Book Club
Where books become conversations
Books become conversations, ideas become connections, and every reader has a voice. Litura is a living literary community — not a schedule that hands everyone the same book.
What we're reading
Books moving through the collective right now
Several books are always in the air. Pick one up whenever you like — the conversation waits for you.
Literary Fiction
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
An ageing butler drives through the West Country and unpicks a lifetime of loyal service, mile by quiet mile.
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Historical Fiction
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
A house that reads you back. Morrison writes memory as something that walks through the door and sits down.
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Essay
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
Still the sharpest thing written about the money, space and time that creative work quietly requires.
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Magical Realism
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Seven generations of Buendías, one small town, and a family tree we keep redrawing on butcher paper.
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Reading conversations
The questions we keep coming back to
Every book opens a handful of conversations. Join the one that interests you, whenever you get there.
The Remains of the Day
What did you think of the ending?
Stevens finally says the true thing to nobody in particular. Is that a breakthrough or the last dodge?
34 voicesJoin in →Beloved
Favourite character — and why?
Denver quietly carries the whole third act. Make the case for someone else.
22 voicesJoin in →One Hundred Years of Solitude
Would you recommend this book?
Who is it for? Tell us the reader you'd hand it to, not just whether you loved it.
41 voicesJoin in →A Room of One's Own
What idea stayed with you?
One sentence you're still turning over a week later. No summaries, just the residue.
18 voicesJoin in →
Community recommendations
Books members press into each other's hands
Shelves built by the collective, sorted by the mood you're in.
Staff Picks
- The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
- On Photography — Susan Sontag
Member Favourites
- Beloved — Toni Morrison
- Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hidden Gems
- The Blue Flower — Penelope Fitzgerald
- So Long, See You Tomorrow — William Maxwell
Classics
- Middlemarch — George Eliot
- The Stranger — Albert Camus
New Discoveries
- Orbital — Samantha Harvey
- Cold Enough for Snow — Jessica Au
Books Worth Rereading
- A Room of One's Own — Virginia Woolf
- One Hundred Years of Solitude — G. G. Márquez
Community picks
Nominate it, vote for it, read it together
Not one book a month for everybody — just a way for members to steer what the collective explores next.
- 48 votes
Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke · nominated by Mara V.
- 39 votes
The Body Keeps the Score
by Bessel van der Kolk · nominated by Priya S.
- 31 votes
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee · nominated by Jonah B.
- 27 votes
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin · nominated by Ines K.
Member reviews
A few words from the collective
“A book that completely changed how I think about friendship.”
— Maya
Litura Member
“I came for one book and stayed for the arguments.”
— Mara V.
Member since 2021
“Litura recommends the book you didn't know you needed.”
— Priya S.
Litura Member
The Litura Library
Everything the collective has read together
Book → conversations → member reviews → favourite quotes. Nothing we read disappears.
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9 conversations · 14 reviews
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
5 conversations · 11 reviews
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
On Photography
by Susan Sontag
6 conversations · 8 reviews
“To collect photographs is to collect the world.”
Join the Collective
Every reader has a voice
Membership is free to begin: the reading conversations, the recommendations, the library, and an open seat at every circle.