Happy Tuesday y’all! Is it just me, or did the September long weekend fly by? I know it passed by too quickly for me. I was busy with family stuff and getting my youngest ready for school. So much so, I totally forgot about making my Top Ten Tuesday list for today until about lunchtime. Yikes! This week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is books that make you smile. But isn’t that every book? Instead, I twisted the topic (surprise, right?!) and decided to list 10 Books With Yellow Covers.
Why did I decide to go with books with yellow covers? Because yellow is the color of happiness, and we smile when we’re happy, right? So it just made perfect sense to me. Just a warning, not all of the books listed are happy!
I think I may have just come up with a new series of posts, lists of books based on the color of their cover. Why? To help people with reading challenges. And today seemed like the right time to start this series, with a list of 10 books with yellow covers.
All synopsis are from Goodreads. Just click on the book’s title for more information.
Book 1: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from Broken Wheel, Iowa. After years of exchanging books, letters, and thoughts on the meaning of literature and life, Sara, mousy, disheveled, who has never been anywhere in her life–has really lived only for her work in a beloved bookshop, which has just closed its doors for the last time–bravely decides to accept her unknown friend’s invitation to visit. But when she arrives, she finds her house empty, the funeral guests just heading home. . .
Sara finds herself alone. And what choice do the inhabitants of Broken Wheel have but to take care of their bewildered tourist?
Book 2: The Vinyl Cafe Celebrates by Stuart McLean
From the beginning of life (the hilarious “Labour Pains”) to the end (the touching “Love Never Ends”) and all the moments–big and small–in between, these stories remind us that there are occasions to celebrate every day.
This collection is both timely and timeless, a rich celebration of Stuart McLean’s inimitable voice, and of the importance of love, community, kindness, and the healing power of laughter.
Book 3: Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli
Serena Singh is tired of everyone telling her what she should want–and she is ready to prove to her mother, her sister, and the aunties in her community that a woman does not need domestic bliss to have a happy life.
Book 4: Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins, illustrated by Eric Gurney
Illustrated in full color. A madcap band of dancing, prancing monkeys explain hands, fingers, and thumbs to beginning readers.
Book 5: Curious George by H.A. Rey
The first adventure in this highly popular series tells how the little monkey Curious George, caught in the jungle and brought back to the city by a man in a yellow hat, can’t help being interested in all the new things around him. Though well-meaning, George’s curiosity always gets him into trouble.
Book 6: Baby, Don’t Go by Susan Andersen
Photographer Nick Coltrane broke Daisy Parker’s heart nine years ago. And now he wants to hire her as his bodyguard. She wants to tell him where he can go, but her fledgling company desperately needs the cash flow. She once broke her own rules, only to watch his sexy self run for the door. Providing round-the-clock protection for him is out of the question . . . right?
Book 7: Threat Vector (Jack Ryan Universe, #15) by Mark Greaney
For Jack Ryan, Jr., and his comrades at the covert organization known as The Campus, the fight against America’s enemies is never over. But the danger has just hit home in a way they never expected…
Book 8: Sold by Patricia McCormick
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.
Book 9: Baby & Solo by Lisabeth Posthuma
Joel’s new job at the video store is just what the therapist ordered. But what happens if the first true friend he’s made in years finds out about What Was Wrong With Him?
Book 10: Miss Cecily’s Recipe for Exceptional Ladies by Vicky Zimmerman
When her life falls apart on the eve of her 40th birthday, Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at the Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily’s tongue is as sharp as her mind, but she’s fed up with pretty much everything.
Having no patience for Kate’s choices in life or love, Cecily prescribes her a self-help book…of sorts. She asks her to read Thought for Food: an unintentionally funny 1950s cookbook high on enthusiasm, featuring menus for anything life can throw at the “easily dismayed.”
So, did these 10 books with yellow covers make you happier, or smile? Did you find a new yellow book to read? Let me know if I missed a favorite, or soon to be released,yellow book.
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I love your take on this week’s topic. Yellow is such an eye catching book cover color and you’ve definitely gotten me to add to my TBR!
