The Bookish Mindset

This blog was wrote as an accompaniment for my 2025 reading challenge, check out all the details here! Read nine books from nine prompts over the first six months of the year and be entered into a draw to win a bundle of bookish goodies.

I’ve added in brackets more detail about the disability in case there’s something specific you’re looking for.

Literary

• Turtles All the Way Down – John Green (OCD)
• Overspill – Charlotte Paradise* (due out 25th April) (Can’t find specific detail, but author has Chronic Illnesses)
• Hear No Evil – Sarah Smith* (Deafness)
• A List of Cages – Robin Roe* (ADHD, Dyslexia)
• The Luis Ortega Survival Club – Sonora Reyes* (Autism, Selective Mutism)
• Wild and Crooked – Leah Thomas* (Cerebral Palsy)
• The Summer of Bitter and Sweet – Jen Ferguson* (Hip Dysplasia)
• Silence Between Us – Alison Gervais* (Deafness/Hard of Hearing)
• Breathe and Count Back from Ten – Natalia Sylvester* (Hip Dysplasia)

Romance

• Chaos Theory – Nic Stone (Bi-Polar)
• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute – Talia Hibbert (OCD)
• Get A Life, Chloe Brown – Talia Hibbert (Fibromyalgia)
• Act Your Age, Eve Brown – Talia Hibbert (Autism)
• The Kiss Quotient – Helen Hoang (Autism)
• The Bride Test – Helen Hoang (Autism)
• The Heart Principle – Helen Hoang (Autism)
• Some Like it Cold – Elle McNoil* (Autism)
• Where You See Yourself – Claire Forrest* (Cerebral Palsy)
• Not If I See You First – Eric Lindstrom* (Blindness)
• Love Letters for Joy – Melissa See* (Cerebral Palsy)
• Every Time You Go Away – Abigail Johnson* (Paraplegia)
• How to Dance – Jason B. Dutton* (Cerebral Palsy)
• Reggie and Delilah’s Year of Falling – Elise Bryant* (Chronic Migraines, Dyslexia)
• All the Right Reasons – Bethany Mangle* (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)

Fantasy

• The Vulpine – Polly Crosby* (Can’t find specific detail, but features multiple disabilities and author has Cystic Fibrosis)
• Death of an Author – Nnedi Okorafor* (due out 20th Feb) (Can’t find detail other than that the protagonist is disabled)
• A Fragile Enchantment – Allison Saft* (Chronic Illness)
• Unseelie – Ivelisse Housman* (Autism)
• Sixteen Souls – Rosie Talbot* (Limb Difference)
• For a Muse of Fire – Heidi Heilig* (Bipolar Disorder)
• One for All – Lillie Lainoff* (Chronic Illness)
• Graceling – Kristin Cashore* (Graphic Novel) (Blind/Low Vision)

Sci-Fi

• Iron Widow – Xiran Jay Zhao (foot binding)

Non-Fiction

• Disability Visibility – Alice Wong (Misc – Essays by many authors)
• Poor Little Sick Girls – Ione Gamble (Chrons Disease)
• Disability Intimacy – Alice Wong* (Misc – Essays by many authors)
• Sitting Pretty – Rebekah Taussig* (Wheelchair user)

Those with a * denote that these books are on my TBR and I haven’t read them, just for full transparency.

This blog was wrote as an accompaniment for my 2025 reading challenge, check out all the details here! Read nine books from nine prompts over the first six months of the year and be entered into a draw to win a bundle of bookish goodies.

If you’d like to get yourself a copy of any of the above, you can support local bookshops while doing so on Bookshop.org with this link here.

If you like what you’ve read and would like to access more content, I’d love if you could take a look at my patreon and consider supporting my content on there too.

And don’t forget to check out my other blogs and reviews – you can find books with similar themes in the same folder link below, or click back onto blogs to see the whole offering.

Last updated 03/01/2025