2016 Color Coded Reading Challenge

Link to challenge announcement/sign-up post

Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2016
Hosted by: Bev @ My Reader's Block

Guidelines:

• Read nine books in the following categories:

1. A book with "Blue" or any shade of Blue (Turquoise, Aquamarine, Navy, etc) in the title/on the cover.
2. A book with "Red" or any shade of Red (Scarlet, Crimson, Burgandy, etc) in the title/on the cover.
3. A book with "Yellow" or any shade of Yellow (Gold, Lemon, Maize, etc.) in the title/on the cover.
4. A book with "Green" or any shade of Green (Emerald, Lime, Jade, etc) in the title/on the cover.
5. A book with "Brown" or any shade of Brown (Tan, Chocolate, Beige, etc) in the title/on the cover.
6. A book with "Black" or any shade of Black (Jet, Ebony, Charcoal, etc) in the title/on the cover.
7. A book with "White" or any shade of White (Ivory, Eggshell, Cream, etc) in the title/on the cover.
8. A book with any other color in the title/on the cover (Purple, Orange, Silver, Pink, Magenta, etc.).
9. A book with a word that implies color (Rainbow, Polka-dot, Plaid, Paisley, Stripe, etc.).

• Any book read from January 1 through December 31, 2016 will count.
• Crossovers with other challenges are OK.
• A blog isn't necessary, and reviews are not required.

● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See my wrap-up post HERE.  
● See the challenge announcement/sign-up post HERE.
● See the challenge Headquarters page HERE.


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POSSIBLE CHOICES:

1. Blue, etc:

• A Beautiful Blue Death. Charles Finch 
• The Blue Fairy Book. Andrew Lang 
• The Blue Flower. Penelope Fitzgerald 
• The Blue Hammer. Ross Macdonald 
• Blue Labyrinth. Preston & Child 
• The Deep Blue Good-by. John D. MacDonald 
• Dream When You're Feeling Blue. Elizabeth Berg 
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Susan Vreeland 
• The Pale Blue Eye. Louis Bayard 
• The Turquoise Mask. Phyllis A. Whitney 

2. Red, etc:

• Crimson Shore. Preston & Child 
• Death of a Red Heroine. Qui Xiaolong 
• Five Red Herrings. Dorothy L. Sayers
• Red Harvest. Dashiell Hammett
• A Red Herring Without Mustard. Alan Bradley
• The Red Lamp. Mary Roberts Rinehart 
• Rose Cottage. Mary Stewart 
• Vanish with the Rose. Barbara Michaels 
• A Wreath of Roses. Elizabeth Taylor 

3. Yellow, etc:

• BUtterfield 8. John O'Hara
• The Canary Murder Case. S.S. Van Dine
• Crome Yellow. Aldous Huxley 
• The Gold Bug Variations. Richard Powers 
• The Golden Bowl. Henry James 
• The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Gaston Leroux 
• The Realms of Gold. Margaret Drabble 
• The Yellow Room. Mary Roberts Rinehart

4. Green, etc:

• Anne of Green Gables. Lucy M. Montgomery
• The Children of Green Knowe. L. M. Boston 
• The Dud Avocado. Elaine Dundy 
• Emerald. Phyllis A. Whitney 
• The Greene Murder Case. S.S. VanDine 
• Green for Danger. Christianna Brand
• The Greengage Summer. Rumer Godden 
• The Green Hat. Michael Arlen 
• The Green Knight. Iris Murdoch
• Olive Kitteridge. Elizabeth Strout 
• Thrush Green. "Miss Read"

5. Brown, etc:

• The Bronze Pen. Zilpha Keatley Snyder 
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Roald Dahl
• Chocolat. Joanne Harris
• The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper. John D. MacDonald 
• The Poisoned Chocolates Case. Anthony Berkeley 
• Portrait in Sepia. Isabel Allende 
• A Tan and Sandy Silence. John D. MacDonald

6. Black, etc:

• Bellman and Black. Diane Setterfield 
• Black December. Scott Hunter
• Black Dog. Stephen Booth 
• Black Light. Elizabeth Hand 
• Black Money. Ross Macdonald
• The Black Prince. Iris Murdoch
• Black Water. Joyce Carol Oates
• Blackwork. Monica Ferris 
• The Ebony Swan. Phyllis A. Whitney 
• The Master of Blacktower. Barbara Michaels 
• Raven Black. Anne Cleeves

7. White, etc:

• Bone White. Ronald Malfi
• Death in a White Tie. Ngaio Marsh 
• The Ivory Grin. Ross Macdonald 
• The Ivory Tower. Henry James 
• White Nights. Ann Cleeves 
• The Window at the White Cat. Mary Roberts Rinehart

8. Other Color:

• The Amber Room. Steve Berry 
• Black Amber. Phyllis A. Whitney 
• By the Shores of Silver Lake. Laura Ingalls Wilder 
• The Cranefly Orchid Murder. Cynthia Riggs 
• The Ghost Orchid. Carol Goodman 
• Greygallows. Barbara Michaels 
• Grey Mask. Patricia Wentworth 
• James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dahl 
• Miss Silver Comes to Stay. Patricia Wentworth 
• Miss Silver Deals With Death. Patricia Wentworth 
• Nightmare in Pink. John D. MacDonald 
• Prater Violet. Christopher Isherwood 
• A Purple Place for Dying. John D. MacDonald 
• Silver on the Tree. Susan Cooper
• The Violets of March. Sarah Jio 

9. Implied Color:

• All the Colors of Darkness. Lloyd Biggle, Jr. 
• All the Colors of Darkness. Peter Robinson 
• Ancient Light. John Banville 
• Black Rainbow. Barbara Michaels 
• The Color of Light. Karen White 
• Colour Scheme. Ngaio Marsh 
• The Dark on the Other Side. Barbara Michaels 
• The Dark Place. Aaron Elkins 
• Darkwater. Dorothy Eden 
• House of Many Shadows. Barbara Michaels 
• Into the Darkness. Barbara Michaels 
• The Land of Painted Caves. Jean M. Auel 
• Light Years. Elizabeth Jane Howard 
• Murder in Primary Colors. Nora Barker 
• The Painted Kiss. Elizabeth Hickey
• The Painted Veil. W. Somerset Maugham
• The Painted Word. Tom Wolfe 
• Pale Fire. Vladimir Nabokov
• The Pale Horse. Agatha Christie 
• Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Katherine Anne Porter 
• Search the Shadows. Barbara Michaels 
• Shadow Tag. Louise Erdrich 
• Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd. Alan Bradley
• The Walker in the Shadows. Barbara Michaels 
• The Zebra-Striped Hearse. Ross Macdonald