Hot, cool, well-read people.
Your brain, but hotter.
Read with people, live. See who’s reading right now, join the book club, save the lines that stop you, and share what you finish. Then write and make things of your own. Free to start.
$12.99 a month. Founding price ends October 31.
Example
Reading
Middlemarch
George Eliot
- 45 min
- 32 pages
Marked a passage · p. 52
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Finished a book
It becomes a card for your Stories, with your favorite line, linked to your World.
One app
Everything in it does one of three things.
Smarter
Read more, with other people, and learn something new every day.
- Read alongside members, live
- One book a month with the club
- Your shelves, saved lines and reading time
- Short Academy courses
- Radio, episodes and films
Hotter
Look after the body you read in, any way you like to move.
- Move: run, lift, yoga, dance or walk, alongside members
- Fits: your outfits on your World
- Food that makes you feel bright
- Places to go, here and on your trips
More creative
Make something of your own, a little every day.
- Write today, with a timer
- Your books, chapter by chapter
- A chapter a day for your first readers
- Guitar lessons and a practice timer for any instrument
- Songs, films and getting published
What you get
Where are you starting?
Free
I love to read
Log every book, time your sessions, and save the lines that stop you. Your Year in Literati arrives every December.
Free to start
I want to read more
Read alongside other members live, read one book a month with the club, and see what everyone else is reading for ideas.
Members
I love to write
A writing space, monthly challenges, personal records, and a World to publish what you make.
Members
I want to write more
Your first month is planned with Amory: three writing sessions, then 5,000 words in any form. Write alongside other members.
Your first 30 days
Your first month, planned with Amory.
Amory is your guide inside Hot Literati. By day 30 you have a book finished and something made.
- Week 1 · Days 1–7BeginAmory plans your month: the book you’ll read, the thing you’ll make, your pace.
- Week 2 · Days 8–14PracticeThree writing sessions, on your own or alongside other members.
- Week 3 · Days 15–21Make5,000 words in any form. Novel, screenplay, play, poems, essays, notes.
- Week 4 · Days 22–30SharePublish to your World and finish the book you’re reading.
Community
You do it with other people.
See what members everywhere are reading and writing, cheer them on, and read one book together each month. Plus a members’ chat with a 3pm gratitude ritual and a page for your city. From anywhere.
The book club · one book a month
- NominateMembers suggest
- VoteOne book wins
- ReadTogether, all month
- FinaleOne live night
This month’s book
Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin
Founding pricing ends tomorrow
$12.99 a month, for as long as you stay.
Every Academy course in full, the book club, the writing space, your World, and a piece from HQ every morning. Founding pricing is limited to the first 1,000 members.
After October 31, membership is $17.99 a month or $149 a year.
