How colorful is your library?

RED
Wielding a Red Sword by Piers Anthony

ORANGE
To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert Heinlein

YELLOW
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

GREEN
The Green Mile by Stephen King

BLUE
Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts

INDIGO
The Sapphire Rose by David Eddings

VIOLET
The Mulberry Tree by Jude Deveraux

BROWN
Some Edible Mushrooms and How to Know Them by Nina Lane Faubion

WHITE
White Death by Clive Cussler

BLACK
Black Feathers by Cecilia Tan

GREY
Suddenly Silver: Celebrating 25 Years of For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston

RED:
Red Scare on Sunset, by Charles Busch

PINK:
Pink Lemonade, by Maxwell Frederic Coplan

YELLOW:
The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers

ORANGE:
Love for Three Oranges

GREEN:
The Green Hat, by Michael Arlen

BLUE:
My Blue Notebooks. by Liane de Pougy

BROWN:
A Plain Brown Rapper, by Rita Mae Brown

BLACK:
Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead, by Thomas Boyle

WHITE:
White Tiger Black Warrior, by V. Hackman

SILVER:
Metalwork and Silver, by Joanna Wissinger

GRAY:
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

GOLD:
Letters in gold : Ottoman calligraphy from the Sakıp Sabancı collection, Istanbul, by Ugur Derman

LILAC:
Study in Lilac, by Maria-Antonia Oliver

MAUVE:
The Mauve Decade, by Thomas Beer

(Here's a three-in-0ne: Black and White and Red All Over, by Martha McNeil Hamilton.)

RED: Wine of Satan & The Blood Doctor

ORANGE: Fire

YELLOW: The Golden Bowl

GREEN: Garden of Eden

BLUE: Blue Dog Love & Blue Latitudes

BROWN: The Antelope Wife

WHITE: Spring Snow

BLACK: Black House

GREY: Holy Smoke & The Ash Garden

CLEAR: The Color of Water

Some combined colors:
BLACK & WHITE: The Habit & Black Thorn, White Rose

RED & BLACK: The Red and the Black

RAINBOW: Forbidden Colors & For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf

RED: The Bloody Red Baron
ORANGE: A Clockwork Orange
YELLOW: Sin City, Book 4: That Yellow Bastard
GREEN: The Green Hills of Earth
BLUE: Atom Bomb Blues
VIOLET: Through Violet Eyes
SILVER: The Silver Kiss
GOLD: The Golden Compass
PURPLE: The Color Purple
GRAY: Hulk: Gray
WHITE: The White Mountains
BLACK: Black Powder War
SCARLET: The Scarlet Empress
RAINBOW: The Rainbow Abyss
CLEAR: In The Clear Light

Red: Firebirds by Lloyd Alexander
Orange: Amber Diceless Role-Playing
Yellow: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
Green: Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
Blue: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Purple: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Pink: Think Pink by Lynn Peril
Brown: Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick
Black: Black Orchid by Neil Gaiman
White: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Grey: The Grey King by Susan Cooper

Oh I love goofy stuff like this.

Blue Dog
Green Iguana
The Lilac Bus
The Black Rifle
The Color Purple
Indigo Slam
Raptor Red
The Crimson Petal and the White = two for one
Coral Seas ok, so this is a stretch, but I have no Pink
Chocolate The Consuming Passion chocolate's a color, right??

Edited to add
Goldfinger
Silver Wedding

Hey - they were in MY box of crayolas.

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Pink: Rose Daughter
Red: Redwall, The Ruby in the Smoke, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Mars Plus
Orange: The Amber Spyglass

Yellow: Sunshine, Lioness Rampant, The Morning Star
Green: Accommodating Brocolli in the Cemetary
Blue: The Blue Sword, Many Waters

Violet: Plum Lovin'
Gold: The Golden Compass, Professional Goldsmithing
Clear: Crystal Line
Rainbow: The Last Slice of Rainbow

Black: A Night in the Lonesome October, Left Hand of Darkness
White: The Book of Night with Moon, Last Unicorn, Immortal Unicorn
Brown: Sorcery and Cecelia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
Iridescent: Girl with the Pearl Earring

This was actually a little difficult, because there are a lot of books that I associate with various colors (Deep Wizardry refers to the ocean, Deerskin has a white deerskin dress...), but the title doesn't actually include the color.

bluesalamender,

I don't think it had to include a color. The Antelope Wife was my brown title.

