Inaugural edition · Stevenson School
A place to readin company.
An online literary community for careful readers, unfinished thoughts, generous disagreement, and the books that refuse to leave us alone.
Help choose our first bookOpening question
What should our first book make possible in this community?
The margins
Chapter conversations
Choose a chapter, leave a thought, and return when another reader has written back. Spoilers belong only in their chapter.
Discussion room
First Night
Open submissions
Put a book
on our desk.
The first archive entry begins here. Tell us what Stevenson should read and, more importantly, what conversation the book could begin.
The archive
Books we have read
Reviews, marginalia, and collective memory will gather here.
The shelf is empty—for now.
Our first finished book will become the first issue in this living archive.About the Society
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Our mission
Stevenson Literary Society is a student-led online community for reading beyond the classroom. We make space for close attention, intellectual risk, and conversations that continue after the final page.
Join the conversation
Open to every Stevenson student. No application, meetings, or previous literary experience required—only a book and something you noticed.
Begin with a recommendation ↗
Opening the margins…