Great suggestions!! I'm adding these to my wishlist for xmas. Thanks!

Anything by Quest-Ritson.

Well here is what I could find. The lot of books photo are much older and maybe some info is outdated but I love the photos . I really enjoy the monet book very much . It's very interesting! And the r is for rose book is so lovely. She takes wonderful photos and writes so well.

Im fortunate to live by a huge used book store , I would recommend these books at a used price . I'm a picture person and love seeing them in the winter .

I do hope to hear more book suggestions! I'm going to look up the author embothrium suggested .

I second anything by Quest Ritson. And shoot I just passed up landscape with roses at Half Price Books sale this weekend. Oh well. I also passed up another Peter Beales book on Gardens of the world. Kicking myself for that. Here's a pic of my books: the Phillips-Rix book is the one that roped me into roses in the first place . The Rockwell Complete Book of roses is outstanding especially for older roses . It has a great write-up on refurbishing and old Rose through pruning . Peter Schneider's right rose right place is excellent for colder Zone growers. I've learned a lot from it. The two Peter Beales books are not duplicative although the one combines 20th century roses with classic roses but it's a revised Edition. I love this man and adore his writing. His descriptions of working for EB LeGrice touched me in an inexplicable way. I found 20th century roses being used as a prop at an Arhaus store if you can believe it! Lastly, the rose, an illustrated history by Harkness is extremely useful for identification as well as general reading. Thank you for starting this topic. I'm always looking for new books.

Lily, so many wonderful book suggestions! I'll have to look into these as well.

One of my absolute favorite rose books is by Stephen Scannello titled, "Climbing Roses". If you love pictures of roses - and who on this forum doesn't - lol - you will LOVE this book. He goes into great detail on the history of climbing roses grown at the Cranford Rose Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I even had the pleasure of meeting him and having him sign my book. It made my day. :-)

This is going to be a dangerous thread because I'm going to want to purchase every book recommended! LOL. Thank you everyone. Keep them coming.

To join others in praising Quest-Ritson, I recently bought his book "Climbing Roses of the World" and it's masterful, covering all classes of climbing roses and ramblers, prominent breeders, and so on. Not only enjoyable to read about their histories, but also useful for its encyclopedic presentation of more than 1,000 varieties. Includes a good selection of color photos.

Incidentally, speaking of Scannello, I also bought his book "Roses of America" in that same bookshop. If you like his book on climbing roses, then you would not regret having this volume. Profusely illustrated with color plates, it's meant as a general reference on roses, but also reflecting on all kinds of roses grown at the Cranford Rose Garden. As a bonus, there are chapters on landscaping, culture, pruning (written & illustrated in a "step-by-step" accessible way). The title could be slightly misleading because all these roses are grown in other parts of the world and it's a great all-round book on roses.

I have some of the books already mentioned (Beales, Schneider) and highly recommended them as well. A few more selections suggested by others here are now definitely on my wish list (Monet's Garden, Harkness' book, ...).

Vestf, thank you so much. I'll have to check out Scannello's book. He's a favorite.

Two of my favorite rose books, out of the many I own, are Monet's Garden, and Landscape with Roses. I love those books. I need to go read and look at them again. Thanks, Lily. Diane

Just a warning about Quest Ritson: some of his books are the same content with different covers. Back when the American Rose Society published with him, the same book, different cover came out from a British source and then from a German source.

Thanks for the heads up on the Quest Ritson books. I hate when they do that.

Often it's been the other way around, with British tomes becoming "The American Horticultural Society" versions when produced for domestic consumption.

I think this warning about the same/similar books under different titles is important, especially in the electronic age. Let me mention Phillips-Rix books as another example. I have their "Best Rose Guide" published in the US (Firefly Books) in 2004 which was simultaneously published in England by Macmillan as "The Ultimate Guide to Roses". I believe that both are a somewhat expanded version of their earlier book on roses (see Vaporvac's collection above) published in the Random House Guide series as "Rose". Their ISBNs are all different though they are practically identical, especially their dual editions from 2004. While these would not be the problem in the old pre-WWW days and it's not uncommon to have the same books sold under different titles on different continents, I think that it's quite different now. They can all be purchased in the same country through online sales, even from the same vendor, which can easily lead to the confusion that these might be different books if the previews are not available. On Amazon, for example, there is no notification that the two books from 2004 are identical but published under different titles for different markets.

None of these are new but:

Tea Roses for warm gardens is a great read about tea roses,

David Austin The Rose might be my favorite "Rose" book.

In Search of Lost Roses is a great read

Chasing The Rose is also a great read

Roses in a southern garden and Empress of garden are two good books by ARE

Scannelelos Year of Roses is a great read as well.

If you want a rose book full of historical info and modern day happenings, please consider "Chasing the Rose: an Adventure in the Venetian Countryside." Here is an Amazon review: From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair, here is
the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious
old rose. Andrea di Robilant’s tale takes us back to the time of
Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose
gardens in Italy today, brought to colorful life on the page in the
watercolors of artist Nina Fuga. What starts out as a lighthearted quest becomes a meaningful journey as di Robilant contemplates the enduring beauty of what is passed down to us in a rose, through both the generosity of nature and the cultivating hand of human beings, who for centuries have embraced and extended the life of this mysterious flower. I can almost guarantee that any rose lover would enjoy this book. Here is a LINK. I noticed that new hardcovers are available at $13.67.

I just had to put in another plug in for one of the books I mentioned above: The Rockwell Complete Book of Roses. I can't get over the amount of detailed info packed into this book. It's NOT a picture book, for show, but one to read again and again learning more as one's interest and knowledge expands. It's amazingly forward thinking on many axis such as mulching, etc., but also fascinating because many of the roses mentioned which were newer at the time of writing, are now classics, so I'm able to read alot about many varieties glossed over these days, such a Aloha, Blossomtime, etc.; and his comments on then classic roses gives me a new appreciation of their uses. Besides the pruning section, there are chapters for what roses are good for various uses, climates, etc. ... definitely not one size fits all, in addition to a fairly complete treatment of propagation. The only downside is the index. Many mentions of individual cultivars can't be found there, so I've had to sticky post their pages.

Empress of the Garden by Michael Shoup of Antique Rose Emporium shows many wonderful ways to use old roses.