RED Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers
YELLOW The Yellow Room Conspiracy by Peter Dickinson
PURPLE Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie
BLUE The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
GREEN Prime Green by Robert Stone
BLACK Black Boy by Richard Wright
WHITE The White House Transcripts edited by Gerald Gold
SILVER The Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins
GOLD The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth

Red Red Heart of Jade by Marjorie Liu

Orange Firestorm by Rachel Caine

Yellow - Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Green - The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank by Erma Bombeck

Blue - Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

Brown - Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

Black - Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Grey - The Grey King by Susan Cooper

Gold - Golden by Carmen Dokey

Silver - The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause

Clear - Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

Red: The Marx-Engels Reader & The Lenin Anthology
Orange: The Amber Room by Steve Berry
Yellow: Champagne : How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times by Donald Kladstrup
Green: The Course of Irish History by T.W. Moody
Blue: The Blue and Brown Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Indigo: Night by Elie Wiesel
Violet: Vintage : the Story of Wine by Hugh Johnson
Pink: The Pink Triangle by Richard Plant
White: Caucasia by Danzy Senna
Black: In the Wake of the Plague : The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman Cantor
Brown: On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt
Grey: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Clear: Absolut Book : the Absolut Vodka Advertising Story
Gold: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
Silver: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Rainbow: Queer by William S. Burroughs
Infrared: Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds by Robert Silverstein
Ultraviolet: The Vampire Encyclopedia by Matthew Bunson

ExVivre, yours in my favorite for title-color connection. The brown and rainbow are awesome!

Oh drat! I haven't listed all of the Travis Mcgee novels yet. :-)

#11 Okay, NOT what I originally had in mind but giggle worthy. It works for me! I must resist the temptation to review my book titles for similar humor.

I didn't have many color words among my titles, so I improvised. Glad you enjoyed it! :)

Edited to add: Give in, morphidae!

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Red: Red Mars
Orange: My Life in Orange
Peach: Each Peach Pear Plum
Yellow: The Children of Primrose Lane
Green: The Land of Green Ginger
Blue: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Purple: The Color Purple
Pink: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
White: White Teeth
Black: Black Diamond
Brown: Mr Brown can Moo, can you?
Grey: The Grey King
Silver: Silver on the Tree
Gold: Poseidon's Gold
Copper: Venus in Copper
Bronze: Shadows in Bronze
Ultraviolet: Ultraviolet
Octarine: The Colour of Magic

Red: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Orange: Firewing by Kenneth Oppel
Yellow: The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock
Blue: The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
Indigo: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman et al.
Brown: The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
White: White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Black: The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
Grey: Streams of Silver by R.A. Salvatore
Bronze: The Odyssey by Homer
Pink: Rose by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess
Rainbow: Girl Goddess #9 by Francesca Lia Block

I'm missing a couple, but oh well.

Always the BLACK Knight by Lee Hoffman

Five RED Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers

WHITE Knights, Dark Earls: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Irish Dynasty by Bill Power

Funeral in BLUE by Anne Perry

GRAY Ghosts and Rebel Raiders by Virgil Carrington Jones

The GREEN Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein

GOLD the Man by Joseph L. Green

The SILVER Stallion: A Comedy of Redemption by James Branch Cabell

Nine Princes in AMBER by Roger Zelazny

The 9 Holes of JADE: The Biography of a Hong Kong Call Girl by Su-Ling

The SCARLET Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tom BROWN's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes

Curtains for the CARDINAL by Elizabeth Eyre

E. P. Alexander and the Artillery Action in the PEACH Orchard by R. L. Murray

The CREAM of the Jest by James Branch Cabell

RED:
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

YELLOW:
One Fearful Yellow Eye by John D. MacDonald

ORANGE:
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

GREEN:
The Search for the Green River Killer by Carlton Smith

BLUE:
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins

BROWN:
What's it All ABout, Charlie Brown? by Charles M. Schulz

BLACK:
The Black Sheep by Honore de Balzac

WHITE:
White Crosses by Larry Watson

GOLD:
Good as Gold by Joseph Heller

PURPLE:
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

8 bookishbunny

No, of course not, but Deep Wizardry presumably doesn't say "blue" to anyone who hasn't read it. What I was talking about was the difference between that - which says blue to me because I know a good portion of it takes place in or near the water - and, say, Immortal Unicorn, which says "white" to me because unicorns are supposedly white (in most of what I've read, anyway). I assumed that this is about the title, not the story.

I could write a whole different rainbow for stories that remind me of certain colors, which wouldn't necessarily make sense to anyone but me.

