There are hundreds of biographies and memoirs by and about m-spec 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. If you know a book or author we should check out, please fill out our media suggestion form. If you’re curious how books make it onto our shelves, you can read the library’s inclusion criteria here.

2021
• Bi & Prejudice by Anna Kochetkova
• Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson
• Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much by Jen Winston
• On Top of Glass: My Stories as a Queer Girl in Figure Skating
• Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson
2020
• The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
• Go to Sleep (I Miss You): Cartoons from the Fog of New Parenthood by Lucy Knisley
• I Had to Choose: A Man Reflects on His Sexuality and the Choices He Made by David A. Robinson
• Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury by Honor Moore
• Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Lavery
• Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience by Anuradha Bhagwati
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• You Are Not Alone! (I Promise): The Journey of a Pansexual, Gender Fluid, Crossdresser by Robin Raynor
2019
• The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues by Justin Blackburn
• He Said She Said: Lessons Stories and Mistakes from My Transgender Journey by Gigi Gorgeous
• Hugged: A Queer Autobiographical Romance by Verity Ritchie
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• Kid Gloves Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley
• Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer by John Glynn
• Overshare: Love, Laughs, Sexuality, & Secrets by Rose Ellen Dix & Rosie Spaughton
• Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity by Nico Tortorella
2018
• I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson
• Many Love: a Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) by Sophie Lucido Johnson
• Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life by Ellen Forney
2017
• A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work by Miranda K. Pennington
• The Big Book of Bisexual Trials & Errors by Elizabeth Beier
• First Time Ever by Peggy Seeger
• Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality and Desire by Michael Amherst
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
• Living Revision: A Writers Craft as Spiritual Practice by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
• Mean by Myriam Gurba
• On Being Bisexual: A Male Perspective by Garrett Jones
• Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
• The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
• So Much I Want To Tell You: Letters to My Sister by Anna Akana
• Trans Mission: My Quest To A Beard by Alex Bertie
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
• What the Mouth Wants: A Memoir of Food, Love and Belonging by Monica Meneghetti
2016
• A House Full of Daughters A Memoir of Seven Generations by Juliet Nicolson
• Black Dove: Mamï, Mi’jo, and Me by Ana Castillo
• Black Wave by Michelle Tea
• Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy by Chitra Ramaswamy
• I Thought You Hated Me by MariNaomi
• Something New: Tales From a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley
• Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson
• You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures by Alan Cumming
• Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves by Maria Bello
2015
• How to Grow Up: A Memoir by Michelle Tea
• I Took Both Roads: My Journey as a Bisexual Husband by David R. Matteson
2014
• An Age of License: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley
• Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories from a Queer Life by Allison Moon
• Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Molly Wizenberg
• Dragon’s Breath: and Other True Stories by Mari Naomi
• Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow
• Photobooth: A Biography by Meags Fitzgerald
2013
• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• The Soundtrack of My Life by Clive Davis
2012
• Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom by Sara Benincasa
• Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals by Janet W. Hardy
• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
• Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney
2011
• Big Sex Little Death by Susie Bright
• The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
• Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 To 22 by MariNaomi
2010
• Kafavis’ Syndrome: An Odyssey of a Bisexual Moslem by Hicham Bouzid
• Whip Smart by Melissa Febos
2009
• A Homemade Life Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg
• Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small by Rita Mae Brown
• The DAR: Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary series by Erika Moen
• Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Galloway
2008
• The Bishop’s Daughter by Honor Moore
• French Milk by Lucy Knisley
• Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter by Nancy Agabian
2006
• Without Stopping: An Autobiography by Paul Bowles
2004
• Rent Girl by Michelle Tea
2001
• Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood by June Jordan
2000
• Princess Freak by Nancy Agabian
• Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
1999
• Apples & Oranges: My Journey Through Sexual Identity by Jan Clausen
• Teaching Through Trauma by Leanne Franson
1997
• Assume Nothing: Evolution of a Bi-Dyke Starring Liliane by Leanne Franson
• Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser by Rita Mae Brown
1996
• Kink: An Autobiography by Dave Davies
1995
• Mercury & Me by Jim Hutton
1993
• Red Azalea by Anchee Min
1992
• Half Straight: My Secret Bisexual Life by Tom Smith
1990
• Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King
• Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932) by Anais Nin
1980
• Barry and Alice: Portrait of a Bisexual Marriage by Barry Kohn
1974
• Flying by Kate Millett
1956
• Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday

• 50 Queers Who Changed the World A Celebration of LGBTQ Icons by Dan Jones
• Alfred C Kinsey: A Life by James Howard Jones
• Between Everything and Nothing The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum by Joe Meno
• Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis
• Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life by Edna O’Brien
• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
• Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth
• Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
• 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
• Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World by Barbara Guest
• Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict and Their Circle by Lois W. Banner
• 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
• Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
• Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon by Leonard S. Marcus
• Mercury & Me by Jim Hutton
• Obsession The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein by Steven Gaines
• Portrait of a Marriage: V. Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by Nigel Nicolson
• 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
• Virginia Woolf by Ira B. Nadel
• 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

• All The Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen To Be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey
• 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
• Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding by Ellena Savage
• 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
• Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby
• 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
• Secrets for the Mad Obsessions Confessions and Life Lessons by Dodie Clark
• 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
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby
• Wow No Thank You: Essays by Samantha Irby