10 Books Like Legends and Lattes (Coffee, Tea & More!)

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Can’t get enough of Legends and Lattes? I understand that feeling all too well. After my first taste of the cozy fantasy genre, I yearned for more cozy fantasy books that felt like a hug in a mug. 

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree is a cozy fantasy with low stakes. The book follows an orc, Vivian, who retires from her adventures to open up a cafe in a small town that she’s never been to before.

I loved reading Legends and Lattes. Like many, I found the book recommendation on BookTok when it went viral in early 2023 and fell in love with the cozy fantasy genre ever since.

Books like Legends and Lattes will have recommendations with:

• Coffee, tea, delicious baked goods and more in it! 
• I’ve kept this list to cozy fantasies with desserts or warm beverages in them because I wanted the list to accurately represent books similar to Legends and Lattes as I could not find a good resource on the internet. 
• Not all stories are “low in stakes”.  According to, Meg from Meg’s Tea Room, cozy fantasies are low in trigger and they don’t have to necessarily be “low in stakes”. This means they can be high in stakes while being a feel-good, comforting read. 

What To Read After Reading Legends & Lattes

1. Coffee, Milk & Spider Silk by Coyote J.M. Edwards

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Gwen decides to leave her job as a guard that she had for thirty years to start her own cafe. Along the way, she builds a cafe from ground up, hires staff who become friends and have meaningful conversations with her customers.

2. A Coup of Tea by Casey Blair

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It’s Miyara’s duty to dedicate herself to serving the crown. But when the time comes to do so, she chooses differently. The princess runs away to open a tea shop. However, hidden magic threatens the people of her land and she must find a way to help those in need.

3. A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J. Penner

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Arletta Starstone is a human with a talented gift for baking. However, she’s not treated equally in her town among magical beings despite her bakes being better than others.

One of her orc neighbors decides to secretly enter Arletta into Langheim’s Baking Battle. A battle for magical beings in the her realm. Surprisingly, Arletta get’s accepted and she sets off on an adventure with a very handsome messenger elf that truly believes in her and her baked goods.

As she participates in the competition, she learns more about herself, make friendships that’ll last a lifetime and finds herself in a brewing romance. 

4. Chocolates and Claws: Spring Festival by Claire Mavis

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A refugee gargoyle, Garnet meets Wyn, a fairy living on the outskirts of town. She teaches him the art of chocolate making, a luxury that never existed from where he came from.

With chocolate being his newfound love, Garnet is set on learning the skill of chocolate making from his fairy friend. Together, they find the companionship they were looking for.

5. A Sip of Magic by Kate Swansea

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Serena, a witch, receives a bad omen in her tea cup right after moving to a new seaside town, Pembrooke, Oregon. She decides to ignore it and go with her plan, to open a teahouse that serves brews with healing magic. 

However, a grumpy attorney, Jared, is determined to shut down her magical teahouse. Little does she know that Jared is a warlock and he has his fare share of secrets.

6. Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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Reyna works as one of the Queen’s private guards, and Kianthe is the most powerful mage in existence. Tired of their day-to-day lives, the two decide to leave what they’re familiar with to open a bookshop that serves tea.

7. Brewed in Magic by Jenna Wolfhart

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Lilia, a wanderer, explores the lands with her travelling tavern. Every year, she visits the Yule festival yearly and brews the best ale for some coin. Except this year, there’s a new brewer in town. He sets up his tavern at her usual spot unknowingly.

As soon as she sets up her tavern, her supplies go missing. Someone is trying to sabotage her—or, worse, the Yule festival, and all her suspicions point to him.

8. The Goblin’s Bride by R. L. Medina

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Pamima Silveri is a witch and also the best baker in town. Lorenzo Bartoli, a grumpy goblin, takes over his father’s baking business after he passes. 

However, he does not have the talent for baking. So when Pamima offers him help, he agrees to it. Despite her beauty and her gift in baking delicious pastries, Lorenzo is determined to keep things professional.

9. At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber

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Ava Harrison receives a job opportunity, to a live-in caretaker for an old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama. Despite being nervous, she takes the job as she needs a fresh start after going through a breakup. 

Maggie Mae Brightwell runs Magpie’s, Driftwood’s coffee and curiosity shop, where there’s magic to be found. However, Maggie has fare share of burdens and the coffee shop helps distract her from it.

The two girls find companionship in each other as they learn how to move forward and embrace challenges faced in life. 

10. Before The Coffee Gets Cold

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In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe that serves coffee. Not just any coffee, a cup of coffee that can take you back in time. Customers are able to visit the time they’ve been to this specific cafe to meet the person they came with. However, the risk is that they must travel back to the present before the coffee gets cold.