5. A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title

[Sara]

I think there should be some great ideas here.

[Marsha]

So far I have - Grapes of Wrath, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The House on Mango Street, James and the Giant Peach, Huckleberry Finn, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, Tangerine, A Clockwork Orange, and Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

[Kristy]

Orange is the New Black

[Beth]

I found the following title searching the Microhistories:
"Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World" by Dan koeppel

[Sarah]

Here's a list already on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

[Anabell]

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Tomato Rhapsody: A Fable of Love, Lust & Forbidden Fruit
The Mango Season

[Kelly]

If anyone reads the Stephanie Plum books, any of the Between the Numbers books should work: Visions of Sugar Plums,
Plum Lovin', Plum Lucky, Plum Spooky.

[Kenya]

Oooh, forgot about A Clockwork Orange. The Apple Orchard and Eight Hundred Grapes would also work.

[Cheri]

Louise Erdrich has a new book out, The Beet Queen.

[Rachel]

Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe
A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Any of the Agatha Raisin mysteries by M.C.Beaton

[Tricia]

Apple Tree Yard

[Marilyn]

A Raisin in the Sun

[Nadine in NY]

I'm not really feeling inspired by this category. Maybe this is a good opportunity for me to read "Ella Minnow Pea" ...

[Kenya]

Nadine wrote: "I'm not really feeling inspired by this category. Maybe this is a good opportunity for me to read "Ella Minnow Pea" ..."

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters is fantastic! I encourage you to give it a go -- it's worth it.

[Marianne]

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper is a book club selection for next year so I am all set!

[Reenah]

I wonder if Eucalyptus could count as fruit? It's basically a tree, but it also has fruits?

Not sure about this prompt.

[Chelsea]

Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story bySue Monk Kidd

[Mel]

Two of my options that I haven't seen anyone suggest yet:
- Cherry
- Olive Kitteridge (inspired by the lovely person who suggested The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, which I hadn't even thought of as an option!)

[Tytti]

If you like aubergines, there's The Anger of Aubergines and Brief in die Auberginenrepublik, I guess not found in English but available in a few languages.

[Chinook]

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

Apricot's Revenge: A Crime Novel

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life

[Dani]

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake

[poshpenny]

Kenya wrote: "Nadine wrote: "I'm not really feeling inspired by this category. Maybe this is a good opportunity for me to read "Ella Minnow Pea" ..."

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters is fantasti..."

I quite liked it as well.

I remember my grandmother saying how much she liked Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, but I've never read it.

I've read the first 12 Jeeves and 5.5 Blandings Castle books, and Plum Pie is 13.5 and 10.5 respectively.

[Angela Sunshine]

A Mango-Shaped Space

[Kristy]

I found a book on my shelf called Tomato Red.

[Lily]

Possibilities:

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck

The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller (I have found her hard going in the past, but worth trying again.)

The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty (It is a few years since I have entered her world. Might be time for a trip back.)

[Simant]

The Tree with a Thousand Apples

[Jamie]

I was planning to read Eight Hundred Grapes since I have that one at home.

[Stina]

The Big Mango has been sitting patiently in my Kindle for a while now, so I'll go with that.

[Stina]

Jamie wrote: "I was planning to read Eight Hundred Grapes since I have that one at home."

I hope you have better luck with that one than I did. I think I lasted all of seven paragraphs.

[Wendy]

Onion John
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Peeling the Onion
The Celery Stalks at Midnight
Cress
In Watermelon Sugar
Watermelon
A House of Pomegranates
The Dud Avocado
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

[Conny]

For German readers who like chick lit, the German title of Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes references strawberries: Erdbeermond^^

I am not overly enthusiastic about this prompt and am considering cheating my way out of it by reading The Five Orange Pips ... since I have the entire Sherlock Holmes collection in my TBR pile, anyway.

[Jo]

I think I'm going to reread Blackberry Wine. I don't really remember it, it was so long ago.

