Book Releases: July-December 2021 Books With Bi Protagonists

A companion post to the one from the beginning of the year. Over 100 books with canon bisexual and/or pansexual protagonists. Or love interests. Or really major side characters.

My guidelines for choosing books to include in this post were pretty simple: either a character just uses the label or the text makes it abundantly clear that they’re bi/pan. (As you can imagine, not a lot of fantasy or historical books use modern labels.) If I missed anything that you think should be on the list, please let me know in the comments!

Like always on this blog, the rainbow emoji indicates that the book is by an LGBT author. 🌈

Related: January-June 2021 Bi/Pan Books, January-June 2020 Bi/Pan Books, July-December 2020 Bi/Pan Books

JULY

Have We Met? By Camille Baker (Black bi mc, bi li, nonbinary lesbian li)
🌈 The Calyx Charm by May Peterson (bi trans mc, bi li, f/m)
🌈 Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson (Black bi mc, Black lesbian mc, f/f relationship, Black sapphic side character) tw shooting, revenge porn
There’s Magic Between Us by Jillian Maria (pan mc, f/f relationship)
It Ends in Fire by Andrew Shvarts (bi mc)

Weapon UwU, Vol. 1: Godkillers (aroace mc, bi mc, transmasc side character, genderfluid side character, nonbinary side characters, lesbian side character)
🌈 Reputation by Lex Croucher (sapphic mc, biracial Black bi character, lesbian character, gay character) tw sexual assault, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, implied rape, attempted rape
🌈 Up All Night ed. by Laura Silverman (bi disabled mc, sapphic mc, nonbinary li, Jewish bi mc, gay mc, gay li, lesbian & bi characters)
🌈 Flash Fire by T. J. Klune (gay mc with ADHD, bi li, m/m relationship, lesbian side characters)
🌈 Three Seeking Stars by Avi Silver (bi mc, nonbinary mc)

The Fallen by Ada Hoffmann (autistic sapphic mc, sapphic mc, genderfluid mc, pansexual mc)
Wings of Shadow by Nicki Pau Preto (bi mc, gay mc)
Constelis Voss, Vol 2: Pattern Recognition by K. Leigh (bi trans mc, bi cast, gender apathetic side character)
🌈 The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters (bi mc, f/f relationship, pansexual side character, nonbinary side character) tw domestic violence, sexual assault (mentioned), drugging/roofies, abduction/imprisonment, gun use, violence against women, systemic racism (discussed), blood, body horror, death/dying, grief, animal attack, pet death (brief mention), emetophobia
🌈 She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan (nonbinary lesbian mc, lesbian mc, f/f relationship, gay mc, bi mc)

Rites and Knights by Arizona Tape & Laura Greenwood (bi mc, m/f relationship)
A Desert Torn Asunder by Bradley P. Beaulieu (bi mc)
After You Died by Dea Poirier (bi mc, m/m relationship) tw domestic abuse, suicidal thoughts, torture, mentions of csa, institutional abuse, attempted suicide, violence, gore, murder
🌈 Hold Fast Through the Fire by K. B. Wagers (bi mc, pan mc, nonbinary mc)
🌈 Once Stolen by D. N. Bryn (pan mc, nb li)
🌈 Partners in Crime by Rachel Bowdler (bi mc, pan mc, f/f relationship)

AUGUST

🌈 The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould (lesbian mcs, f/f relationship, bi Latino mc, gay mc) tw murder, homophobia, homophobic violence, attempted drowning, child death
🌈 Like a Love Song by Gabriela Martins (bi Jewish li, lesbian Pakistani American side character, bisexual Brazilian American side character)
🌈 Fresh by Margot Wood (bi mc, sapphic li, sapphic side characters) tw sexual assault
🌈 The Sisters of Reckoning by Charlotte Nicole Davis (Black sapphic mc, bi li, lesbian side characters, Black trans side character) tw past sexual abuse, mentions of child prostitution, torture
🌈 I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander (Jewish lesbian mc, Jewish bi mc, f/f relationship, gay side characters, sapphic trans side character) tw stalking

🌈 Chemistry Lessons by Jae (lesbian mc, bi mc, f/f relationship, sapphic trans side character)
🌈 Learning Curves Omnibus by Ceillie Simkiss (pan ace mc with ADHD, Puerto Rican lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
What We May Be by Layla Reyne (bi mcs, m/m/f polyam relationship)
🌈 Windfall by Shawna Barnett (bi mcs, f/f relationship) tw attempted rape, domestic abuse, torture
The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha (bi mc)

🌈 Foxhunt by Rem Wigmore (bi mc, trans characters)
🌈 The Second Rebel by Linden A. Lewis (pan nonbinary mc, gay ace mc, bi mc)
I, Volcano by Eule Grey (bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 The Harbinger of Freedom by Freddie A. Clark (bi mc)

SEPTEMBER

🌈 The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh (bi mc)
🌈 A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell (fat bi mc, pan nonbinary side character, trans side character, ace side characters)
In the Deep by Kelly Jennings (bi mcs, polyamory)
🌈 Traitors of the Black Crown by Cate Pearce (bi mc, lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull (bi mc, sapphic mc, bi ace trans mc, nonbinary side character)

Witch, Please! by Ann Aguirre (bi male mc, m/f relationship)
Love and Lotus Blossoms by Anne Shade (bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Master of Restless Shadows: Book Two by Ginn Hale (gay mcs, bi mc)
🌈 Tell Me Anything by Skye Kilaen (bi mcs, m/f relationship) tw outing-related blackmail
🌈 La chica de hielo by Andrea Tomé (bi mc)

Two Winters by Lauren Emily Whalen (two bi mcs, side sapphic characters)
🌈 The Other Merlin by Robyn Schneider (bi female mc)
🌈 Passion Marked by Ophelia Silk (lesbian mc, bi demiwoman mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows (pan mc, ace mc)
🌈 Home Within Skin by Jem Zero (bi trans mc, m/m relationship)

🌈 To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames (lesbian mc, bi li) tw animal death, death of a parent, gore
The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl (bi mc, f/f relationship)
The Bronzed Beasts by Roshani Chokshi (Filipino-Spanish bi mc, Haitian-French achillean mc)
🌈 Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles (bi Black mc, bi li, m/m relationship, sapphic side characters) tw racism, racial profiling, religious homophobia, parental abuse (verbal, emotional)
🌈 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Chinese-coded cast & setting, bi mc, bi characters, m/m/f polyamory) tw gore, murder, torture, mentions of rape, threats of rape, misogyny, femicide, suicide ideation, abuse, alcohol addiction

🌈 Dark Rise by C. S. Pacat (bi male mc)
Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune (bi mc, Black gay li, achillean side characters)
Mechanics of Love by Meka James (Black bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Our Favorite Songs by Anita Kelly (bi mc, gay mc, m/m relationship) tw death of a parent, animal death
🌈 The Spectacular by Zoe Whittall (bi mc, trans li, f/m relationship, lgbt side characters)

A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria (bi biracial (Puerto Rican, Italian) mc, bi biracial (Puerto Rican, Mexican) mc, m/f relationship, trans side character)
Battle of the Bands ed. by Lauren Gibaldi & Eric Smith (bi mc)
With a Pinch of Love by Hayden Hall (bi mc, gay mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 Keisha and The Rise of the Legacy by T.R. Tells (bi mc, pan mc)
Phoenix Awoken by Ekaterine Xia (bi mc, m/f relationship)

Anne sin filtros by Iria G. Parente & Selene M. Pascual (bi mc, trans li, lesbian side)
🌈 Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (achillean mc, bi li, m/m relationship, bi trans side character, achillean side character) tw gore, violence, blood, f slur, internalised homophobia, implied suicide, body horror, animal death, drug use
Gutter Mage by J.S. Kelley (bi mc, f/f relationship)

OCTOBER

Blood of the Chosen by Django Wexler (f/f relationship, m/m relationship, bi characters)
🌈 Tonight We Rule the World by Zack Smedley (bi male mc, bi character) tw rape, physical & emmotional abuse, abusive relationship, gaslighting
Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper (bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Our Way Back to Always by Nina Moreno (bi mc)
🌈 Thronebreakers by Rebecca Coffindaffer (pan mc)

The Quicksilver Court by Melissa Caruso (bi mc)
Tink and Wendy by Kelly Ann Jacobson (bi mc)
🌈 City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn (bi female mc, f/f relationship, achillean side characters) tw gun violence, emotional abuse, mentions of suicide, terminal illness
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (bi mc)
What’s the Matter with Mary Jane? by Candas Jane Dorsey (pan female mc)

Goddess of Limbo by Lea Falls (bi mcs)
The Throwback List by Lily Anderson (bi mc)
🌈 Stay Another Day by Juno Dawson (bi character)
🌈 Just One Wedding by Chelsea M. Cameron (lesbian mc, bi li, f/f relationship)
🌈 Sex & Sours by Dani McLean (bi mc)

🌈 The Goddess of Nothing At All by Cat Rector (bi mc, genderfluid mc)
🌈 Where the Stars Sing by Aminah Fox (bi mc)
🌈 That Dark Infinity by Kate Pentecost (bi mc)
🌈 Unwritten Rules by KD Casey (Jewish hard of hearing gay mc, Venezuelan American bi li, sapphic side characters)

NOVEMBER

Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells (bi female mc)
🌈 Faith: Greater Heights by Julie Murphy (fat bi mc)
The God of Lost Words by A. J. Hackwith (pan mc, bi mc, gay mc)
🌈 The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell by Kate Brauning (bi mc, f/f/m relationship)
The Rise of the Red Monarch by Bella Ellis (bi mc)
Nightmare in Savannah by Lela Gwenn, Chris Sanchez & Rowan MacColl (bi mc, f/f relationship)

DECEMBER

🌈 The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska (Polish-coded cast & setting, lesbian mc, bi female mc, f/f relationship, lesbian character, gay character, bi male character) tw child abuse, blood, body horror (brief), death, murder
🌈 Fools In Love, ed. Rebecca Podos & Ashley Herring Blake (lgbt short stories: sapphic mc, bi/pan li; bi mc, lesbian li; Persian lesbian mc, Chinese American bi li; Jewish lesbian mc, bi li)
🌈 If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales & Cale Dietrich (gay Spanish American mc, bi mc with an eating disorder, m/m relationship) – 7 tw abusive parents, homophobia, drugs & alcohol use
The Excalibur Curse by Kiersten White (bi female mc, sapphic li)
The Liar’s Knot by M. A. Carrick (bi mc, sapphic & trans side characters)

🌈 I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat by Christopher Gonzalez (Puerto Rican bi & gay mcs)
🌈 Humbug by Amanda Radley (bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 On the Rocks by Georgia Beers (bi mc, f/f relationship)
Discordia by Kristyn Merbeth (bi mc, f/f relationship)

Which book are you most looking forward to?

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