Bisexual Books

[IndyBiFun]

I was just on Amazon and there are many, many books whether fiction, erotica or whatever and I need some help.

Does anyone have suggestions on a few good bisexual books that you have read and would recommend? And specifically I am looking for fiction or erotica.

Thanks!

[Briar Rose]

How much romance do you like with your erotica? I read a lot of erotic romance in the menage category where the guys are involved with each other as well as with a woman. If you like that sort of thing I can give you recommendations.

[IndyBiFun]

Briar, please do!

[Briar Rose]

Keep in mind that I like closed poly sorts of menage books. Okay, here it goes:

For Historical menage erotic romance I recommend Samantha Kane's Brothers in Arms Series; "The Courage to Love", "Love Under Siege", "Love's Strategy", "At Love's Command", "Retreat from Love", "Love's Fortress", "Love in Exile", "Prisoner of Love", "Love's Surrender". Don't let the names stop you. Kane is a hot and emotional erotic writer.
Also The Sanctity of Marriage by Philippa Grey-Gerou.

For Contemporary menage I recommend Tymber Dalton's "Love Slave For Two", "Safe Harbor" (BDSM elements), "Cardinal's Rule" (strong BDSM elements) Under her Macy Largo pen name; "Dead Moon Rising", "Sunset Hearts". Veronica Wilde's "Southern Gothic" has some creepy ghosts as well as a menage. Sophie Oak's Siren books; although the first and the most recent do not have bisexual content, the rest do and the first book's relationship moves into bisexuality in the second book (BDSM elements) "Small Town Siren", "Siren in the City", "Siren Enslaved", "Siren Beloved", "Siren in Waiting". Ann Douglas, "Red Skirt, Cool Fountain". Barbara Elsborg's "Susie's Choice" and "Anna in the Middle". Jess Dee's Poker Night Series; "Going All In", "Raising the Stakes", "Full House". Mechele Armstrong's "Veterans: Nothing to Lose". Brit M. 's "The Virgin Threesome" and "Three in Love" and "Between Men". Shayla Black's "Dangerous Boys and Their Toy". Pepper Espinoza's "The Zebra Wore Fishnets". Cameron Dane's "Something New". Violet Summer's "Daniel's Surrender". Kori Robert's "Missing Linc". Tara Lain's "Genetic Attraction" and "Deceptive Attraction".

For SF and Fantasy with the same themes; Morgan Hawke's Interstellar Discipline series (strong BDSM elements) "Victorious Star", "Fallen Star" and in the Hard Candy anthology, "Fortune's Star". Samantha Kane's "Tomorrow". Tymber Dalton's "Love at First Bight" and "Fierce Radiance". Denise Rossetti's "Tailspin", "Gift of the Goddess", and "Guilty as Sin." Any werewolf book by Tielle St. Clare. Emma Holly's "Fairyville" (make sure you get the printing with the last chapter added).

That's just a taste of what's out there right now. Ebooks have been a real boon for erotic romance with menage. Look for a tag that's something along the lines of "mmf". mfm means that there's no sexual contact between the men. The same goes for the ladies, "ffm" rather than "fmf" if you prefer same sex contact.

Most, if not all, of these can be found at Amazon. This kind of thing is generally published by small mostly e-pub or POD publishers and you can go directly to them if you want; (because they all have a listing that will allow you to sort by "multiple partners" or "menage" or something like that. You can see everything an individual publisher offers that way instead of drowning in the sheer size of Amazon's pool.)

Samhain http://store.samhainpublishing.com/

Ellora's Cave http://www.jasminejade.com/

Loose ID http://www.loose-id.com/

Siren http://www.sirenpublishing.com/

There are ton's more publishers (and books!) but these are the one's I see most often.

FYI, there are also m/m books where one or more of the guys are bisexual but no woman is involved in the relationship. These are harder to tease out because it's not generally listed in the tags. It may be mentioned in the blurb though.

[IndyBiFun]

Briar, thanks for the suggestions!

I appreciate the detail too.

Just for the record, I prefer mmf and ffm.

[sweet_hidden]

Great list, going to have to check some out

[Briar Rose]

I hope some of my suggestion work out for you and anyone else out there who might be interested.

I prefer mmf/ffm too! I think every suggestion up there but two in a series is mmf. And one of those is a two book thing where the relationship of the two guys goes mmf. I'm just now starting to see more ff and ffm happening too.

I write mmf frequently though I'm currently unpublished. I'm about to write a mmff. (Or rather a four person menage where everybody is involved with everybody. I'm not exactly sure what the shorthand tag would be...)

