Hey there!

I am looking for fiction book recommendations that have chronically ill/disabled main characters. I myself have multiple chronic illnesses and am disabled and would love stories where the main characters overcome their circumstances despite their limitations. My favorite genres are fantasy, sci-fi and anything with a found family trope. Thanks in advance!

I have a dilemma: I’ve started reading more space opera books and I’m really enjoying them and thus want to read more epic fantasy. The problem is I despise the enemies to lovers trope. I truly cannot stand it to the point that even books that use the trope very well, i.e Gideon the Ninth, can turn me off for a long time (I ended up loving that book but only after the first 130 pages in which Gideon and Harrow really hated each other). It seems that all of the popular fantasy books ada good amount of popular space opera use this trope and I have no clue where to turn, send help!!

Although I generally think it is best when an author can explicitly state that a character is neurodivergent, I understand that we have only had terminology that allows this for a few decades — and even that terminology is ever-changing as we understand what neurodivergence more. After reading Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, whose main character resonates with many neurodivergent readers, I started to wonder about other books with neurodivergent “coded” characters, especially those which were written in times when we did not have terms like autism, ADHD, and OCD.

I’m thinking maybe I’d like to make a list of such books, and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for said list?

Hi everyone, I'm making my own 100 Books to read in my life bucket list, and while I've thought of some books that I really want to get to someday, and included some of my favourites, I still have so many empty slots, so I need recommendations! I'm definitely more of a fantasy/sci-fi/mystery reader than a contemporary reader, but I'll try almost anything at least once!

Here's what I've got so far: