LitWide

Reading can change who you are.

Books written by people you might never meet, from places you may never visit, and from times you may never experience, can leave you with something that stays with you long after you finish the final page.

LitWide is designed to help you find more books like that. Books that take you somewhere new, that push a little against what you usually read, and that earn their place on your shelf by changing the shape of what is already there.

It does this through reading challenges. Not a number to hit by the end of the year, but an invitation: a book that had to be translated to reach you, a book older than anyone you know, a genre you decided long ago was not for you, a life that looks nothing like your own.

Challenges have no deadlines or streaks. Instead, pick one that interests you and browse the recommended books list. The books are recommended by booksellers, librarians, and writers, not by algorithms programmed to find more of what you have already read.

Reading slowly is still reading. Stopping and starting again is still reading. Giving up on a book to pick up a new one is still reading.

If you keep choosing to read, you are reading well. LitWide is here for the moments when you want to read a book that changes you.

Read wider.

Not just more.

Coming soon to iPhone and iPad.