[Lilia]

The House On Mango Street is a fantastic book!

[Whitney]

Gave it some thought and came up with these...most of which are TBRs for me:

The Fig Eater
Five Quarters of the Orange
Cranberry Queen
The Toss of a Lemon
The Lemon Table
A Can of Peas
Peach Blossom Pavilion
Little Peach
The Lemon Grove
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
Olive's Ocean
Peachtree Road

[poshpenny]

I picked up a great little 1936 edition of Five Little Peppers and How They Grew for less than 5 bucks! That's the same year the movie came out, so bonus movie nerd credits for me.

While I was perusing the very awesome classic children's book aisle, I also saw shelves full of an old series about mystery-solving nurse Cherry Ames, who has apparently worked as a nurse in the Army, on a plane, in a department store, a dude ranch, a cruise, and even the jungle. Cherry Ames, Student Nurse

[Stina]

Oh, wow, I remember reading the Cherry Ames books when I was a kid. I never knew quite what to make of her.

[Lisa]

I have Black Apple by Joan Crate which is about a Blackfoot girl in the residential schools in Canada.

[Therese]

Sarah wrote: "Here's a list already on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3..."

I found that list and have Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell on my TBR list. Never knew tobacco was a fruit or vegetable, but I will go for it. I don't want to buy any books for this challenge unless necessary since I have so many that I want to read anyway.

[Johanna]

Apples Should Be Red is a quick and funny read. I read it for the holiday prompt this year as it takes place around Thanksgiving.

[Johanna]

Stina wrote: "Oh, wow, I remember reading the Cherry Ames books when I was a kid. I never knew quite what to make of her."

Great idea! I just read a Cherry Ames book from one I got at a used book store. Of course, I think literally a fruit or vegetable, not as someone's name.

[Therese]

Kelly wrote: "If anyone reads the Stephanie Plum books, any of the Between the Numbers books should work: Visions of Sugar Plums,
Plum Lovin', Plum Lucky, [book:Plum Spook..."

And if you read on a Kindle, these are all on sale today. I was also wondering whether Plum Spooky was set in or around Halloween?

[Chrissy]

I already own Goblin Fruit. I'm thinking since fruit is in the title I could probably count it. What are your thoughts?

[Jackie]

I'd count it; after all it doesn't say it has to be a *real* fruit or vegetable.

[Raúl]

I recommend Malus Domestica by S.A. Hunt to those that like horror and urban fantasy. Malus Domestica is the scientific name for some apple species, so it should count, in my opinion.

[Tytti]

Therese wrote: "Never knew tobacco was a fruit or vegetable"

It's neither, it's a plant. AFAIK there is nothing edible in it.

[Therese]

I thought the same, but I'm going to go with it since Good Reads has it on this list along with Rye and a couple of other things I never knew were fruit or vegetable.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

[Tytti]

Therese wrote: "Good Reads has it on this list along with Rye and a couple of other things I never knew were fruit or vegetable"

It's not an "official" GR list, any member can add any title to it, whether or not it is correct. Rye is also not a fruit or a vegetable, it's a grass, grown as a grain. It can be eaten as a bread or vodka, though, and porridge made out of rye flour and lingonberries is pretty good, especially with milk.

[Luke]

For me so far:

Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India

[Megan]

I have to second "Neither tobacco nor rye are fruits/vegetables".

[Stina]

Nadine wrote: "... Our Challenges are individual choices, and it's up to each of us to interpret the categories as we wish. ..."

I like seeing the friendly discussions, but ultimately it comes down to this. It would be different if there were actual prizes being awarded, in which case whoever's handing out the prizes would have the final say in what counts and what doesn't. But here, you're free to do what fits your needs.

I tend to be stricter than most in my interpretations, and I'll happily share my train of thought -- often unsolicited! -- but please don't think I'm trying to police anybody else's decisions.