

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



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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