I, too, would see 'unicorn' as white. I see what you mean about associating colors to phrases (or title in this case). Not knowing anything about the book Deep Wizardry brings purple to my mind. The word 'deep' always sounds 'purple' to me and I think of wizards in those long velvety purple robes with moons and stars on them. I also see that titles with 'fire' in them are placed in orange by some and red by others. The whole thing is just fascinating.

It might, in fact, be interesting to do another round of this that is just "a book you associate with each color" and possibly a little bit about why, as opposed to titles.

I like that idea, bluesalamanders. If you start it, I will post.

Assuming that idea will be started in a separate post, I'll go back to the "original" plan with:

The Crimson Serpent by Kenneth Robeson

Shadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis

Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosely

Yellow dog by Martin Amis

The Blue Hammer by Ross MacDonald

The Black Death by Philip Ziegler

Greenmantle by John Buchan

A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Purple America by Rick Moody

Recollections of the Golden Triangle by Alain Robbe-Grillet

And I, too, managed to avoid using my Travis McGee books!

Ok, well, I tried twice to post the new topic - once a couple of hours ago and once a couple of minutes ago - and it's just not there. So, I don't know if LT is having issues right now or what, but just so you all know I tried!

edit - ok, apparently it exists, but for some reason is just not showing up. this is very strange.

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BLACK: The black arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
WHITE: The crimson petal and the white by Michel Faber
RED: The crimson circle by Edgar Wallace
BLUE: Bluegate Fields by Anne Perry
GREEN: Green Tea and other ghost stories by J.Sheridan LeFanu
YELLOW: The yellow claw by Sax Rohmer
BROWN: Brown girl, brownstones by Paule Marshall
ORANGE: The great fire of London by Peter Ackroyd
VIOLET: The Mulberry Empire by Philip Hensher
GOLD: Cup of gold by John Steinbeck
SILVER: The clue of the silver key by Edgar Wallace
RAINBOW: Bird of Paradise by Jean Devanny

#24
And I, too, managed to avoid using my Travis McGee books!

But you had to pass up Pink, Amber, Gray, Lavender, Tan, Indigo, Scarlet, Turquoise, Lemon, Copper, Cinnamon & Silver. :-) I have the McGees plus all of his other books, and am putting off listing them. Daunting task.

#25 - all new posts seem to be invisible right now, but can be navigated to via direct URL... (I've emailed Tim.)

One I started last night - numbers - is here.

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen
Yellow Back Radio Broke Down by Ishmael Reed
No One Thinks of Greenland by John Griesemer
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Pocket Book of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
Black American Short Stories
Golden & Grey by Louise Arnold
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories (and Other Disasters) by Jean Shepherd
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

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GOLD:
The Golden Compass
BLACK:
Black like me
BLUE:
Black and Blue
CLEAR:
The Glass Castle
AMBER:
The Amber Spyglass

RED: The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
ORANGE: Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson)
YELLOW: The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
GREEN: Anne of Green Gables: Three Volumes in One (L.M. Montgomery)
BLUE: Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O'Dell)
VIOLET: Violet Eyes (Nicole Luiken)
BLACK: The Black Jewels Trilogy (Anne Bishop)
WHITE: White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
GRAY: The Grey King (Susan Cooper)

The RED Pony by John Steinbeck
The ORANGE Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
The GOLDEN Key by George MacDonald
Sir Gawain and the GREEN Knight ed. by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Children's BLUE Bird (novelization) by Georgette Leblanc
ROSE o' the River by Kate Douglas Wiggin
BROWNies by Palmer Cox
The WHITE Company by Arthur Conan Doyle
BLACK Falcon by Armstrong Sperry
GRAY Horses by Hope Larson
The Castle in the SILVER Wood by Ruth Bryan Owen
At the Foot of the RAINBOW by Gene Stratton-Porter

Now, where's the thread with photos of LT libraries organized chromatically? :)

I limited my library to just books (sorting out the magazines and movies):

The SCARLET Letter by Hawthorne
The GRAPES of Wrath by Steinbeck
The SILVER Chalice, a novel by Costain
Mrs. Pollifax and the GOLDEN triangle by Gilman
BLACK Beauty by Sewell
Thirty Years in the GOLDEN North by Welzl
David COPPERfield by Dickens
The SCARLET Pimpernel by Orczy
A book of GOLDEN deeds of all times and all lands by Yonge
Never the WHITE Rose by Voss
BLUE Unicorn (serial)
The Gold-bug and other tales

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