The Best Coffee Mugs for Book Lovers

Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Chief of Staff

Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the Chief of Staff for Riot New Media Group and a co-host of the Book Riot Podcast. She can be reached at rebecca@riotnewmedia.com.

Wake up, fuel up, and READ ALL THE BOOKS after you’ve caffeinated with these awesome mugs for book lovers. More to recommend? Drop a link to your favorites in the comments.

Harvard Bookstore’s “Caution: Hot. And literate.” says it all.

caution hot and literate coffee mug

 

Reading is my super power. A-yup.

reading is my super power mug

 

 

Great advice from Dear Sugar at The Rumpus: write like a motherfucker.

write like a motherfucker mug

 

Write drunk, edit sober. This mug wil hold your morning coffee and your afternoon whiskey.

write drunk edit sober mug

 

 

Thou art a “beetled-headed, flap-ear’d knave,” at least before the first cup. Wake up with this Shakespearean insults mug.

shakespearean insults mug

 

Everything tastes better in a banned books mug.

banned books mug

 

 

Great vocabulary didn’t save the Thesaurus from extinction. Hah!

thesaurus mug

 

 

Never lose your place with this bookmark mug.

bookmark mug

 

This adorable hand-painted mug declares, “I like big books and I cannot lie.”

i like big books and I cannot lie mug

 

 

From the awesome Strand Bookstore in New York comes a “Keep calm and read a book” mug.

keep calm and read a book mug

 

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love this Mr. Darcy proposal mug.

mr darcy proposal mug

The Penguin Classics mug is a classic indeed.

penguin classics mug

From Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville, North Carolina, choose an Eat, Sleep, Read or Peace, Love, Books mug.

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Keep it simple with a READ mug.

READ mug

Go away, I’m reading.

go away i'm reading mug