2026 Adult Summer Reading: GROW!

Cuenta la leyenda que, hace algunos años, una de las mujeres Flores ofendió a los dioses que, como castigo, maldijeron a su familia. Ahora, cada una de las descendientes nace tocada por la magia. También Sage Flores, que ha estado huyendo de su familia y de sus dones desde la muerte de Sky, su hermana más pequeña. Ocho años después, las circunstancias la obligan volver a volver a todo eso de lo que ha estado escapando. Como si no hubiera pasado el tiempo retoma su trabajo en Cranberry Rose Company y utiliza sus ‘habilidades’ para comunicarse con las plantas. Lo que se supondría una tarea sencilla se complica cuando aparece en escena su compañero en estudios botánicos, Tennessee Reyes. El mismo Tennessee que le rompió el corazón en la preparatoria.

A joyful exploration of the forgotten art of marking time from nature’s daily rhythms and a call to notice the wonders of the living world, wherever you are. Most of us live fully digitized lives, staring at screens and tracking our data. We think of time as the relentless march of abstract, identical hours that control the shape of our days. But what might we gain from exploring the forgotten art of sensing the natural patterns of the world around us?

Cansada de la estresante vida de la ciudad, Laura decide trasladarse con su pareja a una casa en Nevà, un pequeño pueblo de los Pirineos. Pronto se reencontrará con todo un ecosistema muy familiar y que casi había olvidado: el de su infancia en la fría tierra de Teruel rodeada del lenguaje de las flores, los árboles y las plantas, así como el de toda una estirpe de mujeres comprometidas con el amor y el conocimiento de la naturaleza que le inocularon el ‘furor botánico’.

Spanning fifty years in the history of modern Iran, this lush, layered story embraces politics and family, revolution and reconstruction, loss and love as it recounts the destinies of twelve children who get lost one long-ago night inside a mysterious palace.

Ever wondered if you could grow plants from the food you buy? Simon Akeroyd shows you how. Discover 40 simple, fun hacks to try–no gardening experience needed, just a window sill and a recycled container.

Not every environmental problem is a result of climate change, but every environmental and climate change problem is a result of colonialism. Dr. Jessica Hernandez offers readers an Indigenous, Global-South lens on the climate crisis, delivering a compelling and urgent exploration of its causes–and its costs.

Sarah makes her living growing mushrooms. When a bad harvest leaves her in a desperate fix, the lure of the legendary King’s Breakfast mushroom has her journeying into those vast uncharted woods. Her only guide is the most annoying man in the world, and he’s convinced there’s no danger. But as they descend deeper, they realize they’re not alone.

Myriam Gurba has lived in California her entire life, with its plants and soils, forests and ecology, immersing herself in the language of the landscape as refracted through the languages and memories of her ancestors. In Poppy State, California plants serve as structural anchors in a wildly inventive work of narrative nonfiction that is part botanical criticism, part personal storytelling, and part study of place.

Ever since her boyfriend, Ed, died, Fiona has hidden herself away from the world and shut out those close to her. She is especially wary of engaging with her massive online following, despite her contract as a “greenfluencer.” One day, a potted plant mysteriously appears on her doorstep with a cryptic note. The plant is a yew, Ed’s favorite. Fiona starts hearing Ed’s voice and becomes convinced that he has come back in the form of a plant.

1922, Wiltshire: When Vee Morgan accepts the job of gardener at a crumbling stately home in southwest England, she’s hoping it’s a fresh start. But Harfold Manor is shadowed by its own grief and the memories of long-faded glory, its rooms haunted by the only surviving member of the family, Lady Arabella Lascy.

While on the run from her past, her mistakes, and her grief, chronic survivor Leigh find unlikely sanctuary at a flower farm in rural Alabama. Like the flowers she tends, Leigh begins to open up and find soft parts of herself while working in nature. But will her secrets really stay in the past?

Join Poppy Okotcha in her wild little garden in Devon, where, over the course of a year, she shares the inspiring, the mundane and the magical moments that arise from tending a garden through the seasons, and what they can teach us about living more sustainably.