(ETA--This is all my opinion, YMMV always) There has only been one or two mfm books where I was convinced that it worked. Otherwise, I have to go into "suspension of disbelief" mode with a little bit more focus to accept the story. Relationships in fiction just seem more balanced when everybody is both emotionally and sexually involved with everybody else. I won't talk about RL here, because there are plenty of open poly relationships in V and W config's where not everyone is involved with all the participants, but in fiction I admit to a more traditional bias towards a closed relationship HEA. (ETA with multiple participants naturally! :))

There is lovely book about 'friends who love and support each other with benefits' plus mf HEA that is full of open loving relationships called "Fighting the Undertow" by Eden Rivers. It's an absolutely fabulous book.

There is an "over 18" group focused on menage on GoodReads if anyone uses GR or is interested. Lots of recommendations and some very nice people.

[_Joe_]

Girl with a Dragon Tattoo series was nice since the bisexual nature of the girl wasn't the actual focus of the book, it was treated with normality and casualness instead of IN YOUR FACE BISEXUAL GIRL HOT HOT HOT.

[Long Duck Dong]

cheers for the books briar... DD and I both enjoy a good book but yeah, its hard to find believable erotica that is more about the people than the sex.....or has sex in it that is believable..... tho DD is more knowledgable about the erotica section than me...lol

I read a series in the 80s that was a space fantasy / erotica style series and they had a green stripe down the side with writing, but I am buggered if I can remember what they were called lol.....

there was one male character that was genetically modified by his mistress, and had wings in his back, was a thief and yeah interesting reading..... the other part I remember from the series was a sex scene with a female tied to a table with rings thru her nipples and clit, and being fucked so hard anally that the heavy metal table was moving across the floor....lol... my mother got me books from second hand book sales and if she had any idea what was in the gor series or this other series, she would have had a meltdown lol

[Briar Rose]

LDD, Omgoddess, Gor! I haven't thought about them in years. Yes, your mom probably would have freaked. Mine definitely would have! I had a book that looked completely like straight SF that was kinked as anything. The author was Lin Carter but I can't remember the name of the book. It's a good thing my mother never looked over my shoulder... I also read part of the Tarot series by Piers Anthony--that definitely had adult themes. The most dangerous book that I read as an early teenager though was "Time Enough For Love" by Robert Heinlein. It was the sole reason I thought I might not actually be crazy when I veered from boy-crush to girl-crush. And all the sex in that book takes place off-stage!

Well, if you and DD like emotions mixed with sex then erotic romance (or if you are hanging at the epub Ellora's Cave, 'romantica') might be your bag. I mean if she hasn't checked it out already. Pretty much everything I listed is solidly erotic romance.

FYI for anyone reading who wants a general sense of the difference between erotic romance and straight up erotica--erotica tends to centralize the sexual journey; erotic romance is still romance in the sense that the relationship(s) of the various characters is primary to the story though it will be expressed sexually. Usually the ending will be Happy Ever After or Happy For Now (though the definitions for those states can be pretty fluid.) The journey is in the discovery of the relationship(s). More or less. Generalizations and definitions are always dangerous. Boundaries as always are subject to grays and some books may verge into both territories. Selena Kitt's Baumgartner series for example--the most well-known is probably "Babysitting the Baumgartners."

[Briar Rose]

I haven't read those yet, Joe. I do like the idea of her bisexuality being just a part of her character.

[DuckiesDarling]

LDD, Omgoddess, Gor! I haven't thought about them in years. Yes, your mom probably would have freaked. Mine definitely would have! I had a book that looked completely like straight SF that was kinked as anything. The author was Lin Carter but I can't remember the name of the book. It's a good thing my mother never looked over my shoulder... I also read part of the Tarot series by Piers Anthony--that definitely had adult themes. The most dangerous book that I read as an early teenager though was "Time Enough For Love" by Robert Heinlein. It was the sole reason I thought I might not actually be crazy when I veered from boy-crush to girl-crush. And all the sex in that book takes place off-stage!

Well, if you and DD like emotions mixed with sex then erotic romance (or if you are hanging at the epub Ellora's Cave, 'romantica') might be your bag. I mean if she hasn't checked it out already. Pretty much everything I listed is solidly erotic romance.

FYI for anyone reading who wants a general sense of the difference between erotic romance and straight up erotica--erotica tends to centralize the sexual journey; erotic romance is still romance in the sense that the relationship(s) of the various characters is primary to the story though it will be expressed sexually. Usually the ending will be Happy Ever After or Happy For Now (though the definitions for those states can be pretty fluid.) The journey is in the discovery of the relationship(s). More or less. Generalizations and definitions are always dangerous. Boundaries as always are subject to grays and some books may verge into both territories. Selena Kitt's Baumgartner series for example--the most well-known is probably "Babysitting the Baumgartners."

I've long been a reader of Ellora's Cave and Samhain books, Briar. I do particularly enjoy the paranormal romance books as they are a good storyline mixed with good sex scenes :) Some of them defy the suspension of disbelief but that's okay, I call them bubble gum reads for when I am between "good" books to read.