This is a collection of fictional novels that have polyamorous content.
The initial content were taken from The alt.polyamory Cultural FAQ .
Notes on the format of this page:
Creating a separate section for each author allows:
+ author-specific editing
+ automatic creation of a table of contents
+ allows for author-specific comments to be added
- requires some explicit table-sizing commands to keep things clean. In order to add a book (or edit the information) of an existing author, you can simply click on the [edit] button to the right of the authors name. To add a new author, click the 'edit' box at the top of this page and scroll down to the appropriate alphabetically-sorted location in the text before inserting the new entry (cutting and pasting a nearby entry will ensure that the presentation stays orderly). In the tables below:
The first column (P) is an indication of the amount of polyness in the story. One asterisk means a little, 5 asterisks means a great deal. The second column (F) is an indication of the degree of poly-friendliness of the story. One exclamation means not friendly, five exlamations means very positive.
Complete Listing [ ]
Author
P
F
Name
Isabel Allende
*
!
Eva Luna
Eleanor Arnason
**
!!
A Woman of the Iron People
Thea Alexander
***
!!
2150 AD
Isaac Asimov
**
!!
The Gods Themselves
Wilhelmina Baird
**
!!!
Crashcourse
John Dudley Ball
***
!!!
Chief Tallon and the S.O.R.
M. A. R. Barker
***
!!!
Flamesong
***
!!!
The Man of Gold
Redfern Jon Barrett
*****
!!!!!
The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights
Giovanni Boccacio
**
!!!
The Decameron
Amy Bloom
****
!!!!!
Love is Not a Pie
Marion Zimmer Bradley
***
!!!!
The Forbidden Tower
David Brin
***
!!!
Glory Season
***
!!!
The Uplift War
Rita Mae Brown
**
!!
Six of One
Heidi Brown and Jay Mussell
**
!!!!
ed, Friendly Erotica: A Question of Boundaries (See Martin Park Com.)
Octavia E. Butler
**
!!
Dawn , Adulthood Rites , and Imago
Ernest Callenbach
**
!!!
Ecotopia
**
!!!
Ecotopia Emerging
Orson Scott Card
**
!!
Saints
Jack Chalker
**
!!
_The Wonderland Gambit Trilogy_
Becky Chambers
***
!!!!!
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers vol. I)
C.J. Cherryh
*
!!!!!
The Pride of Chanur
*
!!!!!
Chanur's Venture
*
!!!!!
The Kif Strike Back
*
!!!!!
Chanur's Homecoming
****
!!!!!
Chanur's Legacy
Arthur C. Clarke
**
!!
Imperial Earth
**
!!
The Deep Range
Michael Cunningham
**
!!!!
A Home at the End of the World
Robertson Davies
**
!!
Fifth Business
**
!!
Leaven of Malice
**
!!
Lyre of Orpheus
**
!!
World of Wonders
Samuel R. Delany
*
!!!!!
Babel-17
*
!!!!!
Dhalgren
***
!!!!!
The Mad Man
**
!!!!!
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
**
!!
Triton
Emily Devenport
***
!!!
Scorpianne
Robert Devereaux
***
!!
Santa Steps Out:
Anita Diamant
**
!!
The Red Tent
Peter Dickenson
***
!!!!
King and Joker
**
!!!!
Skeleton in Waiting
L. Warren Douglas
***
!!!
Cannon's Orb
***
!!!
A Plague of Change
Candas Jane Dorsey
*****
!!!!!
Black Wine
Diane Duane
**
!!!!
The Door into Fire
**
!!!!
The Door into Shadow
**
!!!!
The Door into Sunset
Wayne Dyer
**
!!!
Gifts From Eykis
Marian Engel
***
!!!
Monodromos
Phillip Jose Farmer
**
!!
Dayworld
M. A. Foster
*****
!!!!
The Gameplayers of Zan
**
!!
The Warriors of Dawn
**
!!
The Day of the Klesh
Robert Graves
***
!!!
Watch the North Wind Rise
Nicola Griffith
**
!!!!
Ammonite
Joe Haldeman
**
!!
The Forever War
**
!!!
Worlds
**
!!!
Worlds Apart
**
!!
Worlds Enough and Time
Laurell K. Hamilton
**
!!
Guilty Pleasures
**
!!
The Laughing Corpse
**
!!
Circus of the Damned
**
!!
Lunatic Cafe
**
!!
Bloody Bones
**
!!
The Killing Dance
**
!!
Burnt Offerings
**
!!
Blue Moon
**
!!
Obsidian Butterfly
**
!!
A Kiss of Shadows
Andrew Harvey
*
!!
Burning Houses
Robert Heinlein
**
!!!!!
Beyond This Horizon
**
!!!!!
The Cat Who Walked Through Walls
**
!!!!!
Friday
***
!!!!!
Glory Road
**
!!!!!
Gulf
****
!!!!!
I Will Fear No Evil
***
!!!!!
Methuselah's Children
**
!!!!!
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
***
!!!!!
The Number of the Beast
***
!!!!!
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
****
!!!!!
