Recs if you like Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever...

Intersectionality, baby! Disability includes many conditions, including - but not limited to - physical disabilities, chronic illnesses, psychiatric disabilities, sensory disabilities, and neurodivergence.

Queer books by authors from south of the equator

books written by disabled authors

Non-fiction books about disability by disabled authors

A collection of community recommendations for learning to live with a disability ❤️‍🩹

A collection of books by a range of disabled authors exploring what it means to navigate a world that isn’t built with accessibility in mind. Personal stories with sharp insight, these works challenge what we think we know about disability, chronic illness, mental health, neurodiversity, the myth of recovery, and what it means to belong.

List is a work in progress!

These Diverse Baseline Challenge was created by @bookish.millennial & @themargherita.s (on instagram). In 2025, the goal is to read 1 book by a racialized author each month. This challenge is meant to encourage readers to try genres they historically don’t reach for, find new-to-them racialized authors, and to encourage reflection on our reading habits.

This is a mix of recommendations by the challenge organizers and myself.

Everyone has a story, and some people get to tell them in a memoir.

Often called rare diseases, but these would be more accurately classified under the disability umbrella

Not meant as a way to fetishise or sensationalise the experiences of real people, more to create understanding from a social and biological perspective