AbstractWe prove that a 2‐connected, outerplanar bipartite graph (respectively, outerplanar near‐triangulation) with a list of colors L (v ) for each vertex v such that $|L(v)|\geq\min\{{\deg}(v),4\}$ (resp., $|L(v)|\geq{\min}\{{\deg}(v),5\}$) can be L‐list‐colored (except when the graph is K3 with identical 2‐lists). These results are best possible for each condition in the hypotheses and bounds. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 59: 59–74, 2008