12 New Bisexual Books to Read for Celebrate Bisexuality Day!

Bi The Way, I Love You: A Charity Anthology of Diverse Bi+ Love Stories

Let’s start off with an anthology celebrating bisexual love stories! These bi+ short stories include M/F, F/F, M/X, F/X, X/X, F/F/M, and M/M/F relationships, as well as having disability, trans, and pansexual representation. There’s frenemies-to-lovers, sex pacts, workplace romance, fake dating, mutual pining, and more. Sales from the anthology will go towards donations to Bi Pride UK and Rainbow Railroad.

The Broposal by Sonora Reyes

If you loved The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School, check out the author’s new bisexual M/M marriage of convenience romance! Kenny is bisexual and has just gotten out of an abusive relationship with his ex-girlfriend. Alejandro is his straight best friend who needs a green card. Why not get married? But as they try to convince immigration officers of the legitimacy of their engagement, things gets complicated, and faced with the undeniable chemistry between them, Alejandro begins to question whether he really is straight.

Isn’t It Obvious? by Rachel Runya Katz (October 21)

Love in Focus by Lyla Lee

You might recognize Lyla Lee’s name from her sapphic YA novels I’ll Be the One and Flip the Script, and now she’s making her adult debut with this second chance sapphic romcom. Gemma Cho is a bisexual advice columnist whose boyfriend of seven years just broke up with her—the latest in a series of disastrous relationships with men and women. She’s ready to throw in the towel until she’s matched with renowned photographer Celeste Min for an article on modern love. It’s a fantastic career opportunity, and Gemma could easily fall for Celeste…because she already has. They’re exes. Can they keep their relationship platonic? And if not, can she trust Celeste not to break her heart again?

A Tale of Mirth & Magic by Kristen Vale

Here’s another bi4bi M/F romance, this time in the cozy fantasy genre. Elikki is a charming and talented jewelry maker with uncontrollable magic and a temper. When a rude customer pushes her over the edge, she’s forced to flee the constables. She’s assisted by the gentle half-giant Barra. As the publisher description says: “So begins a journey filled with cozy inns, delicious meals, heaps of excellent sex, and a sprinkling of danger.”

Savage Blooms by S.T. Gibson (October 7)

I just finished this dark, bisexual, M/F/M/F, why choose, fantasy gothic, and I had a great time with it. I would advise that you read the content warnings closely before picking it up, though. This follows Adam, who is searching out the Scottish manor his late grandfather told so many stories about. By his side is his best friend, Nicola. When they find it, they’re welcomed by the mysterious owner, Eileen, and the gruff groundskeeper, Finley. A storm strikes, and they’re trapped in the house together—which seems to stoke their suppressed desires. This is a steamy, kinky, brooding gothic fantasy I couldn’t stop reading, and I can’t wait for book two in the trilogy.

Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

Chuck Tingle is making a name for himself not just in the erotica/romance world (see I’m Gay For My Living Billionaire Jet Plane), but also the horror genre. He’s following up Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays with Lucky Day, which is set in the aftermath of the Low-Probability Event: a day where eight million people died in seemingly unrelated freak accidents. Vera, a bisexual statistics and probability professor, is teaming up with Special Agent Layne to investigate an inexplicably lucky casino which might explain that event—and could be the key to prevent it from happening again.

Roar of the Lambs by Jamison Shea

I loved Jamison Shea’s sapphic YA horror book I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me so much that I knew I’d have to read anything they wrote next. Roar of the Lambs is a bi4bi apocalyptic YA thriller with a genderqueer main character. Winnie is a teen psychic who lies to clients at the oddities shop to give them reassuring readings—they pay better that way. When she finds a box made of bone in the ashes of her childhood home, it shows her a vision of an apocalyptic future—one where she and two rich kids, Apollo and Cyrus Rathbun, are at the center. Together, she and Apollo investigate what Apollo’s cousin Cyrus is up to, and how they can prevent the box’s prophecy from coming true.

Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews (October 28)

From the author of Don’t Let the Forest In comes a new YA horror novel. This one is about Evander, who has lived in the shadows of the Hazelthorn estate under the orders of his billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall, since he was a small child. He’s forbidden to leave the estate, to explore the gardens, or to be anywhere near Byron’s grandson, Laurie—ever since Laurie tried to kill him. But when Byron dies and Evander inherits the estate, he has to team up with Laurie to find the murderer. Along the way, they struggle with the deadly garden escaping its walls and the family secrets that won’t stay buried. (The author describes Evander as “bi in the way of being nervous of all genders, equally.“)

Fawn’s Blood by Hal Schrieve

Bisexual teenager Rachel is scrutinized for both her relationship with her girlfriend and her membership in her mother’s vigilante vampire slaying group. When she’s turned into a vampire, though, she has to go on the run—and bumps into Fawn, a trans, vampire-obsessed teen searching for her missing best friend, Silver (who is also trans). Soon, Fawn finds herself in the underground vampire resistance movement in Seattle. The publisher’s description says, “Fawn’s Blood is a timely antidote to the anti-trans moral panic of today. Playing with tropes about monstrousness, predation, and villainy, this multi-voiced vampire novel offers a paranormal YA fantasy full of complicated queer characters—human and monster alike—all of whom are simply trying to survive in a world that wants them dead.”

A Good Kind of Trouble by Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward

Jamie is a bisexual, football-playing teenager whose life changes when she stands up to her teachers about whitewashing Australian history. The new girl joins her in her protest, but now Jamie is banned from footy. Is this fight worth it, and what happens next? This is the first in a new upper middle grade/lower YA series.

The Bi Book by A.J. Irving and illustrated by Cynthia Alonso

This is the first time I’ve seen a picture book specifically about bi people! The book discusses many different words that start with “bi,” like bicycle, binoculars, and biracial, and explains that it can sometimes mean two, or sometimes more than two, like when it comes to bi people: “Because some hearts love in a rainbow of ways.“

There aren’t a lot of queer books by authors of color out this week, unfortunately. The barriers to getting published are high for queer and BIPOC authors, but they’re even higher for those on the intersection.

Best Woman by Rose Dommu (Sapphic Trans Woman Fiction)

The History of My Sexuality by Tobi Lakmaker, translated by Kristen Gehrman (Queer Fiction)

Beings by Ilana Masad (Lesbian Fiction/Sci-Fi)

City of Clans by Geoff Peck (Queer Guy Fiction)

Bi The Way, I Love You: A Charity Anthology of Diverse Bi+ Love Stories (Bisexual Romance Anthology)

After the Siren by Darcy Green (M/M Sports Romance)

Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti (F/F Historical Romance)

Night at the Vampire Castle: A Choose Your Own Romance by Hari Connor (Queer Illustrated Interactive Paranormal Romance)

The Unfathomable Curse (The Undetectables #3) by Courtney Smyth (Queer Fantasy Mystery)

Extraordinary Quests for Amateur Witches by Kayla Cottingham (Queer YA Fantasy)

This Raging Sea by De Elizabeth (Bisexual YA Fantasy)

One Morning Sun (Sãoni Cycle #3) by Avi Silver (Aromantic/Asexual, Polyamorous YA Fantasy)

Fawn’s Blood by Hal Schrieve (Trans, Bisexual YA Fantasy)

Try Your Worst by Chatham Greenfield (F/F YA Contemporary)

Exquisite Things by Abdi Nazemian (M/M YA Speculative Fiction)

Hello Sunshine by Keezy Young (Queer YA Horror Graphic Novel)

The Court of the Dead (Percy Jackson: Nico di Angelo) by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro (Gay Middle Grade Fantasy)

On the Boardwalk by Martin Sherman (Gay Memoir)

No Tea, No Shade: Life as a Drag Queen (Drag Nonfiction)

The Queer Thing About Sin: Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love by Harry Tanner (Queer Nonfiction)

Bi All Accounts: An Anthology of Bi+ Voices, Volume 1 by Bailey Merlin (Bisexual Anthology)