These 13 Books With Bisexual Leads Are Perfect For Pride Month and Beyond

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue ($8) has been described as a Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda set in the 1700s, and it revolves around Henry "Monty" Montague taking a grand tour of Europe with his best friend and secret crush, Percy. Although Monty was raised as a gentleman, his passions for gambling halls, booze, and waking up in the arms of beautiful men and women can't be curbed. This escapade was meant as one last chance to flirt with Percy before he must take over his father's estate, but when one of Monty's decisions turns their trip into a harrowing adventure, it puts everything he has ever known in jeopardy, including his relationship with the boy he loves.

The second novel in The Brown Sisters Series, Take a Hint, Dani Brown ($12), is filled with all the cheesy tropes we all love in romance novels — but there's a twist. Serious, career-focussed Danika Brown is rescued from a workplace fire drill by the broodingly handsome security guard Zafir Ansari, and a video of their rescue goes viral. Once the internet is shipping "#DrRugbae," it's all too easy to fake a relationship. But when real feelings get involved, the bisexual Dani begins to think her plan is more complicated than she made it out to be.

Meet Jessica Tran, a local superhero whose biggest trouble is making it through high school and finding an internship to beef up her college application. Unfortunately, the perfect internship turns out to be working for the town's biggest supervillain! At least Jess can work with her secret crush, Abby, who is also hiding a secret of her own. Not Your Sidekick ($15) has a plot larger than the villains and heroes put together.

In Little & Lion ($8), Suzette returns home to LA from her New England boarding school for the summer, but she may just stick around. First off, her friends and family are there — along with her crush, Emil. Secondly, her stepbrother, Lionel, has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and needs her help. But as Suzette adjusts back to life in LA, she begins dating someone new — the same girl her brother is in love with.

Jubilee, elite cellist and part-time worker for her stepmom's indie comic shop, has it all together. She's the exact opposite of Ridley, the son of the biggest comic-store chain owners in the country, and he can't even get his parents' attention long enough to stop disappointing them. When the two meet at a comic convention prom, they immediately start falling for each other. Unfortunately, since their parents hate each other, a relationship is impossible . . . unless they keep it a secret. Will love conquer all in Verona Comics ($10)?

In Full Disclosure ($10), Simone Garcia-Hampton wants things to be different at her new school. She's finally making real friends, is the student director of Rent, and is starting to fall for Miles, even if she hasn't told anyone her secret: she's HIV-positive. But when she finds an anonymous note telling her that someone knows she has HIV and to stop hanging out with Miles or else, Simone must rise above and face prejudice and fear head-on.

Moving to New York City was supposed to prove that magic and "happily ever after"s don't exist, but when August Landry meets the mysterious, old-school punk rocker Jane on the Q train, everything changes. There's just one problem: Jane doesn't just look like she's out of the '70s — she really is from that time. She's been stuck in the subway for nearly 50 years and August has to use everything she's tried to leave in the past to help her get out. One Last Stop ($10) is filled with queer romance in both the main and supporting characters that will have you longing to be a part of their found family.

Who doesn't want a retelling of Alice in Wonderland? In A Blade So Black ($10), Alice must juggle life in real-world Atlanta — an overprotective mom, a slipping GPA, and a high-maintenance best friend — all while keeping the Nightmares of Wonderland at bay. But when her mentor is poisoned, she'll have to venture deep into Wonderland to find the antidote, and use everything she's learned in both worlds to keep from literally losing her head.

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb ($13) pits nobility against highway robbery! Retired highwayman Kit Webb now owns and works at a coffee shop but longs for his past life of crime. Enter Edward Percy, Lord Holland and the son of the Duke of Clare, a hot and arrogant aristocrat who needs Kit's thieving talents for One Last Heist. Although Kit refuses to participate in the robbery, he agrees to teach Percy how to do the job, but in the process, the two get closer and find they both have more in common with each other than they originally thought.

Can your oppressor in one world be your saviour in another? In The Space Between Worlds ($15), multiverse travel is possible, and Cara must figure that out for herself. When she's selected as a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, her entire life changes — instead of living in the dirt of the wastelands, she now has a cushy apartment and can work with (and flirt with) her handler, Dell, as the two women travel through worlds. But when one of Cara's doppelgängers on another world dies under mysterious circumstances, she's plunged into new worlds with old secrets, and must work with Dell to uncover a plot that might endanger the entire multiverse.

After Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary in I Wish You All the Best ($10), they're forced to move in with their older sister Hannah and her husband, Thomas. When Ben starts over at a new school, their goal is to keep their head down and remain unnoticed, but fellow student Nathan immediately has other plans. As they grow closer, their feelings for each other change, leading to a sweet and heartbreaking exploration of love and identity.

When a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl tells her mother she is queer, her mother's response is: "You exist too much." Told in vignettes between the United States and the Middle East, You Exist Too Much ($14) takes a look at the fantasies and desires of a young woman caught between her cultural, religious, and sexual identities and what it means to look for love and a place to call home.

In Who I Was With Her ($18), Corinne Parker is sure of two things: she is in love with Maggie Bailey, her secret girlfriend of a year, and that she doesn't want anyone to know she's bisexual. But when Maggie dies suddenly, Corinne realises the only thing worse than losing her is grieving a relationship that no one knew existed. The only person she is able to turn to is Elissa, Maggie's ex — and she begins to have feelings for the last person she should fall for.