This is the first round of Round 2 of my 2010 quizzes. This round will last until May 18. There will be a possible 100 points a week for 11 weeks. Please don’t cheat by copying off other commenters (in this quiz it won’t help you). Your first answers will be the only ones accepted.
Ever play the board game Scattergories? This week’s game is a little like that. At the beginning of the year I joined the Colorful Reading Challenge and I need to read 9 books with 9 different colors in the titles. And I haven’t read any. So, the game is for you to list up to 10 titles (& authors is possible, but not required) with 10 different colors in the titles.
Like The Color Purple by Alice Walker could be one, but you couldn’t gave me another purple title.
Where does Scattergories come in? The title only counts if you are the only one who lists it. If there are repeats no one gets points.
So, you may come up with 10 titles and get 0 points or give me one title and get 10 points. Tricky, huh?
I’m looking forward to seeing what titles you come up with 🙂 Feel free to browse your own blogs or bestseller lists for ideas. You have until Thursday night to submit your answers.
Stacy's Books 
What a great idea! This gave me a chance to get reacquainted with some of the books I have on my shelves. 🙂 Enjoy your challenge!
1. White Cat – Holly Black
2. The Bluest Eyes – Toni Morrison
3. Blood Orange – Drusilla Campbell
4. The Golden Compass – Phillip Pullman
5. Green – Ted Dekker
6. Ash – Malinda Lo
7. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
8. Chocolat – Joanne Harris
9. American Rust – Phillip Meyer
10. Rose Hill – Pamela Grandstaff
1. The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
2. The Blue Notebook by James Levine
3. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
4. Red Dog Rising by Jeff Schettler
I’m glad I was early for this one!
The Scarlet Letter
Can I use Red and Scarlet (for example) as different colors?
YES 🙂
Dragonfly in Amber–Diana Gabaldon
The Red Heart–James Alexander Thom
Gold Coast–Elmore Leonard
Island of the Blue Dolphins–Scott O’Dell
Vermilion–Phyllis A. Whitney
White Horses–Alice Hoffman
Black Dogs–Ian McEwan
Green Darkness–Anya Seton
Silversword–Phyllis A. Whitney
Hope these are obscure enough!
Ummm, was I supposed to email this? Sorry if I goofed!
No. Leaving a comment is right. I’m keeping an eye on the ones coming in and hiding them until Thursday night. Great list 🙂
My Hands Came Away _Red_ by Lisa McKay
The _Yellow_-Lighted Bookshop
Seamus in the _Green_ Room by Susan Kandel
The _Blue_ Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible by Scot McKnight
_White_ Picket Fences by Susan Meissner
The Name of the _Rose_ by Umberto Eco
The Stream & the _Sapphire_: Selected Poems on Religious Themes by Denise Levertov
The _Amber_ Photograph by Penelope Stokes
The Book of _Peach_ by Penelope Stokes
Blue Latitudes – Horwitz
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Black Like Me – Griffith
Half a Yellow Sun – Adiche
The Scarlet Letter – Hawthorne
The Red Pony – Steinbeck
The Silver Swan – Benjamin Black
How Green Was My Valley – Llewellyn
OK, I’ll stop now… 😉
Red Sky at Morning, Bradford
Riders of the Purple Sage, Zane Grey
Green eggs and ham, Dr. Seuss
Blue Star, Tony Early
Under the Lilacs, Louisa May Alcott
White Fang, Jack London
Black Flower Howard Bahr
Turquoise, Anya Seton
The Golden Tulip, Rosalind Laker
The Yellow Star (the novel about the King of Denmark, WWII)
All or these I have either read, or they are on the TBR, except the last one, and it is one I’ve heard of and want to read (don’t know the author)
Neat exercise!
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (do I get bonus points for that?!)
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Gold by Dan Rhodes
Ice-cream War by William Boyd
Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley
Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Sound of Turquoise by Gill Gregory
Emerald Garden by Andrea Kane
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Violets Are Blue by James Patterson
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
The Purple Emperor by Herbie Brennan
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
The Scarlet Thread by Francine Rivers
Great quiz!
1. “Red Sox Rule: A Season In The Life of a Manager” – Michael Holley (sports)
2. “Hypocrite In A Pouffy White Dress” – Susan Jane Gilman (humor)
3. “Harold And The Purple Crayon” – Crockett Johnson (kid lit)
4. “The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother” – James McBride (memoir) – using Black in this selection, not White, which I already used above
5. “Blue Shoe” – Anne Lamott (christian fiction)
6. “The Copper Beech” – Maeve Binchy (irish fiction)
7. “Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe” – Fannie Flagg (southern fiction)
8. “A Clockwork Orange” – Anthony Burgess (sci-fi dystopia)
9. “Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective” – Donald Sobol (young adult)
10. “Half A Yellow Sun” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (historical fiction)
Ooops! I just screwed up by putting Fannie Flagg on my list when Heather had it on hers as well :0(
1. Careless in Red by Elizabeth George (although you really need to read these books in order. It’s an amazing series!)
2. The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne (one of my classic favorites)
3. The Crimson Petal & The White by Michael Faber (this has been in my TBR pile forever)
4. Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. Scarlett by Alexanra Ripley (OK sequel to GWTW)
6. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
7. The Travis McGee Mysteries by John MacDonald (count these as one)
The Deep Blue Good-by (1964)
Nightmare in Pink (1964)
A Purple Place for Dying (1964)
The Quick Red Fox (1964)
A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)
Bright Orange for the Shroud (1965)
Darker than Amber (1966)
One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966)
Pale Gray for Guilt (1968)
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (1968)
Dress Her in Indigo (1969)
The Long Lavender Look (1970)
A Tan and Sandy Silence (1971)
The Scarlet Ruse (1972)
The Turquoise Lament (1973)
The Dreadful Lemon Sky (1974)
The Empty Copper Sea (1978)
The Green Ripper (1979)
Free Fall in Crimson (1981)
Cinnamon Skin (1982)
The Lonely Silver Rain (1984)
8. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (I think this is the first one with Hannibal Lector)
9. The Devil in The White City by Eril Larson (Fantastic book. So his is other book, Thunderstruck).
10. A Study in Scarlet by A. Conan Doyle (This is an early, if not the first, novel with Sherlock Holmes)
I must like titles with shades of red in them as most of these titles fit that pattern :o)
Looking forward to seeing what you choose.
Can’t wait to see the titles as I am doing this challenge as well!
Woman in Red by Eileen Goudge
Lavender Morning by Jude Deveraux
The Deception of the Emerald Ring by Lauren Willig
Black Olives by Martha Tod Dudman
Dragon Fly In Amber by Diana Gabaldon
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Violet Dawn by Brandilynn Collins
The Jewel of Gresham Green Lawana Blackwell
The Seduction of The Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig
The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross
The Devil in the White City – Larson
The Man with the Red Tattoo – Benson
The Devil in Amber – Gatiss
Blue Like Jazz – Miller
A Black Tie Affair – Bodine
The Green Rider – Britain
The Black Moth- Georgette Hayer
Blue Diablo- Ann Aguirre
Ravishing In Red- Madeline Hutner
Harold And The Purple Crayon- Crockett Johnson
Lavender Morning- Jude Deveraux
Lessons From A Scarlet Lady- Emma Wildes
Midnight Bayou- Nora Roberts (if you consider midnight a color)
Black Rose- Nora Roberts (using Rose not Black since i used it already)
Vision in White- Nora Roberts
Five Golden Rings- Fern Michaels
Plum Lucky – Janet Evanovich
Red Light Wives – Mary Monroe
Black Coffee – Tracy Price
Wearing Purple – Lydia Lewis Alexander
A Heart so White – Javier Maras
Good as Gold – Joseph Heller
A Tan and Sandy Silence – John MacDonald
Princess in Pink – Meg Cabot
Rose Madder – Stephen King
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I’ll give it a shot.
1 and 2. The Crimson Petal and the White (counts as two???)
2. The Bluest Eye
3. Bitter is the New Black
4. Harold and the Purple Crayon
5. The Red Tent
6. Green Eggs and Ham
7. Mr. Brown Can Moo … Can You?
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray (just read a review of this!!)
Ok … very heavy on the children’s books but HEY!
Gathering Blue
fun!! this sounds hard, and of course I thought of The Color Purple as you were describing it…
How about:
Red Badge of Courage (Crane)
The Bluest Eye (Morrison)
White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon)-does that count as a color??
Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes (Salinger)
The Turquoise (Seyton)
Black Ship (Dunn)
Princess in Pink (Cabot)
Purple Hibiscus & Half a Yellow Sun (Adichie)
The Lady in White by Wilkie Collins
I thought of a couple more, not for the game but they are just very, very good.
They are both by Louis Bayard… The Pale Blue Eye and The Black Tower. They are mysteries with famous historical figures (Edgar Allen Poe as a young West Point cadet) and The Black Tower (Eugéne François Vidocq, French detective made famous in Les Misrerables…both the novel and musical).