Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Purple in the Title

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Purple is my favourite colour, so all of the books on today’s list will feature the word purple or a synonym of it.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker book cover. Image on cover is of a drawing of two african american women. Their lips are drawn but not their eyes , noses or eyebrows

1. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1) by Crockett Johnson book cover. image on cover is drawing of toddler drawing with a purple crayon on a black wall.

2. Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1) by Crockett Johnson

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book cover. Image on cover is abstract red and brown painting.

3. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Prince- Purple Reign by Mick Wall book cover. Image on cover is of Prince playing a guitar and singing.

4. Prince: Purple Reign by Mick Wall

The Lavender Screen- The Gay and Lesbian Films--Their Stars, Makers, Characters, and Critics by Boze Hadleigh book cover. Image on cover is of two queer women cuddling up and looking at the viewer

5. The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films–Their Stars, Makers, Characters, and Critics
by Boze Hadleigh

The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton- A True Story of Conjoined Twins by Dean Jensen book cover. Image on cover is of Daisy and Violet playing instruments on a stage.

6. The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined Twins  by Dean Jensen

The Green and Purple Skin of the World by Paulo da Costa book cover. image on cover is of a clear glass container filled with a murky liquid.

7. The Green and Purple Skin of the World  by Paulo da Costa

When the Plums Are Ripe by Patrice Nganang book cover. image on cover is a black-and-white photo of people walking on a dusty road

8. When the Plums Are Ripe by Patrice Nganang

The Sugarless Plum- A Ballerina's Triumph Over Diabetes by Zippora Karz book cover. Image on cover is of a ballerina dancing.

9. The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina’s Triumph Over Diabetes by Zippora Karz

Purple Dandelion- A Muslim Woman's Struggle Against Violence and Oppression by Farida Sultana book cover. Image on cover is of a photo of the author's face.

10. Purple Dandelion: A Muslim Woman’s Struggle Against Violence and Oppression  by Farida Sultana

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  1. I can’t believe I left Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and either Purple Hibiscus or Half a Yellow Sun off my list today!

  2. Purple’s my favorite color too! Great list 🙂

    Here’s my Top Ten Tuesday post.

  3. Purple! Deep rich color. Beautiful list.

  4. Who knew that there were so many book titles with the colour purple or one of its shades in them?! Purple is my favourite colour! 😊

    Here’s my TTT post for this week: https://thebookwormchronicles.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/top-ten-tuesday-colourful-book-titles/ 🙂

  5. I remember Harold and the Purple Crayon from my childhood. Quite nostalgic.

  6. Purple!!!!!!! Purple is not my favorite color but it might be my favorite color in book titles and book covers!!!!!

    Here is my TTT: https://ichlese.blog/2020/08/04/top-ten-tuesday-horror-books-with-colors-in-their-title/.

  7. Fun take on this one. I have to day, Harold and the Purple Crayon is one of my all time favorite books! 😀

  8. Poinsettia

    Harold and the Purple Crayon is so cute!

  9. Aw, love this take on today’s prompt, Lydia 🙂 I love the colour purple as well (half of the walls in my room are pastel purple) so I’m totally with you there! I’ve only know of two of the books on your list though. I love that new The Color Purple cover! It’s beautiful 😍

  10. Love your twist this week! I just finished reading The Color Purple for a readathon. I was about 25% in when I realized I’d read it already–just pre-Goodreads. But I kept reading because it’s always worth a reread. 🙂

  11. I had no idea there were so many books featuring shades of purple in their title. As a fan of cinema history, The Lavender Screen sound really interesting!

  12. Great list! The Color Purple and Purple Hibiscus are both on my TBR, and I love the sound of The Lavender Screen.

  13. That’s a lot of purple in book titles! 🙂 The Purple Crayon was always a favorite when I was young. This brings back memories.

  14. Purple is my favourite colour too! Great list!

  15. Great list of purple books – didn’t realize there were so many.

  16. Wow, all purple books! “The Color Purple” is def high on my TBR!

  17. I really want to read The Color Purple too. The non-fiction/memoir books on your list sound amazing too.

  18. As soon as I saw you liked purple I knew Harold and the Purple Crayon would be on the list. You have some greta titles!

  19. I love the colour purple as well, what a great idea to do a full chain with your favourite colour. Oh, I and I used to love Prince, but I haven’t read Purple Reign.

