A book with one of the four seasons in the title

[Leslie]

It's all individual. Some might not count plays but I do.

[Ana]

I have a recommendation, Quartet in Autumn which is a delightful book. A 1940s Jane Austen type of book.

[Sarah (is clearing her shelves)]

I'll be reading Forever Summer for this prompt. This is one of the hundreds of cookbooks that I own and one that can definitely be 'read' as a 'book' due to the way Lawson writes and adds anecdotes to every recipe.

[Rachel]

I'm reading Winter Town. Really enjoying it so far.

[Deborah]

If you like baseball and/or The New Yorker you mght enjoy The Summer Game by Roger Angell.

[Elizabeth]

I read The Winter People since I wanted to read the monthly book. It was good, and very interesting. I read it in one night!

[Megan]

For this prompt, I read Winter Stroll, which is the second in Elin Hilderbrand's "Winter" trilogy. I also have The Winter People on my TBR list, but I will have to try to find a different topic to include that in!

[Sofie]

I read the comic Mouse Guard: Winter 1152, the first book would have worked as well Mouse Guard: Fall 1152.

[Megan]

Although I read the January group read, I decided to use my book club's January pick for this category: The Summer Before the War, and used the group read for a different category.

[Tara]

Wow so she sure doesn't waste any time in the Winter People! First page of narration and there's already a walking corpse! (No spoiler, it's the first page, I don't even know what's happening yet!)

[Alycia]

I read Winter People with the rest of the group for this prompt but ended using it for the "book that takes place in different time periods" prompt since I knew that would be a trickier one for me to fulfill. So, instead, I read Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett. My first time reading anything by him and now I'm hooked!

[Miriam]

Since I was reading the complete "Rivers of London" series this year, I used the fifth book Foxglove Summer for this prompt.

[Katie]

For this prompt, I read Things Fall Apart

It was a quick and enjoyable read! It's #1 in his African trilogy.

[EmilyP]

I'm reading Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright. The book is written beautifully, and I'm enjoying it and learning a lot.

[Tara]

I can't find the January discussion thread for Winter People so I'll just say it here. I LOVED it! Took me 2 days to read and that's with a newborn and a toddler lol

[Beth]

I read Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell. I struggled through it. It was obviously an easy read, but I just got more and more depressed throughout.

[Amy]

I just completed The Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah. It was excellent Her novel last year, The Nightingale, was my favorite of the year. I was scared that this one couldn't even touch it but I was very pleasantly surprised. I highly recommend!

[Nadine in NY]

I'm currently reading and LOVING A Spear of Summer Grass . (Keeping in mind that this is romance wrapped up as historical fiction, so you will only love it if you are into those genres. And yes it appears to be remarkably similar to Out of Africa, although I have not yet read that book so I can't say exactly how similar it is.) This book has been on my TBR list for far too long. I've actually had it checked out from the library and in my hands three other times, but each time it just got pushed to the bottom of the pile, and I read other books, until my lending period was over. The cover just said "I am a blah book." Thank you, Popsugar, for finally giving me a reason to push this book to the top of my lists and actually read it! Never judge a book by it's cover ;-)

[Augusta]

I'm about to start Winter Birds by Jim Grimsley. It will probably be a bit heavy, but it won awards and comes recommended by Dorothy Allison, who wrote Bastard out of Carolina. I'll let you know how it goes.

Meanwhile, I'm blogging about this experience. I'd love for you to come visit augustajusticewrites.wordpress.com.

Happy reading!

[Augusta]

Don't read Winter Birds! It was very depressing. I'm having trouble shaking it off. It is well written, though.

Augusta

[Ruth]

Anne wrote: "I've chosen A Fall of Marigolds"

I'm currently reading that too. But I'm wondering if it really "counts" since the word "fall" in the title isn't actually referring to Autumn.

[Mary Anne]

I found Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End on my TBR list. Bonus it has two seasons in the title!

[Sofia]

I have recently started to read The Summer Book (or Sommarboken)by Tove Jansson and I can really recommend it.

[Pat]

Completed "The Last Winter of Dani Lancing" by P.D.Viner-The Lovely Bones" meets "Songs for the Missing".

[Carrie]

I might read Winter Birds for the book on a holiday that's not Christmas. I think this book takes place around Thanksgiving

[Carrie]

I was looking at my list... my Steinbeck is seriously lacking so I'm gonna read The Winter of our Discontent

[Eujean2]

Would Velveteen vs. The Seasons work?'

If not, I may re-read If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. It was one of my favorite things I read in high school, but I am curious to revisit it.

[Elizabeth]

I read The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson. It has been on my list since it was published and this was the perfect time to read it.

[Eujean2]

I was just looking at the advanced reading challenge & thinking about books I have bought used, when Mary Ann in Autumn popped into my head. A follow up to the Tales of the City books that I love to recommend to people who want to read San Francisco stories. It could be a quick, fun read for this prompt. (I don't know if helps to read Tales of the City first.)

