Bi+ Pride Milwaukee's Book Club meets bi-monthly (every other month)
@ the Milwaukee LGBT Center at 6:30 PM
315 W Court Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212

Bi+ Book Club

A Room of One's Own

Boswell Book Company

Bookshop.org

Amazon Book Club

Milwaukee Public Library

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One Last Stop

Monday, October 9th, 2023
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
(Fiction)

Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. October's book is "One Last Stop" by Casey McQuiston, the queer and nonbinary author of a previous Bi+ Book Club read "Red, White, and Royal Blue"

Featuring a bisexual Main Character embarking on a sapphic romance, "One Last Stop" follows August Landry and Jane Su after they meet on the NYC Subway, and gives us a bit of Magical Realism along the journey.

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The Raven and the Reindeer

Monday, December 4th, 2023
The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher
(Folklore Retelling)

Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. December's book is "The Raven and the Reindeer" by T. Kingfisher. Also known as Ursula Vernon, a Hugo, Nebula, and Mythopoeic Award winner several times over, Kingfisher brings readers an overtly queer retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen"

This book is the only book for the next year that isn't available from Milwaukee Public Library. However, a benefactor has provided a limited number of ebook versions of this text. If purchasing a copy of this book would be a financial hardship, please email bipridemilwaukee@gmail.com to request a donated copy.

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Heartstopper, Volume 1 by Alice Oseman (Graphic Novel)

Monday, February 5th, 2024
Heartstopper, Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
(Graphic Novel)

Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. February's Book is "Heartstopper, Volume 1", a graphic novel from queer author Alice Oseman that tells the story of two modern British schoolboys (on of whom is bisexual) falling for each other and discovering themselves, surrounded by a diverse group of friends.

With a little bit of romance just before Valentine's Day, readers can also compare the graphic novel to the popular Netflix adaptation, now in its second season.

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Baggage: Tales From a Fully Packed Life by Alan Cumming (Memoir)

Monday, April 8th, 2024
Baggage: Tales From a Fully Packed Life by Alan Cumming
(Memoir)

Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. April's book is "Baggage: Tales From a Fully Packed Life". This memoir from openly bisexual stage and screen actor Alan Cumming, who was once touted by the New York Observer as a "frolicky pansexual sex symbol for the new millennium" tells his story in this collection of anecdotes, recollections and musings where every chapter title ends in the letter "y".

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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw (Nonfiction)

Monday, June 3rd, 2024
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw
(Nonfiction)

Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. June's book is a Non-Fiction offering about science, Bisexual identity, and history from Julia Shaw, a queer Psychologist at the University of London and a member of the thinktank "Queer Politics" at Princeton University. We'll be reading and discussing "Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality" just in time for Pride!

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The Queer Principles of Kitt Web by Cat Sebastian (Historical Romance)

Monday, August 5th, 2024
The Queer Principles of Kitt Web by Cat Sebastian
(Historical Romance)

Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. August's book is a historical romance focused on a widowed Bisexual Highwayman (and Coffee House Owner) Kitt Webb, and a nobleman named Percy (who happens to be the son of the very Duke who mysteriously wronged Kitt Webb in the past).

Although this title is her first novel released as a trade paperback, Cat Sebastian has long been recognized for her queer historical romances.

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Previous Book Club Selections

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
Best BI: Short Stories of Bisexual Fiction
The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin