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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?
