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What a fun project, hope this helps: Green: Breakfast Lunch Tea - Rose bakery by Rose Carrarini, Mr. Wilkinson's Simply dressed salads by Matt Wilkinson, River Cottage Fruit and River Cottage much more veg by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, All about braising by Molly Stevens, Nigella Express by Nigella Lawson, Vegetarian by Alice Hart Purple: River Cottage Veg by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Dories Cookies by Dorie Greenspan, Gateux by Christophe Felder, Dolci by Francine Segan, The return of the naked chef by Jamie Oliver

This is an unusual request! We have never been asked this before. From my own collection (with considerable variation in the shades):

Green spines:
Sunday Suppers at Lucques by Suzanne Goin
Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Madison
Breakfast Lunch Tea by Rose Carrarini
Raising the Salad Bar by Cathy Walthers
Fast, Fresh & Green by Susie Middleton
The Fresh & Green Table by Susie Middleton
Fields of Green by Annie Sommerville
A Recipe for Cooking by Cal Peternell
Thailand: The Cookbook by Jean-Pierre Gabriel 
30 Ingredients by Sally Clarke

Purple spines:
Ripe by Cheryl Sternman Rule
Japanese Farm Food by Nancy Singleton Hachisu
Cook Simple by Diana Henry
Say It With Cake by Edd Kimber
Dorie's Cookies by Dorie Greenspan (part of the spine is purple)
Provence to Pondicherry by Tessa Kiros
The Heart of the Plate by Mollie Katzen
Melt: The Art of Macaroni & Cheese by Stephanie Stiavetti & Garrett McCord

Green: Burma - Naomi Duguid

What we eat when we eat alone - Deborah Madison (again)

Nigel Slater's real food (actually green and blue stripes)

Purple: Sophie Grigson's Country kitchen

In English I have "Let's cook Italian" from Gennaro in double if you want to complete your collection for free I can send that to you (I live in the UK but can also post from France or Luxembourg as I am triangulating at the moment).

Otherwise I have (but no duplicates for those sorry!! :)  "Great British Food revival" (but turquoise-ish green) and "Le grain de sel de Bernard" (though that last one is in French)

I love Susie Middleton's three "Green" books and the spines are all different shades of green. Deborah Madison's Vegetable Literacy also has a green spine.

I haven't cooked from Eat This Poem yet, but it's a really wonderful read. I'm also a fan of pretty much all of Lori Longbotham's books, but it's her Luscious Berry Desserts that has a lighter purple spine. Both of these purple ones are on the short side only being around 8 inches tall, if that needs to be taken into consideration.

I would love to see a photo of your newly organized shelves!

Interesting method of organizing!

GREEN:

• Claire's Cornucopia Cookbook.  by Claire Criscuolo


• The Greens Cookbook  by Deborah Madison'


• Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant by the Mossewood Collective


• Wild About Greens by Nava Atlas


• Home for the Holidays by Ken Haedrich


• The Farmette Cookbook by Imen MacDonnel


• The Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics


• Quick Vegetarian Pleasure by Jeanne Lemlin


• The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook by Diane Shaw


• The Monastery Garden Cookbook by Brother Victor Antoine D'Avila-Latourette

PURPLE:

• Moosewood Restaurant New Classics


• The Pure Joy of Monastery Cooking by same Brother above


• Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes by Robin Robertson


• Party Vegan by Robin Robertson


• Martha Stewarts Cupcakes


• 1.000 Vegetarian Recipes by Carol Gelles (w/o the dust cover)

Those are the colours that are underrepresented on my shelves too! I thought about arranging by colour when I was reshelving my books recently but decided not to because I wouldn't be able to cope with disproportionate distribution of colours. I have recently bought a beautiful purple-spined book though https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/77219/miss-masala - AND it's got loads of very doable Indian recipes that I want to try.

Green (a winner in my shelves):

• Scrumptious


• Creole


• Friendly food


• zest 4 life


• at home with Ben


• cadbury


• australian fish


• cake decorating (mine is younger vesion & green!)


• csiro complete


• spring harvest


• delicious home cooking


• instant cook


• Charmaine Solomon Asian


• Verjuice

Purple:

• Stephanies Journal


• Cape Flavour


• Return of Naked Chef


• Ultimate desserts


• Finger food


• Charmaine Thai


• Love to Eat


• Great Australian WIne book

What fun! I would love to see a picture of your books. I am trying not to repeat, but may have missed a couple: PURPLE One of my favorite books of all time, World Vegetarian, by Madhur Jeffrey (though I think this has been rerprinted many times, with various covers, perhaps not purple) PURPLE/GREEN (could be used on your shelves as a transition from purple to green) Also one of my favorite books, Indian Cooking Unfolded, by Raghavan Iyer GREEN Barefoot in Paris, by Ina Garten Yolele! By Pierre Thiam The Soul of a New Cuisine, by Marcus Samuelsson

Dear Yildiz100, THank you for this great post. I have been doing my cookbooks by rainbow color, too, and am glad for all of the suggestions this has produced.  Here are a few more for you in green and purple:

Green:

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan

Recipe Jubile by Junior League of Mobile

Miss Vickie's Real Food Real Fast Pressure Cooker Cookbook by Vickie Smith

Potatoes by Gisella Allkemper

The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines by Jeff Smith

365 Ways to Cook Pasta by Marie Simmons

Foods a la Louisiane by Louisiana Farm Bureau Women

Judy Zeidler's International Deli cookbook

Purple:

Crescent City Collection A Taste of New Orleans by The Junior League of NewOrleans

Hope this helps!

I still can't figure out how to create neat links in this forum, but from my collection:

Green

The Frugal Gourmet Whole Family Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections for Contemporary Living, by Jeff Smith

The Oxford Companion To Food, by Alan Davidson (big, fat, and bright green)

Real Food for Cats: 50 Vet-Approved Recipes to Please the Feline Gastronome (cover looks blueish here, but my copy is definitely green--spine and background color of the front cover)

The Vegan Kitchen, by Freya Dinshah

Vegetarian Cooking: Kitchen Library (a little grayish as you can see from the front cover here, but spine still qualifies as green)

Purple

Feast at Your Fingertips: The Ultimate Catalog of Fabulous Foods by Mail, by Stephen Manley

whitewoods - thanks for reviving this topic. It's a good one.

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Thanks, Jane. I think this is the key piece of information that I was missing:

Originally Posted by: Jane

this icon only shows when text is highlighted

I too find it necessary  to arrange books by spine colour both for aesthetic/natural order of things considerations and because it's a quicker way to finding the book for which one is looking. Would the site consider adding this as a search or sort function?