Est. 2016 · A reading collective
Litura Reading Collective
Read deeply. Talk freely. Belong somewhere.
A community for curious readers, meaningful conversations, and books worth sharing.
Welcome
Welcome to Litura Reading Collective
We are glad you found us. Whether you read a chapter a night or devour a novel in a weekend, there is a chair here with your name on it. Come for the book of the month, stay for the conversation — and leave with three more titles you did not expect to love.
About the Book Club
A reading collective, not a reading list
Founded in 2016 around a single borrowed paperback, Litura Reading Collective now gathers each month in bookshop back rooms, living rooms, and online. We alternate fiction and non-fiction, publish a discussion guide with every pick, and keep the circles small enough that everyone gets to speak.
You never have to finish the book to join the conversation. Half-read opinions are welcome; performed expertise is not.
More about us →Our Mission
Read deeply. Talk freely.
To make serious reading a shared, generous, and unpretentious habit — and to build a community where curiosity outranks credentials.
Curate with care
Six to eight titles a year, chosen by members, spanning genres and centuries.
Host honest conversation
Disagreement is the point. Grace is the rule.
Keep the door open
Free to join, easy to attend, no quiz at the door.
Book of the Month · September
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro · 245 pages
An ageing English butler takes a motoring holiday through the West Country and, mile by mile, unpicks a lifetime of loyal service. Ishiguro writes restraint the way other novelists write catastrophe — quietly, and then devastatingly. Our circle meets twice this month to argue about what Stevens actually knows.
On Our Shelves
Recommended by the collective
Past picks and perennial favourites — the titles members keep pressing into each other's hands.
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Essay
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Classic
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Fiction
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Fiction
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Magical realism
On Photography
Susan Sontag
Criticism
Upcoming Events
Meetings & literary evenings
Sep 04
7:00 PM
Reserve a seatChapter Circle: The Meridian, Part I
The Back Room, Ivy & Ink Books
Sep 18
6:30 PM
Reserve a seatAuthor Evening with Eliot Harbor
Litura Reading Room
Oct 02
7:00 PM
Reserve a seatSilent Reading Hour & Wine
Members' Lounge
Oct 16
8:00 PM
Reserve a seatLate Night Poetry Exchange
Online — Litura Table
From the Collective
In members' words
“I came for one book and stayed for the arguments. Nobody here pretends to have finished the footnotes.”
Mara V.
Member since 2021
“The monthly circle turned reading from a private habit into the best conversation of my week.”
Daniel O.
Member since 2023
“Thoughtful picks, zero snobbery. I've read more in a year here than in the decade before it.”
Priya S.
Member since 2019
Join the Collective
Pull up a chair
Membership is free to begin: the monthly pick, the discussion guide, and an open seat at every circle. Leave your email and we'll write first.