Name Five

[Book Concierge]

Name five books (and ONLY five), that fit our monthly theme. You do not have to have read the books. You just have to be sure they fit the theme.

February 2016's theme: Valentine's Day - Share the Love - Reader's Choice

(That should be easy ... or maybe hard ... name ONLY five!)

[Diana S]

Here are my Five for the month


1. The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand by Elizabeth Berg
2. A Pinch of Love: A Novel by Alicia Bessette
3. No Ordinary Life by Suzanne Redfearn
4. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
5. Love is a Four-Legged Word by Kandy Shepherd

January Bookshelf

[Book Concierge]

February Name Five - Reader's Choice (any book)

All the Light We Cannot See
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
The Astronaut Wives Club
The Girl on the Train

[Olivermagnus]

My five:

[Sushicat]

[Marti]

[Book Concierge]

Name five books (and ONLY five), that fit our monthly theme. You do not have to have read the books. You just have to be sure they fit the theme.

March 2016's theme: Flowers on the Cover

[SouthWestZippy]

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[Book Concierge]

Name Five - Flowers on cover

[Beverly]

Flowers on the cover:

[Diana S]

Here's my five for March: Flowers on the Cover


1. The Glass Kitchen: A Novel of Sisters by Linda Francis Lee
2. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
3. Lotería by Mario Alberto Zambrano
4. The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James
5. Tumbleweeds by Lelia Meacham


March Bookshelf

[Olivermagnus]

[Connie]

I probably won't manage to read these, but these are some flower-covered books I found:

[Carol]

I have read these AND they have flowers.

[Book Concierge]

APRIL 2016 theme: Weather-related word in title
Name five books that fit this theme. (You do NOT have to read them, you just have to name them ...)

[Book Concierge]

NAME FIVE - April 2016 - Weather-related word in title

Stormy Weather
The Lightning Thief
House of Sand and Fog
Rain of Gold
Cloud Atlas

[Carol]

NAME FIVE - April 2016 - Weather-related word in title



Snow Blind
Red Rain
Run Before the Wind
White Heat
Blue Lightning

[Sushicat]

NAME FIVE - April 2016 - Weather-related word in title



The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story by Mat Johnson
Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy
Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves
The Snow Child by Eowin Ivey

[Diana S]

Here's my five - Weather-related word in title



Storm Front by Jim Butcher
My Sunshine Away by M. O. Walsh
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
Cold Fire by Dean Koontz
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury

[SouthWestZippy]

Hurricane Song
A Wicked Snow
The Blizzard of '88
The Killing Storm
When Spring Comes

[Olivermagnus]

Blood and Ice
Time of Fog and Fire
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Winds of War
The Hurricane Sisters

[Connie]

Here are five from me:



Songs of Willow FROST
The Gift of RAIN
The Garden of Evening MISTS
Where RAINBOWS End
Boy, SNOW, Bird

[Beverly]

I'm picking these out from my Kindle freebies so I'm not endorsing them as good reads--just the correct titles!




Daughter of Air and Storm by Sherryl King-Wilds
Halestorm by Becky Akers
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
Black Rain: 15 Dark Tales by J. R. Rain
The Mist on Bronte Moor by Aviva Orr

[Brenda]

Rachel Caine's Weather Warden Series :). they've been on my TBR for a while...

Ill Wind
Gale Force
Cape Storm
Windfall
Chill Factor

[Book Concierge]

NAME FIVE - May - Main character is a mother:

Tess in Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Sibyl in Midwives
Mrs Polifax in The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax
Giaconda in The Country Under My Skin
Ingrid in White Oleander

[Connie]

Some ideas:
Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now

Big Little Lies

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Mom & Me & Mom

[Connie]

Book Concierge wrote: "NAME FIVE - May - Main character is a mother:

Tess in Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Sibyl in Midwives
Mrs Polifax in The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax
Giaconda in [bo..."

I never thought about Mrs. Polifax!

