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Discover the life stories of m-spec (bisexual, pansexual, fluid, etc.) people throughout the ages and around the globe. We’ve organized the memoir page by year published so you can see at a glance the m-spec footprint on history.

Please remember that this page only lists the books the Bi Pan Library has physically collected so far, and does not claim to be a list of every m-spec YA book ever published. To suggest a title we should consider adding, please fill out our media suggestion form or become a friend of the library by donating a copy! Any piece of media that fits our inclusion criteria is welcome.

2022
• Deaf Utopia: A Memoir ― and a Love Letter to a Way of Life by Nyle Dimarco
• Homelands : The History of a Friendship by Chitra Ramaswamy
• People Change by Vivek Shraya
• Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery
2021
• At What Age Does My Body Belong To Me? by Amanda Tayte-Tait
• Bi & Prejudice by Anna Kochetkova
• Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson
• Continuum by Chella Man
• Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much by Jen Winston
• Love is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar
• On Top of Glass: My Stories as a Queer Girl in Figure Skating
• Out of the Woods: Nature, Sexuality, and Faith in the Forest Luke Turner
• Sexual Liberty: Memoirs Of A Sex Worker’s Fight For Freedom by Chase Tkach
• 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
• Impervious: Confessions of a Semi-Retired Deviant by Janet W. Hardy
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• Kid Gloves Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley
• Overshare: Love, Laughs, Sexuality, & Secrets by Rose Ellen Dix & Rosie Spaughton
• Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity by Nico Tortorella
2018
• Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want by Ruby Tandoh
• I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson
• Killing It: An Education by Camas Davis
• 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
• Vanishing Twins: A Marriage by Leah Dieterich
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
• Finding Nevo: How I Confused Everyone by Nevo Zisin
• 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
• The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention by Meredith Maran
• 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
• Being Jazz: My Life As A Transgender Teen by Jazz Jennings
• 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
• A Woman Like Me by Bettye LaVette and David Ritz
• 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
• God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya
• 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
• Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag
2007
• Baby Love : Choosing Motherhood after a Lifetime of Ambivalence by Rebecca Walker
2006
• Eros: A Journey of Multiple Loves by Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio
• Indestructible: Growing Up Queer Cuban And Punk In Miami by Cristy C. Road
• Without Stopping: An Autobiography by Paul Bowles
2005
• On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
2004
• Rent Girl by Michelle Tea
2003
• Almost There: The Onward Journey Of A Dublin Woman by Nuala O’Faolain
2002
• Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker
2001
• I’m the One That I Want by Margaret Cho
• 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

2021
• Between Everything and Nothing The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum by Joe Meno
2019
• Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments : Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman
2018
• The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King
2017
• 50 Queers Who Changed the World A Celebration of LGBTQ Icons by Dan Jones
• In the Great Green Room: the Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown by Amy Gary
• Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager
2016
• Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn
• Virginia Woolf by Ira B. Nadel
2015
• Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham
2012
• Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
2011
• Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters by Donald Bogle
2010
• Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing by Ann Angel
2009
• Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life by Edna O’Brien
• Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
• Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
2008
• Dusty! Queen of the Postmods by Annie J. Randall
• Rough Amusements: The True Story of A’Lelia Walker, Patroness of the Harlem Renaissance’s Down-Low Culture by Ben Neihart
2006
• Diane Arbus: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth
• June Jordan: Her Life and Letters by Valerie Kinloch
2005
• 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
2004
• Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White
2003
• Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict and Their Circle by Lois W. Banner
2002
• Savage Beauty: The Life Of Edna St Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
2000
• Secrets Of The Flesh: A Life Of Colette by Judith Thurman
1999
• Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis
• Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon by Leonard S. Marcus
1997
• Alfred C Kinsey: A Life by James Howard Jones
1996
• The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter by Honor Moore
1995
• Mercury & Me by Jim Hutton
• 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
1994
• Obsession The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein by Steven Gaines
1984
• Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World by Barbara Guest
1979
• The Secret Life of Tyrone Power: The Drama of a Bisexual in the Spotlight by Hector Arce
1973
• Portrait of a Marriage: V. Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by Nigel Nicolson
1959
• Freud: The Mind of the Moralist by Philip Rieff

• 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
• Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy edited by Jiz Lee
• 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
• On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
• 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