take a hike! (in a nice way)
Have you ever noticed how many books there are with characters named after things you can spot on a hike? Well, here’s a list for you!
Books where at least one MC is named after something you can find on a hike (e.g. Wren, Dahlia, Wolf). Names in books are listed in the comments! I’m excusing the random extra letters or alternate spellings for these lol
created by erintripsey
last updated December, 2025
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Leather & Lark - Lark Montague Hunger Games - pretty much everyone A Series of Unfortunate Events - Violet & Sunny Baudelaire Lock and Key - Ruby Cooper Oryx & Crake - Oryx and Crake Divine Rivals - Iris Winnow The Woods All Black - Leslie Bruin The Butcher - Fleur Laurent At the End There was You - Winter Yours for the Weekend - Dakota spring The Love Hypothesis - Olive Smith Burning Notes - Willow & Hawke And They Were Roommates - Jasper Grimes Morbidly Yours - Lark Thompson Puppy Love - Violet Wolfe Left of forever - Wrem Byrd For Whom the Belle Tolls - Lily Before We Came - Birdie Gothikana - Corvina Clemm (close enough to corvid) Toxic Love - Tempest Black Older - Reed Psycho Shifters - Cobra Squeak - Poppy
People We Meet on Vacation - Poppy My Boyfriends Are All Monsters - Hemlock Falling - Cat Beautiful Venom - Dahlia Blood Orange - Dahlia Protect Me - Bracken The Brawl - Larke (I’ll excuse the extra “e”) The Brood - Iris A Dark and Drowning Tide - Sylvia von Wolff Wolf.e - Gabriel Wolfe One Dark Window - Ravyn & Elm Lovely Corruption - Charlotte Finch Late Bloomer - Opal & Pepper Hers for the Weekend - Poppy A Deadly Education - Orion lake How to End a Love Story - Grant Shepherd (who knows you might see a shepherd on a hike) Blood & Steel - Wilder Hawthorne Dragons Bride - Briar Rose Doll Bones - Poppy The Succubus’s Prize - Belladonna Not Another Love Song - Xander Thorne
Forgive Me Father - Father Roman Briar Court of the Vampire Queen - Wolf Iron and Embers - Wren Priest - Poppy Scythe and Sparrow - Rose Morning Glory Milking Farm - Violet Brutal Vows - Spider (his nickname but that’s what he goes by) Done and Dusted - Clementine Tryst Six Venom - Clay Nectar of the Wicked - Flea Chasing the Wild - Layla Birch The Wrong Bride - Raven Bourbon and Lies - Grant Fox At the Bottom of the Garden - Lily & Violet Kill Switch - Winter
oh hold on!! this is so creative 🥹 also love the comments breaking down which characters apply
thank you!! I had the realization that this might make a good list after reading several books back to back with FMCs named after flowers
this is so cool lol are you open to suggestions? i remember reading Entwined by Heather Dixon Wallwork in high school, all the girls are named after plants! also Brother by Ania Ahlborn- Misty Dawn Perfume by Patrick Suskind- Grenouille (french for frog) there are so many!
Also I am realizing I may have missed a bunch of names by limiting myself to English 😅
ha we'll be here all day
Absolutely open to suggestions!!! These are great I’ll add them!
adding Iron Widow because while the MCs are not named such, the robots that the MCs pilot are called Chrysalises and they’re very much a character in the story
The Cruel Prince - Oak
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