Rainbow Reading Challenge 2012

FAILED CHALLENGE--Could not keep up with the colors each month...became overwhelmed. =O(

The Rainbow Reading Challenge is hosted by Books Make Me Happy.

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Details:
For this year’s reading challenge I thought we’d have a little fun with colors. Each month has been assigned a color (along with some common alternate words to add variety). You just have to find a book with that color in the title. That’s it! As you read, come post the title and author of the book for that month below. At the end of the year… anyone who has post EACH MONTH, and completed ALL COLORS, will receive a handmade (by me) bracelet with a bead for each color, and a book charm to finish it off. I’m working on a grand prize (one random winner, only) basket of lovely, color themed books as well, but that will be a WIP during the year. In order to qualify for the bracelet, or be entered into the grand prize drawing for the basket, you MUST post each month with your title/author. If you post any reviews about the books you’ve read for this challenge, please post the link in your comment and I’ll send it out on Books Make Me Happy Twitter and Facebook streams. *All books must be at least 200 pages, or the ebook equivalent.*

Colors for each month are:
January – Red (burgundy, claret, crimson, fuschia, garnet, magenta, maroon, ruby, scarlet, rose, cherry)
February – Purple (violet, lavendar, amethyst, lilac, plum, periwinkle)
March – Aquamarine (teal, tourquoise)
April – Clear (transparent, transluscent, crystal, diamond)
May – Green (emerald, jade, malachite, lime, pine, sage)
June – Black
July – Pink (blush, carnation, mauve)
August - Brown (chocolate, tan, bronze)
September – Blue (cobalt, cerulean, navy, indigo, sapphire)
October – White (snowy)
November – Orange (peach, salmon, coral, tangerine, copper)
December – Silver (sterling, platinum, chrome, gray)

If you think you’ll have trouble finding books with the correct colors… check places like GoodReads.com and Google Books. Just search for the color and see what pops up!! (If you find a book with a color-type word you want to use, but it’s not on the list, email me or @ me on twitter to check.) Hopefully this will encourage all of us to look outside of our “tried and true” and find some fantastic new books. I’ll be posting my book/author each month below, can’t wait to see what YOU all find!!

I love challenges like this! Fun, fun, fun! I'll either list one book for the particular color or I will have a list of titles to choose from so I can choose the book that suits my mood at the time.  These are predominantly books from my own shelves.

January 

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne COMPLETED (review)

February

The Color Purple by Alice Walker COMPLETED (review)

March

The Turquoise by Anya Seton 

April

 A Night as Clear as Day by R.J. Rosenblum
May-- 

Green Darkness by Anya Seton or Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

June--

The Black Tower by Louis Bayard

Paint It Black by Janet Fitch 

Black Girl/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey

Black Body by HC Turk  

July

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig

August

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

Chocolate by Joanne Harris

September

The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier

The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Lady in Blue by Javier Sierra

Midwife of the Blue Ridge by Christine Blevins

October

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

White as Snow by Tanith Lee

The White by Deborah Larsen

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice

Snow by Ronald Malfi

November

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Daring to Eat a Peach by Joseph Zeppetello

The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott

December

The Silver Chalice by Thomas B. Costain

The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt

Silver Bells by Luanne Rice