Book Buying Addicts Anonymous discussion

Do you read colorfully? See if you can fill up a box of crayons with the titles of books you read. Start with good old ROY G. BIV but feel free to add any titles that might have the names of crayons you'd find in a box of Crayola. Exact names or color variations are all acceptable

Examples:
Pink: A Coral Kiss, coral is a shade of pink
Red: The Fire Rose, while it is referring to the flower here, you can use it as a shade of red.
Orange: Blood Orange, again this refers to the fruit, but go ahead and use it as the color.
Green: The Green Mill Murder, this matches exact, of course
Blue: Cocaine Blues, it means the music, but it contains the word.
Black: A Study in Sable, sable is a shade of black.
Peach: Peach Pies and Alibis, may be the fruit but it is a color, too.
Brown: Brownies and Broomsticks, it contains the word so go ahead.

Start with Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet and go from there. Have fun.

oh this sounds fun! of the books I've read from 2013-2016:

RED: Red Seas Under Red Skies and Scarlet and Red Rising and Rose Under Fire and Red Queen
WHITE: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America and White Fang
BLUE: Blue is the Warmest Color and Blue Lily, Lily Blue
BLACK: Black Dove, White Raven
PURPLE: The Color Purple
AMBER: Amber House
GRAY: Between Shades of Gray

Let's see.
Grey Shades of Grey Not 50, just Shades - the Jasper Fforde one.
Yellow The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories and The Lemon Table Gold could count as yellow, too, right? The Golden Gate
Green The Green Mile
Black Black House and Blackwood Farm and also Beyond Black
Orange Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Red Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Blue Nothing But Blue Skies

This is fun! I've read:

Black: Black: The Birth of Evil and My Heart and Other Black Holes and Wink Poppy Midnight (midnight is a type of black, right?)
Red: Red: The Heroic Rescue and Scarlet and Hotel Ruby and The Secret of Red Gate Farm and Red Queen and Where the Red Fern Grows
White: White: The Great Pursuit
Green: Green: The Beginning and the End
Blue: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Yellow: The Yellow Rose
Gold: Tucket's Gold
Lilac: The Mystery at Lilac Inn

A few options from the TBR piles - my crayons will be totally fancy :-) :-) :

Gold:The Golden Threshold
Emerald:Emerald City
Grey:The Harp of the Grey Rose
Blue:Blue Dog Love
White:Wolf in White Van
Yellow:The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
Crimson:The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories
Orange:The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases
Brown: The Brown Study
Black The Black Tower

Lenny wrote: "Let's see.
Gold could count as yellow, too, right? The Golden Gate"
Actually, go ahead and count Gold as its own color, the more colors, the prettier the picture. :-)

It seems I read a lot of red books :) lol

So do I haha I just have a feeling I'm missing some..

edit: added a bunch more I'd missed!

Mine:
Black- Black Beauty, Blackveil
Red- Where the Red Fern Grows, The Red Tent
Yellow- Half of a Yellow Sun
Green- Green Rider, Green Eggs and Ham
Blue- Island of the Blue Dolphins
Gray- Fifty Shades of Grey
Scarlet- The Scarlet Letter, Scarlett, A Study in Scarlet
Silver- The Silver Chair, The Silver Linings Playbook
Peach/ Orange- James and the Giant Peach
Purple- Purple Hibiscus, A Purple Snake and Other Poems
Rose/Pink- The Name of the Rose
White- The Ballad of the White Horse

From read, not other shelves

Black - Black Fire
Blue - Blue Twilight
Grey - Fifty Shades of Grey
White - White Shark
Brown - Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective

It sounded like fun until I went through the books I've read in the past year and discovered no colors! Oh, where are you John D. MacDonald when I need you! LOL

So far in 2017 (Updated 8-1-17):
Green, Olive: The Last Chance Olive Ranch
Black: Black Beans & Vice
White, Cream: Cream of the Crop
Gold: A Touch of Gold
Silver: Silver Zombie

Good idea to start over, Joseph!

2017:
Green-Jade: Throne of Jade