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-In Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star and its sequels, at least two main characters are bisexual, a third has a brother in a long-term relationship with a man, a prominent political aide is publically in a relationship with another woman and no-one cares, there's a reference to a planet where all the inhabitants are women, etc.
-In Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth, the main protagonist is bisexual. Similarly, in The Songs Of Distant Earth, bisexuality is considered unremarkable (the male protagonist experiences some degree of attraction to another man as well as engaging in relationships with women, and there's a comedic allusion to another male character engaging in a steamy interlude with "a group of hairy hunks" to "check his calibration").
-Charles Stross' Halting State and its sequel have at least one bisexual character.
Trespass has a lesbian couple and a bisexual man. He was married to a woman years before, but now he's in his 60s and attracted to hot 20-something men.

Six of One

(Checked for my TBR,
Forgot this, the ebook was published 2017 (January imho).
Usual ebook retailers.

Soul Breaker is urban fantasy, the main character is openly bi but hocks up with a woman in the book. It is the first in a series so I hope there are both mm and mf relationships.






History Is All You Left Me
Far From You
Grasshopper Jungle
Star-Crossed
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Pumpkinheads
Red, White & Royal Blue
We Are Okay
Pretty sure all of these have bi characters, although for some they are still questioning (so don't have a label) or don't outright say it (so they might be pan)

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (bisexual minor role) - book and movie read/seen, recommended by me, but tame (no sex, no swearing) and the sequel:
Leah on the Offbeat (Bisexual MC), read recommended. Not sure wether it is planned to film this.
Just reading, not sure, how big the role of the bisexual is, maybe minor:
Two Can Keep a Secret
YA-crime, standalone, I think, fast read, short chapters, two MC with POV changing chapterwhise between them.
I think all three books are one way or the other teen-coming-out and coming-of-age-finding-themselves, just so you know what to expect, not really sure, wether they fit what the OP is looking for.

Naamah by Sarah Blake - retelling of the story of Noah's Ark, main character is bi
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon - a major secondary character expresses feelings for a woman and a man
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon - the main character has relationships with men and women
Tin Man by Sarah Winman - recounts the main character's major relationships with a man and a woman
Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar - a brother recounts an affair he had with a nameless man; in the second half of the book, his sister recounts an affair she had with the same man
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - a classic novel about Catholicism and dandies that is widely acknowledged to have very strong bisexual subtext
Genre fic:
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey - a group of adventurers ride hippopotamuses and plot revenge; several characters are LGBT
The Fire's Stone by Tanya Huff - a prince, a thief and a wizard go on a quest; one of the trio is bi
YA:
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith - surreal pastiche of Cold War-era horror films with a bisexual lead
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan - there is a fairly important bi secondary character; the bi representation does feel a little dated, but this was one of the first YA novels with significant LGBT rep
Middle grade:
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake - a young girl's bi coming of age story
Comics:
The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie - pop stars are also reincarnations of gods; basically the entire cast is LGBT, and many are bi
Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie - almost all of the Young Avengers are LGBT, several are bi
Basically anything by Kieron Gillen tbh
Patsy Walker, a.k.a. Hellcat! by Kate Leth and Brittney Williams - Ian, Patsy's close friend and a major secondary character, is bi and there is significant discussion about this part of his identity
Constantine: The Hellblazer by Ming Doyle, James Tynion IV and Riley Rossmo - there are a lot of Constantine comics, but the Doyle/Tynion run touches on his bisexuality the most
Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
Vidal was a true bisexual. He slept with Anaïs Nin and Jack Kerouac, among hundreds if not thousands of others. Ironically (perhaps) his lifelong companion was a man but they never had sex.
Vidal was a true bisexual. He slept with Anaïs Nin and Jack Kerouac, among hundreds if not thousands of others. Ironically (perhaps) his lifelong companion was a man but they never had sex.

We Are Okay
Echo After Echo
Leah on the Offbeat
Six of Crows (also Crooked Kingdom and King of Scars, all by the same author)
Odd One Out

Little & Lion
Invisible Life
Vow of Celibacy
Empress of the World
All the Invisible Things
Not Otherwise Specified
Eileen. Probably a borderline suggestion, it's debatable exactly what the sexuality of the protagonist is. A shifting sexuality, maybe.


And I have to state my support for the previously mentioned classic Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - this is a gorgeous, tragic book that everyone should read.
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