38 - A book with any type of fruit on the cover or in the title

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A book with any type of fruit on the cover or in the title

Cool! I have a copy of Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White which is a short story collection recommended to me by my former chiropractor before he retired...

I'm sure there are many more!

Lists that might help:
Apples on the Cover
Books with Fruit in the Title
Citrus on the Cover
Cherry Picking
Pomegranates
Cherries
Bananas
Berries
Watermelon
Peaches
Books with fruit on the cover
Mango
Best books on apples
Fruity Picture Books
Fruity Pa Tootie Tootie (Yes... Fruity) *Read Description Before Voting*

Listopia: A book with any type of fruit on the cover or in the title

[Laura Ruth]

For romance fans, anything with "Date" in the title would work! ("Dating" might be stretching it.)

I'll probably go with Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith.

[Acidic Quagga]

Botanically speaking, spice can be considered a fruit, soooo:


Spice Road by Maiya Ibrahim

[Dea]

I'm a judge for a high school reading quiz bowl, so I have to read ten YA books in January and February.

One fits here: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by Ransom Riggs. I like to fit as many of my Readers Rally books into the challenge as possible, so yay!

[Sasha]

We're hoping to move house next year, so this seems like a good time to read Home: How To Love It, Live In It, And Find Joy In It from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author by India Knight. This is the cover:



It's a bit difficult to see, but there are dishes of fruit on the table.

[Brandon]

Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir was pretty good.

[Dea]

I know some people like to mix in some books they can read with their kids.

Unsettled by Reem Faruqi is the story of a girl who moves from Karachi, Pakistan to Peachtree City (Atlanta), Georgia. It's all in the form of short poems she keeps in her journal. I read it as a middle school judge in our school district's reading quiz bowl and thoroughly enjoyed it.

There are mangos and a slice of lemon among the items trailing behind her on the cover.

[Bluebelle-the-Inquisitive (Catherine)]

I'll keep my eyes open for this. Fruit is not an uncommon element on book covers.

[Rose]

The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony is on my TBR so it is the one I plan on using.

[Jennifer]

I own sooooooo many books, can’t find one with a fruit!

Does this look like fruit on the cover? Bats eat fruit don’t they?

[Sasha]

Jennifer wrote: "I own sooooooo many books, can’t find one with a fruit!

Does this look like fruit on the cover? Bats eat fruit don’t they?
"

They do, but I think those are flowers on the cover?

[Bea]

I plan to read Winter, which is the last of the series and shows an apple on the cover.

[Ellen]

I'm going to read by Ewing.

[Angie]

I've been wanting to read The Safekeep, so I'm going to save it for this!

[Erin]

A few possibilities from my physical tbr:
Lemon
The Man in the Banana Trees
The Ex Vows

[Nadine in NY]

Jennifer wrote: "I own sooooooo many books, can’t find one with a fruit!

Does this look like fruit on the cover? Bats eat fruit don’t they?
"


I read that book this year and I absolutely LOVE the cover art, but I also could not make heads or tails of what it was!!! Obviously it's a bat, but ... flowers? fruit? seedpods? leaves? NO IDEA. I had the hardcover in my hand and couldn't figure it out. I enlarged the image on my computer and couldn't figure it out. I googled the artist to see if she had anything else to say ... nope.

So: it is what you want it to be!

Fruit bats do eat fruit!

[Nadine in NY]

I was really surprised by how FEW books on my TBR have fruit on the cover!! I was also surprised to discover that the two books that appeal to me most are non-fiction:

The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

or

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

[Denise]

Rainbow Rowell has a new book coming out in 2026 Cherry Baby: A Novel so I'm going to go with that.

[Jennifer]

lol, that’s a great way to look at it! Thank you!

Nadine in NY wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "I own sooooooo many books, can’t find one with a fruit!

Does this look like fruit on the cover? Bats eat fruit don’t they?
[bookcover:Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng|2181..."

[LeahS]

[Jackie]

This was harder than I expected - I thought I'd find dozens and dozens of options but I really had to look at my tbr carefully to suss out some fruits. But hey are you even doing a reading challenge if you don't have to google "are acorns a fruit"? [they are - acorns are the fruit of the oak tree]