D-List This Month

Spring Awakening

A mix of nature, growth, and the “April Showers” mood

Book cover for Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, featuring a vibrant, sun-drenched oil painting of a traditional stone villa on the Italian coast. Cascades of pink and magenta flowers drape the hillside property, which overlooks bright blue water dotted with small white rowboats.

Enchanted April

by Elizabeth von Arnim

Book cover for Spring by Ali Smith, with a simple, airy white sans-serif title text over a painterly background in washes of pale, cloudy blue-green. The subtle watercolor texture evokes a sense of light and atmosphere, with a hint of small, distant trees at the very bottom edge.

Spring

by Ali Smith

Book cover for The Overstory by Richard Powers, centered around a majestic, deep-focus oil painting of ancient, towering redwood trees. The detailed forest scene is viewed as if looking through a large circular lens, and includes a small figure on horseback at the end of a winding dirt path for scale.

The Overstory

by Richard Powers

Late Migrations

by Margaret Renkl

Book cover for The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, focusing closely on the hand of a child holding a delicate branch of small, blooming pink apple blossoms. The child wears a bright yellow mesh skirt, creating a soft contrast with the green field behind it.

The Language Of Flowers

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Book cover for A Room with a View by E.M. Forster, presented from inside a light-filled room looking out through a large arched, paned window. The view reveals a stunning, snow-capped mountain range, a clear blue lake, and surrounding pine forests, with a simple wooden table and chair in the foreground.

A Room With A View

by E.M. Forster

Book cover for April Morning by Howard Fast, featuring a dramatic, historical painting of a battle scene from the American Revolution. Colonists in tricorne hats stand behind a wooden fence, firing muskets amidst billowing white smoke toward invisible foes across a field, with a farmhouse visible in the background.

April Morning

by Howard Fast

Book cover for Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, set against a bright blue background. Minimalist line-art illustrations of four different people are tucked into yellow speech bubbles scattered around the title, which is presented in large, black sans-serif font.

Beautiful World, Where Are You

by Sally Rooney

Book cover for The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton, capturing a woman from behind, walking away from the viewer along a dark, foggy path. Lit by old-fashioned street lamps, the eerie path recedes into a misty garden under a canopy of dark, bare trees.

The Forgotten Garden

by Kate Morton

Book cover for Uprooted by Naomi Novik, featuring a detailed green-ink illustration on a textured cream background. The illustration depicts a medieval tower with massive roots morphing into a sprawling network of evergreen tree branches below it, with the title

Uprooted

by Naomi Novik