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:
- In Mercy, Rain by Seanan McGuire: Story set in the world of the Wayward Children series
- Nothing But the Rain by Naomi Salman: On my TBR
- Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie: I have a copy of the paperback on my shelf, but haven’t read it yet
- Sheltering Rain by Jojo Moyes: And yet another owned but not read!
- Rainwater by Sandra Brown: A book group book from over five years ago
- The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer: An umbrella not just on the cover, but important to the plot! (amazing book)
- 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
- Gathering Storm by Maggie Craig: Terrific historical fiction… and storms are rain-adjacent!
- 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
- 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?
Share your link, and I’ll come check out your top 10!
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Fifty Words for Rain sounds like a good read.
I agree – I really need to make time for it!
Happy Tuesday, Lisa! Now only for a rainy day to read all these! I really like the cover for Nothing But the Rain, that 3D vibe is very good.
I’m glad this topic brought me back to that book — I do still want to read it, but had more or less forgotten about it!
Fifty Words for Rain has a beautiful cover!
I have seen and enjoyed the first season of The Umbrella Academy, I am curious to read the book versions.
Lovely list!
Thanks! I only watched the first season of The Umbrella Academy — I really should go back and watch the rest!
Great titles for this prompt! ☔️
Thanks!
Fab topic! I’m so intrigued by Umbrella Academy after seeing the footloose dance on TT!!
That dance is amazing!!
Fun covers! Soulless was such a fun read; I enjoyed that whole series. 😀
Me too! I loved the series, and the others set in that universe.
Nice work!
Thank you!
I love this combination of rain and umbrellas! And of course I love seeing The Book Witch😁
I feel like I’ll be looking for excuses to mention The Book Witch from here on out! Such a great book!
I did the same thing with my list, but we only have one in common: FIFTY WORDS FOR RAIN. I haven’t read it yet, but I want to.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
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