Stranger in a Strange Land
****
!!!!!
Time Enough For Love
Nalo Hopkinson
**
!!
Midnight Robber
Tanya Huff
**
!!
Sing the Four Quarters , No Quarter , Fifth Quarter , and The Quartered Sea
John Irving
*
!!!
The World According to Garp
**
!!!
The 158-Pound Marriage
***
!!!
The Cider House Rules
Mervyn Jones
****
!!!
Two Women and their Man
Robert Jordan
***
!!!
The Eye of the World
***
!!!
The Great Hunt
***
!!!
The Dragon Reborn
***
!!!
The Shadow Rising
***
!!!
The Fires of Heaven
***
!!!
Lord of Chaos
***
!!!
A Crown of Swords
**
!!
Path of Daggers
Gordon Kendall
***
!!!
White Wing
Donald Kingsbury
****
!!!!
Courtship Rite
Kathe Koja
*****
!!!!
Kink
Milan Kundera
****
!
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Michael P. Kube-McDowell
***
!!!
The Quiet Pools
Mercedes Lackey & Piers Anthony
**
!!
If I Pay Thee Not in Gold
Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill
**
!!
Beyond World's End
Mercedes Lackey & Ellen Guon
***
!!
Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
*
!!
Summoned to Tourney
Maya Lassiter
*****
!!!!!
Ghost Fugue, For 3 Voices
Ursula K. LeGuin
**
!!
Always Coming Home
***
!!!
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
Fritz Leiber
**
!!!
(short story) Hatchery of Dreams
**
!!!
(short story) Nice Girl with Five Husbands
**
!!
A Spectre is Haunting Texas
Stephen Leigh
***
!!!
Alien Tongue
Doris Lessing
**
!!!!
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four , and Five
Elizabeth Lynn
***
!!
The Dancers of Arun
***
!!
A Different Light
Larry McMurty
****
!!!!
Leaving Cheyenne
Vonda McIntyre
**
!!!
Starfarers
**
!!!
Transition
**
!!!
Metaphase
**
!!!
Nautilus
**
!!!
Dreamsnake
George R. R. Martin
***
!!
Dying of the Light
Somerset Maugham
*
!!
Cakes and Ale
Shirley Meier
*
!!!!!
Shadow's Daughter
Mary Meigs
**
!!!
Medusa Head
Elizabeth Moon
**
!!
Rules of Engagement
Michael Moorcock
**
!!
_The Cornelius Chronicals_
Hester Mundis
**
!!!
Jessica's Wife
Vladimir Nabokov
*
!
Ada
Larry Niven
**
!!
The Integral Trees
*
!!!
The Patchwork Girl
**
!!
The Smoke Ring
Lisanne Norman
**
!!!
Turning Point
**
!!!
Fortune's Wheel
**
!!!
Fire Margins
**
!!!
Razor's Edge
Joyce Carol Oates
***
!!!
Blonde: A Novel
Maxine Paetro
****
!
Manshare
David Palmer
*
!!!
Emergence
Marge Piercy
****
!!!!
The High Cost of Living
***
!!!!
Woman on the Edge of Time
****
!!!!
Summer People
Irene Radford
**
!!
The Glass Dragon
Anne Rice
**
!!!
Taltos
Robert Rimmer
****
!!!!!
Come Live My Life
****
!!!!!
The Harrad Experiment
***
!!!!!
The Immoral Reverend
***
!!!!!
The Love Exchange
***
!!!!!
Premar Experiments
***
!!!!!
Proposition 31
***
!!!!!
The Rebellion of Yale Marrat
****
!!!!!
Thursday My Love
Tom Robbins
**
!!!!
Another Roadside Attraction
Matt Ruff
**
!!
Sewer, Gas, and Electric
Elizabeth Scarbourough
**
!!
The Harem of Aman Akbar
Melissa Scott
**
!!!
The Empress of Earth , The Five-Twelfths of Heaven , and Silence in Solitude
George Bernard Shaw
***
!!!
The Simpleton of the Unexpected , Isles
Olaf Stapledon
**
!!
Last & First Men
Starhawk
***
!!!!!
The Fifth Sacred Thing
S. M. Stirling
**
!!!
Snow Brother
S. M. Stirling & Shirley Meier
****
!!!!!
The Cage
*
!!!!!
Saber and Shadow
S. M. Stirling
***
!!!!!
Shadow's Son
S. M. Stirling & David Drake
***
!!!
The Forge
***
!!!
The Hammer
***
!!!
The Anvil
***
!!!
The Steel
***
!!!
The Sword
Don Tiggre
***
!!!
Y2K: The Millennium Bug
Dylan Thomas
**
!!!
Under Milk Wood
Jude Tresswell
*****
!!!!!
Badge of Loyalty (gay polyamory)
John Varley
**
!!!
Demon
**
!!!
Titan
**
!!!
Wizard
**
!!!
The Persistence of Vision
***
!!!
Blue Champagne
Joan D. Vinge
**
!!!
The Outcasts of Heaven's
Alice Walker
**
!!!
