AAPI Heritage Month
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Physical Disability


Physical Disability Books

Wonder (Wonder, #1)
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
Always Only You (Bergman Brothers, #2)
A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)
El Deafo
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
Romancing the Duke (Castles Ever After, #1)
Everything, Everything
Otherbound
Gathering Blue (Giver, #2)
Out on a Limb (Out, #1)
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Lists

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonIridescent Spoon by Jodee KulpThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckWonder by R.J. Palacio
Stories about Individuals with Disabilities
687 books — 398 voters
Romancing the Duke by Tessa DareAnnie's Song by Catherine AndersonThe Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer AshleyJust Like Heaven by Julia QuinnMiss Wonderful by Loretta Chase
Historical Romance and Illness
9 books — 8 voters

Out of My Mind by Sharon M. DraperThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettWonder by R.J. PalacioThe War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyHeidi by Johanna Spyri
Children's Books with Chronically Ill/Disabled Main Characters
475 books — 99 voters
Sitting Pretty by Rebekah TaussigSpineless by Joshua SmithThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique BaubyMy Left Foot by Christy BrownEvery Day Is a Gift by Tammy Duckworth
Best Biographies of People with Physical Disabilities
52 books — 11 voters

Where You See Yourself by Claire ForrestGive Me a Sign by Anna SortinoThe Kiss Quotient by Helen HoangGirl in the Window by Penny JoelsonAll the Right Reasons by Bethany Mangle
#OwnVoices Disability Reads
40 books — 8 voters
Six of Crows by Leigh BardugoCrooked Kingdom by Leigh BardugoOn the Edge of Gone by Corinne DuyvisOne for All by Lillie LainoffThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Disabled Own Voices Books
107 books — 77 voters

Quotes Tagged “Physical Disability”

“ The sponge baths were almost more of a torture chamber than anything else. My nerves being completely severed, no longer sent the sensation of water being on my legs. ”
― Joshua Smith, Spineless
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“ Disability fluctuates, growing visible, then invisible, then visible again, becoming both ever-present and haunting. Such a problematizing of physical life added a new wrinkle to the genre's double/secret identity trope: the characters now interact with their shifting bodies as bodies with all the complications involved. ...more ”
― Jose Alaniz, Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
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