Top Ten Tuesday: April Showers

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Here are ten books with rainy titles.

Book cover for The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. Image on cover shows the side profile of the head and snout of a yellow Labrador retriever.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

 

Book cover for Rain Is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith. Image on cover shows a young native woman taking a photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Rain Is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith

 

Book cover for Rain Before Rainbows by Smriti Prasadam-Halls. Image on cover is a cute drawling of a young girl sitting next to a red fox in the forest while they both look up at a rainbow that is beaming down at them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Rain Before Rainbows by Smriti Prasadam-Halls

 

Book cover for Madras on Rainy Days by Samina Ali. Image on cover shows a blue butterfly and a yellow butterfly flying past falling autumn leaves outdoors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Madras on Rainy Days by Samina Ali

 

Book cover for Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway. Image on cover shows Monique smiling. She’s wearing a blue dress that reveals her shoulders and a colourful head wrap.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway

 

Book cover for Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression by Brooke Shields. Image on cover shows Brooke Shields face from the side. She’s looking down with a solemn expression on her face.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression by Brooke Shields

 

 

Book cover for Raining Sardines by Enrique Flores-Galbis. Image on cover shows an alligator or crocodile lying motionless in a body of water beside some tall green grass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. Raining Sardines by Enrique Flores-Galbis

 

Book cover for The Thing That Walked In the Rain by Otis Adelbert Kline. Image on cover shows a dark and gloomy scene where it is raining heavily and there isn’t enough light to see much else other than the vague outline of a building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. The Thing That Walked In the Rain by Otis Adelbert Kline

 

Book cover for Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest by Mark J. Plotkin. Image on cover shows a white man wearing an all white outfit crouching next to a South American Native person who is talking to him about, presumably, medicinal plants in the rainforest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9. Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest by Mark J. Plotkin

 

Book cover for Zonia's Rain Forest by Juana Martinez-Neal. Image on cover shows a drawing of an adorable South American preschooler who has long, straight black hair and is looking at a blue butterfly with curiosity in her eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10. Zonia’s Rain Forest by Juana Martinez-Neal

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64 Responses to Top Ten Tuesday: April Showers

  1. Nice list, I remember The Art of Racing in the Rain. I think I still have it on my shelves.

  2. I don’t think I ever finished The Art of Racing in the Rain. I just put Monique and the Mango Rains on my TBR, it looks really interesting!
    Here is my TTT: https://thissideofstoryland.blogspot.com/2026/04/top-ten-tuesday-blue-book-covers.html

  3. Athena @ OneReadingNurse

    Way to find ten rainy titles!

  4. Wow, you found some good books! The Art of Racing in the Rain is both wonderful and heartbreaking:-)

  5. Nice choices! The children’s books look great!

  6. I need to use the ‘rain’ title next time we have this prompt too! I feel like it would be “easy,” but usually when I think that, I find those lists hardest to put together. 😉 Thanks for sharing your list and for visiting mine today!

  7. Very interesting choices–esp Rain is Not My Indian Name. I also added Madras on Rainy Days to my TBR–thanks for introducing me to this book!

  8. Poinsettia

    Nice variety of titles! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!

  9. Great list! I love the variety of books you picked this week.

  10. Some cute looking books there.

    Have a great week!

  11. Love that you went with rain in the title. Great list.

  12. “The Art of Racing in the Rain” has been on my TBR for so long that it is like seeing an old friend whenever I see it listed. I want to reminisce with it about all the times I was going to read the book and then “The Art…” can tell me about all the wonderful people that have already read it.

    I’m not going to make any false claims, today, as to reading this asap – I’m not ready to give up my TBR BFF.

  13. Rain Before Rainbows is a pretty title AND a pretty cover 🙂

  14. I added Monique and the Mango Rains to my TBR list.

  15. Great collection of titles. The only one I’m familiar with is The Art of Racing in the Rain. Thanks for visiting my blog earlier.

  16. Ah, good take on the theme! I wonder if I’d have had more luck looking for rain in titles than I did looking for it in book cover designs…

  17. Wow great diversity here! Love the specific theme you picked too

  18. I never thought there were so many titles with rain somewhere. Some of these look very inviting to read.

  19. I loved The Art of Racing in the Rain!

  20. Nice list! I haven’t read any of these.

  21. I don’t know why it says Love always, Yvonne. Can you take that out and just have Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews? Thank you.

  22. You found several unique titles this week!

  23. Great list. I’ve heard a lot of wonderful things about The Art of Racing in the Rain, but I haven’t read it yet. I need to put that one on my list. Happy Wednesday!

  24. You found a nice variety of “rain” books! I love the rain, so it’s not surprising that I also love rain-inspired book covers 🙂

    Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

    Susan
    http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

  25. A story set in the rain makes me think instantly of a dashing of hopes but also the aftermath of rain when things look bright again.

  26. Eva @ Novel Deelights

    Oh, you did great!

  27. Nice list, Lydia. Rain is Not My Indian Name immediately drew my eye. I have tried to read more books written about and by indigenous people.

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