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ROY G. BIV! It's a Literal Reading Rainbow of New Books
There are many standard ways to organize books – by genre, by author, by theme, by topic. Alphabetically by title remains popular.
Then there are the non-standard ways to organize books, and those are much more fun.
For this collection, we’ve gone to a simple but primal source – the electromagnetic spectrum of light visible to the human eye. In other words, the rainbow. All the books here were published within the last two years and are sorted by the dominant color on the book cover, ROY-G-BIV style.
This may seem random, and it is, but we have found that it’s also reliably fun. Arbitrary sorting tends to generate interesting juxtapositions. Where else are you going to find court intrigue in Renaissance Italy next to gritty urban living in contemporary Oakland? A Harlan Coben thriller next to an Emily Henry romance? Or 1920 Wall Street tycoons next to one of the Bangles?
Scroll through the reading rainbow below and see what pops. Feel free to further the discussion in the comments sections and add any good leads to your Want to Read list.
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Pink
Purple
Play along and recommend some colorful reading in the comments below!
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I agree- it is a great concept.. What's bothering me is that this was done one month before pride month... I think this would have been better served and appreciated if you all had waited a few weeks and did this with queer books.. kinda feels like a slap in the face as a queer woman.. so close to pride month and you're using roygbiv a little before the dates its most appropriate to use it for where not all of the books on this list are queer.. idk. it's just not sitting right with me.
Gosh, some of these covers are wildly different in the UK! Many of them would need to be in entirely different colour groups if they had their UK cover art. I have to say, 9/10 I tend to favour the North American cover art!
Ashley wrote: "I agree- it is a great concept.. What's bothering me is that this was done one month before pride month... I think this would have been better served and appreciated if you all had waited a few wee..."To be fair they do tend to do a big article of LGBTQIA+ books and authors for pride.
Where's The Unpopular Vote? It's cover art is pink, and it's a queer book, and readers have enjoyed this one.
I would like a list of octarine covers but they’re all Unseen …
This is super fun, but some of these aren’t even new… the first one on the list has been out for a year and half. I’d so much rather be introduced to something I haven’t heard of before
Lindsey wrote: "Ashley wrote: "I agree- it is a great concept.. What's bothering me is that this was done one month before pride month... I think this would have been better served and appreciated if you all had w..."To be doubly fair, we as queer people don't own the rainbow ^_^
Now if this had been June and they did this *without* highlighting queer authors/characters, yeah... that would not be okay.
But this is seriously just a color based book list.
Speaking of book colours: Everybody is a book of blood; Wherever we're opened, we're red.
-Clive Barker, Books of Blood
I would love to see this a a regular kind of thing. Its a lot of fun.
Ashley wrote: "I agree- it is a great concept.. What's bothering me is that this was done one month before pride month... I think this would have been better served and appreciated if you all had waited a few wee..."That would have been a great idea. Maybe they still will.
Ashley wrote: "I agree- it is a great concept.. What's bothering me is that this was done one month before pride month... I think this would have been better served and appreciated if you all had waited a few wee..."Agreed--not what I was expecting. Now let the right-wingers descend on us for being "too PC!"
I love the concept but somewhere along the way it became ROYGBPP.