The Internet, and actually also real life, can be a minefield for people who want to learn about or talk about bisexuality. The effort of trying to sift through the straight-up biphobia and the fetishizing porn aimed at straight men can wear you out long before you manage to find anything helpful, insightful, or illuminating. To try to make this process a little easier, we’ve compiled a starter of a list of resources. Here you’ll find academic books and nonfiction books documenting the experiences of bisexual people, fiction or memoir that depicts bisexual people, and a few online resources.
We recognize that this is by no means complete! We’d love to find more resources, especially those dealing with bisexual trans* people and bisexual people of color, and would love to add resources that speak not just to bisexuality, but to pansexuality and omnisexuality and other identities. If you have any suggestions, let us know in the comments!
Also, this list is such that not every title on it could be read and vetted by us personally — we can’t guarantee that these texts depict bisexual people in unproblematic ways, that the ideas put forth by bisexual authors are unproblematic, or that these texts are free of cissexism and racism. If there’s a reason these texts shouldn’t be recommended, let us know!
Nonfiction/Academic
Closer to Home: Bisexuality & Feminism
Edited by Elizabeth Reba Weise
The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television
by Maria San Filippo
Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others
by Fritz Klein, Karen Yescavage & Jonathan Alexander
Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions
by John Dececco Phd & Naomi S Tucker
Bisexuality: A Critical Reader
Edited by Merl Storr
Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out
Edited by Loraine Hutchins & Lani Kaahumanu
Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World, Second Edition
Edited by Robyn Ochs & Sarah Rowley
Bi America: Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community
by William Burleson
Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life
by Marjorie Garber
Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
by Jennifer Baumgardner
Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire
by Lisa M. Diamond
Bi Lives: Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories
Edited by Kata Orndorff
Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority
Edited by Beth A. Firestein
Bisexuality in the Ancient World
by Eva Cantarella, Translated by Cormac O Cuilleanain
Bisexual Resource Guide
Edited by Robyn Ochs
Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges
by Alexander, Jason and Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio
The Bisexual Imaginary
by Louise Allen, edited by Bi Academic Intervention
Bisexual Characters in Film: From Anais to Zee
by John Dececco and Wayne M. Bryant
Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender
by Clare Hemmings
RePresenting Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire
by Pramaggiore, edited by Maria and Donald E. Hall
Fiction/Memoir
A Map of Home
by Randa Jarrar
If You Follow Me: A Novel
by Malena Watrous
The Buddha of Suburbia
by Hanif Kureishi
Love Letter to a Female Reader (Love Letters, #1)
by Victoria Primrose
Thorn in the Flesh
by Anne Brooke
Sutherland’s Rules
by Dario Ciriello
The Metaphysical Touch
by Sylvia Brownrigg
Very LeFreak
by Rachel Cohn
Babyji
by Abha Dawesar
Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage
by Jenny Block
Boyfriends with Girlfriends
by Alex Sanchez
The Correspondence Artist
by Barbara Browning
Love You Two
by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Torn
by Amber Lehman
Map
by Audrey Beth Stein
Indigo Springs (Astrid Lethewood, #1)
by A.M. Dellamonica
Miss Timmins’ School for Girls: A Novel
by Nayana Currimbhoy
Gut Symmetries
by Jeanette Winterson
The Complete Strangers in Paradise, Volume 1
by Terry Moore
The Hunger (Hunger, #1)
by Whitley Strieber
Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
Empress of the World (Battle Hall Davies, #1)
by Sara Ryan
Bye-Bye
by Jane Ransom
The American Woman in the Chinese Hat
by Carole Maso
In the Name of Salome
by Julia Alvarez
Aquamarine
by Carol Anshaw
Landing
by Emma Donoghue
Resources
Bi Community News
BiMedia.org
American Institute of Bisexuality
BiMagazine
BiNet USA
Bisexual Resource Center
