15 books with a colour in the title

The first book in the ‘In the Garden’ series, Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts is a fantasy-romance about a recently-widowed woman who falls for a landscaper. However, one Harper Bride isn’t happy with their relationship. Her apparent rage allows her to reach beyond the grave to wreak havoc upon the lives of the two lonely souls in love.
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Anne of Green Gables by Canadian author L.M. Montgomery was first published in 1908. Though written for all age groups, the book is considered as a classic children's book. In fact, Mark Twain has described Anne from this lovely story as “the dearest and most lovable child in fiction since the immortal Alice.”
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This erotic romance novel published in 2011 is the first in the trilogy, the other two being Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed in 2012. The trilogy traces the relationship between Anastasia Steele, a college graduate, and Christian Grey, a young business man, who introduces her to BDSM.
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Anna Sewell's 1877 fictional novel, is a heart-touching first person autobiographical memoir of a horse named Black Beauty. It teaches one about kindness, respect and empathy towards animals. This is Sewell's only novel which became an instant bestseller.
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Ian Fleming's Goldfinger is the seventh novel in the James Bond series, which was first published in 1959. The story: MI6 operative James Bond is involved in an investigation on Auric Goldfinger's gold smuggling activities. Goldfinger is also suspected of being a part of the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation. Through his investigations, Bond ends up uncovering Goldfinger's much bigger plans. This best-selling novel was made into a comic-strip and was also adapted for a Bond movie.
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Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun was published in 2006. It tells the story of the Biafran War through the characters' (Olanna, Odenigbo, Ugwu, and Richard) point of views. The book won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction in 2007.
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Orhan Pamuk's 1998 Turkish novel was translated into English in 2001 by Erdağ Göknar. The novel is about the miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire of 1591. My Name Is Red established Pamuk worldwide as a reputed author. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006.
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The third novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy, titled The Amber Spyglass was published in 2000. It won the Children's Book of the Year at British Book Awards in 2001. The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman was also the first ever children's book which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison is a memoir by Piper Kerman. In this 2010 book, Piper tells her story of money laundering and drug trafficking conviction which lead her to spend a year in the women's prison. The book was adapted into a web-series of the same name.
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Set in the foothills of Himalayas in a small village, this 1980 heart-warming story is about a little girl Binya and a village shopkeeper, Ram Bharosa. When Binya gets a beautiful blue umbrella from foreign tourists in exchange of her leopard claw pendant, her umbrella becomes the talk of the town and which Ram Bharosa envies. The Blue Umbrella was adapted into a Hindi film of the same name in 2005 by Vishal Bhardwaj.
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This 1996 serial novel by Stephen King is an example of magical realism. The story revolves around Paul Edgecombe, a death row supervisor, and his encounter with John Coffey, an inmate who displays unusual healing and empathetic abilities.
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Alice Walker's The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel. The book won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction in the Unites States. The Colour Purple is also adapted into a film and a musical of the same name.
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This is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe which was published in 1843. The story revolves William Legrand who is bitten by a gold coloured bug, because of which his servant Jupiter now fears that he is going insane. Jupiter persuades Legrand's friend to visit them. Meanwhile, Legrand deciphers a secret message and pulls the other two in an adventure in search of a buried treasure.
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The fourth book in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Silver Chair is a children's fantasy novel which was published in 1953. Although, it is the sixth volume in the recent editions of the series as they are sequenced according to the Narnian history. The book is illustrated by Pauline Baynes, who has also worked in many other editions.
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This debut novel by Arvind Adiga was published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. The novel gives a darkly humorous view-point of India's class struggle in a globalized world. The story is told through a retrospective narration by a village boy, Balram Halwai.
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