[Sushicat]

Room
The Hidden Child - Erica
Outrage - Elinborg
A Room Full of Bones - Ruth
Blue Lightning - Fran

[Carol]

The Ice Twins
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
The Language of Flowers
The Goldfinch
Little Women

[Diana S]

Here's My Five for June's theme (cat on cover/part of the story)



Unlucky 13 by James Patterson (cat on cover)
The Cat Who Came to Breakfast by Lilian Jackson Braun (cats in story)
Double Fudge Brownie Murder by Joanne Fluke (cats in story)
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
(cat on cover/in story)
Life of Pi by Yann Mantel (cat on cover/in story)

[Book Concierge]

June: Cat on cover or in story - NAME FIVE

Eleanor & Park (cat in story)
Creature
April Fool Dead
Wish You Were Here
Sabriel (cat in story)

[Sushicat]

Name five for June: Cat on cover or in story

... and the rest of the series - co-written by a kitty
... and the rest of the series as well - starring two siamese
... another cozy mystery series with a kitty in the library
... and yet another, not so cozy, with a cat named Robert Johnson
... a different kind of kitty

[Book Concierge]

Sushicat wrote: "Name five for June: Cat on cover or in story

... and yet another, not so cozy, with a cat named Rob...."

I forgot about Tres's enchilada-eating cat!

[Book Concierge]

Time to "NAME FIVE" for our July theme - You do NOT have to read these books (or have read these books), they just have to fit the theme. Since we had a tie for the theme, you'll be able to name "ten" this month - five each for
Set in Canada or by a Canadian Author
Book with a patriotic theme

[Sushicat]

Canada

- - - -

[Carol]

Canada

Entry island by Peter May -
The Cruelest Month by Louise Perry
Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs
City of The Lost by Kelley Armstrong
Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings

Patriot
Buffalo West Wing by Julie Hyzy
Soldier Hill by Phil Rossi
The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
Raven Talks Back by Beth Anderson

[Connie]

Thanks for the ideas! I didn't know Peter May was Canadian out his books are in Canada. They've been recommended.

[Carol]

Connie wrote: "Thanks for the ideas! I didn't know Peter May was Canadian out his books are in Canada. They've been recommended."

Entry Island is set in Canada. Peter May is Scottish and the greatest majority of his books are set in European countries. If you haven't read them I would suggest the Lewis Islands trilogy. The Black House is book 1.

[Book Concierge]

NAME FIVE - JULY

Canada Day
Elephant Winter by Kim Eichlin
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (auth born in Canada)
Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery

Independence Day
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Murder in the White House by Margaret Truman
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Flags of Our Fathers by James D Bradley

[Connie]

Carol, I have read the Black House and plan to read the rest. Thanks for clarifying where he's from. I can't read Lewis Men for this challenge.

[Carol]

LOL! No...not unless you can move Scotland:)

[Marilyn]

Name Five - July 2016
(I found books that I've read at one time or another)

Independence Day:
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
John Adams by David McCullough
Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson by Jan Jarboe Russell
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

Canada Day

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
Away from Her by Alice Munro
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

[Connie]

Marilyn wrote: "Name Five - July 2016
(I found books that I've read at one time or another)

Independence Day:
[book:Founding Mothers: The Women W..."

Nice list, Marilyn!

[Book Concierge]

NAME FIVE - August - Peach Month: Fruit on the cover or in the title

- Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter
- At the Edge of the Orchard
- One Bad Apple
- The Hundred-Foot Journey
- Away

[Diana S]

My Five:

The Beautiful Bureaucrat

Peaches for Father Francis

The Virgin Cure

The Lovebird

Squashed

[Connie]

Fried Green TOMATOES at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Winter

The APPLE of My Eye

Left Neglected

TOMATO Girl

[Book Concierge]

Oh my stars .... I completely forgot to do NAME FIVE for September - YA novels!

Well ... on to October - Books Made Into a Movie (must be a theater-released movie, NO made-for-TV movies/series)

To Kill a Mockingbird
Exodus
Serena
Pride and Prejudice
Anna Karenina

[Licha-Olivia]

October 2016 - Books made into movie:

1. The Grapes of Wrath

2. East of Eden

3. The Hunger Games

4. The Girl on the Train

5. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

[Connie]

Thanks for the ideas. Some more:


1. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

2. Chocolat by Joanne Harris

3. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

4. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

5. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

[Carol]

October Books Made Into Movies

1. Gone with The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

2. The Shining by Stephen King

3. The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

4. The Giver by Lois Lowrey

5. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown