Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is May Flowers, with the prompt: This is a companion to the April Showers topic from last month. Interpret however you’d like: books with flowers on the cover, colorful covers, books set in springtime, books where flowers/plants are a common theme, titles with flower names in them, characters named after flowers, covers that are as pretty as flowers, books featuring gardens, etc.
I did a version of this TTT topic just two years ago, featuring books with flower names in the titles… so rather than repeating myself, I thought I’d take a different approach. This time around, my top 10 are books where flowers or gardens are a plot element.
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Where You’re Planted by Melanie Sweeney
- The Lark by E. Nesbit
- The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
- Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
- The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukayama
- Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
- Mandy by Julie Andres Edwards
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Digging In by Loretta Nyhan
Have you read any books that fit my topic? What books make you think of May flowers?
If you wrote a TTT post this week, please share your link!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
I adore that cover of The Secret Garden. Thanks for stopping by earlier.
That’s the cover I had when I was a child! I just wish I still had the actual book.
I adore that cover of The Secret Garden. Thanks for stopping by earlier.
Yes! Clever idea! I need to make my own list for a future prompt. The first I thought of is Where the Wildflowers Grow by Terah Shelton Harris
I’ve seen that book, but haven’t read it yet!
Tbr worthy!
Mandy has such a lovely cover
My daughter loved that book when she was little! I think I need to do a reread!
Such a fascinating take on this week’s topic! I’m not sure I could name one book, other than the Secret Garden.
Here’s my TTT for the week: https://readbakecreate.com/even-more-may-flowers-book-covers-with-flowers/
I was surprised to find that I had so many books with gardens or flowers to choose from! 🙂
I can’t wait to read Snake-Eater!
It’s such a great book!
Great list! I love when a garden/plants are a plot element!
I was surprised to be able to come up with a list of them!
Lovely covers, thanks for sharing your #TTT
Thank you!
This would be a challenging topic for me! But you found so many. I love this list😁
Thanks!
I read a lot of Gothic-y mysteries and thrillers and they always seem to feature old houses with overrun gardens, sometimes even poison gardens! Nice twist on the topic.
Happy TTT (on a Thursday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
I’ve read a few books with poison gardens! So creepy!
I love your spin on the topic!
Thank you!