Books with Green/Teal Covers

Happy Tuesday! Today is a freebie day on Top Ten Tuesday, and I missed the Books with Green Covers post, so today I’ll be posting them today. Even then, I couldn’t find a lot of really green covers, so some of these are a little tealish (it’s a word now). So here is my list for this week

1. The Viscount Who Loved Me—Julia Quinn. This is a book I recently read at work, and will be reading the next in the series next (at work). It’s the second book in the Bridgerton series. I’ve never watched the TV show, but the books are about a family with a bunch of kids and how they end up finding love. I’ve only finished the first two books so far, but I did like it. I’ll probably eventually read the entire series. This one has a teal cover.

2. The Bright Sword—Lev Grossman. Another teal cover. I read this book at work shortly before Saint Patrick’s day. I like the take on the Arthur legend, but there was a little too much cursing for my taste, and the book seemed a little blasphemous because even though the Arthurian characters were supposed to be Christian, they tended to behave like God was a bad guy. It also had a little bit of untranslated Latin that was a little annoying. You might like it more than me though, if those things don’t bother you.

3. We Met Like This—Kasie West. This one has quite a bit of teal in the cover. Although Kasie West has written quite a lot of YA romance novels, this one is adult. I did like the book, which is about an assistant literary agent who wants a promotion, but her boss is a complete jerk. Meanwhile, she keeps connecting with the same guy on online dating apps, although their first and only date was a disaster. Will she give him another chance?

5. Understanding Show, Don’t Tell (And Really Getting It)—Janice Hardy. Here’s an actual green book, although if you’re not a writer it probably won’t interest you. If you are a writer, you probably have heard the advice to “show, don’t tell” many times. What does that really mean? This book will help you show what’s going on in your book more and tell a little bit less.

4. Dating and Dragons—Kristy Boyce. Another teal book. Do they even make books with green covers? Really old books with green covers tended to have arsenic in them, but today’s covers aren’t poisonous, so maybe teal over green is just a trend right now? Anyway, this book is about a girl who joins and D&D campaign and eventually falls in love with one of the other participants—even though that’s against the group rules.

6. Isola—Allegra Goodman. Here’s the fictionalized story of the very real Marguerite de Roberval, whose cousin (and guardian) left her on a deserted island in the New World (this was in the 1500s) to die. In the book, the cousin wanted her to be his mistress (gross), but she fell in love with someone that wasn’t related to her. There was really nothing that Marguerite could do about it because her cousin was her guardian and he could do whatever he wanted with her. Good book to read when you hear arguments that men should be able to have control over the ladies in their life. Yeah, I don’t really want to live in a world where it’s perfectly acceptable to drop someone off in the middle of nowhere and leave her to die.

Marguerite did survive, which is why we know about her story.

7. The Magic of Krynn—Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (editors). Last week I included another Dragonlance book, The Second Generation. This cover is green. If you’re going to read Dragonlance books, I’d start with Dragons of Autumn Twilight though. Otherwise you might not know about the characters or the universe if you start here.

8. Nuclear War: A Scenario—Annie Jacobsen. This isn’t exactly the cheeriest of books, but it does have  green cover. If you do read the book, you’ll probably come to the same conclusion that many people have been making since the very wise movie, Wargames, came out in the 1980s: the only way to win is not to play. Spoiler alert: nuclear war is not likely to end well.

There are other books that are a little less doom and gloom about Nuclear war (although none of them offer great solutions), but it could easily go bad if there ever is a nuclear strike.

9. The Inheritance Games—Jennifer Lynn Barnes. So what would life be like if you were living your life, trying to graduate high school, your older sister was your guardian… and all of a sudden, a billionaire is going to leave you his entire fortune? But only if you can live in his mansion for a year. It might not be as easy as you think. And this book has a green cover.

10. Duolingo Learning Companion Notebook. They don’t sell this anymore, but I did buy this before they took it out of the store. Hopefully they’ll bring it back because it is pretty cool (although it took a while to arrive). It allows you to track your streaks, record words that you have difficulty with, and practice some of those difficult scripts.

By including teal books in today’s list, I only had to go back to books I read in 2023. I’m not sure if it’s just the books I read, or if there aren’t too many books out there with green covers. What topic did you choose for this freebie week?