This is wildly out of date at this point. Check out the Curated  Booklist I maintain on TeaForums instead.

Personal Library:

* incomplete list

  • The Book of Tea, by Okakura Kakuzo (read) [x]
  • For All the Tea in China, by Sarah Rose (read) [x]
  • The Ancient Art of Tea, by Warren Peltier (read) [x]
  • The Classic of Tea (translated by Francis Ross Carpenter), by Lu Yu (read)
  • The Spirit of Tea, by Frank Hadley Murphy [x]
  • Chinese Tea Culture, by Wang Ling [x]
  • The True History of Tea, by Victor H. Mair (unread)
  • Darjeeling, by Jeff Koehler (unread)
  • How to Make Tea, by Brian R. Keating and Kim Long [x]
  • The Tea Enthusiast’s Handbook, by Mary Lou Heiss (unread)
  • A Brief History of Tea, by Roy Moxham [x]
  • New Tea Lover’s Treasury, by James Norwood Pratt (unread)
  • Green Tea, by Peter Oppliger (unread)
  • If Teacups Could Talk, by Emilie Barnes (unread)
  • Totally Teatime Cookbook, by Helene Siegel (unread)
  • Cha-No-Yu: The Japanese Tea Ceremony, by A. L. Sadler (unread)
  • Tea: A User’s Guide, by Tony Gebely (unread)
  • Tea Life, Tea Mind, by Sōshitsu Sen XV (unread)
  • The French Art of Tea, by Mariage Frères (unread)
  • Tea Art of China, by Yin Na [x]
  • Talking of Tea, by Gervas Huxley (unread)
  • Teas of the World, by Nancy Hyden Woodward (unread)
  • The Philosophy of Tea, by Tony Gebeley [x]
  • Book of Coffee and Tea, by Joel Schapira (unread)
  • The Japanese Tea Ceremony, by Julia Namakura (unread)
  • Teatime, by Aubrey Franklin (unread)
  • Tasting Qualities, by Sarah Baskey (unread)
  • The Tea Road: China and Russia Meet Across the Steppe, by Martha Avery [x] [x]
  • Harvesting Mountains: Fujian and the China Tea Trade, 1757-1937, by Robert Gardella [x]
  • Green with Milk and Sugar, by Robert Hellyer [to come]
  • Tea War, by Andrew Liu (unread)
  • Putting the Tea in Britain, by Les Wilson (unread)
  • The Way of Tea, by Rand Casile (unread)

Personal E-Library:

  • The Tea Ceremony and Women’s Empowerment in Modern Japan: Bodies Re-Presenting the Past, by Etsuko Kado (unread)
  • Yedo and Peking, by Robert Fortune (unread)
  • A Journey to the Tea Countries of China, by Robert Fortune (unread)
  • A Residence Among the Chinese, by Robert Fortune (unread)
  • Three Years’ Wanderings in the Norther Provinces of China, by Robert Fortune (unread)
  • The Culture and Marketing of Tea, by C.R. Harler (unread)
  • Global Tea Breeding, by Liang Chen et al. (unread)
  • The Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea, by Lieut.-Col. Edward Money (unread)
  • On The Tea Cultivation in Western Sshuch’uan and the Tea Trade with Tibet via Tachienlu, by A. De Rosthorn (unread)
  • A Tea Planter’s Life in Assam, by George M. Barker (unread)
  • The Tea Soils of Assam and Tea Manuring, by Harold H. Mann (unread)
  • The Twinings in Three Centuries: The Annals of a Great London Tea House, by R. Twining and Co., Ltd (unread)
  • All About Tea, by William H. Ukers (Vol I & Vol II) (unread)

Read but Unowned:

  • Tea in Japan: Essays on the History of Chanoyu, edited by Paul Varley and Kumakura Isao
  • Tea Marketing Systems in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, U.N. Publication [x]
  • Tea Growing, by C.R. Harler [x]
  • Chinese Tea: A Cultural History and Guide, by Liu Tong, translated by Yue Liwen [x]
  • Tea Processing, compiled by J. Werkhoven [x]
  • The Great Tea Venture, by J.M. Scott [x]
  • Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic, by Jinghong Zhang [x]
  • The Tea Cyclopedia, by Keith Souter [x]
  • A Full Cup, by Michael D’Antonio [x]
  • Tea Manufacture, by C.R. Harler [x]
  • Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities, by Po-Yi Hung [x]
  • Homegrown Tea, by Cassie Liversidge [x]
  • Great Teas of China, by Roy Fong [x]
  • The World Atlas of Tea, by Krisi Smith [x]
  • Taxing Heaven’s Storehouse: Horses, bureaucrats, and the destruction of the Sichuan tea industry, 1074-1224, by Paul J. Smith [x]
  • Tea: Essence of the Leaf, by Karl Petzke and Lessley Berry [x]
  • A Thirst for Empire, by Erica Rappaport [x]
  • The Stonewares of Yixing, by K. S. Lo [x]
  • Tea (3rd Ed), by T. Eden [x]
  • Taxing Heaven’s Storehouse: Horses, bureaucrats, and the destruction of the Sichuan tea industry, 1074-1224, by Paul J. Smith [x]

Reading Wishlist:

*this list is in no way complete, and is continued and extended/elaborated/organized in my teanotebook, for now

  • Tea Wisdom, by Aaron Fisher
  • The Time of Tea, by Bruno Suet and Dominique T. Pasqualini
  • Tea Dictionary, by James Norwood Pratt
  • First Step to Chinese Puerh Tea, by Chan Kam Pong
  • A Glossary of Chinese Puerh Tea, by Chan Kam Pong
  • A Decent Cup of Tea, by Malachi McCormick
  • Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West, by Beatrice Hohenegger
  • A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics in an Indian Plantation, by Piya Chatterjee
  • A Chanoyu Vocabulary: Practical Terms for the Way of Tea, by Genshitsu Sen
  • The Ideologies of Japanese Tea: Subjectivity, Transience and National Identity, by Tim Cross
  • The Sequel to the Cha Jing (Classic of Tea), by Lu Yu
  • Tea Sommelier, by Gabriella Lambardi
  • Making Tea, Making Japan, by Kristin Surak
  • The Book of Korean Tea, by Yang-Seok Yoo
  • Korean Tea Classics, by Brother Anthony
  • The Korean Way of Tea, by Brother Anthony
  • The Tea Horse Road: China’s Ancient Tea Road to Tibet, by Selena Ahmed
  • A Tea Lover’s Travel Diary: Phoenix Single-Tree Oolong & Tie Kuan Yin Oolong, by Chen Jason C.S.
  • The Tea Drinker’s Handbook, by Francois-xavier Delmas
  • Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties, by Kevin Gascoyne
  • Green Gold: The Political Economy of China’s Post-1949 Tea Industry, by Dan M. Etherington
  • Tea Trade in Central China, by T. H. Chu
  • The History of the Indian Tea Industry, by Sir Percival Griffiths
  • The World Tea Economy, by Goutam Kumar Gartar
  • Tea Under International Regulation, V.D. Wickizer
  • A Hundred Years of Ceylon Tea, D.M Forrest

Other: