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The Disability Library
I love books, I love literature, and I love this blog, but it's only been recently that I've really been given the option to explore disabled literature, and I hate that. When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be able to read about characters like me, and now as an adult, all I want is to be able to read a book that takes us seriously.
And so, friends, Romans, countrymen, I present, a special disability and chronic illness booklist, compiled by myself and through the contributions of wonderful members from this site!
As always, if there are any at all that you want me to add, please just say. I'm always looking for more!
Edit 20/10/2023: You can now suggest books using the google form at the bottom!
Updated: 31/08/2023
Articles and Chapters
The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, Essaka Joshua, 2012
Early Modern Literature and Disability Studies, Allison P. Hobgood, David Houston Wood, 2017
How Do You Develop Whole Object Relations as an Adult?, Elinor Greenburg, 2019
Making Do with What You Don't Have: Disabled Black Motherhood in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Anna Hinton, 2018
Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2003 OR Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2019
Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts, Zygmunt Bauman, 2004
Witchcraft and deformity in early modern English Literature, Scott Eaton, 2020
Books
Fiction:
Misc:
10 Things I Can See From Here, Carrie Mac
A-F:
A Curse So Dark and Lonely, (Series), Brigid Kemmerer
Akata Witch, (Series), Nnedi Okorafor
A Mango-Shaped Space, Wendy Mass
Ancillary Justice, (Series), Ann Leckie
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
An Unseen Attraction, (Series), K. J. Charles
A Shot in the Dark, Victoria Lee
A Snicker of Magic, Natalie Lloyd
A Song of Ice and Fire, (series), George R. R. Martin
A Spindle Splintered, (Series), Alix E. Harrow
A Time to Dance, Padma Venkatraman
Bath Haus, P. J. Vernon
Beasts of Prey, (Series), Ayana Gray
The Bedlam Stacks, (Series), Natasha Pulley
Black Bird, Blue Road, Sofiya Pasternack
Black Sun, (Series), Rebecca Roanhorse
Blood Price, (Series), Tanya Huff
Borderline, (Series), Mishell Baker
Breath, Donna Jo Napoli
The Broken Kingdoms, (Series), N.K. Jemisin
Brute, Kim Fielding
Cafe con Lychee, Emery Lee
Carry the Ocean, (Series), Heidi Cullinan
Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman
Cinder, (Series), Marissa Meyer
Clean, Amy Reed
Connection Error, (Series), Annabeth Albert
Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star, Laura Noakes
Crazy, Benjamin Lebert
Crooked Kingdom, (Series), Leigh Bardugo
Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots, (Series), Cat Sebastian
Daniel, Deconstructed, James Ramos
Dead in the Garden, (Series), Dahlia Donovan
Dear Fang, With Love, Rufi Thorpe
Deathless Divide, (Series), Justina Ireland
The Degenerates, J. Albert Mann
The Doctor's Discretion, E.E. Ottoman
Earth Girl, (Series), Janet Edwards
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Emily R. Austin
The Extraordinaries, (Series), T. J. Klune
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, (Series), Trenton Lee Stewart
Fight + Flight, Jules Machias
The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix
Finding My Voice, (Series), Aoife Dooley
The First Thing About You, Chaz Hayden
Follow My Leader, James B. Garfield
Forever Is Now, Mariama J. Lockington
Fortune Favours the Dead, (Series), Stephen Spotswood
Fresh, Margot Wood
H-0:
Harmony, London Price
Harrow the Ninth, (series), Tamsyn Muir
Hench, (Series), Natalia Zina Walschots
Highly Illogical Behaviour, John Corey Whaley
Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers
How to Become a Planet, Nicole Melleby
How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager, (Series), D. N. Bryn
How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love, (Series), D. N. Bryn
Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites, Joy Demorra
I Am Not Alone, Francisco X. Stork
The Immeasurable Depth of You, Maria Ingrande Mora
In the Ring, Sierra Isley
Into The Drowning Deep, (Series), Mira Grant
Iron Widow, (Series), Xiran Jay Zhao
Izzy at the End of the World, K. A. Reynolds
Jodie's Journey, Colin Thiele
Just by Looking at Him, Ryan O'Connell
Kissing Doorknobs, Terry Spencer Hesser
Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore
Learning Curves, (Series), Ceillie Simkiss
Let's Call It a Doomsday, Katie Henry
The Library of the Dead, (Series), TL Huchu
The Lion Hunter, (Series), Elizabeth Wein
Lirael, (Series), Garth Nix
Long Macchiatos and Monsters, Alison Evans
Love from A to Z, (Series), S.K. Ali
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses, Kristen O'Neal
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Never Tilting World, (Series), Rin Chupeco
The No-Girlfriend Rule, Christen Randall
Nona the Ninth, (series), Tamsyn Muir
Noor, Nnedi Okorafor
Odder Still, (Series), D. N. Bryn
Once Stolen, (Series), D. N. Bryn
One For All, Lillie Lainoff
On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis
Origami Striptease, Peggy Munson
Our Bloody Pearl, (Series), D. N. Bryn
Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper
P-T:
Parable of the Sower, (Series), Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents, (Series), Octavia E. Butler
Percy Jackson & the Olympians, (series), Rick Riordan
Pomegranate, Helen Elaine Lee
The Prey of Gods, Nicky Drayden
The Pursuit Of..., (Series), Courtney Milan
The Queen's Thief, (Series), Megan Whalen Turner
The Quiet and the Loud, Helena Fox
The Raging Quiet, Sheryl Jordan
The Reanimator's Heart, (Series), Kara Jorgensen
The Remaking of Corbin Wale, Joan Parrish
Roll with It, (Series), Jamie Sumner
Russian Doll, (Series), Cristelle Comby
The Second Mango, (Series), Shira Glassman
Scar of the Bamboo Leaf, Sieni A.M
Shaman, (Series), Noah Gordon
Sick Kids in Love, Hannah Moskowitz
The Silent Boy, Lois Lowry
Six of Crows, (Series) Leigh Bardugo
Sizzle Reel, Carlyn Greenwald
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal
The Stagsblood Prince, (Series), Gideon E. Wood
Stake Sauce, Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient is Love. No, Really, (Series), RoAnna Sylver
Stars in Your Eyes, Kacen Callender [Expected release: Oct 2023]
The Storm Runner, (Series), J. C. Cervantes
Stronger Still, (Series), D. N. Bryn
Sweetblood, Pete Hautman
Tarnished Are the Stars, Rosiee Thor
The Theft of Sunlight, (Series), Intisar Khanani
Throwaway Girls, Andrea Contos
Top Ten, Katie Cotugno
Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Treasure, Rebekah Weatherspoon
Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
U-Z:
Unlicensed Delivery, Will Soulsby-McCreath Expected release October 2023
Verona Comics, Jennifer Dugan
Vorkosigan Saga, (Series), Lois McMaster Bujold
We Are the Ants, (Series), Shaun David Hutchinson
The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf
Whip, Stir and Serve, Caitlyn Frost and Henry Drake
The Whispering Dark, Kelly Andrew
Wicked Sweet, Chelsea M. Cameron
Wonder, (Series), R. J. Palacio
Wrong to Need You, (Series), Alisha Rai
Ziggy, Stardust and Me, James Brandon
Graphic Novels:
A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability, (Non-Fiction), A. Andrews
Constellations, Kate Glasheen
Dancing After TEN: a graphic memoir, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Vivian Chong, Georgia Webber
Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Jason Adam Katzenstein
Frankie's World: A Graphic Novel, (Series), Aoife Dooley
The Golden Hour, Niki Smith
Nimona, N. D. Stevenson
The Third Person, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Emma Grove
Magazines and Anthologies:
Artificial Divide, (Anthology), Robert Kingett, Randy Lacey
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175: Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds, (Article), R. B. Lemburg
Defying Doomsday, (Anthology), edited by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, (short story) (anthology), Seiko Tanabe
Nothing Without Us, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson
Nothing Without Us Too, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson
Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, (Anthology), edited by Marieke Nijkamp
Uncanny #24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, (Anthology), edited by: Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Dominik Parisien et al.
Uncanny #30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy, (Anthology), edited by: Nicolette Barischoff, Lisa M. Bradley, Katharine Duckett
We Shall Be Monsters, edited by Derek Newman-Stille
Manga:
Perfect World, (Series), Rie Aruga
The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud, (Short Stories), Kuniko Tsurita
Non-Fiction:
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, Jay Timothy Dolmage
A Disability History of the United States, Kim E, Nielsen
The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access, David Gissen
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism, Elsa Sjunneson
Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk
Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety, Dr. Elinor Greenburg
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, Eli Clare
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, Barker, Clare and Stuart Murray, editors.
The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship, Stacy Clifford Simplican
Capitalism and Disability, Martha Russel
Care work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism: A Psycho-Ecological Approach, Dr Amitta Shah
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esme Weijun Wang
Crip Kinship, Shayda Kafai
Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook, Jules Sherred
Culture – Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition, Liat Ben-Moshe
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, Emily Ladau
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World, Ben Mattlin
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space, Amanda Leduc
Every Cripple a Superhero, Christoph Keller
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation, Eli Clare
Feminist Queer Crip, Alison Kafer
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Growing Up Disabled in Australia, Carly Findlay
It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability, Kelly Davio
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Language Deprivation & Deaf Mental Health, Neil S. Glickman, Wyatte C. Hall
The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability, Elizabeth Barnes
My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick, Lyndsey Medford
No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, Sarah F. Rose
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, James I. Charlton
The Pedagogy of Pathologization Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus, Subini Ancy Annamma
Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, Essaka Joshua
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, Raymond Luczak, Editor.
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir K. Puar
Sitting Pretty, (memoir), Rebecca Taussig
Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black & Deaf in the South, Mary Herring Wright
Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms, Ilana Jacqueline
The Things We Don't Say: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Truths, Julie Morgenlender
Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability, Scott T. Smith, José Alaniz 
Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman, (memoir), Laura Kate Dale
Unmasking Autism, Devon Price
The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe, Ellen Clifford
We've Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents, Eliza Hull
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, (memoir) (essays) Alice Wong
Picture Books:
A Day With No Words, Tiffany Hammond, Kate Cosgrove-
A Friend for Henry, Jenn Bailey, Mika Song
Ali and the Sea Stars, Ali Stroker, Gillian Reid
All Are Welcome, Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman
All the Way to the Top, Annette Bay Pimentel, Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, Nabi Ali
Can Bears Ski?, Raymond Antrobus, Polly Dunbar
Different -- A Great Thing to Be!, Heather Alvis, Sarah Mensinga
Everyone Belongs, Heather Alvis, Sarah Mensinga
I Talk Like a River, Jordan Scott, Sydney Smith
Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream, K. T. Johnson, Anabella Ortiz
Just Ask!, Sonia Sotomayor, Rafael López
Kami and the Yaks, Andrea Stenn Stryer, Bert Dodson
My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay, Cari Best, Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship, Jessica Kensky, Patrick Downes, Scott Magoon
Sam's Super Seats, Keah Brown, Sharee Miller
Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster, Manka Kasha
We Move Together, Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, Eduardo Trejos
We're Different, We're the Same, and We're All Wonderful!, Bobbi Jane Kates, Joe Mathieu
What Happened to You?, James Catchpole, Karen George
The World Needs More Purple People, Kristen Bell, Benjamin Hart, Daniel Wiseman
You Are Enough: A Book About Inclusion, Margaret O'Hair, Sofia Sanchez, Sofia Cardoso
You Are Loved: A Book About Families, Margaret O'Hair, Sofia Sanchez, Sofia Cardoso
The You Kind of Kind, Nina West, Hayden Evans
Zoom!, Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko
Plays:
Peeling, Kate O'Reilly
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📢 And we are live! 📢
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As we steamroll into 2024, I'd like to kick off the year by announcing that The Disability Book Archive is now officially live and open for public browsing!
It hasn't all gone as smoothly as I wanted it to, and I haven't been able to put every book I wanted to on (yet, I'm working on it!) but I'm happy with how it's turned out and I hope you all like it it to!
I would like to thank everyone for your continued support over this project, it means a great deal to me. I hope we will only continue to grow as the year goes on!
Happy browsing, and happy new year!!
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A column of grey text below this reads:
"A collection of disabled literature"
"Searchable"
"Tag System"
"LGBTQ+"
"Fiction & Non-Fiction"
And "Submit Your Own" in a slightly transparent red box.
At the bottom of the cover, next to the tumblr icon, white text reads "@thedisabilitybookarchive" and "www.thedisabilityarchive.com".
The background of the poster is the straight diagonal version of the disability pride flag. /end]
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the-bi-library · 7 months
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Today's bi book of the day is Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton and Aśka!
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It's a romance graphic novel with a bisexual amputee teen finding love at her first fan convention while struggling to manage her chronic pain.
Has f/nbi romance.
In this lighthearted YA romance, Maisie and Ollie discover that nothing beats the feeling of falling in love for the first time. Maisie is on her way to Fancon! She's looking forward to meeting her idol, Kara Bufano, the action hero from her favorite TV show, who has a lower-leg amputation, just like Maisie. But when Maisie and her mom arrive at the convention center, she is stopped in her tracks by Ollie, a cute volunteer working the show. They are kind, charming, and geek out about nerd culture just as much as Maisie does. And as the day wears on, Maisie notices feelings for Ollie that she's never had before. Is this what it feels like to fall in love? Perfect for fans of Heartstopper and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, this graphic novel debut is a fresh, one-of-a-kind story that celebrates the excitement of meeting someone special for the first time.
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aroaessidhe · 10 months
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2023 reads // twitter thread
Where You See Yourself
YA contemporary coming-of-age
follows a girl with cerebral palsy in her final year of school trying to decide between her dream college and an accessible one
complicated friendships and romance
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I am almost done with Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao and it is an amazing read. Lots of trigger warnings for sure (you can look up other posts about it) but it is a great reinterpretation of Chinese history with queer rep, disabled rep(!! main character has chronic foot pain and uses mobility aids at times; also PTSD is included), and interesting, likeable main characters.
It is up there with The Hunger Games for me in the way that the brutal plot and details haunt me and the characters draw me in.
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bensbooks · 3 months
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ARC Review: Breathing Underwater
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Seventeen-year-old Tess Cooper lives by three train hard, study hard, work hard. Swimming is her best chance at a college scholarship. It’s what her parents, her coaches, and even her best friend expect from her—and Tess can always deliver.Until tragedy strikes. Tess has a seizure, and her world suddenly becomes one of doctor visits, missed practices, and a summer job stuck behind a counter—not sitting high in the lifeguard chair like every year before.Instead, her spot goes to new guy Charlie. Sure, his messy hair and laid-back demeanor sends Tess’ heart racing, but this isn’t really the time. She’s got to focus on getting back in the pool—regardless of what her doctor or anyone else says.
My review:
Breathing Underwater is a slice-of-life novel with a solid disability plot focusing on epilepsy. The main character has to deal with the struggles of becoming sick right in the middle of training for Nationals for swimming, knowing that her entire life won't ever be the same again.
This book is a good book if you're looking for a well paced, not too heavy book about overcoming problems out of your control. The main character not only has to tackle her own feelings, but also those around her, some of who understand and some who don't.
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feywildfancypants · 6 months
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Venom and Vow by Elliott McLemore, Anna-Marie McLemore
Generally I am not a YA person, but something about reading queer/trans YA heals the little queer kid I never really got to be. This book has mobility aids, transmasc prince, a monastery for transgender people, a bigender dama, foxes large enough to ride (if you offer them your shoes), and I loved it a whole awful lot.
One thing it highlights really well is is acceptance despite transness v acceptance regardless of transness.
Cade is the first born child of his mother, but he gave up the right to the thrown when he went away to honor his heart and live fully as himself. He went away the daughter everyone thought his mother had, and came back to live as a man disguised as his younger brother's half-sibling. Cade doesn't believe he could because people don't really accept transgender people. The kingdom "accepts" trans people in the sense that they are allowed to transition, but it is assumed they will walk completely away from their old life and start over completely, not acknowledging their former gender at all. Which is a despite sort of acceptance.
The regardless sort of acceptance comes later. There is this really beautiful exchange where Cade is discussing pronouns with Val. Val is comfortable as both a woman and a man and wants to use both she and he pronouns. He thinks that is too much to ask, so he couches it in a joke. But Cade just adjusts his internal monologue to match. He has seen and been pulled towards Val in all her presentations, and the more he learns the harder he falls in love. These two really help each other grow into a full acceptance of themselves, regardless of, and often because of, transness.
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yaworldchallenge · 2 years
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World YA/NA Books featuring Disabilities
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July is Disability Pride Month, so I threw together some internationally-flavored books that feature various disabilities (by no means a complete list!) Comment with more suggestions if you have some!
🇧🇾  Belarus
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach (physical disability from birth, uses wheelchair)
🇨🇳  China
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (uses cane & wheelchair)
🇳🇴  Norway
The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath (deafness)
🇫🇷  France
One for All by Lillie Lainoff (POTS)
🇮🇳  India
A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman (prosthetic leg)
🇮🇪  Ireland
Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin (prosthetics, heart condition)
🇲🇾  Malaysia
The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf (OCD)
🇳🇬  Nigeria
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (albinism)
🇳🇱  Netherlands
On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (autistic)   
🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Britain/Europe
A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (epilepsy)
🇶🇦  Qatar
Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali (multiple sclerosis)
🇺🇸  United States
The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew (deafness)
🇬🇧 Wales
The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones (chronic pain)
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So fun life update??? I published a book???? It’s a collection of poems, essays, and short stories I edited all written by disabled authors. I edited the book and wrote the introduction. And it’s available for sale on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, and our publisher’s website! If your favorite local bookstore doesn’t have it in stock, you can request they order a copy for you!
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Prompt 43 Rec List
Here are some recs for prompt 43 of the Diverse Reading Challenge 2022. Full prompt list is here
Prompt 43 -  A book with a physically disabled and/or chronically ill protagonist
So Lucky - Nicola Griffith
I read this book for this prompt in 2020 and my review is here. 
This novel follows a woman, who is diagnosed with MS, the same week her wife leaves her, and shortly after is forced to leave her job. She decides to fight back by finding a new community. This book has such an interesting protagonist, and great prose. I would recommend if you are looking for a character study. 
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
This is a retelling of Hamlet, set in a remote farm focused on breeding dogs. It follows Edgar, whose once peaceful life is broken when his uncle moves in. This is an enjoyable book, with some very clever reinterpretations of Hamlet. I would recommend to Shakespeare fans, or people who like books about dogs.  
The Nothing Within - Andy Giesler
A sci-fi novel, it is set in the post-apocaylpse. It follows Root, who after hearing a voice no one else can hear, flees her home into the wilderness, and must confront a threat to her people, and find out the truth about who she is. This is an interesting sci-fi novel, and weaves journal entries and stories together. I would recommend it to any post-apocalyptic fan. 
Note: I have not personally read the following books, but they are all on my to-read list. 
Fairest - Meredith Talusan
A memoir, of a trans woman with albinism, talking about her journey moving to America and transitioning. 
Something to Talk About - Meryl Wilsner
A romance, an actress and her assistant are photographed together, sparking rumors they are a couple. 
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thistle-nightshade · 3 months
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Listen, all I'm saying is that Frank and Bill got nothing on Aaron and the Captain in this book.
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disabled-dragoon · 8 months
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Does anyone have recommendations for books about disability/with disabled characters in?
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'Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens'- Nijkamp, Marieke
Disability Rep: Unidentified Mental Health Condition (Possible Bipolar), Blind, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Wheelchair User, Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Idiopathic Pain, Cane User, Schizophrenia, Depression, Hallucinations, IBS, Chronic Pain, Bipolar II, Cerebral Palsy, Autism
Genre: Short Stories, Multi-Genre, Fantasy, Historical, Contemporary, Romance, Realistic, Science-Fiction, Horror
Age: Young Adult
Setting: Persia, USA, Multiple Settings
Additional Rep: Chinese Female MC, POC, F/M, Sapphic Characters, F/F, Latin MC, Muslim Female MC, Transgender Man LI, Black Female MC, Non-Binary MC, Biracial Native-American MC, Cuban wlw Female LI, Queer wlw Female MC
For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:
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the-bi-library · 7 months
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Can you recommend me fantasy/sci-fi series with diverse mc. Bonus if it's found family ish
Of course!
💕A Dance of Water and Air by Antonia Aquilante. (Biromantic demisexual MC) 💕Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver (Bi polyam ace MC) 💕The Lifeline Signal by RoAnna Sylver (Bi nonbinary MC) 💕The Heartbreak Bakery by Amy Rose Capetta (Bi agender MC) 💕A Ruinous Fate by Kaylie Smith (Fat bi MC) 💕The Faithless by C.L. Clark (Disabled bi MC, Cane user, chronic pain) 💕Foxhunt by Rem Wigmore (Trans bi MC) 💕The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Black bi MC) 💕Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Asain bi MC, ambulatory wheel chair user, chronic pain) 💕Gimmicks and Glamour by Lauren Melissa Ellzey (Neurodivergent bi MC)
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prawnlegs · 29 days
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today I learned about "thumb book holders" in my search for ways to read giant fantasy paperbacks without injuring myself, and then I realized I could make one out of the 20-year-old polymer clay that I had lying around... so I did. and god DAMN it's more effective than I ever expected, so I thought everyone should know about them. You can get really cheap mass-produced ones but this was fun to make and I'll probably make more ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
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itisiives · 7 months
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My pangobook haul. You love to see it! ✌️
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