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Curated, not algorithmic
Every selection is chosen by our editorial circle - working novelists, critics, and booksellers - never a recommendation engine.
Founded by Nyra Solenne
A Sanctuary for the Literary Elite.
Novirra is a curated global circle where stories are not simply read, but lived. Authors, critics, and devoted readers - together.
4,000+
Members worldwide
1,240
Reviews written
62
Books in the archive
64
Countries represented
An invitation
Why Join Novirra
Four reasons our members renew - and bring their friends.
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Authors in the room
Live salons with the writers themselves. Ask the questions that book tours never get to.
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A global reading table
4,000+ readers across 62 countries trading marginalia, translations, and 2 a.m. revelations.
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Beautiful things in the mail
Letterpress bookplates, annotated chapbooks, and the occasional first-edition lottery.
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Alice with a Why
England, 1919. Alyce — with a Y — is sent to live with her grandmother, the original Alice, after losing her father in the war. When a mysterious invitation to a tea party arrives, Alyce tumbles into a Wonderland trapped in its own war between the Sun King and the Queen of the Moon. A luminous, inventive return to Carroll's beloved world.
Author
Anna James
Released
June 2026
Rating
★★★★
At the helm
A reader first, an editor second, a host always.
Nyra Solenne built Novirra after a decade editing literary fiction in London, frustrated that the conversations she loved most kept happening in private dining rooms. She opened the doors. Today she chairs the monthly selection committee, hosts the salons, and writes the letter that opens every issue.
"A book club should be the most generous room a reader walks into all month. Anything less is just a reading list with extra steps."
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Years editing fiction
48
Salons hosted
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Continents, one circle
The circle behind the club
Meet the Team
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Voices in residence
Featured Authors
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Critic
Catherine Lacey
Critic
Elizabeth McCracken
Essayist
Eva Baltasar
Memoirist
From the salon
Live Discussions
Hot take: Trust Exercise is overrated. Convince me otherwise
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The Country of Others reminded me of a novel I can't place - help
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Was the ending of The Ministry of Time earned, or convenient?
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From the membership
What our readers say
4.9 / 5 — 1,240 reviews
Novirra is the only book club I've stayed in past month three. The conversation is unreasonably good.
Imani O.
Member since 2024 - Lagos
It feels like being let into a private library where everyone has done the reading and the wine is excellent.
Hugo M.
Member since 2024 - Lyon
The author salons alone are worth ten times what I pay. I've asked Marlowe questions I'd never get to ask at a signing.
Sasha P.
Member since 2025 - Brooklyn
The Novirra Letter
A monthly dispatch from the reading table.
Book picks, author interviews, salon invitations, and the occasional first-edition giveaway. No noise.
✦ Active Reading Challenge · 2026
The 2026 Mid-Year Retrospective Challenge
Six months. Sixty-two titles. Four thousand readers moving in slow, deliberate concert. Our Mid-Year Retrospective is not a race but a reckoning — a communal look back at the books that shaped our first half of 2026, the passages we underlined, and the authors who quietly rearranged how we read.
- ✦ 62 titles logged in the archive
- ✦ 1,240 member-written reviews
- ✦ 64 countries reading in parallel
- ✦ Weekly salons through December