Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit. Another Country is a masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. It’s also fun to know Woolf intended the book as an extended love letter to her (bisexual) friend and lover Vita Sackville-West.īlack bi author Baldwin was so prolific he gets two titles on this list.
The bisexual main character, Orlando, begins the story in the Renaissance, lives for hundreds of years, and wakes up one morning in the middle of the novel miraculously turned into a woman. This queer, gender-bending feminist classic by the legendary queer author is all about gender and sexual fluidity. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. This classic of American literature by seminal Black bisexual author James Baldwin is about a bisexual actor named Leo Proudhammer who is nearly felled by a heart attack at the height of his career.
Enjoy and let me know if I’ve left off any of your favorites in the comments! Children’s Since they are harder to find, books by authors of color have an asterisk (*) beside them and books about bisexual boys, men, genderqueer, and/or trans people have a number sign (#). For more bisexual YA, have a look at the 100 Must-Read LGBTQIA YA Books that I wrote for more books about bi women, read Danika’s 100 Must-Read Lesbian and Bi Women Books. Looking for even more bisexual books? Check out these amazing resources that were super helpful while I was compiling this list: The Bi-Bibliography (an astoundingly thorough index of bisexual books), the Bisexual Book Awards (in its fifth year of giving awards!) and the majestic Bisexual Books Tumblr. Tired of trying to find out if the “LGBT” book you want to read actually has any bisexual content? Wanting to see more non-monosexual experiences reflected in the fiction and non-fiction you read? Check out these bisexual books! They cover a wide variety of genres and formats: YA, memoir, fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, realism, graphic novels, anthologies, classics, and more! (Note: I’m using the word bisexual as a broad, inclusive umbrella term that includes pansexual, sexually fluid, and any other word that means romantically and/or sexually attracted to more than one gender). In the LGBTQ acronym, the B is often underrepresented or subsumed under the L or G bisexual books are no different, which is why I wanted to make this list of must-read bisexual books. It’s Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of Snow White. Changing consumption habits among readers and the rise of mobile devices will continue to influence and change the book market.Sponsored by Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust.Įntwining the stories of step-mother Mina and step-daughter Lynet, both in the past and present, Girls Made of Snow and Glass traces the relationship of two young women doomed to be rivals from the start. The German book market is forecast to experience stable revenue development in the coming years, with the fiction segment generating the most, in comparison to textbooks and nonfiction. This may be attributed to digitalization hitting the book industry and the understandable appeal of e-readers to an increasingly mobile nation. A growing number of people state that they do not buy books, though those who do mainly buy paperbacks. Generally, the number of people reading books daily or several times a week was dropping year after year.
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It seems that daily page-turning increased among older teenagers.Īmong the population (aged 14 and older), 12.6 million read books several times a week during their free time, compared to 18.1 million people who do so less than once a month. 38 percent of 12- to 13-year-olds read daily or several times a week, according to a recent survey. German teenage book reading frequency depends on age groups.
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