Read the Rainbow

Books that we have read in our Read the Rainbow book group.

This is a casual discussion group exploring the queer experience through books! Book selections are focused on own voices and include both fiction and non-fiction titles spanning a variety of LGBTQIA+ identities. This adult group meets every six weeks at Riverwalk Bakery & Café in downtown Nashua.

Updated July 14, 2026
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Ace : what asexuality reveals about desire, society, and the meaning of sex
Chen, Angela
Ebook
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity. What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What...
Gender queer : a memoir
Kobabe, Maia
Paper Book
2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the...
Upright women wanted
Gailey, Sarah
Audiobook
In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity."That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks."Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book...
Light from uncommon stars
Aoki, Ryka
Paper Book
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Hugo...
Cemetery boys
Thomas, Aiden
Paper Book
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature! A New York Times Bestseller! A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten pick! "Goundbreaking." -Entertainment Weekly A trans boy determined to prove his gender to...
Bi : the hidden culture, history, and science of bisexuality
Shaw, Julia (Professor)
Paper Book
A personal and scientific manifesto for the sexually in-between, from the internationally bestselling author and co-host of Bad People.
Loveless
Oseman, Alice
Paper Book
With special bonus content - a brand new story by Alice Oseman WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2021 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and the graphic novel series Heartstopper - now a major Netflix series...
The song of Achilles
Miller, Madeline.
Paper Book
**OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD** WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Captivating' DONNA TARTT 'A book I could not put down'...

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