Top Ten Tuesday: Conversation Hearts on Book Covers

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conversation heart candies. The messages printed on them include kiss, you rock, xoxo, hey babe, and a drawing of a pair of lips pursed up to kiss someone.As I mentioned on last year’s Valentine’s Day freebie post, I don’t actually celebrate this holiday.

I do, however, love conversation hearts, so this year’s freebie post will be all about covers that feature those delicious little candies.

If you’ve never eaten a conversation heart, they’re hard, sweet, and a little chalky. You can generally only buy them during the few weeks before Valentine’s Day.

Each one has a short, romantic message printed on it. They might say “love you,” or be mine,” or some other phrase like that.

It was interesting to me to see how many similarities there were on the covers in this list. Only a few of them broke the mould, and I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a mould for books with conversation hearts on their covers.

At the Drive-In Volcano by Aimee Nezhukumatathil book cover. Image on cover shows a broken conversation heart on a highway. The title is written in the heart.

1. At the Drive-In Volcano by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Life is More Than Candy Hearts by Lisa Bilbrey book cover. Image on cover shows candy hearts lying on a white table. Two of them are large and red.

2. Life is More Than Candy Hearts by Lisa Bilbrey

Five Little Candy Hearts by William Boniface book cover. Image on cover shows candy hearts on white platters as cartoon people stand around them.

3. Five Little Candy Hearts by William Boniface

True Love by Whitney Gaskell book cover. Image on cover shows three candy hearts, one of which is broken.

4. True Love by Whitney Gaskell

Will Shortz Presents I Love You, Sudoku!- 200 Sweet to Sinister Puzzles  by Will Shortz book cover. Image on cover is of dozens of candy hearts sitting on a red surface.

5.Will Shortz Presents I Love You, Sudoku!: 200 Sweet to Sinister Puzzles  by Will Shortz

The Hell with Love- Poems to Mend a Broken Heart by Mary D. Esselman book cover. Image on the cover shows four conversation hearts. Each one has one word of the title printed on it.

6. The Hell with Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart by Mary D. Esselman

Romantically Challenged by Beth Orsoff book cover. Image on cover shows stack of six conversation hearts. The seventh is facing the viewer and says "try again."

7. Romantically Challenged by Beth Orsoff

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan book cover. Image on cover shows three conversation hearts. Each heart has one word of the title printed on it.

8. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

Thwonk by Joan Bauer book cover. Image on cover shows pink coversation heart with the word thwonk written on it.

9. Thwonk by Joan Bauer

The Heartbreak Messenger by Alexander Vance book cover. Image on cover shows conversation hearts with arrows in them. An unbroken heart is standing next to them shrugging its shoulders

10. The Heartbreak Messenger by Alexander Vance

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129 Responses to Top Ten Tuesday: Conversation Hearts on Book Covers

  1. Great twist on this week’s topic! I think Boy Meets Boy is the only cover I’ve seen before.

  2. Who knew there were so many books with candy hearts on the cover?

  3. Oh your hitting my sweet tooth. I love those little candies.

  4. Love this! I had no idea there were so many covers with candy hearts.

  5. A fun twist, as usual! I really need to get around to reading Boy Meets Boy, it’s been on my TBR for years now!

  6. Funny how many covers use those candy hearts! I’ve never noticed that before.

  7. How are there so many books with these on the cover!! Lots are them trying to be edgy with it too

  8. I didn’t know there were so many books with conversation hearts on the cover! How did you find them all. Have you read them?

  9. I did not know there were so many covers with conversation hearts on them. Such a fun list!

  10. Such a fun topic, I had no idea there were so many covers with candy hearts on the cover.

  11. yum now i want some conversation hearts haha!

  12. I had no idea this many books had candy hearts on the covers! I think I’ve only ever seen Boy Meets Boy with them before, but I’ll definitely be checking some of these out. Great twist on the topic!

  13. Great idea for this week’s topic. Here is my post-https://paigesofbook.blogspot.com/2021/02/top-ten-tuesday-favorite-couples.html.

  14. Aww, I’ve never had a conversation heart before! But I guess as Lisa Bilbrey says, Life is More Than Candy Hearts (choking hazard warning duly noted), haha. Lovely TTT

  15. Oh, how fun! I love candy hearts so much! I like all the book covers — so clever.

  16. Ooh this is fun. I love #4. 7 is great too though. 🙂

  17. Mira

    Amazing idea♥️

  18. I actually don’t celebrate it either! These are so fun!

  19. Louise @ Foxes and Fairy Tales

    We called them LoveHearts. Great idea for this week! 😊

  20. I didn’t know so many books featured conversation hearts! Great post 🙂

  21. Fun post! I never knew there were so many books with conversation hearts on the cover! Valentine’s Day is definitely not my favorite holiday either, but I hope you have a wonderful day anyway!🥰

  22. Well done for finding all those covers! Our UK versions are slightly different and called Love Hearts, but they have some really random sayings on these days!

