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Edited by Sheela Lambert Alphabetized by Title
Author: Picano, Felice Sexual Orientation of Author: Gay with bisexual tendencies. Publisher: Plume Year: 1987 Description:
Author: Sheehan, Aurelie Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: Penguin Year: 2004 Description: Bisexual moments: four characters either express bisexual feelings, engage in bisexual behavior or appear to be experiencing bisexual feelings without fully realizing it. . This book has strong bisexual "tendencies" and a lot of bisexual subtext but no overt bisexuality. Good writing makes it worth reading.
Author: Anshaw, Carol Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi when she wrote it, now lesbian. Publisher: Mariner Year: 1997 Description: Three part story. Each chapter represents one of three different possible lives the same character could have lived depending on different possible choices she made in her youth. The three chapters taken together, along with the ending, add up to bi. Creative and well-written.
Author: Gaitskill, Mary Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher:Scribner Paperback Fiction, NY Year: 1997 Description: Short story collection. Stories with bi content include Orchid, Kiss and Tell, and The Wrong Thing.
Author: Livia, Anna Sexual Orientation of Author: Lesbian? Publisher: Firebrand Books, Ithaca, NY Year: 1999 Description: Four bi characters, one of which is a hemaphrodite, one heteroflexible and one a feminist serial killer, a few lesbians and even a couple straight (but not narrow) characters all wind up converging on a house in San Francisco in what turns out to be a quirky comic novel. Even though it starts off with child abuse, murder and domestic violence it manages to wind up an eccentric comedy about accepting oneself and finding love.
Author: Miller, Henry Sexual Orientation of Author: Straight, but his wife was bi. Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld, NY Year: 1968 Description: Henry Miller's fictionalized memoir and ode to jealousy about living in NYC with his bisexual wife, June, who brings her female lover to live with them.
Author: Gatiss, Mark Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction, NY Year: 2006 Description: Main character is a bisexual British secret service agent in his 50's. Set in the 1920's.
Author: Chad Sosna Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: I-Universe Year: 2006 Description: Fun gay novel that would have benefitted from a good editor. Unfortunately, the bisexual character is a very two dimensional stereotype.
Author:Ames, Jonathan Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi-ish. "The gayest straight man in America." Publisher: Washington Square Press Year: 1988 Description:
Author: Starhawk Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: Bantam Books Year: 1993 Description: Five positive bisexual protagonists add up to a very bisexual novel! Well written fantasy/sci fi. Bi female senior citizen character talks to her dead lovers, male and female, and to get advice. Five bi heroes.
Author: Brant, Martin Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: iUniverse Year: 2006 Description: Tales of the closet.
Author: Jane Merchant Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: Spinsters Ink Books Year: 2006 Description: Expat Housewife in France falls for another mother at her children's school. See review by Heather O'Neil: http://www.afterellen.com/Print/2007/7/acrossthepage
Author: Mujica, Barbara Sexual Orientation of Author: ? Publisher: Penguin Year: 2001 Description: Well crafted novel based on the life of renowned bisexual Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, from the point of view of Frida's sister. Takes some liberties with the facts but captures her personality. This book tries to answer the question: Why did Frida's own sister have an affair with her husband, Diego Rivera? A great study of sibling jealousy.
Author: Baldwin, James Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: Delta Year: 2000 Description:
Author: Cunningham, Michael Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York Year: 1990 Description:
Author: Ames, Jonathan Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi-ish. "The gayest straight man in America." Publisher: Washington Square Press Year: 1989 Description:
Author: Boyle, T. Coraghessan Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: Penguin Year: 2004 Description:
Author: Kittredge, Cherry Sexual Orientation of Author: Lesbian minister. Publisher: Androgyne Press Year: 2006 Description: Jesus as bisexual and multi-gendered and in love with both Mary Magdalen and John, but celibate. The author obviously knows her way around a spiritual experience and succeeds at describing them. Very poetic and brilliant, although it could have used a better editor. Worth reading anyway.
Author: Emma Donoghue Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: Harcourt Year: 2007 Description: One of two main characters is bi butch woman. See review by Heather O'Neil: http://www.afterellen.com/books/2007/8/acrossthepage
Author: Klein, Fritz Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: Harrington Park Press Year: Description: Surprisingly low on bisexual content, considering it was written by the father of the bi community. Will not win any literature prizes either.
Author: Kincaid, Jamaica Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York Year: 1990 Description:
Author: Spanbauer, Tom Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: HarperCollins Year: 1991 Description:
Author: Maupin, Armistead Sexual Orientation of Author: Gay Publisher: Harper Collins Year: 2007 Description: This is the latest installment of Tales of the City focusing on "Mouse" Michael Tolliver, now middle aged. This is basically a gay novel with one bisexual secondary character, Brian's 22yr old blogger daughter Shawna, who is openly bi. Maupin seems to trust his characters more in this novel and this time doesn't feel the need to throw in a crazy mystery plot, he just relies on human drama as well as touching base with most of the characters we loved from the previous volumes.
