The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

Another category open to wide interpretation, this is for a book that includes a garden. It could be a book about gardening, a character who is an avid gardener, or have a garden on the cover in or in the title.

The Red Garden

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman

"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Jessica wrote: ""The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett" me too!

Elizabeth and Her German Garden

The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison

The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde

"The Cement Garden" by Ian McEwan

Probably a very loose interpretation, but I'm using The Hate You Give. The neighborhood they live in is called Garden Heights.

I'd like to try The Heirloom Garden, maybe as an audio book.

I read Blood Heir by Amélie Wen Zhao, 4 Stars

Possibly considering 'The Last Garden In England' for this category. I could use it for a book published this year too. Not sure yet. So many books to choose from....

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Completed: February 9, 2021

I'm planning to read Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen #1) by Steven Erikson for this prompt. I've heard a lot of great things about it on a couple of the Facebook fantasy/sci-fi book groups I belong to.

I am trying to find a book in my own library (because I have so many unread) that suits this prompt. Having not read many of them how am I to know if there is a garden included? Oh me!

I read The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
The grounds of Styles play a role in the storyline so I used it.

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Gods of Jade and Shadow

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Just finished reading: "The Garden of Evening Mists" by Tan Twan Eng (★★★★☆), it is a historical fiction centering on the unexpected relationship between a war-scarred woman and an exiled gardener, which leads to a journey through remorse to a kind of peace.

Eng's narrative is filled with grace and empathy infused this melancholy landscape of complex loyalties enfolded by brutal history, creating a novel of peculiar, mysterious, tragic beauty.

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

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Breaking Damian there are a few scenes that the characters spend time in a garden at a palace.

I read The Broken Girls by Simmone St. James

Cottage by the Sea

This was a very enjoyable read. I liked how the author used a good vs sad plot to build the story around. At times you were blown away by the tragedy, and then in the next sequence the author gave you joy to out balance the sad. Very well written, with defined characters.

It Ends with us. The main character Lily Bloom loves to garden and she bonds with another
Main character while gardening. Then she opens her own flower shop.

I just finished The Signature of All Things. This book includes a lot of gardens! It's on the long side, and I can't say it was one of my favortes of 2021, but it definitely fits this prompt.

Just finished Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt "Garden" is literally in the title and there are several gardens mentioned in the book as it is set in Savanah, Georgia

Widow of Gettysburg: Heroines Behind the Lines by Jocelyn Green. The main female character has a garden.

I used The Garden of the Gods (Corfu Trilogy #3) by Gerald Durrell for this prompt! And the best thing is, books #1 and #2 in the series can also fit into many prompts.

I listened to The Secret Garden, a children’s classic that was new to me.

I read The Kew Garden Girls

I used A Glimmering of Death. The main character creates fairy gardens and has a garden at her home.

Garden Spells would be great for this prompt as well.

Taproot by Keezy Young
Very sweet paranormal romance

I read The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman .. it was different but enjoyable.. I’m still trying to process it all.

Oh wow! I just finished the audio book of "The Girls in the Garden" by Lisa Jewell. I loved it - 4 1/2 stars!

The $64 Tomato…funny, interesting, and enjoyable, even though I can’t keep a plant alive to save my life!

I read The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey.

I read "The Memory Theater" by Karin Tidbeck.

The Rural Diaries by Hilarie Burton Morgan

The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman