I’m looking for books that have extensive descriptions of tea, just in the way that beer, wine, or steak can be lovingly described. Bring on the purple prose, the overly flowery or just plain weird language, I’m just looking for books that have descriptions of tea. (And I’ve already read the Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie.)
by Zarohk
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Maybe try Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
I am not a reliable source for this but I’m pretty sure every Douglas Adams book described tea, at some point, in a way that I hadn’t thought about it before. Maybe a Dirk Gently book? One of them was called “The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul” so hell, that one ought to cover it. Cripes, now I’m trying to remember what turned me on to Irish Breakfast tea in the early 2000s. Probably it was booze and Angela’s Ashes or something
There’s [R. A. MacAvoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._MacAvoy)’s [*Tea with the Black Dragon*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/435415.Tea_with_the_Black_Dragon). It doesn’t actually have much to do with tea, but I recommend it (and MacAvoy’s other works, including the sequel).
From the thread:
* [“A tea novel”](https://new.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/comments/qhn1dn/a_tea_novel/) (r/booksuggestions; 28 October 2021)
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See