 📚
✨️ come check out our queer history baubles at the bookshop too! ✨️ open 11-5pm ✨️
Category Is Books's engagement
Category Is Books's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.14%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 88 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 129 to 1, with 257 likes and 2 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
Engagement rate
1.14%
- Avg likes
- 257
- Avg comments
- 2
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 88
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Who is Category Is Books?
Category Is Books (@categoryisbooks) is a Bookstore creator on Instagram. Category Is Books is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Category Is Books runs to 17 words across 4 lines.
How many followers does Category Is Books have?
Category Is Books has 24,986 followers on Instagram (25K). Category Is Books follows 2,055 accounts, so the audience is roughly 12 times the size of the list followed. Category Is Books has built a substantial archive of 1,565 posts.
What is Category Is Books's engagement rate?
Category Is Books's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.14%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 88 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 129 to 1, with 257 likes and 2 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
What does Category Is Books post about on Instagram?
Flinque files Category Is Books under a single category, Bookstore. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Category Is Books, 6 are single images and 4 are carousels. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Category Is Books repeatedly use the words open, queer, bookshop, history and full. Category Is Books writes those captions mainly in English. Category Is Books keeps 2 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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Category Is Books's contact details are not published on Flinque's public profile. The Instagram bio links to 1 external site, and a free Flinque account opens that link. The account is registered as an Instagram business account. The bio carries contact details of its own, which Flinque does not copy. Brands with a free Flinque account can shortlist Category Is Books and use Flinque's outreach tools wherever a contact route is on file.
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