• 100 Green Books for St. Patrick’s Day

    In the Name of Holiday Excess, A Binge-Worthy List

    This Saturday is St. Patrick’s Day. That means you are likely to see, if you venture outside your home in a city of any size tomorrow, a large number of people wandering around wearing green. Many of them are likely to be drunk. You may also be exposed to green beer, green milk, green dogs, and even (particularly in New York) the occasional black and green cookie. Whatever your feelings about this, I know some very good things that come in green year round: books. And yes, they come in every shade (which I have helpfully identified below using a variety of online sources). After all, kids, books are much safer than binge-drinking—as well as being a fun and practical accessory to take along to the parade. Thus, below please find 100 green books to enjoy on your St. Patrick’s day. (Yes, this is ridiculous. But, much like St. Patrick’s Day, it is also fun.)

    black swans eve babitz Spring green drowned world ballard Jungle green essex serpent sarah perry Dartmouth green Aquaman lord of the flies Hunter green boatbuilder gumbiner India Green mrs caliban ingalls Screamin’ green rings of saturn sebald Light jade green giving tree silverstein Green LED henry green concluding Laurel green lolita first edition Dark moss green our man in havana greene Soylent green three fates linda le Noble fir hatred of poetry lerner Spring green levertov the life around us Starbucks goodnight moon wise brown Green algae stendhal pink and green Forest green jungle upton sinclair Army green silent spring rachel carson Leaf green anne of green gables Broccoli ulysses joyce Medium aquamarine jens lapidus Go green rules for a knight ethan hawke Dark green copper the eternal zero Ooze subliminal mlodinow Nerf green hope shalom auslander Green pepper antrim verificationist Yellow moss harry potter and the half-blood prince Cat eye grafton a is for alibi Kakapo cane jean toomer Mediterranean russell banks lost memory of skin Jolly green snow flower lisa see Scotland pound animal vegetable miracle barbara kingsolver Pea green scarlett thomas seed collectors Artichoke heating & cooling Sea green turf elizabeth crane Army men abandon me febos Turquoise blue bulgakov master and margarita Garden hose shield of straw kiuchi Emerald green sudden death enrigue Medium sea green taduno's song odafe atogun Burnished forest green is shame necessary jennifer jacquet Neon avocado dubliners joyce Pool table amis london fields Permanent green hobbit tolkien Green stamp lowland lahiri Permanent green sue monk kidd secret life of bees Pool table i love dick kraus Bottle green stranger in the woods finkel Green line jacob rubin poser Park bench under the udala trees okparanta Banker’s lamp oyeyemi boy snow bird Asparagus moby-dick melville Green gables 1984 orwell Watermelon rind billy lynn ben fountain Pea green letters to a young scientist Sap green stranger in a strange land Blue green algae tristan and iseult Olive drab celine peter heller True green gabaldon voyager Dark green paul murray skippy dies Breadfruit storm of swords george rr martin Medium aquamarine one hundred years of solitude Cobalt green joyce portrait Grass she read to us in the late afternoons hill Iceberg lettuce wrinkle in time l'engle Malachite g.k. chesterton father brown Green line maze runner dashner Fire truck green caitlin moran how to build a girl Green Taxi lockwood motherland fatherland Blue lagoon shirley jackson let me tell you Guacamole lovett lost book of the grail Octopus ira levin rosemary's baby True green native speaker lee Green line claire of the sea light danticat Atlantic green tell the wolves i'm home brunt Yellow-green against the country ben metcalf Old money green safari honeymoon jesse jacobs Lime green mark twain huckleberry finn Sacramento green sister outsider audre lorde Key Lime Pie amy tan kitchen god's wife Embellished forest green p.g. wodehouse uncle fred in springtime Emerald green quesadillas villalobos Wales terra firma ledgard Green haze soccer hemon Jade green fade virgins pamela erens Chrome Oxide Green eating animals foer Seagreen saul bellow herzog Kelly green aracoeli elsa morante Yellowgreen hopscotch cortazar Wasabi the heart is a lonely hunter Octopus once the shore yoon Wave Crest sula morrison Pine green madeline bemelmans Green ash molloy beckett Sign green jesus' son johnson Kelly green fade haussmann or the distinction lafarge Moss green in the great green room Jade green lars iyer wittgenstein jr Tea green white teeth zadie smith Olive green



    Emily Temple
    Emily Temple
    Emily Temple is the managing editor at Lit Hub. Her first novel, The Lightness, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in June 2020. You can buy it here.
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