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Welcome back to my Rainbow Reads series! It’s been a while but were here today with alllll of the books with green covers.
As usual, this is broken down into three sections: YA books with green covers, fiction books with green covers, and non-fiction books with green covers.
This took me forever to put together (mostly because of technical difficulties) but the selections here are my favorite of the rainbow reads so far.
There are a lot I’ve read but just as many I want to read. I try to include of variety of authors and genres in here but there are a lot of thrillers on here. A lot. And travel books. That’s why I love this one so much.
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YA books with green covers
First up we have the YA books with green covers. I think this section has the most variety and is the smallest (but still has plenty to choose from.)
The Body in the Woods

Author: April Henry
Genre: YA mystery
Series or Standalone: Series (don’t need to be read in order.)
The Voting Booth

Author: Brandy Colbert
Genre: YA contemporary romance
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Isla and the Happily Ever After

Author: Stephanie Perkins
Genre: YA contemporary romance
Series or Standalone: Series (#3, don’t need to be read in order, but has characters from previous books)
Matched

Wilder Girls

Author: Rory Power
Genre: YA sci-fi/dystopian
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Haunting the Deep

Author: Adriana Mather
Genre: YA mystery
Series or Standalone: Series (#2)
Willa of the Woods

Author: Robert Beatty
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series (#1, great to read if you’re visiting Great Smoky Mountain National Park)
Rolling in the deep

Author: Mira Grant
Genre: YA sci-fi
Series or Standalone: Series (novella, can be read on it’s own, check out more mermaid books here.)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Author: suzanna Collins
Genre: YA dystopian
Series or Standalone: Series (prequel/#4)
Long Lost

Author: Jacqueline West
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Standalone (how gorgeous is this cover!?)
The Verdigris Pawn

Author: Alysa Wishingrad
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Where Secrets Lie

Author: Eva V. Gibson
Genre: YA thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Ndura: Son of the Forest

Author: Javier Salazar Calle
Genre: Africa fiction
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Lucky Girl

Author: Jamie Pacton
Genre: LGBTQ+ contemporary
Series or Standalone: Standalone
My Contrary Mary

Author: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
Genre: Historical fiction
Series or Standalone: Series (#1)
Pride and Premeditation

Author: Tirzah Price
Genre: Historical fiction
Series or Standalone: Series (#1)
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

Author: Roseanne A. Brown
Genre: YA fantasy
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Magic Fish

Author: Trung Le Nguyen
Genre: Graphic novel
Series or Standalone: Standalone
King and the Dragon Flies

Author: Kacen Callender
Genre: LGBTQ+ realistic fiction
Series or Standalone: Standalone
A Love Hate Thing

Author: Whitney B. Grandison
Genre: YA romance
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Fiction books with green covers
Next up we have the adult fiction books with green covers. You’ll find a lot of thrillers and historical fiction here, but there is still variety alongside those.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Genre: Historical fiction
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Verity

Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: Romance thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Kingdom of Copper

Author: S.A. Chakraborty
Genre: Fantasy
Series or Standalone: Series (#2)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Author: Lisa See
Genre: Historical fiction
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Kingdoms

Author: Natasha Pulley
Genre: Historical fiction
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

Author: Elyssa Friedland
Genre: Contemporary chick lit
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Rich People Problems

Author: Kevin Kwan
Genre: Contemporary romance
Series or Standalone: Series (#3)
Exciting Times

Author: Naoise Dolan
Genre: Contemporary LGBTQ+ romance
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Forest of Enchantment

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divajaruni
Genre: Indian mythology
Series or Standalone: Standalone (find more books set in India here)
The Sound of Waves

Author: Yukio Mishima
Genre: Japanese literature
Series or Standalone: Standalone
How to be an American Housewife

Author: Margaret Billoway
Genre: Historical fiction
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Fieldwork

Author: Mischa Berlinski
Genre: Mystery
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Home Before Dark

Author: Riley Sager
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Foreigner

Author: Francie Lin
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone (read more books about Taiwan here.)
Taroko Gorge

Author: Jacob Ritari
Genre: Mystery
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Who’s A Good Boy?

Author: Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink
Genre: Sci-fi
Series or Standalone: Series (#4, these are episodes so I would start at the beginning)
Summer Frost

Author: Blake Crouch
Genre: Sci-fi
Series or Standalone: Standalone novella but part of a collection, stories are unrelated
The Wild Inside

Author: Christine Carbo
Genre: Mystery
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Wall of Silence

Author: Tracy Buchanan
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Searcher

Author: Tana french
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Other Emily

Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Dead Woman Walking

Author: Sharon Bolton
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Trapped Girl

Author: Robert Dugoni
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Series (#4)
The Drifter

Author: Christine Lennon
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Last Thing He Told Me

Author: Laura Dave
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Such A Quiet Place

Author: Megan Miranda
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Anatomy of Desire

Author: L.R. Dorn
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Greenwich Park

Author: Katherine Faulkner
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Mother May I

Author: Joshilyn Jackson
Genre: Thriller
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Non-fiction books with green covers
Finally, the non-fiction books with green covers. These are the ones I am most excited for (plus all the thrillers) but I have quite a few of these on my bookshelf right now to hopefully read this summer.
Thousand-Miler

Author: Melanie Radzicki McManus
Genre: Adventure
Series or Standalone: Standalone (see more books about walking long distances here)
Ruthless River

Author: Holly Fitzgerald
Genre: Survival memoir
Series or Standalone: Standalone (find more books about the Amazon Rainforest here)
Gorillas in the Mist

Author: Dian Fosset
Genre: Science
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Lost in the Jungle

Author: Yossi Ghinsberg
Genre: Survival memoir
Series or Standalone: Standalone (and a movie)
Child of the Jungle

Author: Sabine Kuegler
Genre: Memoir
Series or Standalone: Standalone
In the Kingdom of Gorillas

Author: Bill Weber, Amy Veddir
Genre: Science
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Lost in the Wild

Author: Cary J. Griffith
Genre: Survival memoir
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Unconquered

Author: Scott Wallace
Genre: Adventure travel
Series or Standalone: Standalone
A Walk in the Woods

Author: Bill Bryson
Genre: Adventure memoir
Series or Standalone: Standalone
A Long Way Gone

Author: Ishmael Beah
Genre: Memoir
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Paris to the Moon

Author: Adam Gopnik
Genre: Memoir
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Girl in the Woods

Author: Aspen Matis
Genre: Adventure memoir
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Colony

Author: John Tayman
Genre: History
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Last Train to Zona Verde

Author: Paul Theroux
Genre: Travel
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Mother of God

Author: Paul Rosolie
Genre: Adventure memoir
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Stolen World

Author: Jennie Erin Smith
Genre: Non-violent true crime
Series or Standalone: Standalone (see more non-violent true crime books here)
The Lost City of the Monkey God

Author: Douglas Preston
Genre: Adventure travel
Series or Standalone: Standalone
The Stranger in the Woods

Author: Michael Finkel
Genre: Memoir
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Have you read any of these? Which ones? What did you think of them? Any you want to read?