Can you name the books with a color in the title?

Author	Book Title	Year
Walter Farley		1941
Jack London		1906
Stephen Crane		1895
Lucy Maud Montgomery		1908
Stephen King		1996
Nathaniel Hawthorne		1850
Tom Clancy		1984
Thomas Harris		1981
Wilson Rawls		1961
Anthony Burgess		1962
Dr. Seuss		1960
Dr. Seuss		1960

Author	Book Title	Year
Alice Walker		1982
Umberto Eco		1980
Roald Dahl		1961
Anita Diamant		1997
Anna Sewell		1877
John Steinbeck		1933
James Patterson		1986
Anna Quindlen		1998
Janet Fitch		1999
Toni Morrison		1970
Walter Mosley		1990
Philip Pullman		2000
Fred Gipson (1956)	2000

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Color Books Quiz

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Published: April 9th, 2009
Category: Literature
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Tags: Color Quizzes, Book Quizzes, Novel Quizzes, title, author

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	jawa88:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 19:49 GMT	6 points
	Awesome quiz!!! For the sequel, Dr. Seuss wrote Mr. Brown can moo, can you? Because there should definitely be a sequel =)

	Billston:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 19:49 GMT	2 points
	It is NOT called The Golden Compass, it is called Northern Lights. If you want to include a Philip Pullman novel from that series, put The Amber Spyglass!

	Chris156:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 19:51 GMT	23 points
	Don't agree with "The Name of the Rose" and "James and the Giant Peach"--they're referring to objects, not colours!

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	livfred:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 19:58 GMT	3 points
	Fabulous quiz! Sequel please! (And yay that the Pullman answer is Amber, not Golden. I tried Golden first, but hoped it wouldn't work!)

	lznyc212:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 20:02 GMT	-4 points
	Alice Walker's book title is misspelled. Should be "color" not "colour".

	pete:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT	8 points
	Fun quiz. Sad to see no love for one of my favorite colors which could have been covered by The Picture of Dorian Gray. Don't think the instructions mention that it can't be objects - just a color in the title.

	Brian:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT	7 points
	For Clancy there should also be Red Storm Rising and Red Rabbit

	lostnone:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 20:12 GMT	2 points
	Could also accept Rose Madder and possibly Black House for Stephen King...... Good quiz though

	davidr:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 20:15 GMT	0 points
	@Joe_Ball: No, because it wasn't published in 1933. @lostnone: No, because they weren't published in 1996.

	davidr:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 20:24 GMT	16 points
	@Billston: `Northern Lights' was published as `The Golden Compass' in North America.

	Lilybert:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 20:28 GMT	6 points
	I'm with Chris. I'm always a bit disappointed by this kind of quiz since it goes against logic. Ok, rose and peach are tints too, but in the specific titles they are objects.

	melissa:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 20:33 GMT	14 points
	@Chris: I actually like the fact that some of the "color words" refer to objects rather than titles -- they technically meet the definition and it forces you to think in a slightly different way. But maybe I'm just geeky that way. :)

	davidr:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 20:40 GMT	0 points
	@Chris and Lilybert: And the colour in the Philip Pullman title refers to resin from trees, not the colour. But the point is that the names of colours appear as words in the titles of the books. That's all that's claimed.

	mjenks:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 20:48 GMT	9 points
	Why is this classified in "movie quizzes" and not "literature"?

	Alyssa:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 20:58 GMT	1 point
	the silver chair?

	RavenEleni:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 21:19 GMT	3 points
	great quiz, there should be a sequel though! you could almost do another colour one from Edgar Allan Poe ones alone!! (the gold bug, th black cat, the masque of the red death, how to write a black wood article, etc etc,lol) but ye if you were looking for more authors, there are plenty more i can think of too, lol.

	Catherine_F:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 21:28 GMT	3 points
	Lucy Maud is known as "L.M. Montgomery" on her books so her full name confused me for a short while. Nice quiz though!

	Billston:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 21:41 GMT	2 points
	@davidr: I know, but it's the original (and true) title nonetheless.

	Billston:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 21:41 GMT	3 points
	Oh, and well done Sporcle! That's what I like to see! Thank you for changing it, 'preciate it!

	Blue_Iguana:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 22:11 GMT	12 points
	what does it say about my mental age that i only got the dr. seuss books.

	springmom:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 22:21 GMT	2 points
	Thanks for this one! Loved being able to type in the 2nd Dr. Seuss title! One of my faves!

	Tahnan:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 22:22 GMT	4 points
	It is sort of frustrating that, for many authors, there are other titles from different years (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, for instance, since "chocolate" is a color as well; and Rose Madder, as mentioned above). Interesting quiz nonetheless.

	Chris968:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 22:30 GMT	1 point
	James Patterson also has books titled "Roses are Red" and "Violets are Blue"

	Kaytayyyyyyy:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 22:52 GMT	2 points
	How is this a movies game?

	beatrixkiddo:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 22:54 GMT	9 points
	i think the answers should have been arranged rainbowically (if i may be so bold as to invent a word), or by pantone nnumber (if i may be so bold as to tempt the inner geek).

	shel99:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 23:03 GMT	2 points
	I've read the Wilson Rawls book I don't know how many times and it makes me cry like a baby. Every. Single. Time.

	Fawkes:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 23:12 GMT	1 point
	So... why exactly does it not except Golden Compass? That's the legitimate name it was published under in North America. I'm fine with Amber Spyglass being the displayed title, but Golden Compass should be an acceptable answer.

	swellwrench:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 23:15 GMT	-2 points
	Well again, not published in 2000, but yeah, it seems odd to accept the sequel but not the original, especially when "amber" is a pretty questionable color.

	baseballguy17:	Apr 9th, 2009 at 23:49 GMT	0 points
	What about Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy? Great book, btw.

	hscer:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 00:34 GMT	4 points
	James and the Giant Peach is a cheap shot.

	Haunter:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 01:31 GMT	-3 points
	I am severely disappointed that less than 10% recognize John Steinbeck's book. For shame, Americans.

	hsox05:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 02:34 GMT	2 points
	love the bonus answer...

	guyleguy:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 02:47 GMT	5 points
	Haunter, aren't you being a little sanctimonious? It's like his 7th most well known work, at best.

	Lowbill:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 03:19 GMT	0 points
	Stephen King also has a book called "Silver Bullet."

	ithinkiamsteven:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 05:32 GMT	-1 points
	i agree that "The Name of the Rose" and "James and the Giant Peach" shouldn't be included. Those words can be colors, but they're not in this context. As someone else mentioned, C. S. Lewis's "The Silver Chair" would be a good addition, to replace those others.

	Dorkus Malorkus:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 05:56 GMT	-1 points
	However, the Silver Chair itself was also made of silver. ;) But you are right, that would have been a better choice. Maybe "The Blue Girl" by Charles de Lint. Maybe even "The Colour of Magic" by Terry Pratchett.

	dummo:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 06:56 GMT	0 points
	I agree that James and the Giant Peach and The Name of the Rose shouldn't be on the list. Otherwise hypothetically then you could include a stack of dodgy titles named after objects because there are literally hundreds of officially recognized 'colours' which most of us would not even know are considered 'colours'.

	Deepbite:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 09:41 GMT	1 point
	I think there should be a bonus for "color"ing books in general.

	lulubelles:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 10:09 GMT	2 points
	@ Mechafox: It doesn't accept Golden Compass because that book, whichever you wish to call it, was not published in 2000, it was in 1995. @ Swellwrench: I'm guessing they went for the sequel as the original has 2 different names so saves an argument.