  23. These all look so nice and cute! And now I’m craving candy hearts 🙂

  24. Wow. I can’t believe you found so many books with some version of candy hearts on the cover. I haven’t eaten candy hearts for years but I think by-n-large they are ghastly. Ha! Thanks for visiting and checking out my titles that fit on a conversation heart candies!

  25. These are some cute covers. It’s not Valentine’s Day without these conversation hearts.

  26. Great idea! I never realized so many books had candy hearts on the cover.

  27. This post is so adorable! And has me wanting conversation hearts!

  28. I absolutely love this topic! I love conversation hearts as well. My mom, sister and I bought them every year around this time and would eat them together talking about what each of our conversation hearts would say as we ate them. Great TTT!

  29. I didn’t know there were so many books with conversation hearts on the cover! I haven’t eaten them since I was a kid, but you’re definitely right… the first thing that comes to mind when asked to describe the taste is chalky!

  30. Cuuute post idea! I also love these candy hearts. 🙂

  31. What a great take on this week. I had to hop over to Goodreads and check some of these out, like “Thwonk”. I never would have thought there would be so many covers with conversation hearts.

  32. Wow, that’s a lot of books with conversation hearts on the cover! I never noticed how many there are before.

  33. The only one I’ve read is Boy Meets Boy, but like others have said I didn’t know there were so many with candy hearts on them!

  34. Love this twist! They’re definitely an eyecatching addition to a cover.

  35. I don’t really like the candy hearts, but they’re definitely a big mark of the holiday. I’m impressed that so many books use them for their covers!

  36. huh. i never realized that there were THAT many books with candy hearts on the cover. something to look for in the future, I guess. thanks for this twist on the topic!

  37. These all look cute! I had no idea there would be so many books with candy hearts on their cover

  38. RS

    Wow — what a cool topic choice. The only one of these I know is Boy Meets Boy, and I can only think of one other book off the top of my head with candy hearts (Lauren Conrad’s “Sweet Little Lies”). I especially love that you found a Joan Bauer to put on here, because I didn’t even know that one existed and it looks like a fun Valentine’s Day read.

  39. what a great idea! i had no idea so many books had candy hearts on them!

  40. What a unique idea! Love your post.

  41. To think there are so many book covers with sweetheart candy.

  42. I didn’t know there were so many book covers with candy hearts on them. 🙂

  43. What a unique idea. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a book with candy hearts on the cover, but clearly there are tons. Now I want some candy hearts, I feel like it’s half-nostalgia, have really liking the taste.

  44. I like the pink, orange, and white candy conversation hearts, or at least I used to. Have tried to kick the candy habit, and only eat my real favorites on occasion now. I was like Steve Almond, who wrote Candyfreak — addicted to candy! Thanks for visiting my blog!

  45. What a cute version of this post. Love all these covers. Thanks for sharing and for visiting my blog today.

  46. Thanks for visiting my TTT! And now I want candy hearts! Lol. 🙂

  47. What a lovely twist to the topic. I used to love those hearts. I’m not into celebrating Valentine’s Day, either, I don’t think it’s a big thing for many Europeans.

    My favourite of those books would probably be the Sudoku one. I love them. Especially the tough ones, my favourites are Killer Sudokus.

    Thanks for visiting my TTT earlier.

  48. The Heartbreak Messenger’s cover is so cute! 😍

  49. Am amazed there are so many book covers with candy hearts. Fitting for Valentine’s Day reads!

  50. Wow!! I never knew there were so many covers with them!! Such a fun topic. I remember when they temporarily stopped making them a couple years ago. It was crazy!

  51. Kay

    What an original idea! Love this list 🙂

  52. Love your covers! I didn’t realize there were so many books with the conversation hearts on them. Thanks for stopping by mine.

  53. very cool take on the topic.. and did not realize there were so many books using conversation hearts on their cover 🙂

  54. Love your take on this week’s topic! I had no idea there were so many books with candy hearts on the cover 🙂

  55. These are fun! I am going to have to check some of these out!

  56. These covers are so cute. I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen conversation hearts on a book cover. 🙂

  57. OH this is an interesting one, I’ve never gave a thought on how many books had conversation hearts on them!

    Thoses little heart candies are my favorite… and now you’ve left me craving them! Ahaha- definately need to get some before they’re gone again.

  58. Such a fun twist this week! I had no idea there were so many books with conversation hearts on the covers. Several of these were new to me, so thank you for sharing them. <3

  59. wow, what a cute idea! I’m going to check I love you Sudoku!

  60. Hahaha I love this type of candy but I never used them to write anything (just… yum! 😂)
    Interesting mix! I had no idea how many cover designs used this!
    Thank you for sharing!

  61. Classic candy! I love conversation hearts. I didn’t realize that there were that many books that actually had them on the cover heheh. Great topic choice and thanks for stopping by my blog 🙂

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