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Top Ten Tuesday: May Flowers

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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.

  1. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  2. Where You’re Planted by Melanie Sweeney
  3. The Lark by E. Nesbit
  4. The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
  5. Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
  6. The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukayama
  7. Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
  8. Mandy by Julie Andres Edwards
  9. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  10. Digging In by Loretta Nyhan

Have you read any books that fit my topic? What books make you think of May flowers?

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Top Ten Tuesday: May Flowers

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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 — open to however we want to approach it (titles, covers, plots, characters…)

I’m going with flowers in the titles, and to challenge myself, I’m only including books I’ve actually read. I also decided to see if I could come up with 10 without repeating any flowers… although I couldn’t resist adding in all the “rose” possibilities after the fact.

Here are ten books for my May Flowers list:

  1. Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke
  2. A Red-Rose Chain by Seanan McGuire
  3. Peony by Pearl S. Buck (want to read)
  4. Dash & Lily‘s Book of Dares by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
  5. The Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
  6. Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen
  7. Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  8. The Tulip Eaters by Antoinette van Heugten
  9. A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
  10. The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian
  11. White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Oh, okay, here are a bunch of rose books from my shelves!

Hmmm, I supposed I could have save all these rose books for a future freebie post! Oh well… I’m having too much fun to wait.

What books have you read with flowers in the title?

If you wrote a TTT post this week, please share your link!