Rooted in the Forest

Celebrate all things green and growing! Try one of these books about forests, trees, and everything arboreal. Plant a seed, read!

Updated May 10, 2026
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Rooted in the Forest

Celebrate all things green and growing! Try one of these books about forests, trees, and everything arboreal. Plant a seed, read!

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Girl in the creek
Wagner, Wendy N.
Paper Book
Girl in the Creek is a pulse-pounding story about the horrors growing all around us, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and T. Kingfisher. A finalist for the 2025 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel! Buried secrets only spread. Erin's...
The island of missing trees
Shafak, Elif
Paper Book
A REESE''S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David...
Lovely dark and deep
Bonnin, Elisa A.
Paper Book
From author Elisa A. Bonnin comes Lovely Dark and Deep, a YA dark academia novel exploring magic, loneliness, and the power of found family. "A truly thoughtful, engaging reflection on the dark academia genre." --BCCB, starred review Hidden off the...
The orchardist : a novel
Coplin, Amanda.
Ebook
The overstory : a novel
Powers, Richard
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut...
Temple of swoon
Segura, Jo
Paper Book
An instant USA Today Bestseller! A LibraryReads Pick! Her mission: find the Lost City of the Moon in the Amazon rainforest. His mission: protect the holy temple . . . and his heart. While her mentor may be the world's most badass...
Treekeepers : race for a forested future
Oakes, Lauren
Paper Book
Silver medalist, Nautilus Book Awards "A frank, probing, but ultimately hopeful book" (Elizabeth Kolbert) that shows how the path from climate change to a habitable future winds through the world's forests In recent years, planting a tree...
The trees are speaking : dispatches from the salmon forests
Mapes, Lynda V.
Paper Book
A call to rethink our relationship with forests Ancient and carbon-rich, old-growth forests play an irreplaceable role in the environment. Their complex ecosystems clean the air, purify the water, cool the planet, and teem with life. In a time of climate...
Twelve trees : the deep roots of our future
Lewis, Daniel
Paper Book
A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees, offering "extensive insight into the ways in which humans and trees are interconnected" (BookPage), revealing the challenges facing our planet and how scientists are working urgently to save our...
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