Recs if you like True Biz...

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

in honor of disability pride month, here is a series on the colours of the flag! we're starting with the colour green in the disability pride flag, which represents sensory disabilities. examples are deafness, blindness/HOH, hearing loss, etc. books within this series will be fiction and non fiction. as always feel free to recommend any book that you think should be on this list!

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

books written by disabled authors

Fiction reads featuring characters with disabilities, physical and/or mental health both included.

Recommendations welcome!

These books either have a main character or main side character who's important to the plot with deaf and/or hard of hearing rep! 🙉👂🔕 I haven't read all of these, but I have read a good chunk, so I'm always happy to talk with anyone about them & recs are always appreciated! 💜

wave em, shake em, jazz hands-em

always accepting suggestions for books with hands on the cover

Each month Reese Witherspoon picks books she loves with a woman at the center of the story.

reese's complete picks- trying to read as many of these as i can... but we shall see

Fiction that passes the Fries Test:

Does a work have more than one disabled character? Do the disabled characters have their own narrative purpose other than the education and profit of a nondisabled character? Is the character’s disability not eradicated either by curing or killing?

as a deaf person, i wanted to read more books by deaf writers! how good the book is has no impact, i just wanted to show all books by deaf writers!

A list of books from A-Z. I tried to include various genres to appeal to a wide array of readers. I wanted this to be a good reference list for anyone doing an alphabet reading challenge or anyone just looking for a new book to read!

non-fiction and fiction texts to learn more about deaf culture from deaf voices

recs in comments pls!

This list includes books written by Deaf authors.

Just getting back into reading and feeling a bit overwhelmed at all the options? These were my go to recommendations for people while I was a longtime bookseller! I've tried to touch on most genres in this master list so you have a good selection, but I definitely could have missed a few since there are so many.

i'm profoundly deaf with a cochlear implant and don't sign but i always keep an eye out for books with deaf rep

Disabled perspectives and protagonists in fiction, across genres.

officially known as the Buckeye State, colloquially known as The Heart of It All, and affectionately (?) known as the Armpit of America, the state of Ohio (my home state) sets the scene (or at least some of the scenes) for all the books on this list. recommendations welcome! O-H!