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[[File:Rainbowreadinggroup.logo.jpg|thumb|Rainbow Reading Group logo]]The '''Rainbow Reading Group''' is an LGBT Reading Group, organised by [[Croydon Area Gay Society]] (CAGS) in conjunction with Croydon Library. It meets monthly in the Central Library, [[Croydon]].

It was started in October 2010, but had its official opening in February 2011 with a visit by Issy Festing, author of <cite>The Bird Keeper</cite>.<ref name=homepage>[http://www.rainbowreadinggroup.org.uk/ Rainbow Reading Group home page]. [http://www.webcitation.org/6pRVZKOFt Archived] by WebCite® at 2017-04-03.</ref> [[Fiona Shaw (author)|Fiona Shaw]], author of ''A Stone's Throw'', was the guest in February 2013, and [[Stevie Henden]], author of ''The Lost Boy, the Doodlebug, and the Mysterious Number 80'' was the guest in February 2014.

==Books discussed==

Books so far read and discussed (to December 2018):<ref name=homepage />
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*<cite>Blood Relatives</cite> by [[Stevan Alcock]]
*<cite>The Yacoubian Building</cite> by Alaa al Aswany
*<cite>Giovanni's Room</cite>, <cite>Go Tell it on the Mountain</cite> and <cite>Just Above My Head</cite> by James Baldwin
*<cite>Mr Clive &amp; Mr Page</cite> and <cite>Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall </cite> by [[Neil Barlett]]
*<cite>Days without End </cite> by Sebastian Barry
*<cite>Gay Berlin - Birthplace of a Modern Identity </cite> by Robert Beachey
*<cite>The Gulf between us</cite> by Geraldine Bedell
*<cite>Leaving Tangiers</cite> by Tahar Ben Jelloun
*<cite>Smut</cite> by [[Alan Bennett]]
*<cite>Ruby Fruit Jungle</cite> by Rita Mae Brown
*<cite>Shameless</cite> by [[Paul Burston]]
*<cite>The Miniaturist</cite> by Jessie Burton
*<cite>Love is where it Falls </cite>by [[Simon Callow]]
*<cite>Breakfast at Tiffany's</cite> by Truman Capote
*<cite>Briefs Encountered</cite> by [[Julian Clary]]
*<cite>Retreat from Love</cite> by Colette
*<cite>The Naked Civil Servant</cite> by [[Quentin Crisp]]
*<cite>[[Not my Father's Son]]</cite> by [[Alan Cumming]]
*<cite>The Hours</cite> by Michael Cunningham
*<cite>[[A Boxful of Ideas: Poetry &amp; Prose by LGBT Writers]] </cite> edited by [[John Dixon]] and [[Jeffrey Doorn]]
*<cite>Astray</cite> by Emma Donoghue
*<cite>In A Hidden Room</cite> by Stella Duffy
*<cite>[[James Miranda Barry]] </cite> by [[Patricia Duncker]]
*<cite>Justine</cite> by Lawrence Durrell
*<cite>Middlesex</cite> by Jeffrey Eugenides
*<cite>Mr Loverman </cite> by Bernardine Evaristo
*<cite>In the Darkroom</cite> by Susan Faludi
*<cite>[[The Bird Keeper]]</cite> by Issy Festing
*<cite>Over the Rainbow: Money Class &amp; Homophobia</cite> by Nicola Field
*<cite>Fried Green Tomatoes a[[t the Whistle Stop Café</cite> by Fannie Flagg
*<cite>[[Maurice]]</cite> by [[E M Forster]]
*<cite>Rough Music</cite>, <cite>A Place Called Winter</cite> and <cite>Notes from an Exhibition </cite> by [[Patrick Gale]]
*<cite>Arctic Summer</cite> and <cite>In a Strange Room</cite> by Damon Galgut
*<cite>[[Carrington]]: A Life</cite> by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
*<cite>[[Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology]]</cite> by [[John R Gordon]]
*<cite>Notes on a Scandal</cite> by [[Zoë Heller]]<cite></cite>
*<cite>The Lost Boy, the Doodlebug, and the Mysterious Number 80</cite> by [[Stevie Henden]]
*<cite>Carol</cite> by Patricia Highsmith
*<cite>[[Speak my Language and other stories]]</cite> edited by [[Torsen Højer]]
*<cite>The Line of Beauty</cite> by [[Alan Hollinghurst]]
*<cite>Goodbye to Berlin</cite>, and <cite>A Single Man</cite> by [[Christopher Isherwood]]
*<cite>Trumpet</cite>, and <cite>The Red Dust Road</cite> by [[Jackie Kay]]
*<cite>Mr Foote's Other Leg</cite> by Ian Kelly
*<cite>The Rainbow</cite> by [[D H Lawrence]]
*<cite>The Gracekeepers</cite> by [[Kirsty Logan]]
*<cite>Tales of the City</cite>, <cite>Michael Tolliver Lives</cite>, and <cite>The Days of Anna Madrigal</cite> by Armistead Maupin
*<cite>A Darker Domain</cite> by [[Val McDermid]]
*<cite>Enduring Love</cite> by [[Ian McEwan]]
*<cite>At my Mother's Knee and Other Low Joints</cite> by [[Paul O'Grady]]
*<cite>Under the Udala Trees</cite> by Chinelo Okparanta
*<cite>Lord Cucumber &amp; the Boy Hairdresser</cite> by [[Joe Orton]]
*<cite>The Magician’s Assistant</cite> by Ann Patchett
*<cite>Spectacles</cite> by [[Sue Perkins]] 
*<cite>The Bell Jar</cite> by Sylvia Plath
*<cite>Twenty-Two Eighty-Four</cite> by [[Christopher Preston]]
*<cite>Brokeback Mountain</cite> by Annie Proulx
*<cite>The Friendly Young Ladies</cite> and <cite>The Persian Boy</cite> by [[Mary Renault]]
*<cite>The Catcher in the Rye</cite> by J D Salinger
*<cite>A Stone's Throw,</cite> and <cite>Tell it to the Bees</cite> by [[Fiona Shaw]]
*<cite>Mrs Keppel and her Daughter</cite> and <cite>[[Gluck]]</cite> by [[Diana Souhami]]
*<cite>The City of Devi</cite> by Manil Suri
*<cite>Lies we tell Ourselves</cite> by Robin Talley
*<cite>Valentine Grey</cite> by [[Sandi Toksvig]]
*<cite>Sacred Country</cite> by [[Rose Tremain]]
*<cite>The Death of Lucy Kyte</cite> by [[Nicola Upson]]
*<cite>Myra Breckenridge</cite> by Gore Vidal 
*<cite>The Colour Purple</cite> by Alice Walker
*<cite>Gypsy Boy</cite> by [[Mikey Walsh]]
*<cite>Affinity</cite>, <cite>Fingersmith</cite>, <cite>The Night Watch</cite>, <cite>Tipping the Velvet</cite> and <cite>The Paying Guests</cite> by [[Sarah Waters]]
*<cite>[[Brideshead Revisited]]</cite> by [[Evelyn Waugh]]
*<cite>My Lives</cite> by Edmund White
*<cite>The Ballad of Reading Gaol</cite> by [[Oscar Wilde]]
*<cite>[[Alexander McQueen]]: Beneath the Skin</cite> by Andrew Wilson
*<cite>Oranges are not the only Fruit</cite>, <cite>Written on the Body</cite>, and <cite>Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?</cite> by [[Jeanette Winterson]]
*<cite>Memoirs of Hadrian</cite> by Marguerite Yourcenar
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