A book by or about a person who has a disability

[Erin]

Hi I have a question is alcoholism considered a disability? Also is depression a disability?

[poshpenny]

Erin wrote: "Hi I have a question is alcoholism considered a disability? Also is depression a disability?"

Yes

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, "disability" means "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities"

[Stephanie]

I had to read Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain Injury for my brain injury class. It was very eye opening about what a woman goes through after her husband suffers from a TBI.

[Lin]

I gonna try to read 'The man who couldn't eat' by Jon Reiner. He describes his daily struggles with Crohn's disease.

[Becky]

I'm not sure if this one was suggested but 'Laughing at my Nightmare' was written by someone who has muscular dystrophy. He gives it a wit and more fun outlook at his life while correctly explaining how he feels considering he's a 20-something year old male who has to have everything done for him and how embarrassing it can be at times. There is crude humor in it. I read it this year for one of the prompts.

https://books.google.com/books/about/...

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Also the manga 'A Silent Voice' is about a main character who is deaf and about the bullying she goes through. And later on one of her bullies trying to make up for the past mistakes. It's so freaking cute!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sil...

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I enjoy Temple Grandin. So my recommendation would be Thr Autistic Brain....or.....Animals in Translation (which I read and LOVED!)...or...Thinking in Pictures My Life With Autism

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Lisa Genova's Still Alice (excellent book!!)

[Janet Flora]

I recommend Good Kings Bad Kings because it is excellent and is both about disabled kids in a group home (and the staff- multiPOV) and by a chairbound writer who rocks :)
I usually recommend it to read in general but definitely fits the category

[Rebecca]

One that I am planning on reading that I haven't seen mentioned is We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story by Josh Sundquist. He lost his leg to cancer and is now a paralympian.

[Letizia]

Does "Under Rose-Tainted Skies" qualify?

[Katherine]

The Bride Collector is pretty good.

[Stephanie]

I am planning to read Waist High in the World for this one. It's written by a woman with degenerative MS (which I also have) and I have been meaning to read it for ages.

[Emma]

I'm using this article for inspiration

https://www.theguardian.com/books/boo...

[Chris]

Two books I've read have come to mind that I can recommend. They are both non-fiction about individuals with blindness:

A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler

Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See

[Therese]

A few years ago I read Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog and the Triumph of Trust by Michael Hingson – a very good read, not only does he learn to trust this dog, this dog leads him out of the WTC on 9/11.

[Cindy]

I've decided to read My Lobotomy: A Memoir for this prompt. It's been on my kindle for the past three years and on my to read list even longer than that.

[Caity]

Cindy wrote: "I've decided to read My Lobotomy: A Memoir for this prompt. It's been on my kindle for the past three years and on my to read list even longer than that."

I have this one, as well, I believe. But I ordered Me Before You (and After You) off Amazon because my curiosity about these two books has been driving me nuts for the better part of about eight or nine months, so that's what I'll be reading. I think.

That could change.

[Annie]

I think I'll read Inside the O'Briens for this one

[Jule]

I recommend any of the Genevieve Lenard books by Estelle Ryan. Autism, art, detective/espionage all rolled into one. Plus great characters. Also good for first in a series if you're needing something for that.

[Sarah]

I am in the middle of reading Icy Sparks at the moment and enjoying it so far - it's about a young girl with Tourette's syndrome growing up in 1950's Kentucky

[Cindy]

I was thinking of All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.

[RaLynn]

I just finished Left Neglected for this category

[Danya]

Is selective mutism considered a disability?

[Novalynda]

I've read Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis for this prompt. It's YA fantasy and one of the main characters misses a foot, while the other can't talk. It's a really great story and I absolutely recommend it!

[RaLynn]

I read Lisa Genova's Left Neglected for this category. I have also always been fascinated at what life would be like with hemineglect and Genova did a wonderful job of making you think about how recovery might be for someone who didn't know half of the world existed. I also think her booksStill Alice and my next read, Inside the O'Briens would work for this category as well.

[Tara]

I love Lisa Genova's books! Left neglected was fantastic. I just finished Just Like Other Daughters by Colleen Faulkner. It would work for a book set in 2 time periods (because she's reminiscing), a story within a story sort of because she's telling the story from 3 days after the end of the events of the main story, a person with a disability (the story tellers daughter has DOWN syndrome and another main character has an unspecified cognitive disorder) and definitely a book about a difficult topic (physical/sexual/romantic relationships between adults with severe cognitive delays). It was a really thought provoking and beautifully written book in my opinion. I had an aunt (passed away last year at 65) with DOWNS and who lived with my grandparents until she was in her 50s and suffering pretty severe dementia. She lived a relatively normal life otherwise and was very high functioning in her younger days (dementia started around her mid thirties) so this book really made me think!!