The Temple of My Familiar
Irving Wallace
****
!!!
The Three Sirens
Laurence Watt-Evans
**
!!
With a Single Spell
**
!!
The Spell of the Black Knight
Don Webb
**
!!
The Double
**
!!
Essential Saltes
Karen Wehrstein
****
!!!!!
Lion's Heart
****
!!!!!
Lion's Soul
Kate Wilhelm
**
!!!
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Walter Jon Williams
*
!!!
Aristoi
Jeanette Winterson
**
!!!
The Passion
Michael Z. Williamson
**
!!!!!
Freehold
Virginia Woolf
**
!!
Orlando
Tia Groves
****
!!!!!
A Tomboy Named Fran
Listing By Author [ ] Isabel Allende [ ] Eleanor Arnason [ ] Thea Alexander [ ] Isaac Asimov [ ] Wilhelmina Baird [ ] John Dudley Ball [ ] M. A. R. Barker [ ] Redfern Jon Barrett [ ] Giovanni Boccacio [ ] Amy Bloom [ ] Marion Zimmer Bradley [ ] David Brin [ ] Rita Mae Brown [ ] Heidi Brown and Jay Mussell [ ]
P
F
Name
Synopsis
**
!!!!
ed, Friendly Erotica: A Question of Boundaries (See Martin Park Com.)
Octavia E. Butler [ ] Ernest Callenbach [ ] Orson Scott Card [ ]
P
F
Name
Synopsis
**
!!
Saints
Jack Chalker [ ]
P
F
Name
Synopsis
**
!!
_The Wonderland Gambit Trilogy_
Becky Chambers [ ]
P
F
Name
Synopsis
***
!!!!!
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers vol. I)
First volume in the space opera Wayfarers, The Long Way introduces a multi-species crew and delves into their respectives takes on individuality, family, gender and relationships. One of the main characters is a member of a species called the Aandrisk , whose complex family structures are based in polyamory.
C.J. Cherryh [ ] Arthur C. Clarke [ ] Michael Cunningham [ ] Robertson Davies [ ] Samuel R. Delany [ ] Emily Devenport [ ] Robert Devereaux [ ] Anita Diamant [ ] Peter Dickenson [ ] L. Warren Douglas [ ] Candas Jane Dorsey [ ] Diane Duane [ ] Wayne Dyer [ ] Marian Engel [ ] Phillip Jose Farmer [ ] M. A. Foster [ ] Robert Graves [ ] Nicola Griffith [ ] Joe Haldeman [ ] Laurell K. Hamilton [ ] Andrew Harvey [ ] Robert Heinlein [ ] Nalo Hopkinson [ ] Tanya Huff [ ] John Irving [ ] Mervyn Jones [ ] Robert Jordan [ ] Gordon Kendall [ ] Donald Kingsbury [ ] Kathe Koja [ ]
P
F
Name
Synopsis
*****
!!!!
Kink
Milan Kundera [ ] Michael P. Kube-McDowell [ ] Mercedes Lackey & Piers Anthony [ ] Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill [ ] Mercedes Lackey & Ellen Guon [ ] Ursula K. LeGuin [ ] Fritz Leiber [ ]
P
F
Name
Synopsis
**
!!!
(short story) Hatchery of Dreams
**
!!!
(short story) Nice Girl with Five Husbands
**
!!
A Spectre is Haunting Texas
Stephen Leigh [ ] Doris Lessing [ ] Elizabeth Lynn [ ] Larry McMurty [ ] Vonda McIntyre [ ] George R. R. Martin [ ] Leigh Matthews [ ] Somerset Maugham [ ] Shirley Meier [ ] Mary Meigs [ ] Elizabeth Moon [ ] Michael Moorcock [ ] Hester Mundis [ ] Vladimir Nabokov [ ]
P
F
Name
Synopsis
*
!
Ada
Larry Niven [ ] Lisanne Norman [ ] Joyce Carol Oates [ ] Maxine Paetro [ ] David Palmer [ ] Marge Piercy [ ] Irene Radford [ ] Anne Rice [ ]
P
F
Name
Synopsis
**
!!!
Taltos
Robert Rimmer [ ] Tom Robbins [ ] Matt Ruff [ ] Elizabeth Scarbourough [ ] Melissa Scott [ ] George Bernard Shaw [ ] Olaf Stapledon [ ] Starhawk [ ] S. M. Stirling [ ] S. M. Stirling & Shirley Meier [ ] S. M. Stirling [ ] S. M. Stirling & David Drake [ ] Don Tiggre [ ] Dylan Thomas [ ]
P
F
Name
Synopsis
**
!!!
Under Milk Wood
John Varley [ ] Joan D. Vinge [ ]
P
F
Name
Synopsis
**
!!!
The Outcasts of Heaven's Gate
Alice Walker [ ] Irving Wallace [ ] Laurence Watt-Evans [ ] Don Webb [ ] Karen Wehrstein [ ] Kate Wilhelm [ ] Walter Jon Williams [ ] Jeanette Winterson [ ] Virginia Woolf [ ]