In case anyone else has a book club addiction like me this is of interest to anyone, there’s a recently put-together informal Class-S Reading Club. If you’re wondering what Class-S is, I’ll refer you to Class S (culture) - Wikipedia or エス (文化) - Wikipedia, but as a genre, it’s stuff like 花物語 上 | L38, or 乙女の港 (実業之日本社文庫 - 少女の友コレクション) | L30?? that tends to take place in all-girls private schools, with a sisterhood system, and mostly involves romantic friendships of various kinds (often transient). For the purposes of the club, we’re also including Class-S inspired yuri works like マリア様がみてる 1 | L29, 私の百合はお仕事です! | L27, or FLOWERS -Le volume sur printemps- | vndb. So selections for the club range from early 1900s (with modernized kana) to presently running series, and various media formats.
Historically it was a very strong influence on yuri, and nowadays some works incorporate elements of it in various ways. 私の百合はお仕事です! | L27 for example is set primarily in a Class-S concept cafe, and its drama is very oriented around the sisterhood thing (with some other elements); 青い花 | L27 has an all-girls Catholic school setting (without the sisterhood structure) and similar type of storytelling to マリア様がみてる (tho much nicer environment), etc
Anyway we’re still figuring stuff out a bit, but feel free to take a look, if it’s of interest
