BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
There are hundreds of biographies and memoirs about/by bi+ and fluid people in the world, but the Bi Pan Library does not yet have the resources to catalogue them all online. This page currently only lists the books we have physically collected. We keep an enormous spreadsheet of book titles and authors for future collection, so if you have a book or author we should check in to, please fill out our media suggestion form (or use our contact form if you’d like to donate a physical copy). If you’re curious how books make it onto our shelves, you can read the library’s inclusion criteria here.
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MEMOIR
• A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work by Miranda K. Pennington
• Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom by Sara Benincasa
• An Age of License: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley
• Apples & Oranges: My Journey Through Sexual Identity by Jan Clausen
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
• Assume Nothing: Evolution of a Bi-Dyke Starring Liliane by Leanne Franson
• Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories from a Queer Life by Allison Moon
• Black Dove: Mamï, Mi’jo, and Me by Ana Castillo
• Barry and Alice: Portrait of a Bisexual Marriage by Barry Kohn
• The Big Book of Bisexual Trials & Errors by Elizabeth Beier
• Bi & Prejudice by Anna Kochetkova
• Big Sex Little Death by Susie Bright
• The Bishop’s Daughter by Honor Moore
• The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
• The DAR: Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary series by Erika Moen
• Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• Dragon’s Breath: and Other True Stories by Mari Naomi
• Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy by Chitra Ramaswamy
• Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow
• First Time Ever by Peggy Seeger
• The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
• French Milk by Lucy Knisley
• Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
• Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals by Janet W. Hardy
• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
• Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire by Michael Amherst
• Go to Sleep (I Miss You): Cartoons from the Fog of New Parenthood by Lucy Knisley
• Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much by Jen Winston
• Half Straight: My Secret Bisexual Life by Tom Smith
• Henry and June by Anais Nin
• Hugged: A Queer Autobiographical Romance by Verity Ritchie
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
• Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
• I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson
• Kink: An Autobiography by Dave Davies
• Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 To 22 by MariNaomi
• Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
• Living Revision: A Writers Craft as Spiritual Practice by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
• Long Red Hair by Meags Fitzgerald
• Many Love: a Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) by Sophie Lucido Johnson
• Mean by Myriam Gurba
• Mercury & Me by Jim Hutton
• Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
• On Top of Glass: My Stories as a Queer Girl in Figure Skating by Karina Manta
• Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury by Honor Moore
• Overshare: Love, Laughs, Sexuality, & Secrets by Rose Ellen Dix & Rosie Spaughton
• Photobooth: A Biography by Meags Fitzgerald
• Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
• Something New: Tales From a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley
• Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Lavery
• So Much I Want To Tell You: Letters to My Sister by Anna Akana
• Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood by June Jordan
• Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
• Teaching Through Trauma by Leanne Franson
• Trans Mission: My Quest To A Beard by Alex Bertie
• Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson
• Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience by Anuradha Bhagwati
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• Whatever. Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves by Maria Bello
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
• What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging by Monica Meneghetti
• Whip Smart by Melissa Febos
• You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures by Alan Cumming
• Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson
BIOGRAPHY
• Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis
• February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn by Sherill Tippins
• Dusty! Queen of the Postmods by Annie J. Randall
• Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn
• February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn by Sherill Tippins
• The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King
• Heat Wave : The Life and Career of Ethel Waters by Donald Bogle
• In the Great Green Room: the Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown by Amy Gary
• Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham
• Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon by Leonard S. Marcus
• Mercury & Me by Jim Hutton
• Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, & Heretics by Jason Porath
• Rough Amusements: The True Story of A’Lelia Walker, Patroness of the Harlem Renaissance’s Down-Low Culture by Ben Neihart
• The Secret Life of Tyrone Power: The Drama of a Bisexual in the Spotlight by Hector Arce
• The Sewing Circle: Hollywood’s Greatest Secret — Female Stars Who Loved Other Women by Axel Madsen
• Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments : Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman
• The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter by Honor Moore
PERSONAL ESSAY ANTHOLOGIES
• Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond “Gay” and “Straight” edited by Charles “Zan” Christensen
• A Woman Like That: Lesbian & Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories by Joan Larkin
• Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out edited by Loraine Hutchins
• The Bi-ble: Essays and Narratives About Bisexuality edited by Lauren Nickodemus & Ellen Desmond
• The Bi-ble: New Testimonials edited by Lauren Nickodemus & Ellen Desmond
• Bi Lives: Bisexual Women Tell Their Stories edited by Kata Orndorff
• Bisexual Lives edited by the Off Pink Collective
• Bisexual Horizons: Politics, Histories, Lives edited by the Off Pink Collective
• Blessed Bi Spirit: Bisexual People of Faith edited by Debra R. Kolodny
• Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion, & Spirituality by Kevin Simmonds
• Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women edited by Candace Walsh & Laura Andre
• First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far) edited by Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel
• Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World edited by Robyn Ochs and Sarah E. Rowley
• Girl 2 Girl: The Lives and Loves of Young Lesbian and Bisexual Women edited by Norrina Rashid and Jane Hoy
• Greetings from Janeland: Women Write More About Leaving Men for Women edited by Candace Walsh
• How Queer! Personal Narratives from Bisexual, Pansexual, Polysexual, Sexually-Fluid, and other Non-Monosexual Perspectives edited by Faith Beauchemin
• Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity by Mattilda aka Matt Berntein Sycamore
• Our Time: Breaking the Silence of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by Josh Seefried
• Pansexuality: A Panoply of Co-Constructed Narratives by Karen Morgaine
• Plural Desires: Writing Bisexual Women’s Realities edited by The Bisexual Anthology Collective
• The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown
• REC*OG*NIZE: The Voices of Bisexual Men edited by Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams
• The Secret Loves of Geek Girls edited by Hope Nicholson
• Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority edited by Shane L. Windmeyer and Pamela W. Freeman
• The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writings by Asian & Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women edited by Sharon Lim-Hing