Author: Sarton, May Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: George J. McLeod Limited, Toronto Year: 1965 Description: Main character, a writer, has husband, boyfriend, several girlfriends and girl crushes throughout her lifetime. Main character considered autobiographical in spirit.
Author: Leddick, David Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: St. Martin's Press Year: 1996 Description: Coming of age novel about gay teen who dates older man who is also dating his mother. Bi character is somewhat sleazy but novel good.
Author: Vidal, Gore Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: Year: 1968 Description: Fierce campy bisexual transexual satire.
Author: Chabon, Michael Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: Year: Description: Classic college bisexual love triangle. Main character is bi.
Author: Yoshimoto, Banana Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: Washington Square Press Year: 1990 Description:
Author: Wolf, Virginia Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: Year: Description: Not explicitly a bisexual novel, the main character changes sex half-way through as a "symbol" of bisexuality. This plot device was a way for Woolf to express her bisexuality without having to come out. (Remember that when this book was published in 1928, there was no public awareness of transgender so the change of sex read as fanciful to most readers and bisexual to those in the know.) Woolf, though married, had a relationship with the equally married Vita Sackville-West who had a habit of sometimes dressing like a man and calling herself Julian when with her female lovers. The character of Orlando represents Vita. Long, rambling, ponderous but historically significant.
Author: Herendeen, Ann Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: AuthorHouse Year: 2005 Description: Very bi central character and storyline. Very humorous.
Author: Tumblin III, Alfred L Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: iUniverse Year: 2006 Description: Unreadable, derivative, gothic novel set in New Orleans. I couldn’t get past page 89 of 410 pages. If you do, let me know what happened.
Author: McCloy, Kristin Sexual Orientation of Author: ? (I'm guessing bi) Publisher: Penguin Year: 1994 Description:
Author: Chris Moriarty Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: Bantam Spectra Year: 2006 Description: Very complex, to the point of impenetrable, sci-fi novel. We're not sure how bisexual it is because none of us could get through it.
Author: Donoghue, Emma Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: HarperCollins Year: 1994 Description:
Author: Annette Lapointe Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: Anvil Press Year: Description: A novel about a basically gay character, a loner and professional thief, who has a one night stand with a chick. Not very bisexual.
Author: Maupin, Armistead Sexual Orientation of Author: Gay. Publisher: The Chronicle Publishing Company Year: 1978 Description: A couple of bi characters in Vol I. The story becomes more and more bisexual as you follow the characters through successive volumes. Many of the "straight" characters become bi.
Author: Maupin, Armistead Sexual Orientation of Author: Gay. Publisher: The Chronicle Publishing Company Year: 1980 Description:See Volume I.
Author: Maupin, Armistead Sexual Orientation of Author: Gay. Publisher: The Chronicle Publishing Company Year: 1982 Description: See Volume I.
Author: Maupin, Armistead Sexual Orientation of Author: Gay. Publisher: The Chronicle Publishing Company Year: Description: See Volume I.
Author: Maupin, Armistead Sexual Orientation of Author: Gay. Publisher: HarperCollins Year: 1987 Description: See Volume I.
Author: Maupin, Armistead Sexual Orientation of Author: Gay. Publisher: The Chronicle Publishing Company Year: Description: See Volume I.
Author: Baldwin, James Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: The Dial Press, NY Year: 1968 Description: This book is mostly about being black in America. There is a strong current of bisexuality that runs through the book, but it's not substantial, even though it keeps coming up until the last 42 pages, where it becomes a blatantly bisexual book. The main relationship is with Barbara, a white woman, a fellow actress, and his soul-mate. I think he saves it for last because he found it the most taboo. Dating a white woman was taboo enough for most of the book and was counterpointed by the (black) main character's hatred of whites.
Author: Nero, Clarence Sexual Orientation of Author: Gay Publisher: Harlem Moon Year: 2006 Description: Main bisexual character torn between high school sweetheart gone wrong and prison boyfriend. Very bisexual, until the disappointing ending, when character inexplicably goes gay. Genre: commercial street fiction. Upside: all characters are african-american.
Author: Wright, Susan Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi. Publisher: Penguin Year: 2006 Description: This is mostly an S&M/B&D type novel with some bisexuality. The bisexuality is more psychosexual than emotional or romantic.
Author: Cumming, Alan Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi, queer. Publisher: HarperCollins Year: 2002 Description: Bisexual casual sex, drugs, partying, boyfriend at home and…parenting. Very bisexual but this book wont overturn any stereotypes except the one that says a guy with a boyfriend would not seek out girls on the side.
Author: Gatiss, Mark Sexual Orientation of Author: Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction, NY Year: Description:
Author: Ames, Jonathan Sexual Orientation of Author: Bi-ish. "The gayest straight man in America." Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction, NY Year: 2004 Description: This book has bisexual tendencies rather than being overtly bisexual but is creative and well worth reading.
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