A book club that’s not a book club, but still kind of a book club.

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined” —Toni Morrison, Beloved

We craft our coffees to share the joy of our favorite reads. Each coffee is a nod to the tales we cherish, roasted to bring out vibrant, clean flavors that feel like a familiar page-turner.

Here you’ll find the books that inspire our range of coffees, alongside a curated reading list from the shelves of the café:

Contemporary Fiction

The Lonely Londoners — Sam Selvon

Disgrace — J.M. Coetzee

Half of a Yellow Sun — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe

Season of Migration to the North — Tayeb Salih

Beloved — Toni Morrison

Woman at Point Zero — Nawal El Saadawi

Kindred — Octavia Butler

Giovanni's Room — James Baldwin

A Brief History of Seven Killings — Marlon James

The Blacker the Berry — Wallace Thurman

East of Eden — John Steinbeck

Tremor — Teju Cole

2666 — Roberto Bolaño

Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad

Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges

Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy

Science Fiction & Speculative Fiction

The Word for World is Forest — Ursula K. Le Guin

The Parable of the Sower — Octavia Butler

Story of Your Life — Ted Chiang

Seveneves — Neal Stephenson

The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson

Dune — Frank Herbert

Oryx and Crake — Margaret Atwood

I Who Have Never Known Men — Jacqueline Harper

Hyperion — Dan Simmons

Graphic Novels & Comics

Watchmen — Alan Moore

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns — Frank Miller

Persepolis — Marjane Satrapi

Kingdom Come — Mark Waid & Alex Ross