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

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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

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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

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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

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oh hold on!! this is so creative 🥹 also love the comments breaking down which characters apply

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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

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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!

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Also I am realizing I may have missed a bunch of names by limiting myself to English 😅

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ha we'll be here all day

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Absolutely open to suggestions!!! These are great I’ll add them!

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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

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The Cruel Prince - Oak

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