The Bookish Mindset

Disability Pride Month is celebrated throughout July and as ever, it’s important to highlight and celebrate these voices.

The landscape is grim right now and we can start by educating ourselves and understanding more, using that knowledge and energy in our allyship.

I’ve added in brackets more detail about the disability in case there’s something specific you’re looking for. Those with a * denote that these books are on my TBR and I haven’t read them, just for full transparency.

Literary

• Turtles All the Way Down – John Green (OCD)
• Overspill – Charlotte Paradise* (CPTSD)
• 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

• In the Weeds – B.K. Borison (Autism)
• 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)
• Really Goof, Actually – Claire Frances* (Neurodivergence)

Fantasy & Sci-Fi

• 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)
• 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)
• Strong Female Character – Fern Brady* (Neurodivergence)

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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 30/07/2025