Colorful Reading--Books to Fill the Rainbow

Books themselves come in many different colors. 

I love seeing people who arrange their bookshelves by color.  It's amazing to me, first that they have such an array of books in varying colors and second that they have the patience to set them up like that.

For me, my rainbow of books is not too vast.  But I have read a lot of colorful books throughout the years.   Titles with colors in them.  Do we even think about that when we pick up a book to read?

Spring can't get here fast enough, especially with these bitterly cold days we have been experiencing here this winter.  So to help get us in the mood, I thought I would dive in to the colorful books I have read over the years.  I hope you will share your colorful books with me as well.

RED

The first book that comes to me when I think of the color red is, The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy.  I have never read this book or fully watched the movie, but I did have the honor of meeting Tom Clancy when I was in middle school.  He's from the area I grew up in and we were meeting notable people in our community.



NYPD Red, a series by James Patterson is one I have kept on top of.  The series follows police detectives in New York City whose job is to protect the rich and famous.  Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald head up this elite squad.  The latest book in this series Red Alert: An NYPD Red Mystery is scheduled to be released in March of this year.

ORANGE

I'm sure everyone is thinking about the same book right now or the Netflix series Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman .  I read this book back in 2014 before I started my blog and really doing reviews like I am now.  I have wanted to watch the series as well, but haven't had the opportunity.



Another book that I have on my Kindle and looks very promising, although I haven't read it yet is, Song of the Orange Moons by Lori Ann Stephens.  About three women, two young ladies and their widow neighbor, trying to all find their place in the world.

YELLOW

 At first, I didn't think I had read any books that would fit in this part of the rainbow.  I kept seeing The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers pop up for Yellow, but I didn't think I had read it.  Thank you Goodreads for showing me that I had read this book, but gave it a pitiful review.  But then again, that was back before my reviewing days.  The Yellow Birds tells the harrowing story to 2 soldiers in the American Military trying to stay alive in the Iraq War.  Kevin Powers is a war veteran himself.

Another book I have on my Kindle, but haven't read yet is Forget the Yellow Brick Road by Liz Green.  This book takes the story of Dorothy and trying to find her way home from OZ to another level by trying to get this Dorothy up the corporate ladder.

GREEN

When I first thought of the color Green and books to go in this category, I thought of authors Jane Green(love her books), and John Green(the YA Master).  But I haven't read too many books with Green for a title.  Let's take it back to childhood for a minute:

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.  Who hasn't read this book at some point in time.  Either for themselves or to their children?  I know I've read it at least 1,000 times from babysitting in my youth to reading it to my own kids.  My son likes for me to make him green eggs and ham(although nothing is green) for breakfast.



While I'm not a Stephen King fan, and I have never read The Green Mile, I really enjoyed the movie.  First of all I didn't know this was a book when I saw the movie, let alone a series of six books compiled into one.  

BLUE

Blue seems to be a popular color for book titles.  I have read four books with blue in the title and have four times as many on my Kindle waiting to be read.  So here is one that you may have read and one that you definitely should read. 

Something Blue by Emily Giffin is a great chick lit book.  Emily Giffin is one of my favorite authors and I have read nearly everything she has written.  She has a new book coming out this summer, All We Ever Wanted and I can't wait to read it.




Some of you may know I went on a reading binge toward the end of last year with the DI Helen Grace Series by M.J. Arlidge(click to read my reviews of that series).  Little Boy Blue is the fifth book in the series.  These are great books about a female detective in England.




Other great Blue titles:
The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross

Blue Monday by Nicci French 

INDIGO

Now this color was very difficult to find titles for.  I have never read any books with Indigo in the title and the only thing that came to mind was the girl group, The Indigo Girls, whose music I don't listen to.  So I searched Goodreads and found 2 books that had the highest ratings on them to include in this section. 

Indigo by Beverly Jenkins.  This book I have actually added to my TBR.  It's a historical romance about a girl who has escaped slavery and is now working with the Underground Railroad in Michigan.




Here's a book I will probably never read.  The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead is a YA Fantasy book.  I'm not a big fan of Fantasy.  This is the third book in Ms. Mead's Bloodline Series.  

VIOLET

Besides this being my grandmother's name, here is another color that I haven't read any books from.  So here are two books on my TBR for the color Violet. 

Violets Are Blue by James Patterson.  As you all know James Patterson is one of my favorite authors.  I love how his books are broken down in to small chapters that seem to make the book zoom by.  This book is the 7th book in the Alex Cross series.  A series where I have read a few of the books, but would like to start the entire series from the beginning.


The Violets of March by Sarah Jio.  I was just introduced to Sarah Jio last year through her book Always.  I believe this book was Ms. Jio's debut novel.  





So these are all of the colorful books I have read or plan to read(except for a couple).  What colorful books do you have on your TBR or have you already read?  I would love to hear from you.