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

[Meredith]

For those looking for non-fiction options, there's Lemon Tree and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver and it's food porn in the best sense of that term!

[Deb]

Under Plum Lake was one of my favourite kids books. Really interesting themes that make one think.

Thing I learnt today; Huckleberry is a real fruit, I never knew that.

[Anna]

[Caitlin]

Haven’t read any Oscar Wilde yet so I’m going to try his A House of Pomegranates.

[Floor]

I have to read Vineland by Thomas Pynchon for one of my uni courses and I know it's a stretch but I think that's my pick for this prompt.

[poshpenny]

Deborah wrote: "Thing I learnt today; Huckleberry is a real fruit, I never knew that."

One of my three favorite berries, with Boysenberry and Marionberry. Delicious!

[Adeline]

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeannette Winterson is such a beautiful and heartbreaking book. If you haven’t read it, I so strongly recommend it!!

[Caitlin]

Adeline, I’m reading it right now! I picked it up to read during lunch at work yesterday. I’ve only got through the first chapter so far but it’s already unlike anything I’ve ever read before.

[Maria]

I'm going to try Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression

[Crumb]

These threads are a lifesaver!! I have been wanting to read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for a while and have never gotten around to it.. Now, I can read it for this prompt!

[Deb]

poshpenny wrote: "Deborah wrote: "Thing I learnt today; Huckleberry is a real fruit, I never knew that."

One of my three favorite berries, with Boysenberry and Marionberry. Delicious!"

Boysenberries are amazeballs, but I have never tried a Marionberry, though I have read about them. Recently tried Saskatoon berries for the first time also. And fresh Lingonberries in Finland a couple of years ago.

[Megan]

Kristy wrote: "Orange is the New Black"

That's my pick!

[Nicole]

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Sexing the Cherry

The Dud Avocado

James and the Giant Peach

The Grapes of Wrath

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

The Golden Apples

[Laura • lauralovestoread]

The House on Mango Street
A Mango-Shaped Space
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

[Kimberley - TardisBookishTales]

The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay is an oldie but a goodie. I have it at home and haven’t read it yet so it will be perfect for this prompt.

[Lin]

I want to read the book which was made into a movie in 1980's. (raspberry wine). And I just realised that the tilte of the book has no raspberries in it !!! Read or not to read? To count it in or not?

[Teresa]

Carrots

[Jackie]

Lin wrote: "I want to read the book which was made into a movie in 1980's. (raspberry wine). And I just realised that the tilte of the book has no raspberries in it !!! Read or not to read? To count it in or not?"

Did they publish a movie-tie-in edition? Because sometimes they'll do that and change the title to match the movie, like with Rocket Boys which got republished as October Sky after the movie came out.

[Lyndsay]

Blackberry Winter

[Chloe]

Oranges in No Man's Land - also it's only 116 pages if you're looking for a nice quick read

[Mary]

Oranges by John McPhee. He's a great non-fiction writer and makes topics that I'm not even interested in compelling (I'll read anything if it's well-written). You'll never look at the navel orange in your refrigerator the same way. Also, it's 160 pages, so it makes it easy to check of a box when you're also tackling something 400+ pages. The first book by McPhee I read was Oranges (1967), and it was obvious then that he was a writer who could juice the pulp of unpromising subject matter: a seven-sectioned book on, yes, oranges that brilliantly tracks the fruit’s uses and myths from sixth-century-BC China to the citrus barons of contemporary Florida.
-- The Guardian

[Susan]

Finished A Clockwork Orange. Great book, but not easy reading. Glad that I can add this to the list of classics I’ve read.

[SadieReadsAgain]

Going for another of the long-time TBR shelf inhabitants - Where the Apple Ripens and Other Stories

[Mo]

If people like cozy mysteries, almost all of Joanna Fluke's Hannah Swensen mysteries have fruits in the title.

[Leona]

I have Cherry Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke on my bookshelf I have not read yet.

[Danielle]

I got an email the other day telling me my reservation for Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index was available. I have wanting to read it for ages now. And it works so well for this category!

So I read it in 2 nights. I would have read it in one if I didn’t have to work!

[Suni]

I'm reading Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell for this prompt.

[Jess]

I recommend Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, it would also work for LGBT and if you've seen the film

[willaful]

It's probably not findable, but one of my favorites is a book of romantic fairy tales called Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon.

Also throwing out a title of a book I personally didn't care for. Fantasy romance: Winter Oranges

[Amanda]

poshpenny wrote: "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.
..."

I read some of the Cherry Ames books when I was growing up. I can't remember if I found them at a library book sale or at a thrift store or what. They were already pretty old though.

[Trish]

I forgot The House on Mango Street would work for this prompt! I almost put it down for "about feminism," but this one is too perfect. Such a heartbreaking book, I would recommend it to anyone and everyone!

[willaful]

An excellent book: Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table

[Chrissi]

I've read the first three - The Blueberry Bakeshop and Coconut Cake were nice, quick reads that had decent romance - along with food. :) I've always wanted to read about Spain and Granada, so I thought the first pomegranate book might be good choice.

The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
A House of Pomegranates
Fruit of the Lemon

[Jamie]

The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Cafe
I read this one for this prompt

[Cornerofmadness]

I just finished Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters for this prompt. It would also work for LGBT. If you like the X-Files and wanted to see a Philly police station in that sort of storyline you'll enjoy this.

[Juliebean]

I just found on my Kindle the book The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster. Might be a bit of a stretch, but...

[Ashley]

Cranberry Queen Was pretty good when I read it years ago.

[Megan]

On the Banks of Plum Creek Such a great series!

[Rachel]

I'm currently in the middle of The Mango Season

[Lindsay]

There is a biography about Clementine Churchill by Mary Soames which could work.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Serendipity]

I loved 84 Charing Cross Road so went for Apple of My Eye

[Karen]

I read Monique and the Mango Rains: two years with a midwife in Mali for this prompt and really enjoyed it!

[✨ A ✨]

here are book by one of my favourite authors
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
Luck, Love & Lemon Pie
The Simplicity of Cider

[✨ A ✨]

does anyone know of any YA books that fit with this prompt?

[Ria]

Azrah wrote: "does anyone know of any YA books that fit with this prompt?"Cherry Crush

[Carol]

Azrah wrote: "here are book by one of my favourite authors
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
Luck, Love & Lemon Pie
The Simplicity of Cider"

Hmm...does cider count? I really want to read The Cider House Rules, because I read A Prayer for Owen Meany for the book set in the decade I was born prompt and loved it and want to read more John Irving.

[Carol]

Azrah wrote: "does anyone know of any YA books that fit with this prompt?"

I haven't read all of these, but here is a selection that I found:

The House on Mango Street
A Raisin in the Sun?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Orange Girl
Dandelion Wine
Peaches
The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
A Mango-Shaped Space
Surviving the Applewhites
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle

Hopefully one of those will appeal.

[Mel]

Azrah wrote: "does anyone know of any YA books that fit with this prompt?"
Cherry
Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

[Cyndy]

I read Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave. 800 Grapes are what it takes to make a bottle of wine. That's where the title of the book comes from. A story of a family - empty nest parents, their two older sons and their younger sister. The parents just happen to own a winery in Sebastipol, CA, and are ready to retire.

[Baroness Ekat]

I started Clockwork Orange yesterday as an audiobook.

As much as I do eventually want to read it, I think this is one that I may have to shelve. Especially as an audio. The language is just very hard to follow as an audio.