Reading With Pride - Adult, Rainbow Female Character

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This is a list of books that will help you complete the first section of the challenge - reading a book with a rainbow female character.

This is the Adult list.

Updated May 11, 2026
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Exciting times
Dolan, Naoise
Paper Book
'The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page' THE TIMES 'A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY 'More than lives...
Learned by heart
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
The couple at no. 9
Douglas, Claire (Journalist)
Paper Book
An inherited cottage. A body buried in the garden. And a secret spanning three generations. When Saffy's beloved grandmother, Rose, goes into a care home, Saffy learns that she has inherited her Cotswolds cottage. But as work begins on much-needed renovations, the body of a young...
The hidden room
Duffy, Stella
Paper Book
Life is good for Laurie and Martha. They have three great kids, a much-loved home in the countryside, and after years of struggle, Laurie's career as an architect is taking off at last. Everything's perfect.Except, it isn't. Someone is about to walk into their happy family and tear it apart. Laurie...
The amusements
Flannery, Aingeala
Paper Book
In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of their childhoods in its caravan parks, chippers and amusement arcades. Local teenager Helen Grant is indifferent to the charm of her surroundings; she dreams of...
The wedding party
Kelly, Cathy
Paper Book
Devotion
Kent, Hannah
Paper Book
'A glorious love story' - Sarah Winman, author of Still Life 'Exquisite lyrical writing and page-turning adventure' - Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters From a 19th-century Prussian village to the dusty plains of Australia, Devotion is a...
Adult onset
MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Paper Book
'Ann-Marie MacDonald captures the dark hilarity of parenthood like nobody else. I gulped down Adult Onset in a single day.' Emma Donoghue, author of Room A NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IN CANADA Mary Rose McKinnon has two children with her partner Hilary and a...
One last stop
McQuiston, Casey
Paper Book
*Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Instant USA Today Bestseller* *Instant #1 Indie Bestseller* From Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes One Last Stop, a big-hearted romantic comedy...
Toto among the murderers
Morgan, Sally J.
Paper Book
'Vividly portrays the human face of young women on the margins of society, women who defy being statistics, who have their own stories and loves to tell' Sophie Ward WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE OCKHAM AWARDS ...
Gideon the Ninth
Muir, Tamsyn
Paper Book
15+ pages of new, original content, including a glossary of terms, in-universe writings, and more!A USA Today Best-Selling Novel, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, BookPage, Shelf Awareness,...
Harrow the ninth
Muir, Tamsyn
Paper Book
Harrow the Ninth, an Amazon pick for Best SFF of 2020 and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station....
Nona the ninth
Muir, Tamsyn
Paper Book
Tamsyn Muir's New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona ...the Ninth? A Finalist for the Hugo and Locus Awards! An Indie Next Pick! The Locked Tomb is a 2023 Hugo...
A river of golden bones
Mulford, A. K.
Paper Book
From bestselling author and TikTok sensation A.K. Mulford comes the first riveting, enchanting book in the all-new Golden Court trilogy. A young heir begins a journey of self-discovery, romance, and adventure as she comes out of hiding to save her sister from a malicious, powerful...
Detransition, baby
Peters, Torrey
Ebook
Stag dance
Peters, Torrey
Paper Book
Trans life past, present and future is explored in this provocative follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller Detransition, Baby
Sing you home
Picoult, Jodi
Paper Book
Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen. Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter's life. There's the melody that reminds her of the summer spent in pursuit of the perfect tan. A dance beat that makes her think of fake ID's and nightclubs. A dirge that marked the years she...
Come and get it
Reid, Kiley
Paper Book
THE UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING PHENOMENON SUCH A FUN AGE *A 2024 Book of the Year for the Washington Post, New Yorker, Elle, Vulture and Harper's Bazaar* * THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES<...
Atmosphere
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
***THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*** 'Tipped as the read of the summer' SUNDAY TIMES 'A richly drawn page-turner' OBSERVER 'Quite possibly our favourite TJR novel yet' COSMOPOLITAN 'I absolutely adored this' BRYONY GORDON
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo : a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM 'Riveting, heart-wrenching and full of Old Hollywood glamour' BuzzFeed 'This wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet and...
Greta And Valdin
Reilly, Rebecca K.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure' TIMES 'Warm, witty and utterly idiosyncratic' ALICE SLATER 'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime' JULIA...
Ordinary love
Rutkoski, Marie
Paper Book
'An immersive, glamorous, sexy and gripping modern love story to gulp down hungrily and quickly' SUNDAY TIMES 'This sexy, summer romance slips down as easily as oysters and champagne' DAILY MAIL 'An exquisitely tender portrayal of enduring...
Bury our bones in the midnight soil
Schwab, Victoria
Paper Book
The Heart-Stopping International Sensation! Instant No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller No. 1 New York Times Bestseller The Radio 2 Book Club Pick From V. E. Schwab, a genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into . . .
Among the burning flowers
Shannon, Samantha
Paper Book
Marosa Vetalda is a prisoner in her own home, controlled by her cold father, King Sigoso. Over the mountains, her betrothed, Aubrecht Lievelyn, rules Mentendon in all but name. Together, they intend to usher in a better world. A better world seems impossibly distant to Estina Melaugo, who hunts the...
A day of fallen night
Shannon, Samantha
Paper Book
**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** 'A magnificent, sweeping epic' JENNIFER SAINT, Sunday Times-bestselling author of ARIADNE 'Shannon is simply a master of the genre' C. S. PACAT, New York Times-bestselling author of DARK RISE...
The priory of the orange tree
Shannon, Samantha
Paper Book
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. 'Epic' Guardian 'Majestic' Daily Mail 'The new Game of Thrones' Stylist ...
Briefly, a delicious life
Stevens, Nell
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 'Wildly seductive' - Sarah Waters 'Exquisite' - New York Times 'Deeply enjoyable' - Daily Telegraph Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens is a story about breaking...
Never anyone but you
Thomson, Rupert
Paper Book
'A novel of tremendous beauty . . . A wonderful achievement' Sarah Waters 'A beautiful and extraordinary book' Philip Pullman When Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old, meets the brilliant but troubled Lucie in rural Provence at the turn of the twentieth century, the...
Islands of mercy
Tremain, Rose
Paper Book
'A hell of a read... more absorbing than most fiction I've read this year' Sunday Times She was 'The Angel of the Baths', the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an...
The safekeep : a novel
Wouden, Yael van der
Paper Book
It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel...

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