Recs if you like Joined at the Joints...

in honor of disability pride month, here is a series on the colours of the flag! our fifth colour on this flag is red, which represents any and all physical disabilities. examples of physical disabilities include cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, celiac disease, dwarfism, diabetes, wheelchair users, polio, asthma, muscular dystrophy, cancer, scoliosis, ALS, arthritis and many more. books within this list will be both fiction and non-fiction. as always, feel free to comment any you recommend!

These books contain little to no spice🩷 Double checked by me, fellow reviewers, & romance.io, but if there's still a mistake, please do correct! Only 1 book per author

Fiction books by disabled authors

mental and physical disabilities across all genres

Books with titles that start with the most uncommon letters to begin words: X, Q, Z & J.

I wanted to join the fun in doing an alphabet challenge and am currently adding X and Z to complete my alphabet of books :) Here’s some recommendations if others want a similar challenge!

Pushing against ableism.

At least one of the main characters has a disability. The disability may or may not be a central plot point.

books that made me feel seen as a chronically ill girlie who rarely feels seen in books

: ̗̀➛𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒀𝑨 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝑻𝑩𝑹 ♡‧₊˚·˚ ༘

Books written by disabled authors with disabled main characters. These books include a wide range of disabilities in YA genres as well as diverse authors and topics. (Please also see Disabled Authors Writing Disabled Characters for "adult" books).

Books I've read where there's chronic illness and/or mental health mentioned, and it's written like they know their stuff!! I take recommendations!!

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

Books that have MCs with JIA/are about JIA