[Linda]

I like the Matthew Shardlake mystery series by C. J. Sansom, starting with Dissolution Matthew is a hunchbacked lawyer in Tudor England working for Thomas Cromwell. If you like the Wolf Hall books, you might like this series also.

[Sheena]

Laughing at my nightmare by Shane Burcaw

[Bridgette]

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism eBook is on sale for $1.99 today!

[Robin]

I just found this about Agatha Christie..... So anyone of hers maybe?

"She is best known for her detective novels and short story collections. But at the same time, she couldn’t even balance her own checkbook due to her learning disability, believed to be dysgraphia. She had a hard time spelling correctly, as a self proclaimed “extraordinarily bad speller” and was not good about remembering numbers, but her learning disability did not hold her back."

[Emily]

I was thinking of reading Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair by Nujeen Mustafa. It's also co-written with Christina Lamb so if you wanted to double up it would work for a book with multiple authors and also for a book with a subtitle!

[Ana]

I also agree that Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper is really good.

The Danger Box also works, as the main character is blind and I can't fully remember, but I think he has dyslexia as well.

I recommended The View from Saturday in the 'day of the week in the title', but it also works here because one of the characters is in a wheelchair and makes you think on whether that is a disability or not.

The Summer of the Swans has a character with disabilities, too.

[Laura]

I just finished Flowers for Algernon for this prompt.

[Ashley]

I just finished Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's My Beloved World. So much of her story centers around being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a young child, and the self-reliance of living with and managing the disease. So, it got me thinking of whether diabetes is considered a disability under eeoc and ADA . And apparently it is a disability under eeoc even if it's controlled through glucose management and insulin. So, I think I will fulfill the prompt with this . I learned so so much from her perspective, and experiences that got her to where she is today. I am a minority lawyer myself, and sir here in awe. I highly recommend it!

[Sarah (is clearing her shelves)]

I will be reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter for this prompt. This will be a reread of a book I read before I found GR and started reviewing, but that fits fine with my own rules of 'rereads must be of books that haven't been reviewed, yet'.

[Helen]

Stoner & Spaz is a really good YA with a main character with cerebral palsy, I loved it but want to read something I havent read yet :)

[Robert]

Does "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" work for this one?

[Amanda]

I'm including The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley because she has diabetes type A and talks about it in this book. It's a chronic illness and I think it qualifies. Also, this book is awesome and I want to rec it all over the place.

[Sarah]

It's the wrong time of year really but if anyone is looking for children's books, you could try The Christmasaurus The main character is a little boy who uses a wheelchair. It actually covers about four categories for me so I'm deciding whether to use it for this prompt or another.

[Astrid]

All The Lights We Can Not See (Anthony Doer) and She Is Not Invisible (Marcus Sedgwick), both have main characters who are blind.

[Dawn]

I'm reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame for this one.

[Samantha]

Try The Ultimate Gift series by Jim Stovall. They are fast easy reads, and Jim Stovall is blind.

[Julie]

Miss Jane by Brad Watson, is a good fit for this category. Jane has a physical disability that I won't detail for spoiler reasons.

[Astrid]

Michelle wrote: "Astrid wrote: "All The Lights We Can Not See (Anthony Doer) and She Is Not Invisible (Marcus Sedgwick), both have main characters who are blind."

I can't recommend "All the Light We Cannot See" en..."

Yes!!! :) Too bad I've already read it last year, now I'll try to find something else for this challenge :D

[Camilla]

Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult - a family whose youngest daughter has Type III osteogenesis imperfecta. I've already read this book but thought I'd suggest it for someone else.

[Simant]

I'll be reading House Rules for this.

[Anshita]

Katie wrote: "Think I'll go for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly for this one."

This prompt had me going crazy. It felt like I had a lot of books to read but at the same time, not one interested me. Following Katie's advice, I'll be reading The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
I'm happy that I joined this group. :)

[Jen]

I just finished "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Can't believe I hadn't read this before. Not a long book, but very heavy and so well-written!

[Kristen]

Would y'all say that Sherman Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian counts?

[Lynn]

Would One work for this? It's about conjoined twins.