[Kirsten]

I read Lisa Kleypas new book, Devil in Spring, for this one.

Great fun! I'm glad she's moved her romances into the Victorian era.

[Mel]

I used one of my book sale reads, The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach, for this. (You could also use this for "a novel set during wartime" if you like, or possibly "a book set in two different times" since it flashes between two points in the MC's life.)

Another suggestion, based on a current read: Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories. I picked it up finally because it's been on my to-read list for a long time, and with the weather getting warmer, I thought it'd be a good time to read it, especially since I really like some of the authors included (Leigh Bardugo, Nina LaCour, Jennifer E. Smith). (It could also fit for "a book with multiple authors.")

[Shannon]

I just finished One Last Summer for this prompt. It is a novella, it is clean and sweet, and a really quick read if you are looking for something.

[Cheri]

Eujean2 wrote: "I was just looking at the advanced reading challenge & thinking about books I have bought used, when Mary Ann in Autumn popped into my head. A follow up to the Tales of the City book..."

Thank you for this suggestion! I really enjoyed Tales of the City and recently moved to SF and have been looking for things with local color.

[Eujean2]

Cheri wrote: "Thank you for this suggestion! I really enjoyed Tales of the City and recently moved to SF and have been looking for things with local color."

Welcome to San Francisco! Sightly off topic for this thread, but if you like urban fantasy books, I highly recommend Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire. It's fun to see the city through the eyes of the fae.

[Jenn]

I read Spring Break by Barbara Steiner...free library ebook that I just found by searching for the word spring :) fast and easy read

[Cheri]

Eujean2 wrote: "Cheri wrote: "Thank you for this suggestion! I really enjoyed Tales of the City and recently moved to SF and have been looking for things with local color."

Welcome to San Francisco! Sightly off t..."

Thanks, Eujean2! I've added Rosemary and Rue to my list. :)

[Wendy]

I noticed I have Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall on my shelf. Looks interesting, and an option for anyone looking for nonfiction.

[Lindsey]

I am struggling with my decision to make before I fall fit this prompt. I had already read 19 books before I found this challenge and my challenge myself is to read 50 bucks a year again because I haven't done that in the past three or four. Almost none of the books I have read fit the prompts because I was sticking to the same old stuff. Is Before I Fall that big of a stretch?

[Chinook]

I'd totally count that.

[Nadine in NY]

Lindsey wrote: "I am struggling with my decision to make before I fall fit this prompt. I had already read 19 books before I found this challenge and my challenge myself is to read 50 bucks a year again because I ..."

I'm a literalist in this category, and the word in the title has to mean a season, it can't be a "seasonal" word used in its other meaning. But that's just me and my challenge, I've seen a lot of people interpret this one much more loosely. So I think you're fine. If you finish all the categories and you want to go back and read another book with a season in the title later, then all the better. That's how I'm treating a few of these categories where I interpreted things very loosely, or I thought a book would fit but then once I read it found it didn't fit perfectly. I'm counting it for now, and if I decide to go back later and read something else, fine.

On a different note, the title "Before I Fall" makes me crazy, because she doesn't "fall," she CRASHES. My daughter read it too and told me I'm being ridiculous ;-)

[Cindy]

I'm reading Summer Knight by Jim Butcher.

[Tania]

I read Winter Men Jesper Bugge Kold for this challenge, but Winter Prey by John Sanford is another book I read that fits, and I enjoyed it more.

A couple of others that I recommend:
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
The Last Summer by Ann Brashares

[Victoria]

I'm going to read The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet for this prompt.

[Megan]

Michelle wrote: "Jaime wrote: "I am using this prompt as an avenue to continue my way through the Outlander series. I happen to be on Drums of Autumn so that will be my choice for this prompt. Then I w..."

Really any of the Outlander books LOL

[Kristin]

I'm interested in The Winter People for this, but my library doesn't have it. Are there any other thriller/mystery books anyone can think of for this prompt?

[Rose]

For any one interested in YA I know Jenny Han has a book called The Summer I Turned Pretty. I haven't read it yet but I know a lot of her other books are cute, quick reads!

[Megan]

Megan wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Jaime wrote: "I am using this prompt as an avenue to continue my way through the Outlander series. I happen to be on Drums of Autumn so that will be my choice for this..."

I finished DOA today and realized about five hours later it had Autumn in the title 😂

[Cornerofmadness]

I read Italian Summer for this one though it wasn't really my cup of tea.

[Amanda]

I've read Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis for this one. Oh, the good old Ad&d days.

[Cornerofmadness]

Amanda wrote: "I've read Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis for this one. Oh, the good old Ad&d days."

Man I loved those books back in the day.