CBR Diversion – Bingo – “Bird”

Hope you are enjoying this year’s Cannonball Read Book Bingo Reading Challenge. You can get complete information here. I am back with assistance for finding books to meet the bingo circle “Bird“.

Bird – symbol of a nation; symbol of resistance; birds of a feather; bird’s eye view; has the name of a bird.

For this one I am going to explore bird books of four types – character named Bird, bird on the cover, plot involves birds (or birdwatching), and title with a bird in it. I am avoiding the low hanging fruit, titles like The Goldfinch and  To Kill a Mockingbird, to find you those bird books you might never think of.

Character named Bird:

• The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett – set during the Great Depression, Birdie struggles to save her family and her sister’s family from ruin.
• The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton – Birdie Bell watches over Birchwood Manor across more than 150 years.
• Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng – Bird Gardner searching for his mother in a dystopian future America.

Bird on the cover:

• Tilt by Emma Pattee – a woman, who is nine months pregnant, survives a major earthquake and goes in search of her husband.
• Starling House by Alix E. Harrow – gothic fantasy novel set in middles of nowhere Kentucky.
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett – an exploration of class and race in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi.

• Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin – an injured baby crow brings healing to three neighbors on a vacation lake in the Pacific Northwest.
• Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans – birdwatchers figure prominently in this Rear Window takeoff.
• Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher – a  cozy horror with a roadrunner as a major character.

Title with a bird in it: