My spring reading season starts March 1st!
Spring reading makes me think of renewal stories, vivid settings in nature, and books that feel fresh and optimistic.
My spring tbr is one of my shorter seasonal reading lists. It’s also one of the shorter reading seasons as summer reading has usually taken hold by mid May.
This is a season when I want to leave a lot of room in my reading life. Particularly to recharge before the bigger summer reading lists come out and my fall tbr grows to massive.
It’s a time for catching up on recommended books whether they’re new releases I missed last year or backlist favorites from friends. It’s also a season to give bookish serendipity a chance!
What I’m Looking for in my Spring Reads
If you’re curious about what I mean by seasonal reading, check out this post, Is Seasonal Reading a Thing?
Spring reading might be the most difficult reading season to cultivate for.
In the past, I have focused on these areas:
- anything with a strong sense of nature in the setting
- magical realism
- nonfiction (especially topics covering the environment or health)
- memoir
- comics
- literary fiction
This year I gathered several fun category ideas.
Book Talk Etc did a great episode last year with really creative spring themes for books like stories featuring a wedding, books with flowers on the cover, and spring break reads.
I also had ideas about spring cleaning my overflowing tbr this season.
I thought it would be fun to check off a few of the titles that have been sitting on there for far too long. The ones I know I want to read but haven’t rushed to pick up either because of the hype surrounding them or because they’re readily available sitting there waiting on my kindle. I often give priority to library checkouts in my reading life.
So this season I combined spring themes with a tbr cleaning and the more spring-like categories from my reading life bucket list.
Here’s what I came up with.
My Spring TBR:
Climate Fiction
- Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Middle Grade
- Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
Short Story Collection
- Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell
Perfect Spring Break Read
- You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle (plus flowers on the pink cover)
A Spring Setting
- A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (She’s also one of the 12 authors)
12 Authors to Read this Year
- The All You Can Dream Buffet by Barbara O’Neal
- The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty (plus it’s been on my tbr forever! This will make me a completist!)
TBR Stack
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (plus flowers is in the title!)
- Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
- A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
Have you read any of these books? What do you look for in a spring read? Let me know what is on your spring tbr!
