Literal Club

Literal is a modern social reading and book tracking platform that provides a GraphQL API for managing reading lists, reviews, shelves, reading goals, highlights, and book recommendations. The API enables developers to access user libraries, reading states, book data, author information, and social reading clubs.

Literal Club publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Books, Reading, Social, GraphQL, and Book Tracking.

The Literal Club catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Literal Club’s developer surface includes signup flow, support, and 4 more developer resources.

📡 Source on GitHub

37.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 18/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFree

1 APIs

Books Reading Social GraphQLBook TrackingReading ListsShelvesReviews HighlightsReading GoalsBook ClubsRecommendations

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 37.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20

Access Clarity 12.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Literal GraphQL API

GraphQL API for Literal Club that provides access to book data, reading states, shelves, reviews, highlights, reading goals, clubs, and user profiles. Supports both public read ...

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Literal GraphQL API

Literal exposes a public GraphQL API for searching books, managing reading lists, building widgets, and creating integrations. All data on Literal is accessible through this API...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Literal Context

11 classes · 37 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Literal Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Developer Community

Developer Community

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Source (apis.yml)

aid: literal
name: Literal Club
description: Literal is a modern social reading and book tracking platform that provides a GraphQL API for managing reading
  lists, reviews, shelves, reading goals, highlights, and book recommendations. The API enables developers to access user
  libraries, reading states, book data, author information, and social reading clubs.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/literal.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/literal/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Books
- Reading
- Social
- GraphQL
- Book Tracking
- Reading Lists
- Shelves
- Reviews
- Highlights
- Reading Goals
- Book Clubs
- Recommendations
tags_raw:
- Books
- Reading
- Social
- GraphQL
- Book Tracking
- Reading Lists
- Shelves
- Reviews
- Highlights
- Reading Goals
- Book Clubs
- Recommendations
apis:
- aid: literal:literal-graphql-api
  name: Literal GraphQL API
  description: GraphQL API for Literal Club that provides access to book data, reading states, shelves, reviews, highlights,
    reading goals, clubs, and user profiles. Supports both public read operations and authenticated write operations via JWT
    bearer tokens.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://literal.club/developers
  baseURL: https://literal.club/graphql/
  tags:
  - Books
  - Reading
  - GraphQL
  - Social
  - Shelves
  - Reviews
  - Highlights
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://literal.club/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://literal.club/developers
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/literal/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/literal/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/literal/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  - url: graphql/literal-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
  contact:
  - FN: Literal Support
    email: support@literal.club
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/literal-domain-security.yml
- type: Signup
  url: https://literal.club/
- type: Developer Community
  url: https://literal.club/clubs/dev
- type: Support
  url: mailto:support@literal.club
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://literal.club/pages/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://literal.club/pages/privacy
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  X-twitter: kinlane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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