I love this list! My first thought of a yellow book I loved was The Unhoneymooners, which certainly did make me smile. 🙂
My list is here: https://fiftytwo.blog/2021/09/07/ttt-ten-books-that-are-guaranteed-to-make-you-smile/
Happy TTT!
I haven’t read The Unhoneymooners yet, but I keep hearing great things about it.
Yellow is such a cheerful colour for a book cover!
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-guaranteed-to-put-a-smile-on-your-face/
Love your twist! Yellow is such a happy color. And The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend is one of my favorite books. 😀
Yellow is a good color. I wish I could say that every book makes me smile, I loved today’s topic so I could add more “Smile” books to my list 😉 I loved Curious George books and the Dr. Suess books. The Paris Betrayal by James Hannibal is a recent read of mine that is yellow 🙂
Yellow is such a bright, happy color! I love it. Several of the rooms in my house are painted yellow because it just makes me happy 🙂 Fun idea for a list. Other than CURIOUS GEORGE, I haven’t read any of these.
Happy TTT!
Susan
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I love yellow covers! And these all look great!
You can’t go wrong with Curious George!
Yellow covers always look so vibrant. I love all of these. Two others I really like are Dial A for Aunties and The Unhoneymooners.
It just occurred to me how few books have yellow covers.
Such a fun post! And Curious George!! He was one of my favorites when I was young!
These are fun! I love a good yellow cover. Hand Hand is awesome 🙂
Yellow always make me happy for sure – back when I lived alone and such things didn’t involve multiple opinions and compromise, I had a bright yellow walls in my kitchen to start and end the day with a warm glow. It’s one of the rarest colours on my bookshelf though!
How fun!
I really like the theme of your list this week! It’s fascinating to see how the same colour scheme can look so different.
Those covers can all make us smile. I even read some of them.
Thanks for visiting my TTT earlier.
Love the yellow covers!
I love how you’ve twisted this week’s prompt and yes, yellow definitely makes me smile and so did many of these covers! I haven’t heard of quite a few of these but some of them are definitely making their way onto my TBR now 😍Fab list and thanks for stopping by my blog!
Book 1 has a really nice cover although I would probably not read it. One book that has a yellow cover that I can remember is Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery – it’s actually a delightful for me. There are different editions of the book but the yellow cover is the best one, I think.
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Nice list! They’re all new to me but I’ll definitely be looking into some of them.
Nice list! I love you twist on the topic this week. Yellow is such a cheerful color!
Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb and that Curious George book bring back such memories for me! I read those to my daughter a ton. They’re fun yellow colors.
My oldest daughter loved Curious George so much when she was younger, we started calling her George and she would respond. Now she’s 19 and still answers when we call her that.
Great Topic! Thanks for stopping by my post.
Oh, I love that you chose to go with colour for this challenge, and especially yellow too. What great fun.
I love this idea for a post series! It feels like I am always drawing a blank when it comes to finding specific-colored covers for reading challenges.
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I’m the same way. I think that’s why I figured a series was a great idea. Especially as people tend to start planning their challenges for next year.
Wohooo, what a nice spin! Tho I’m not a fan of the color yellow myself, there’s definitely something happy about those covers. Cheers! readwithstefani.com
I really liked Serena Singh Flips the Script! I also like Sold, which was a tough read.
I liked Serena Singh as well! It was not quite what I thought it was, but it was still enjoyable. And you’re right about Sold, it’s a tough read, but I think it’s a story that needs to be told.
Yellow is such a cheery colour!
I love this, so many pretty covers. You’re not wrong that yellow covers are guaranteed to make you smile! Serena Singh Flips the Script is one of the books on my TBR!
I read it earlier this year, and enjoyed it. It’s not what I thought it would be.
Neat take on this weeks topic.
Yellow is certainly a happy color. Curious George is a lot of fun! Thanks for visiting Long and Short Reviews!
Yellow is such a happy color! I love to see it on books. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend’s cover is so cute! 🙂
Yellow is just such a happy color indeed. Always cheerful. 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland on this week. I really appreciate it.