Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is April Showers, with the prompt: Interpret this however you’d like: rainy day reads, books that make you cry, books that give you happy tears, books to wash away a bad reading experience, books set in rainy places, books with rain/raindrops/umbrellas on the cover, blue book covers, etc.

I’ve decided to go with the rain theme: “Rain” in the title, or rain on the cover, or a cover/title that’s rain-adjacent (hence the umbrella covers!). Here are my ten:

1. In Mercy, Rain by Seanan McGuire: Story set in the world of the Wayward Children series
2. Nothing But the Rain by Naomi Salman: On my TBR
3. Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie: I have a copy of the paperback on my shelf, but haven’t read it yet
4. Sheltering Rain by Jojo Moyes: And yet another owned but not read!
5. Rainwater by Sandra Brown: A book group book from over five years ago
6. The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer: An umbrella not just on the cover, but important to the plot! (amazing book)
7. The Umbrella Academy graphic novel series: I’ve read the first volume in this series — this is the image from the Netflix series, but I like the look of it much better than the book cover
8. Gathering Storm by Maggie Craig: Terrific historical fiction… and storms are rain-adjacent!
9. Soulless by Gail Carriger: OK, granted, it’s the Parasol Protectorate series… but the cover image looks much more like an umbrella than a parasol to me
10. Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra: Read with a book group something like 20 years ago! I don’t think I understood more than half of it… but I do like the title and cover

What April Showers books did you feature this week?

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