Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Colour in the Titles


Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's topic is Books with Colours in the Title.

When I looked at my books read spreadsheet, I realised that I could have done entire Top Ten lists of red and blue books. Instead, I am going to focus on the primary colours - red blue and yellow - to make up my list for this week.




Half of a Yellow Sun by Chinamanda Ngozi Adiche - I have long had an interest in reading books set in Nigeria. This was a particularly good one.

The Girl in the Yellow Vest by Loretta Hill - This is a book features a female engineer working in a construction environment in Queensland. I really enjoyed Loretta Hill's writing. It doesn't look like she is writing anymore which is a shame.

The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey - I do enjoy a book set in Ireland. This one is set in Northern Ireland in the early years of the 1900's which was quite a tumultuous time.




Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland  - This book follows a painting of a girl (in hyacinth blue) through the years from owner to owner. I really enjoyed this book!

Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore - This is the third book in the Graceling YA fantasy series. Just thinking about this book makes me want to revist the series.

Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith - This is the seventh book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series and features a pair of talking shoes.




The Red Tent by Anita Diamant - This book holds a special place in my blogging heart. I read this book and I just wanted to talk to someone about it and it become the first book I wrote a review of. When I read it years later it wasn't a great review but it was the start of this blogging journey.

The Red Tree by Shaun Tan - Shaun Tan writes and illustrates the most amazing books. Whilst The Arrival is my favourite, and probably always will be, this was an enjoyable.

A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley - Among the many series that I keep on saying I really need to get back to soon is the Flavia de Luce mystery series, featuring a precocious young girl as the sleuth. This is book 3 in the series.




The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett - I am cheating for this last book because once you have all the primary colours you can make all the other colours, which quite frankly is magic!

What colourful reads do you have on your Top Ten list.

34 comments:

  1. Hi there Marg! Such a great list here. I also went for the color wheel. Starting with primary colors. Have a look! I see your true colors

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  2. Love your colour choices here - and Half of a Yellow Sun was wonderful wasn't it! Adichie featured twice on mu list with Purple Hibiscus too!

    My TTT this week includes a whole rainbow 🌈 albeit with purple rather than indigo or violet.

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    1. My favourite colour is purple and if I could have I would have done a whole list of purple books, including Purple Hibiscus! Thansk for stopping by Michael.

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  3. Shortly after I moved to D.C., I read The Red Tent for a women's bookclub I found on the internet. I liked the book more than the club.

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    1. Lol Sprite. I have had a couple of book clubs like that.

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  4. Guess the Red Tent is going on my TBR list. https://pmprescott.blogspot.com/2020/08/ttt-080420.html

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  5. Great list! The Red Tent made my list this week too, and Half of a Yellow Sun is one I really want to cross off my TBR.

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    1. Thank's Jess! Half of a Yellow Sun is a great read.

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  6. Of course you are right. All the colors together are magic.

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  7. Fun list! I love the concept! I put "rainbow" as a color on my TTT this week, so magic is definitely a color, too.

    Here is my TTT: https://ichlese.blog/2020/08/04/top-ten-tuesday-horror-books-with-colors-in-their-title/.

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  8. Nice list. I saw The Red Tent on another blog this morning. The Yellow House sounds good. Thanks for sharing.

    http://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2020/08/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-books-with.html

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    1. Yellow House is probably a less well known book than The Red Tent.

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  9. Nice take on this week's topic! It has been fun to see how everyone took the challenge a little differently. Here is our Top Ten Tuesday

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    1. That's always an interesting part of participating in TTT

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  10. I love that you added The Colour Of Magic! I can't decide if the cover of The Red Tree is cute or slightly unsettling. 😅

    Vee_Bookish, YA Book Blogger

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    1. I think The Red Tree is a bit of both!

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  11. Girl in Hyacinth Blue sounds so good.

    My TTT .

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  12. I love all the yellow ones. I just love that color.

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    1. There's quite a lot of yellow even in the red covers Deanna!

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  13. Yay for Terry Pratchett! I couldn’t believe how many books I’d read with red in the title!

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  14. So many good books! I too really miss the feeling of a new Loretta Hill book - I loved pretty much everything I read by her. And Bitterblue is amazing. I've had The Red Tent on my TBR for so long now... many years probably! I really want to read Half A Yellow Sun as well

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    1. I have no idea how The Red Tent would hold up to a reread but I did enjoy it back then Bree

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  15. Great job with the colorful list! I also had a Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie title on mine :)

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  16. I totally forgot about The Girl in Hyacinth Blue!! I loved that book! Great list!

    My TTT

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  17. These are such interesting titles, Marg -- and all new to me!

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    1. Theres some interesting books there Verushka.

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