physical disability & chronic illness in books
I just wanted to share the list of books I've read with physically disabled & chronically ill characters in MG, YA and Adult books. If you have other recommendations, I'd love to hear them!
updated to include books I haven't read yet but that have been recommended to me!!
created by lunarnaut
last updated August, 2026
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There are tons of Disability Recs that are also Queer in the Disability Tab of the Queer Lit Readathon Masterlist.
Thank you so much!! I'll definitely go through that!
I just realised that I had found a bunch of books to add to this and then never did so!!! just doubled this list in size oop
Hi, I love this list so far. Just wanted to make the suggestion of adding a book or two with characters who have kidney diseases. I have a chronic kidney disease but never see any books representing my condition! Would love to see something like that in this already great list! 😆
