Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Books with Colors in the Title.
I limited my list not only to books I have read, but books I have loved. You’ll find reviews of most of these on the blog. If I haven’t reviewed them yet, I probably will in the future, because I like all of them well enough to read them again!
I split the groups into 5-star books, and 4.5- and 4-star books. Within those groupings, the books are alpha by author.
5-Star Books:
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown (Talia Hibbert)
- The Blue Hills (Elizabeth Goudge) – 5 stars (objectively 4 stars, but it’s a favorite of mine)
- The Little White Horse (Elizabeth Goudge)
- The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (De Bose Heyward)
- The Blue Sword (Robin McKinley)
- Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery)
4.5- and 4-Star Books:
- Green Rider (Kristen Britain)
- Once Upon a Marigold (Jean Ferris)
- A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Finch)
- Riviera Gold (Laurie R. King)
- Red, White, & Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston)
- Death and the Redheaded Woman (Loretta Ross)
Have you read any of these? And what books with colors in the title would you recommend to me?
Lydia
Yes, Anne of Green Gables was amazing for sure.
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Evelyn
I like how you gave your ratings for the books! I keep seeing Get A Life, Chloe Brown on these lists and it’s making me think maybe I should read it!
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Tanya @ Girl Plus Books
Your’s is the first list I’ve seen with Chloe Brown… and now it seems so obvious! 🙂
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Patrick M. Prescott
A nice list. http://pmprescott.blogspot.com/2020/08/ttt-080420.html
imyril
I really want to read Green Rider – my cousin LOVES that series, and I’ve been meaning to pick up a copy to share the joy.
I don’t think I have read The Blue Sword but for some reason I always think I have? I’m not sure if it’s just that I’ve heard about it so many times, or if I’m getting it confused with The Blue Hawk (which has nothing in common with it but the first two words, but I recall fondly from when I was a teen!)
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I had never heard of The Blue Hawk before seeing it on your post, but I will have to see if I can find a copy at the library. I do highly recommend The Blue Sword.
Angela
Anne of Green Gables and Red, White & Royal Blue both made my list and are pretty popular today!
Lark_Bookwyrm
Well, the first has the advantage of being nearly universal, and the second of being one of this year’s hot new books.
Greg
Green Rider is a nice cover, and i liked the book. I never did finish that series though for some reason.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I haven’t finished the series, either. One of these days!
Vi @Inkvotary
Your list is quite impressive. Most of the books are new to me, but look so good I fear my wishlist just grew *sigh* Thank you for sharing them.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I had much the same problem when I made the rounds!
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
The County Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes! OMG, that’s a flashback. I loved the art in that book when I was young, though I can’t remember the story at all right now.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
It’s a charming story, and the art is marvelous. The author, DuBose Heyward, also wrote the play Porgy with his wife; they later collaborated with George Gershwin to turn it into the opera Porgy and Bess.
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
Oh how fun! I didn’t know that about Porgy and Bess.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I only found that out a few years back, when I reviewed the Country Bunny book.
Lark
We did match up with both The Blue Sword and Green Rider, didn’t we? Such awesome reads! 😀
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I love both of those, but The Blue Sword is one I reread frequently. I haven’t finished the Green Rider series, though. I read the second, and stopped. Last fall, I reread Green Rider. Then I tried to read First Rider’s Call again, and got stuck partway through. I’m not sure why. I should just power through it and go on to book three.
RS
I am a fan of how many equine-inclusive covers you’ve got on your list, heh. I’ve never seen that edition of The Little White Horse – the eyes are a bit spooky but I like that you can see the detail of the unicorn better than the version I’m familiar with. I have a memory of really liking that book, yet not remembering much of what happens. I would like to try The Blue Hills, though. That much less modern cover is even more appealing.
Also WHOA, The Country Bunny. That unlocked some distant read-aloud memories just now…and illustrated by Marjorie Flack? Too perfect.
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Lark_Bookwyrm
I hadn’t even registered that, but now that you mention it, there are several horses on those covers! I’m not a fan of that particular cover for The Little White Horse, but it was the one most readily available. I have an old paperback edition I got when we visited England when I was little with the original illustrations, and my husband gave me hardcover collector’s edition that also has the original illustrations, both of which I treasure. (Plus I have the Kindle, with the cover pictured here.)
I adored The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes as a child. I don’t know what happened to my copy. Either it was given to a younger cousin (not by my choice!) or it’s one of the books I lost in one of our moves when I was in middle school. I tracked down a hardcover copy once I grew up. Luckily, it has been reprinted several times.
Hsinju @ Hsinju's Lit Log
Wonderful list with ratings! I’ve only read Anne of Green Gables and Red, White & Royal Blue, both with similar ratings as yours. The Blue Sword is on my TBR and I’m excited to read it soon!
Here’s my first TTT.
Lark_Bookwyrm
I hope you love The Blue Sword as much as I do!
Barb @ Booker T's Farm
These are great! Is it horrible that I had to read the title of the Chloe Brown three times before I figured out the color. Man, I’m losing it!