8 beautiful floral book covers to bring spring vibes to your shelf

by Christina Lauren

🎧 Audiobook

This was an unusual pickup for me, and I might’ve been influenced by the flowers and colorful cover, if we’re being honest. But once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down. 

The story follows Anna Green, a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck, and Liam “West” Weston, a Stanford professor and hopeful heir to his family’s one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. To get that inheritance, though, West must be happily married for five years. It seems like a given until West’s family pressures him to bring his wife to his sister’s island paradise wedding. The only problem? Anna is West’s wife. And she thought she signed divorce papers three years ago. 

by Maurene Goo

🎧 Audiobook

If this beautiful cover doesn’t inspire you to pick up One and Only, then the story definitely will. 

Cassia Park believes in soulmates, not just because it’s her family business and has been for centuries. For generations, women in her family have been able to see into past lives of their clients to find their one true love. Conveniently, it’s why their matchmaking business has a 100% guarantee. If you don’t count Cassia, who has been searching for her fated for ten years with no luck. Finally, on her 40th birthday, she decides to be impulsive and has a fling that changes her life in more ways than one. 

by Terah Shelton Harris

🎧 Audiobook

I’ve never read a Terah Shelton Harris book that I haven’t loved, and this is no exception. Her writing is consistently beautiful and the characters she creates are complex and layered. 

In her most recent book, she explores the story of Leigh, a survivor of a prison bus transport crash. When everyone on board is killed, she finds a wildflower farm in rural Alabama, run by a family trying to rebuild their own lives. After taking refuge at the farm, Leigh learns to live with her tragedies and finds peace in the farm and its found family. Even when the past rears its ugly head, Leigh takes her newfound confidence and uses it to defend the people she’s come to love. 

by Heather Fawcett

🎧 Audiobook

Sometimes bouquets don’t come neatly packaged in brightly colored floral arrangements. Sometimes they’re hidden in whimsical forests where faeries and other magical beings hide. 

Emily Wilde is a Cambridge Professor who specializes in the studies of faeries and is in the middle of creating an encyclopedia of fairy lore. Emily is also very much not a people person, to which I’d say the same. When her last destination lands her in a remote village in Scandinavia, she’s hardly put off by the isolation. The people, however, are a different story. She has zero intentions of befriending the townsfolk or spending time with her academic rival. But given that she has to chop her own wood to keep warm, desperate times call for desperate measures. 

by Sarah T. Dubb

🎧 Audiobook

Was this a little cheesy at times? Absolutely. Is it still the perfect second-chance romance to enjoy on a cool spring day? Also yes. 

Penny Becker lives by the mantra of “never stop working” and it’s served her well in life. It kept her family farm going when everyone chose greener pastures, and it’s served her well in her life as a beekeeper, where she sells her honey at local markets. Unfortunately, when a loan to expand the farm falls through, Penny is forced to pour everything into Sullivan’s Glen Honey Festival and make it bigger and more successful than ever. What she didn’t plan on was Zander Bouras, returning to Sullivan’s Glen with his ex-wife and son for the summer. The last thing he wants to do is be around Penny, so of course it stands to reason that they’d end up planning the festival together. 

If the story doesn’t get you, seeing a male character involved in therapy and actively trying to be a better partner and parent just might. 

by Rebecca Ross

🎧 Audiobook

This is the perfect rainy day book that combines comfort with Scottish charm, and a little mystery thrown in for good measure. 

Ten years after being sent away to the mainland, Jack is summoned back to his home island of Cadence, where girls have been going missing. Jack’s nemesis from childhood believes he’s the only one who can find them, since a bard’s music is one of the only ways to summon the spirits of the island and ask for the girls’ return. 

If you’ve read any other books by Rebecca Ross, you know she’s more than capable of writing something so beautiful that it leaves you unable to think about anything else long after you’ve finished. This is no exception and is the perfect mix of magic and mystery to escape from reality for a few hundred pages.

by Sue Lynn Tan

🎧 Audiobook

Remember how people always say don’t judge a book by its cover? I fully judged this book by its cover and bought my own copy because it was too pretty not to own. I regret nothing. As someone who also likes fantasy and mythology, I was also intrigued that this book was inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang’e.

In this debut, Xingyin is the daughter of the imprisoned moon goddess, who is keeping her hidden from the emperor after her mother was exiled for stealing an elixir of immortality. After her magic is discovered, she flees to the Celestial Kingdom and embarks on a quest to protect her mother. 

by Cristina Henriquez

🎧 Audiobook

If you prefer historical fiction to fantasy or romance, Cristina Henríquez weaves a beautiful story around the people surrounding the building of the Panama Canal in The Great Divide. If you enjoy more character-oriented storylines, this story is set during the construction but isn’t about the construction itself. The story focuses on the lives of four characters, Francisco, Omar, John, and Ada, and how they’re impacted by both the construction of the canal and how they’re building lives for themselves beyond it. Despite the difficulties each faces, the story is ultimately a beautiful reminder of the human spirit and what we can overcome and achieve on our own.