Hello! Welcome to another edition of Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl)! Today we’re talking about colors. The official topic is “Book Titles That Sound Like They Could Be Crayola Crayon Colors,” but that’s a topic better suited to my daughter, who’s an artist. So I decided to switch it up a bit and talk about those books in my TBR with colors already in the title. I did a Top Ten Tuesday before about Books with Colors in the Title, but those were books I had already read. These are books on my TBR. I’m looking to see the colors you’ve chosen though.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I found it very interesting to go through my TBR. There are some books I’ve forgotten about. I figure as long as my TBR is shorter than the “Books Read” list, I’m good. Anyway, here are my colorful choices this week.
Lost Book of the White – Cassandra Clare. While I’ve been dying to read Chain of Thorns since I finished Chain of Iron, this series of Shadowhunter books is not one I’m rushing out to read. I’m sure I’ll get to this at some point, but for now, this one remains on my TBR.
Scarlet – Marissa Meyer. I bought the entire Lunar Chronicles set on sale several years ago for Black Friday, but It wasn’t until recently that I finally got around to reading Cinder, the first book in the series. Next up: Scarlet, which is another colorful title.
A Court of Silver Flames – Sarah J. Maas. I still haven’t read A Court of Frost and Starlight yet, but the last book in the series, A Court of Silver Flames, fits today’s colorful theme. Seeing all these books makes me wish I could read faster! Alas, I seem to be reading slower at the moment. I’m trying not to sweat it. Especially because summer is just around the corner and I’ll have more time to read. But seeing all these books on my TBR makes me want to read them!
Crimson Reign – Amelie Wen Zhao. I recently finished reading Red Tigress (another colorful title). This will be the final book in the series. I think I’ll have to read the other two books before I read this one though. The series is a little complex.
Black Tudors: The Untold Story – Miranda Kaufmann. Hundreds of years ago, people didn’t look at race the same as they do now. Black Tudors tells the story of black people during the Tudor era. I’ve forgotten about this book, which has been lingering on my TBR for a while, but it sounds really interesting.
Onyx – Jennifer L. Armentrout. This is the second book in the Lux series. I read the first book and really liked it, but I haven’t had the chance to continue the series.
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan – Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard. This sounds like an interesting story about a black guy who ended up in Japan and became a samurai. And it has the color black in the title.
Elissa Blue – T.K. Perry. I’m not sure how this ended up on my TBR, but I found it as I was going through my TBR and it looked interesting. And it has a colorful title.
Black Death at the Golden Gate – David K. Randall. In 1900, the Bubonic Plague entered the United States. This could have ended badly, but fortunately, it didn’t. This looks like an interesting book though.
Splinters of Scarlet – Emily Bain Murphy. This is another book that I didn’t remember putting on my TBR, but it would fit with my Read Around the World Challenge for Denmark. Historical Denmark, at least. Plus it has the color scarlet in the title.
So there’s Ten Books from my TBR with colors in the title. It was nice getting the opportunity to showcase some books that I don’t talk about repeatedly.
Were you able to come up with books that sound like Crayola crayon colors? I’d like to see what you came up with. Next week is another colorful week, as we look at books with colorful covers. That one I should be able to do without tweaking.
