Seasonal Reading
Recommendations
Take your seasonal reading to a new level and find a book for each of the twenty-four seasons of the year! New books are regularly added, so check back on occasion.
The Beginning of Spring (February 4 - 20)
The Fullness of Time: Marking the Day by Birdsong, Blooms, Shadows and Stars by Cathy Haynes helps you look at light and time differently as the days grow longer.
Snow Becomes Rain (February 21 - March 3)
Mud Season by Ellen Stimson reminds us with laughter of the watery beginnings of a new year.
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree is a cozy fantasy perfect for bundling up with while hopefully awaiting warmer days.
Wintering Insects Awake (March 4 - 20)
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnum helps you start your journey to the season ahead.
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson reminds us of the importance of family and the innate hope and history of a single seed.
Looking for the Lost: Journeys through a Vanishing Japan by Alan Booth will guide you through lost corners of the country, if you feel like looking for rainbows.
A Feast of Weeds: A Literary Guide to Foraging and Cooking Wild Edible Plants by Santis Ada De and Luigi Ballerini will satisfy your need for green.
Spring Equinox (March 21 - April 4)
The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai by Ha Jin celebrates the oft-quoted ancient Chinese poet Li Bai in this new book, in honor of April as Poetry Month in the USA.
Cherry Ingram by Naoko Abe for all you cherry blossom lovers out there! Learn the story behind the man who helped to bring them to the world.
Clear and Bright (April 4 - 20)
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa reminds us of the sweetness of a life lived through listening and close looking.
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. Although not set in this season, this book feels decidedly like a hazy spring day spent looking back at the past with an eye towards the horizon and the dawn of a new day.