Dear readers, you all know that I love books, especially fantasy books. Long-time readers will also have picked up that I am a knitter. I don’t know if I’ve been as clear about my love for tea. However, on my annual vacation, I often go to a book lover’s tea where people share book recommendations and history of tea classes where I also end up sharing tea-related book recommendations. I’ve been meaning to put this list together for a while, but was finally spurred to action when my computer told me that today is officially tea lovers’ day. I hope you enjoy! And, if you have any recommendations to add, please let me know! I’d be especially interested in African- or Latine-inspired books – my coworker and I both have fond memories of cinnamon tea at a local Ethiopian recipe.

• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. First of a trilogy, with a 2026 standalone in the world.
• Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne. First of a quartet.
• The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Stacy Sivinski – First of two so far.
• A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by Stephanie Burgis Book one of two now out, with more on the way.
• A Psalm for the Wild-built by Becky Chambers. First of a duology.
• Soulless by Gail Carriger – first of many. The book that made steampunk a popular genre.
• The Tea Dragon Society by K. O’Neill – First of a trilogy
• The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard – available on Libby as part of Tea and Murder
• Tea and Sympathetic Magic by Tansy Rayner Roberts. First of 6-book series.
• A Tempest of Tea by Hafzah Faizal – first of a duology.
• Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

Two more that I’ve heard about and want to read are A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin and Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta.