History MustHaveCaffeine / Literature

*** In ''Literature/TheShipWhoSearched'' Tia's [[BrainsAndBrawn brawn]] Alex takes a long time to wake up, even with coffee. She likes to schedule her three hours of mandatory sleep for mornings, after he's awake enough to keep an eye on things but before he's worth chatting with.

** In ''Literature/TheShipWhoSearched'' Tia's [[BrainsAndBrawn brawn]] Alex takes a long time to wake up, even with coffee. She likes to schedule her three hours of mandatory sleep for mornings, after he's awake enough to keep an eye on things but before he's worth chatting with.

** In ''[[Literature/TheShipWho The Ship Who Sang]]'', Helva stocks three times the normal amount of coffee.

** In ''Literature/TheShipWhoSang'', Helva stocks three times the normal amount of coffee.

* In ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'', When Halkara mentions she makes the popular energy drink Nutri-Spirits, Azusa finds it eerily similar to the kind of thing she drank a lot in her {{Workaholic}} past life.

** ''Literature/StarTrekEnterpriseRelaunch:'' Klingons take favourably to caffeiene after finding some while raiding human ships. Being Klingons, they start brewing their own, which makes them even ''more'' bad-tempered and irritable (the Klingons, naturally, see this as a positive). One Klingon captain in "Live by the Code" is uncertain which is worse; dying ignominiously in a pointless fight, and thereby going straight to Klingon hell, or not having any coffee.

* ''Literature/AnitaBlake'': Anita can't live without her coffee and looks down on other coffee drinkers who don't prepare it the "right" way (i.e., her way).

* In ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesForThreeHundredYearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'', When Halkara mentions she makes the popular energy drink Nutri-Spirits, Azusa finds it eerily similar to the kind of thing she drank a lot in her {{Workaholic}} past life.

* Literature/HannahSwenson usually has several cups upon waking up in the morning, and has even put off ''talking to her own sisters'' before at least the first cup. Coffee has the in-series nickname of "Swedish Plasma", due to how many people in Minnesota drink it.

** In ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'', Maladict is a ''vampire'' who has [[OurVampiresAreDifferent replaced cravings for blood with cravings for coffee.]] When the coffee runs out, the vampire starts to go a little nuts, acting like a character from a Vietnam War movie ("Charlie's tracking us!" "Who's Charlie?"). Otto Chriek gives Polly dire warnings of what will happen if Maladict doesn't get coffee, and mentions that vampires have been known to hallucinate so vividly that ''other people'' experience them. Later in the book, the regiment hears helicopters overhead, which (unless Leonard of Quirm's air-screw from ''Literature/TheLastHero'' counts) don't exist on the Discworld. Eventually, the regiment roasts some acorns as a temporary substitute (and one with [[TruthInTeleveision historical precedent]]).

** In ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'', Maladict is a ''vampire'' who has [[OurVampiresAreDifferent replaced cravings for blood with cravings for coffee.]] When the coffee runs out, the vampire starts to go a little nuts, acting like a character from a Vietnam War movie ("Charlie's tracking us!" "Who's Charlie?"). Otto Chriek gives Polly dire warnings of what will happen if Maladict doesn't get coffee, and mentions that vampires have been known to hallucinate so vividly that ''other people'' experience them. Later in the book, the regiment hears helicopters overhead, which (unless Leonard of Quirm's air-screw from ''Literature/TheLastHero'' counts) don't exist on the Discworld. Eventually, the regiment roasts some acorns as a temporary substitute: this is TruthInTelevision, as noted in the MustHaveCaffeine/RealLife section.

* ''Literature/MythAdventures'': In ''Myth-Taken Identity'', the Barista at the Mall is a Cafiend from Caf, the dimension where coffee was invented. Her species ''literally'' MustHaveCaffeine to live, and a sign reading "THE COFFEE IS THE LIFE" is displayed above her coffee shop.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'', Maladict is a ''vampire'' who has [[OurVampiresAreDifferent replaced cravings for blood with cravings for coffee.]] When the coffee runs out, the vampire starts to go a little nuts, acting like a character from a Vietnam War movie ("Charlie's tracking us!" "Who's Charlie?"). Otto Chriek gives Polly dire warnings of what will happen if Maladict doesn't get coffee, and mentions that vampires have been known to hallucinate so vividly that ''other people'' experience them. Later in the book, the regiment hears helicopters overhead, which (unless Leonard of Quirm's air-screw from ''Literature/TheLastHero'' counts) don't exist on the Discworld. Eventually, the regiment roasts some acorns as a temporary substitute: this is TruthInTelevision, as noted in the MustHaveCaffeine/RealLife section.
** Commander Vimes, with his insistence on working ''all'' the Watch shifts in an emergency, frequently needs coffee, which in ''Literature/{{Thud}}'' he thinks of as "a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self".
* Subverted in ''Literature/TheDreamsideRoad''. Coffee is almost impossible to find since [[ApocalypseHow global destabilization]]. Consequently, Enoa has kicked her caffeine habit.
** Played straight with Orson and his frequent all-nighters. Thankfully he acquired a huge coffee stash through one of his protection jobs.
* Creator/DaveBarry often mentions his need for coffee in his articles and his novels often have his heroes addicted to the drink as well.

* One of the first things the time-displaced Americans do in the ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' series is arrange to import coffee. Then they start exporting coffee-houses. In the first book, it's also noted that bothering the high school vice principal, Len Trout, before his third cup of coffee in the morning is a ''very'' bad idea, comparable to [[DoNotTauntCthulhu taunting Cthulu]] in inadvisability.

-->'''Harvey''': "I've never seen grown men cry like that, and over a beverage!"
* When a joke book lists "Fun Things to Do at Work", it's likely to mention something along the lines of "Replace the coffee in the coffee machines with decaf. When everyone has gotten over their addictions, switch to espresso". The smart version of this is not to switch suddenly to decaf, but blend it in gradually over a few months. Of course, this is now rather more difficult to do than before as many places replace their traditional coffee makers with single-serving pod-based ones.
* Whether coffee is fresh and hot, cold and stale, or a horrible mix of both, Literature/ColtRegan will still drink it, because it's still coffee.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** In the novel ''Literature/HowMuchForJustThePlanet'', by Creator/JohnMFord, it's quickly established over breakfast that "Bones [=McCoy=] was NotAMorningPerson". Despite the coffee he fails to notice his grits are bright orange -- though everybody else at the table does. He also didn't notice Kirk's electric blue "orange juice" until he'd finished the mug. (The food replicators were malfunctioning that morning.)
--->'''Bones:''' Plergb hrafizz umgemby, '''and coffee.'''[[note]]The fact that Mike Ford actually inserted [[http://file770.com/hertz-what-do-you-mean-plergb/ the age-old SF-fannish word]] ''[[https://people.well.com/user/bubbles/Plergb.html plergb]]'' into a professional published work is noteworthy in and of itself.[[/note]]
** In ''Literature/TheFinalReflection'', also by Ford, a sympathetic Klingon character is depicted as a morning coffee drinker, praising its mind-clearing effect; it's explained that he picked up a taste for it during a space voyage where the supplies ran low and all they had to drink was a case of "kafei" they'd plundered along the way.
** Another novel had "coffee" that was dispensed in freeze-dried cubes, which apparently had all the taste qualities of transmission fluid. The owner of the freighter Captain Kirk is hitching a ride on says she keeps her own stash of beans so she won't have to drink that swill.
** Creator/DianeDuane in her novel ''Literature/SpocksWorld'' has Spock and Scotty beaming coffee beans up but stopping the transport in mid-beam (like they did with the Klingons in "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E7DayOfTheDove Day of the Dove]]"), storing the pattern in the transporter's data storage units. All extraneous cargo in starships on tour is now handled this way. Coffee is now a pleasant everyday thing and not just a rare and special treat. (They must have done this very early on, since we're shown people on the Big E drinking coffee practically from the first episode.)
** President Nanietta Bacco from her first appearance in ''[[Literature/StarTrekATimeTo A Time for War / A Time for Peace]]'' on through ''Literature/StarTrekTyphonPact''.
** In the ''Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch'', there's Ms. [=DellaMonica=], a refugee Ezri Dax has to deal with. The author of that book was the same author who introduced Bacco, actually...
** ''The Crimson Shadow'' has significant parts of the Cardassian population addicted to Coffee due to Federation assistance in the aftermath of the Dominion War.
** ''Literature/StarTrekEnterpriseRelaunch:'' Klingons take favourably to caffeiene after finding some while raiding human ships. Being Klingons, they start brewing their own, which makes them even ''more'' bad-tempered and irritable (the Klingons, naturally, see this as a positive). One Klingon captain in "Live by the Code" is uncertain which is worse; dying ignominiously in a pointless fight, and thereby going straight to Klingon hell, or not having any coffee.
* Lampshaded in the Creator/NoraRoberts book ''Tribute'', in which the hero (a graphic novelist) leaves some coffee along with "before" and "after" pictures of her--before the caffeine bearing a strong resemblance to a drowned rat, and after the caffeine as the new Wonder Woman.
* In Creator/CliffordSimak's Hugo winner ''Literature/WayStation'', the alien Ulysses loves coffee.
* Literature/HonorHarrington averts the trope, enjoying cocoa instead. Naturally, everyone who drinks coffee is jokingly called a "barbarian coffee drinker." Note that this includes almost ''every single character in the series except Honor herself''. Honor's preference of cocoa instead of coffee comes off as an inversion of the series' general premise of ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' [[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]]. A shot of FridgeBrilliance sets in when one considers that this might be a ChekhovsGun - Honor is eventually revealed to have a very high-speed metabolism, compliments of some genetic tweaks her ancestors received. As a result, she has to constantly consume high-caloric foodstuffs. [[CursedWithAwesome Including mountains of chocolate chip cookies.]]
* Literature/HoratioHornblower is an avid coffee drinker, in contrast to the normal assumption that a British officer would be drinking tea. Unfortunately he usually can't afford enough to sustain him through a voyage and has to make do with a PoorMansSubstitute most of the time: burnt bread in hot water with sugar.

* Almost all of the protagonists in ''Literature/{{Peacebreakers}}'' are hopelessly addicted to coffee, which, according to WordOfGod, is a small jibe at the role of coffee in workplace melodrama.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
** Harry Dresden has such a need.
*** His liquid diet consists almost entirely of Coca-Cola and homebrewed beer, with water appearing only on rare occasions. He's had coffee fairly frequently as well.
*** In the short story ''Day Off'', his student bribes him with fresh Starbucks.
** In the In Between, a place between the mortal plane and What-Comes-Next, there is a police station of sorts for souls who don't feel ready to move on but want to work to protect people as best they can. They are lead by a man named Colin who is always in a bad mood when he hasn't had his morning coffee. As they are in the afterlife-of-sorts, there is no food or drink. So no coffee. So, nothing to soothe his attitude.
* According to ''[[Literature/DragonridersOfPern Dragonsdawn]]'', the first two things a group of humans will actively try and find on a new planet are: something that they can ferment into alcohol, and something they can turn into a coffee substitute. (Much to the dismay of the colonists, coffee bushes won't grow on Pern - or any other planet humans have colonized.) The brave ones drink ''klah'' (a beverage made from a type of native tree bark, which is implied to have a sort of cinnamon taste) instead, but one colonist plots to steal a ship and leave, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking partly because they've run out of coffee]].
* In ''Literature/TheMoteInGodsEye'', Horace Bury is a coffee connoisseur who at one point shows off his stash to the crew of a Russian-themed warship, who favored tea. The royal family has their own reserved farm for growing coffee beans that no-one else is allowed to touch; Bury paid a ridiculous price to get his hands on some, wouldn't do it again but it was so good he doesn't regret it. The crew of ''[=MacArthur=]'' are less than enthusiastic about exterminating the vermin infesting their ship because, among other things, they vastly improved the operation of the ship's coffeemaker and the taste of its output.
** In fact when their ship has to be abandoned the captain gives specific instructions for one of the officers to bring along the new and improved coffee machine despite having to abandon almost everything else. The sequel reveals that they reverse engineered it and the navy is in the process of replacing all of their coffee machines with the new type.
* Most, if not all, of the characters in ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy'' seem to subsist on a lot of coffee. Apparently, writer Stieg Larsson was like this in real life as well. This led to some ValuesDissonance with the books' American readers. Many American literary critics mockingly claimed that no-one should be able to consume those amounts of coffee and survive. Swedes, on the other hand, consider between six and eight cups a day to be a large consumption of coffee, but not remarkably so.
* Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)'s ripping good yarn ''Asta's Book'' (first published in the U.S. as ''Anna's Book'') is about a Danish woman living in 1905 London. In her diary, she says Danish people need coffee more than food and talks about drinking three cups in the morning even when they're short on money and have to be careful. As an old lady living with her daughter, one of her catch phrases is "Do I smell the good coffee?"
* Garrison Keillor has some immortal words about Norwegians and coffee in ''Leaving Home''. "He poured himself a cup of coffee, drank some, kissed his wife -- in that order, he is Norwegian." Later he says coffee has been known to revive Norwegians who have flatlined.
* In the ''Literature/InDeath'' series Eve lives on coffee and Pepsi. In fact, the first present Roarke ever gives her is a bag of coffee.
* ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'': Vlad will drink normal coffee if he must, but he prefers "klava," a fictional beverage made from coffee and several other ingredients filtered through an eggshell. It seems to be the only thing about Dragaeran society that Vlad likes. Just about every book includes scenes of Vlad fussing over his need for klava.
* In ''Literature/RangersApprentice'', the Rangers' main drink, and one you would not want to deprive them of, is coffee.
* Bertie suffers ''badly'' from this in ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'', being literally unable to function when [[NotAMorningPerson awakened before noon]] unless he's handed a cup of tea. [[UpperClassTwit Of course, he doesn't function too terribly well in general]].
* In ''[[Literature/MythAdventures Myth-Taken Identity]]'', the Barista at the Mall is a Cafiend from Caf, the dimension where coffee was invented. Her species ''literally'' MustHaveCaffeine to live, and a sign reading "THE COFFEE IS THE LIFE" is displayed above her coffee shop.

* Inverted in Creator/TomClancy's ''Literature/JackRyan'' series, where Dr. Carolyn Ryan, Jack's wife, specifically does ''not'' drink coffee the evening before she is scheduled to perform delicate laser eye surgery. She doesn't want her hand to jitter even a little.
* Mary Russell's ''Literature/TheSparrow'' has an earth exploration team bringing lots of coffee along on their FirstContact mission. It goes from a RunningGag to a trade item and ultimately a plot point.

* Literature/CiaphasCain ('''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!''') served with a Valhallan regiment; as a result, he always tries to keep a supply of tanna leaf (an expy of a very strong Russian tea) nearby. He even jokes that he fought his way across half a planet and an ork Waaagh! (warboss included) for it.
** At one point, an overworked Cain is sleeping in his office when Broklaw, the regiment's second in command, comes in and snarks at him about it... but he brings hot coffee, [[DisproportionateRetribution so Cain spares him]]. His editor is quick to point out that Cain's joking... she thinks.
** In one book he is left without a supply of Tanna and has very limited access to coffee. He starts suffering from withdrawal, exacerbated by general dehydration.

* Beth Johannsen, one of the Ares 3 crew in ''Literature/TheMartian'', requires coffee upon waking for ''any'' functioning, not just optimal.
* Literature/AnitaBlake can't live without her coffee. She even looks down on other coffee drinkers who don't prepare it the "right" way (i.e., her way).

* The Literature/{{Paratime}} Police force seems to run on coffee, and nicotine.
* The German story ''Rock Crystal'' by Adalbert Stifter has two children, Conrad and his sister Sanna, trapped in a hillside during a snowstorm doing their best to stay alive. Conrad remembers that his father told him that those who slept during a snowstorm are likely to freeze to death, and does his best to keep his sister awake, finally resorting to black coffee given to him by his grandmother in a flask, and giving a sip to his sister to keep her from falling asleep. The coffee literally keeps them alive and they take turns drinking it to stay awake during the snowstorm.
* In ''Literature/LambTheGospelAccordingToBiff'' Josh and Biff discovered a man selling some hot black drink at the Antioch's market, for which they quickly developed quite a taste.
-->"He was hugging his coffee beans and mumbling to himself as he had for the whole trip. Praying, I presume."
* [[Literature/TheExpanse James Holden]] really, really likes coffee.
-->"In thanks, you can have all my stuff. I don't care about any of it anymore."
-->"Including the coffee maker, sir?"
-->"Almost all my stuff."
* In Literature/OctoberDaye, the titular hero has an abundant dependence on coffee. At one point she is able to find [[spoiler: the hidden princess to the realm]], when she manages to notice a coffee shop near her house that she has never been to and realizes this is a physical impossibility. Later, however, she kicks the habit entirely.
* ''Literature/BloodsuckingFiends'': Jody is an inveterate coffee drinker in life. She mostly sees her forcible transformation into a vampire as being CursedWithAwesome, but is profoundly disappointed to realize that she can't stomach coffee anymore. When she learns that she can keep it down by spiking it with blood, she ''immediately'' moves for the coffee maker.
* Creator/BrianLumley's Literature/TitusCrow has been known to guzzle an entire ''pot'' of coffee when recuperating from unpleasant psychic contact or a confrontation with an EldritchAbomination.
* ''Literature/SteelCrowSaga'': Tala is stranded deep in hostile territory with only [[EnemyMine an enemy prince]] for backup. The absence of coffee -- said hostile territory prefers some tea -- is what takes the situation from ''bad'' to ''dreadful'' in her estimation.
* In ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesForThreeHundredYearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'', When Halkara mentions she makes the popular energy drink Nutri-Spirits, Azusa finds it eerily similar to the kind of thing she drank a lot in her {{Workaholic}} past life.
* When Rose first meets Uncle Alec in ''Literature/EightCousins'', he (being a doctor) is extremely dismayed to learn that she's given a cup of strong coffee every morning because it "tones [her] up". He decries the beverage as being responsible for her poor sleep pattern and frequent headaches, pours it out the window, and starts her on a regimen of drinking fresh milk every morning instead.
* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': Qwilleran is notorious for his potent coffee brew.
* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheYear'': Skip Toomaloo, as an early morning DJ, relies on coffee to get him through his day. Unfortunately, his daughter loves spicing it with "extras" as a way of tormenting him.
* ''Literature/{{Indexing}}: Reflections'': Sloan, as she says:
-->'''Sloane''': "I came for coffee. If you have consumed all the coffee, I am going to straight-up fucking murder you, and drink a latte [[SkullCups out of your skull]]."
* ''Literature/APieceInTheGameOfGods'': From part 41:
--> Just then, Cassandra’s voice called out from the top of the stairs. “I’m coming down, so someone had better have my coffee ready…”\\\
I rolled my eyes but went and poured some coffee while Lauren snickered. I noticed that she made sure to get a firm grip on her own cup, just in case Cassandra decided it was easier to snatch hers.\\\
Cassandra came down the stairs, still looking more than half-asleep. She came straight to the breakfast nook where I placed her coffee in front of her. None of said a word until she’d emptied nearly half the cup.

* Bertie suffers ''badly'' from this in ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'', being literally unable to function when [[NotAMorningPerson awakened before noon]] unless he's handed [[SpotOfTea a cup of tea]]. [[UpperClassTwit Of course, he doesn't function too terribly well in general]].

* ''Literature/SteelCrowSaga'': Tala is stranded deep in hostile territory with only [[EnemyMine an enemy prince]] for backup. The absence of coffee -- said hostile territory prefers a SpotOfTea -- is what takes the situation from ''bad'' to ''dreadful'' in her estimation.

* Literature/HonorHarrington averts the trope, enjoying cocoa instead. Naturally, everyone who drinks coffee is jokingly called a "barbarian coffee drinker." Note that this includes almost ''every single character in the series except Honor herself''. Honor's preference of cocoa instead of coffee comes off as an inversion of the series' general premise of ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]]. A shot of FridgeBrilliance sets in when one considers that this might be a ChekhovsGun - Honor is eventually revealed to have a very high-speed metabolism, compliments of some genetic tweaks her ancestors received. As a result, she has to constantly consume high-caloric foodstuffs. [[CursedWithAwesome Including mountains of chocolate chip cookies.]]

* In Creator/AnneMcCaffrey's ''Literature/{{Catteni}}'' series, by the last book the aliens are hopelessly addicted to Coffee and it serves as a major trade and diplomacy item.
** And in ''Literature/TheShipWho Sang'', Helva stocks three times the normal amount of coffee.