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Blue books

Just for fun, can anyone think of a book with the word 'blue' in the title? Here are a couple to start with: Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes, and The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier, but there must be lots more.

24 April 2008 in Books | Permalink

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Twelve bar Blues by Patrick Neate

Posted by: probablyjane | 24 April 2008 at 02:54 PM

My Little Blue Dress by Bruno Maddox
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson

are four 'blue' books on my shelves.

Posted by: Laura | 24 April 2008 at 03:12 PM

Love in a Blue Time by Hanif Kureishi - I knew I'd forgotten one!

Posted by: Laura | 24 April 2008 at 03:15 PM

Remembering blue, by Connie May Fowler.

Came out of the mists od lurkwood to respond.

Posted by: Ayesha | 24 April 2008 at 03:23 PM

The only one I can think of is a well read childrens book here called Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. But a quick look over at Amazon reveals 400 plus thousand, with 93 thousand alone listed as fiction! I didn't delve further - but interesting all the same.

Posted by: Carol | 24 April 2008 at 03:41 PM

A Little Blue Jacket

Posted by: tara | 24 April 2008 at 03:51 PM

Susan Vreeland: Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Anthony Eglin: The Blue Rose (first of a series of mysteries written by a horticulturalist)
Rosamunde Pilcher: The Blue Bedroom and other stories

Posted by: Margaret Powling | 24 April 2008 at 03:52 PM

Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Posted by: Cindy | 24 April 2008 at 04:22 PM

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

Posted by: Terri | 24 April 2008 at 04:48 PM

Does 'The Blue Peter Annual' count?

Posted by: Ros | 24 April 2008 at 05:41 PM

The only one I can find in my colection is Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe - strange, I'd have thought there would be more.

Posted by: Eloise | 24 April 2008 at 06:02 PM

Into the Blue, Robert Goddard
Blue Door Venture, Pamela Brown
The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
Blue at the Mizzen, Patrick O'Brian
Deep Blue, Jacqueline Wilson

Posted by: Barbara | 24 April 2008 at 06:02 PM

Into the Blue, Robert Goddard
Blue Door Venture, Pamela Brown
The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
Blue at the Mizzen, Patrick O'Brian
Deep Blue, Jacqueline Wilson

Posted by: Barbara | 24 April 2008 at 06:03 PM

A wonderful little "blue" book is The Blue Castle by Lucy Maude Montgomery.
Although best known for Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maude's Blue Castle is a little gem.

Posted by: Donna | 24 April 2008 at 06:25 PM

My contribution is Journey in Blue by Stig Dalager a novel about Hans Christian Anderson translated from the Danish!!!!!!!!but I DID enjoy it.

Posted by: Rhys | 24 April 2008 at 06:34 PM

Blue Sky July by Nia Wyn
Walk the blue fields by Claire Keegan

Posted by: Donnafugata | 24 April 2008 at 06:36 PM

Let's not forget Dr. Seuss:
"One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish"

Posted by: Terri | 24 April 2008 at 07:19 PM

Some of these you might think are cheats:

"Blue Remebered Hills" D Potter
"Blue Baloon" Mike Inkpen
"Tea on the Blue Sofa" N I Berg
"Black and Blue" I Rankine
"Le Lotus Bleu" Herge
"Soldier Blue" T V Olsen

Posted by: Peter the flautist | 24 April 2008 at 07:31 PM

The Blue Lenses and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
or
Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green by Jerome K. Jerome

Posted by: Juxtabook | 24 April 2008 at 08:08 PM

Blue Dusk by Susan Goodman (a romantic novel in which the main character uses Guerlain's L'heure Bleue scent, created in 1912 and one of my own favourites, the literal meaning of L'heure Bleue being dusk.)

Posted by: Margaret Powling | 24 April 2008 at 09:59 PM

Oh I LOVED The Blue Castle!

Here are mine:
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
Blue Angel by Francine Prose

Posted by: Sue | 25 April 2008 at 01:17 AM

Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley. It's one of his Easy Rawlins mysteries. He also wrote a sci-fi with the title of Blue Light.

Posted by: Nancy | 25 April 2008 at 02:18 AM

My contributions are:-

White City Blue by Tim Lott
Black & Blue by Ian Rankin
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman.
Blue Fruit by Adam Lively

Lee

Posted by: Lee | 25 April 2008 at 09:16 AM

My contributions are:-

White City Blue by Tim Lott
Black & Blue by Ian Rankin
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman.
Blue Fruit by Adam Lively

Lee

Posted by: Lee | 25 April 2008 at 09:17 AM

Blue Flames by Richmal Crompton

my only other one is the Penelope Fitzgerald that someone else nabbed... What a fun game!

Posted by: Simon T | 25 April 2008 at 10:25 AM

First two are non-fiction:
Blue Like Jazz by Don Miller

Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon

Fiction:
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith (No. 1 LDA series)

Posted by: Fiberjoy | 25 April 2008 at 03:17 PM

Blue Like Friday, by Siobhan Parkinson. Children's book with a blue cover. Very good.

Posted by: bookwitch | 28 April 2008 at 08:28 AM

The Pale Blue Eye--by Louis Bayard--fictional story about Edgar Allan Poe at West Point. Excellent read. I like your blog.

Posted by: Meredith | 28 April 2008 at 03:08 PM

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