Books With Floral Covers to Brighten Your Shelf
Match your bookshelf with the weather, and brighten up your space with these books covered in flowers. Even if you don’t have a green thumb, these flowers will bloom all year round, although we can’t promise the stories inside are as bright as their covers. From literary fiction to romance, find a novel for spring.
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by Lisa Bird-Wilson
Probably Ruby is a dazzling novel about a bold, unapologetic woman taking control of her life and story, and marks the debut of a major new voice in Indigenous fiction.
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When We Were Birds
by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytelling—a spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love’s seismic power to heal.
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The Ensemble
by Aja Gabel
The Ensemble follows four young friends navigating the cutthroat world of classical music and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their lives.
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Peony in Love
by Lisa See
Follow Peony’s unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrow–as Lisa See’s haunting novel, based on actual historical events, takes readers back to seventeenth-century China, after the Manchus seize power and the Ming dynasty is crushed.
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Blue Flowers
by Carola Saavedra
Blue Flowers is a dark portrait of desire, undermining accepted truths about love and sex, violence and fear, men and women.
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The Altruists
by Andrew Ridker
Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The Altruists is a darkly funny (and ultimately tender) family saga that confronts the divide between baby boomers and their millennial offspring.
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
First published in 1868, and based on Louisa May Alcott’s own unusual family, the novel brought to life some of American literature’s most spirited female characters—and this edition has a fresh new cover to match the vibrancy of these heroines.
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It Is Wood, It Is Stone
by Gabriella Burnham
With sharp, gorgeous prose, It Is Wood, It Is Stone takes place over the course of a year in São Paulo, Brazil, in which two women’s lives intersect. Follow the story about two women whose romantic and subversive entanglements reflect on class and colorism, sexuality, and complex, divisive histories.
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Sabrina & Corina
by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.
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Travels with My Aunt
by Graham Greene
Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother’s funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her way—winding through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, and Paraguay.
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Retold
by William Shakespeare and James Anthony
An enlightening and entertaining collection of the most esteemed love poems in the English canon, retold in contemporary language everyone can understand.
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
A mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar’s violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Orczy
A timeless novel of adventure, intrigue, and romance is sparked by one man’s defiance in the face of authority.
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The Plant Messiah
by Carlos Magdalena
Carlos Magdalena is a man on a mission: to save the world’s most endangered plants. In The Plant Messiah, Magdalena takes readers from the forests of Peru to deep within the Australian outback in search of the rare and the vulnerable.
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What We Lose
by Zinzi Clemmons
From an author of rare, haunting power comes a stunning novel about a young African-American woman coming of age—a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, family, and country.
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A Long Long Way
by Sebastian Barry
In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.
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Pond
by Claire-Louise Bennett
A deceptively slender volume, Pond captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village.
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Idaho
by Emily Ruskovich
A stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss—from O. Henry Prize–winning author Emily Ruskovich.
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Any Other Family
by Eleanor Brown
A striking and intimate new novel about three very different adoptive mothers who face the impossible question: What makes a family?
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