This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: “Covers with [Item] on the Cover (You choose the item! It can be anything at all.)”
Tonight is Bonfire Night here in the UK (also known as Guy Fawkes Night or Fireworks Night), where we remember the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Here are nine books I’ve read and reviewed on my blog – and another that I’m reading now and haven’t reviewed yet – which all have fire or flames on the cover.
1. Fire by John Boyne
2. Dark Fire by CJ Sansom
3. The Fire Court by Andrew Taylor
4. Dance of Death by Helen McCloy
5. Fire by CC Humphreys
6. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
7. Priestess of Ishana by Judith Starkston
8. The Trap by Dan Billany
9. There Came Both Mist and Snow by Michael Innes
10. The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
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Have you read any of these? Can you find any other books with fire on the cover?
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Great set of choices Helen. Now you’ve reminded me of Dark Fire and made me want to revisit!
Thanks. I’ve loved all of the books in the Shardlake series and still have the last one to read.
Puzzling that Villette has a candle/fire on the cover, not the first thing that comes to mind with that novel.
Yes, that’s a strange one and doesn’t have much relevance to the book! I included it anyway as I was running out of ‘fire’ covers to make up the ten.
I’m wondering if it’s an attempt to make it look more gothic/like Jane Eyre even though that doesn’t reflect the novel well.
Probably! I think it’s just someone’s idea of an atmospheric Victorian cover without too much thought given to the story itself.
I’d add Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones (some but not all of the covers have prominent fire) and Fire by Kristen Cashore.
I’m not familiar with the Kristen Cashore book, but I do want to read Fire & Hemlock.
Love the fire/flame theme you went with for this week’s TTT. I went with clocks on the cover because we just had to switch from Daylight Savings Time to Standard time here in Utah, which I hate having to do. ;D
I hate doing that too. Our clocks changed more than a week ago and my sleeping patterns still haven’t adjusted!
Villette is the only one I’ve read here and I don’t see the significance of the candle. Unless you consider that it takes place before electricity, so they probably used a lot of candlelight!
Here’s my list. I did my own thing this week:
I don’t think the candle really has any significance, but I needed another ‘fire’ cover for my list and that was the only one I could find!
Great covers and topic! I love that you tied it to history. I don’t know much about the Gunpowder Plot but I always here about it. I will have to read up on it.
Bonfire Night/the Gunpowder Plot is a big part of British culture, but I think even here there are still a lot of people who don’t really know the full history behind it. The King’s Witch by Tracy Borman and The Winter Garden by Nicola Cornick are two novels I read about it.
Hi Helen, I love this theme choice, as I am a big fan of Bonfire Night. I haven’t read any of your choices. A book I have read with fire on the cover is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 🔥
Blessings, Jessica 💌
Thanks, Jessica! I haven’t read Fahrenheit 451, but yes, that’s a great example of a fire-related book!
Cool theme!
I have read a few by Sansom, I need to keep going on in the series
I love the Shardlake series – I only have the final book left to read!