So this week’s Top Ten Tuesday theme over at ThatArtsyReaderGirl is your fall reading list. While my reading list is forever growing, I decided to twist the theme a bit for the 21st of September was also National Chai Day. So why not celebrate my favorite drink, even if the day is behind us for this year??! Better late than never, right?? Here are ten chai time books you can fall in love with!!

Each of these books have something to do with tea and chai that I am sure I, and you can fall in love with!! Also, isn’t chai a perfect drink for the fall sweater weather? (Well, for me, it is an any-weather drink)

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10 Chai Time Books You Can Fall in Love With

I am yet to read many of these books, so in that way, these are potentially books on my fall reading list after all! For the ones that I have read, or am reading, I will put in my thoughts (so far); for the rest, I will include the book description.

The Chai Factor

I am currently reading The Chai Factor and loving it so far! Look for my review in a future post (I hope!)

Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words

While I missed my chance at getting this book on NetGalley, I decided to pick it up from the local library as soon as I can. It is on hold right now and I can’t wait to read it. Based on all the reviews I have seen, this is a must read.

Live and Let Chai: A Beachfront Cozy Mystery

I love reading mysteries, I really do! As a child and well into my adulthood, I devoured mysteries, starting from Enid Blyton’s Famous Five and Secret Seven series, to Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Perry Mason, and more. I still do read occasional mysteries but somehow it is less than once in a blue moon considering how often I read them before. As far as cozy mysteries, I believe I might have read a couple, but can’t recall now. However, the titles never fail to delight me, as much as a cup of tea does!

Which is why I am now finding myself with a late night cup of tea in one hand, and this book on my — well, since many of these books are ebooks that I am reading on my laptop — lap! Since I am reading multiple books in parallel, you can look forward to many of these reviews soon! Be prepared with a big cup of tea

Get it on Amazon, or at your favorite local bookstore via IndieBound.

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel

Lisa See has been on my TBR list forever. Each of her books gets added on there; I borrow the book from the library and hold on to it to the maximum allowed time, and then return it without having read it. Not because I did not want to but because I always make the mistake of getting way too many books (read way way way too many!!) each time I visit.

This time, I hope to read this to the end (I have begun this one for a change compared to my previous tries). But it is likely going to take me some time for it is a prett-ea heft-ea book!!!

Get it on Amazon, or at your favorite local bookstore via IndieBound, or look for it at your local library!

Rosie’s Travelling Tea Shop

One of those long overdue reviews.

Rebecca Raisin takes tough topics and approaches them without dramatizing anything unnecessarily. While I enjoyed knowing the characters, I think my favorite part of the book was Poppy, the travelling tea-shop!! I simply love the idea of having a campervan that serves dual purposes (well, I actually would love to combine the tea-shop with Aria’s bookshop van which is incidentally what book 2 of the series is about) and exploring off-beat towns in it.

Overall, this book is one of those that effectively wraps you in a hug, hands you a literal cup of tea as well, and tops it all off with a wonderful read and a sweet treat!!!

You can get it here at Amazon or pick it up from a local bookstore via IndieBound

A Literary Tea Party

I had forgotten about this book, or rather, lost it in one of the side-alleys in the maze of mazes that is currently serving as my memory!! Writing this post ensured that this book got off that side-alley and right onto Main Street. I had even ended up buying the book so I could do one of those overdue reviews for a delightful book, but that never happened.

This book is positea-vly delish! A litea-rary treat indeed! Well, enough with the puns for this review, but seriously, I love the presentation and the contents of this book. Alison Walsh effortlessly infuses teatime treats and literary delights with humor and warmth to make A Literary Tea Party a wonderful read.

Each featured recipe follows a recipe, of sorts! The name of the dish, the book it is inspired by, a quote(s) from the book, a something more about the dish, the recipe itself (simple and straightforward steps), followed by either a fun fact/a tip/a tea pairing/or an etc. I love how it includes a varie-tea of dishes inspired by an equally impressive range of books (from Alice in Wonderland to White Fang, and from Agatha Christie to Mary Norton!

Check it out now!! You can find it on Amazon or support your local bookstore here.

Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know

This is tea-eny, tiny book but it packs a whole lot of information within. While I love tea, and am pretty (well, not doing the prettea thing again) needy about it, I know there is a lot to learn about it still. This book helps to glean enough to impress others at parties. From the history of tea to types of tea and teapots, and from tea traditions around the world to tips on how to partea, this book has it all.

Now, I am going to look for other books in the Stuff You Should Know series. Also, note that this makes a wonderful gift for that tea lover in your life! Pair it with this adorable Elephant Tea Mug that comes with its own teabag holder as well as a selection of Tea by Moods to make it perfect!

The Boba Book: Bubble Tea and Beyond

I am currently reading this book and loving it so far! Look for my review in a future post (I hope!)

With teenagers in the house, and living in a neighborhood where there are at least a dozen boba places in a three-mile radius, I simply had to check out this book. I am glad I did. The book is a little bit of many things: boba history, Boba-Guys-memoir, recipe book (and what stunning, drool-worthy photographs!), personal stories in speech bubbles (there is a backstory for that), and more boba stuff.

While I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is where the Boba Guys opened their first store, I have never been to one of their boba places yet. So I should look for the closest Boba Guys soon. However, you do not need to know about or have been to Boba Guys to appreciate and enjoy this book. I am proof of that. You can look for it at your local library, on Amazon, or at a local bookstore.

Confession: I am a boba fan and desperately trying not to get addicted to it! I am hoping to master the art of making it at home with books like this though so I can if needed.

The Tea Rose

This is on my TBR! Intrigue, tea, history, setting, and more – it has all these elements that make for great reading on a day you want to simply curl up on your couch and read, armed with that giant cup of tea as well. Plus, this is book one of a three-part series, so keep that teapot boiling and brewing. I will be getting to this book very soon and will update you all when I am done reading, I promise!

Infused: Adventures in Tea

While I will get to reading it fully later, I read the first few pages of this fascinating book for it drew me in. Isn’t that cover gorgeous?! I love Lovell’s writing style; she uses narration and description to transport readers to wherever she is writing about, and her sensitivity as well as her passion for tea shows in the recipes and well, just about everything. I am looking forward to continuing it soon after I finish all those other currently-reading books (and not just the ones in this post!)

I am sure you will love Infused, even if you are not someone who enjoys tea (how?! well, jk!). Lovell was previously unknown to me, but now I am going to check out her blog. She is certainly one inspiring lady.

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Bonus Chai Time Reads

• Judy Moody and the Right Royal Tea Party
• Fancy Nancy Tea Parties
• Check out this list for great non-fiction tea reads from a tea-expert
• Another cool non-fiction list, this time about the history of tea, from Book Riot

QuoTeable Quotes For Chai Time

And Now, the End of This Chai Time Post

Dear reader, have you read any of these chai time books? Your thoughts on them are as always, welcome and needed! Do you have any recommendations for books about tea? Fiction, non-fiction, and all ages recommendations are welcome! Regarding the theme of this post, when is it chai time for you? Do you have any favorite teas or chai time snacks? I would love to hear about that.

“Life is like a cup of tea. It’s all in how you make it.” – Unknown