would you still love me if i was a plant?
books about people transforming into, or being reincarnated as, plants đ± (or trying their best to)
suggestions welcome!
created by honeydijon
last updated August, 2026
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I think A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher would fit this perfectly! I love books that include transformations đââïžđââïž
Thanks for the rec, Iâve added it!! Same here, there is just something about a narrative in which humans transform into (or attempt to transform into) other life forms, especially plants, that is so alluring to me. I would do it if I could haha
suggestion: eat the ones you love by sarah griffin!!
Added, thank you so much!
oooh you should add The Forrest Brims Over by Maru Ayase !!
Omg yes this is on my TBR!! Thank you!
OMFG MOSS, MY BELOVED!!!
Also is this what happens in The Wilder Girls? I haven't read it, but somebody posted in the club earlier looking for a book they read about girls turning into plants and this book was suggested...
Who is this one by? Iâm having trouble finding it!
Oh I guess it's just Wilder Girls by Rory Power?? My bad
There's also a character in The Inhabited Woman by Giaconda Belli who is reincarnated as an orange tree...
So this book is on my radar because of you, i fully intend to read it by the end of the year, and I knew I had to put it on this list!! I thought of you as i made it!
would a botanical daughter count perhaps? not to give too much away but a body is used to create like, a living plant-body and uses another body to grow herself later?
I think that counts! added!
Hazelthorn and Honeysuckle would fit right in! đ±â€ïžâđ©č
I was also thinking Hazelthorn might fit!
Oh absoFRUITLEY Hazelthorn!!!
Added both!
Omg yessss I love this, what an awesome list!
Thank you so much!! Iâve discovered I am super into this concept!
yessss it's one of my fave concepts as well! i know it's present in The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri, but i'm not sure to what extent as i haven't read it yet! just throwing it out there in case tho hehe
Iâll add it!! If/when we read it we can remove it if it doesnât actually fit!
Hell. Fucking. Yes. This is my THING. I didnât have enough for a real list yet.
YESSSSS same!!! Itâs such a specific thing but Iâm so obsessed with the idea and I donât think about how much I wish I could turn into a tree at all
Also, I now have a desperate need to pin or favorite lists Iâm following. I cannot let this one get lost đ«Ł
Relatable đ and itâs not even a laughing matter. Thereâs this Druid book that has a meditation of sorts about becoming a tree (pg 163)â I love it. Iâve done it since I was young.
I will have to check that out đđ
Thank you! Should I add this to the list? Is there more tree content?
Eh, I wouldnât. I was just reminded is all. Although Druidry is def a place youâd find this.
Admittedly I know next to nothing about it, but thanks to you I think I am going to find a book or two to fill my knowledge gap!
Happy to help. Feel free to call upon me to buddy read things for this list (from or finding) like anytime.
đđđđđđ would you want to buddy read something next month?
September? Yeah! Have any youâre eyeing?
I really want to get to Moss!! If youâre interested!
Iâll come back and report once I take a sec I can add it to the forum!
You gotta add pure colour by Sheila Heti!!!
I hadnât heard of this one! Added, thanks!!
Would love to hear your thoughts when you get to it đ©·
I will definitely post updates!
Oooh it's been on my tbr but I didn't know that đ
Yesssss the narrator spends a portion of the book as a leaf
amazing list idea đ±đ”đȘŽđȘ·
Thank you so much, this has become a new niche literary interest of mine hehe
Thereâs a short story in Sisters of The Revolution by Ann VanderMeer. Itâs Called: The Sleep of Plants by Anne Richter. & Itâs why I included it on my non-humans & empathy list. If youâre up for it, otherwise itâs a rec for the comments!
Iâll add that!! Thank you!
Thereâs also A Neglected Garden included in Kathe Kojaâs Extremities
Think you missed my other note here when you get a sec.
Oh shoot which one?
Nevermind thatâs my bad, lol! Nothing at all has been missed. Keep up the good work. đ
đđthank you for all your contributions to this list!!
If weâre talking sort of becoming one with a plant in your body, but not becoming it per se, What Wakes The Dead T.Kingfisher would count. đ€
Is it Wakes or Moves? I added What Moves the Dead!
Fuck. Should have known I always get the name wrong haha, you are correct!
This is so not the same vibe as the rest of them, but a cute one that came to kind is a translated Chinese (web?)novel called Bamboo Spiritâs Husband-Taming Manual: A Sharp-Tongued Celestial Masterâs Self-Strategy Record, about a bamboo spirit cultivating to a human shape. It's been a while since i read it, but I remember it being very cute.
That does sound cute!! Unfortunately it isnât on here!
Oh! Fools Night the manga Iâve been reading has this. Dystopian vibe approach. Super interesting. Been reading it book by book as my library adds the volumes.
That sounds good! Whoâs it by?
Oh right. Let me seeâŠ
OMG I LOVE THIS!!! This was something I didn't know I wanted to read until now đ
YESSSS welcome!! I need alllll the books about this
If you ever need a friend to read any of these with, let me know!!! đ
Yes please!!! @Myth.Ink and I are reading Moss in September đđ
The Inheritance of OrquĂdea Divina by Zoraida CĂłrdova has plants growing out of bodies and IIRC someone fully transforms.
This sounds great! Iâve added it, thanks!