  20. I already struggled with using every colour haha!

    My post!

  21. The Sugarless Plum sounds really interesting!

  22. Great list! 😀 Before reading it, I’m not sure I could come up with one ‘purple ‘book!!

  23. WOW! I love the fact that you’ve mentioned 10 books with the color purple or a synonym in the title! That must have been so difficult!

  24. Great list! I love how you focused on one colour. There are so many books on here I’ve never heard of before that I’ve been intriguied by:)

  25. Nice list! I didn’t realize there were so many books with purple in the title, but you’ve compiled a great list.

  26. Jo

    Purple is my favourite colour too, though I’ve not read any books with it in the title!
    My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/top-ten-tuesday-275/

  27. Fantastic list! And other than The Color Purple and Harold & the Purple Crayon, I don’t think I’ve come across many “purple” books before.

  28. I am impressed you found so many “purple” titles, and from such a wide variety of genres!

  29. You picked my favorite color! Awesome list.

  30. I love that you chose one color and went with it. And purple is a difficult one, too. Not very common. Nice choices!

  31. Aaaaaaaaah thank you! Purple books at last – I think I’ll add Purple Hibiscus to my plans, I really enjoyed (if that’s the right word) Half of a Yellow Sun.

  32. Ahh! I love that you picked a single color! All of these beautiful purple hued books are so lovely together. What a cool take on this prompt!

  33. Nice work. Now I have the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” in my brain 🙂

  34. Ooh, I’m tempted by The Lavender Screen… good list! 😀

  35. Purple is my favorite color too. How clever to feature books with this color or its variation.

  36. I adore Harold and the Purple Crayon. I almost used that one, too.

  37. Harold and the Purple Crayon – a classic!

  38. Yay we both had Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on our lists. Great job finding ten “purple” titles for your list.

  39. I love, LOVE this post because purple is my favorite color too!!! Harold and the Purple Crayon is on my sons bookshelf. 🙂

  40. Purple is awesome. 🙂 Yay Purple Reign!

  41. I haven’t read most of these, but I loved Purple Hibiscus. I still haven’t gotten around to reading The Color Purple, though I have listened to the musical soundtrack. I want to actually read the book someday though1

  42. Wow, I’m impressed you were able to come up with so many purple titles! THE COLOR PURPLE is the only one I’ve read off your list. The conjoined twins one sounds really intriguing. I’m definitely going to take a closer look at it.

    Happy TTT!

    Susan
    http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

  43. I love that you chose all purple titles, I don’t think I would have been able to come up with ten!

  44. Clever to choose all shades of one color – I don’t think I’ve read that many with the same color in the titles. 🙂 Thanks for the visit to my site!

  45. Wow I thought there were a lot of blue and red in titles! Had no idea there were so many purples! Great list and thanks for visiting my TTT!

  46. Purple is also my favorite color, so I love this! I never realized there were so many books with “purple” (or variations of the color) in the title. I’ve not ever read any of these, except for Harold and the Purple Crayon, and that was too long ago to remember.

  47. I saw the movie of The Colour Purple, it’s so sad.

  48. What a great take on this week’s topic! 🙂 I never realised how many books there are with the colour purple in the title – I haven’t read any of these but several of them are on my TBR!

  49. verushka

    Yours is the first “purple” list i’ve seen for this TTT — and Can I just say how cute Harold and the Purple Crayon is!

  50. Wow, so many “purple” books, can’t believe there are so many. I have only read the first and the second (with my kids when they were little, of course). I really enjoyed this.

    Thanks for visiting my TTT earlier.

  51. Loved what you did here! It’s cold and rainy here with us – I have Purple Rain stuck in my head now….

    Thanks for stopping by my blog, much appreciated.

  52. So many purple-ish books, what a great list!

  53. Nice idea to choose just one colour. I didn’t realize there are so many books with purple in the title! My favourite colour is yellow, but I also like purple 😊

  54. A great list of purple titles!

  55. Purple is my favourite colour too! Lovely list! 💜

  56. So fun that you made it a bit harder by choosing one color! I probably couldn’t have gotten ten titles if picking from my shelf, but it would have been a cool challenge. 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland.

  57. Purple is my favorite color too so I’m loving this list! I’ve never seen that cover for The Color Purple before. Very cool.

  58. That is a wonderful way to show the colors plum and purple. And the covers do look wonderful too. Thank you for sharing them.

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