August Book Club 2026

Welcome to Tea Shop Book Club!

Our super popular online book club is back! We take a special focus on specific genres and forms of literature each session, and monthly zoom meetings will feature special guest speakers to offer more context & depth to our discussions.

Club meets on the last Sunday of each month via Zoom from 10am-12pm PST. An email will be sent out the week before the meeting with discussion topics, zoom link ad introduction to the month's guest speaker! For the full season's schedule, click here.

Each box includes:

• 2 tea pairings, 1 oz each (1 caf, 1 decaf)
• 1 surprise goodie
• 1 book copy
• 1 letter from Friday

This season, we're offering a BYOB(ook) option, allowing you to source your own copy if you prefer!

And now, we present our August Selection: King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby

From the publisher:

"When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante’s recklessness has placed them all in real danger."

Content Warnings: Gun violence, parental death, suicide

Genre: Southern Noir Crime

Page Count: 352

Signup Deadline: August 1st
Zoom Meeting: August 30th