I participated in Birthstone Books Covers for the first time in August, and now I’m hooked! Leslie at Books Are the New Black hosts this fun monthly meme — and since I love anything related to spotlighting amazing book covers, I just had to jump in.
The rules are simple:
Mention the creator (Leslie @ Books Are The New Black ) and link back so she can see your post! Pick 5+ book covers that match the current month’s Birthstone.
HAVE FUN!
January is my daughter’s birth month, so I’ve been buying her garnet-colored gifts all her life! I must say, though, that I’ve never given her a book with a garnet cover! Clearly a major oversight!
According to Thomas Michael Jewelry:
Garnet is January’s birthstone. Garnets symbolize eternal friendship, loyalty and a light heart. There is evidence of garnet jewelry found in Bronze age burials in Eastern Europe. Garnet jewelry has been discovered in ancient Egypt and Sumeria. Garnets were treasured in jewelry by the Greek and Roman cultures as well as Pre-Columbian Aztec and Native American cultures. In Medieval times, garnets were thought to possess medicinal powers and were thought to protect one from poisons, wounds and bad dreams. They were thought to relieve fevers, hemorrhages and inflammatory diseases.
Samples of garnet jewelry:
Onward to the books!
Garnets! Garnets everywhere!
Or at least, on two Outlander series book covers, which makes me very happy.
But I suppose I should include some non-Outlander books too… so here are a few more with hints of garnet that I found on my shelves:
Do you have any favorite garnet book covers to share?
Bookshelf Fantasies 
Your daughter needs a book with a garnet cover!
She does! Sadly, I haven’t yet been able to convince her to read Outlander 🙂
It’s interesting how these deep garnet colors seem to go with deeper, mysterious, mystical books. Wonder what’s influencing the marketing team’s thinking.
Interesting point… now I’m going to have to go looking to see if I can find an upbeat, cheery book that’s also garnet!
Interesting!
You always make these posts so esthetically pleasing! I love your selection of books😁
Thank you! This type of post is a nice, fun diversion to put together 🙂
I love the deep red of garnets and you found some perfect book covers to show it off. This post is always fun. 😀
Thanks, they’re fun to work on!
These covers look so great together! And I agree that the Outlander covers are a perfect match.
Thanks! I’m always happy when I get to use Outlander books in a post 🙂
I hope your daughter had/has a lovely birthday 🥰 this is a great selection of covers. I’m ashamed to say I’ve read none of them but I’m hoping to finally pick up the Scythe books this year and recently moved the Outlander series onto my priority TBR. Christina Henry is an author I’ve been meaning to try by ages too but I truly don’t know what I’ll pick up first by her. She has so many books to choose from 😂
Christina Henry does have a lot to choose from! I suppose you could start by deciding if you’re leaning more toward horror vs fantasy/retelling, and narrow it down from there. 🙂
Good idea 😊 I have options from both on my TBR but as I’m hoping to check out more retellings this year I’ll probably start with one of those.
Happy Birthday to your daughter!! Scythe, is a good one! Yeah, you should definitely do a garnet colored book one of these times! 🙂
Thanks! I’ll have to give some thought to which garnet book to give her!
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