my all time favorite book is Alls We’ll by Mona Awad. and i’m DESPERATELY looking for something similar. I am a disabled woman and love stories with chronically ill and disabled characters. I love pretty much all fiction and even nonfiction. Any suggestions at all would be great!
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The Pentecost & Parker murder mysteries by Stephen Spotswood are great for this! The lead detective (and the MC’s boss), Lilian Pentecost, has MS. The books are set in the 1940s.
For fantasy YA, I liked The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes. The main character is a boy who walks with a cane.
Me Before You by JoJo Moyes
Sick kids in love – Hannah Moskowitz
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses – Kristen O’Neal
I haven’t read it yet but it’s in the cue – “Out on a Limb” by Hannah Bonam-Young
The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Butterfly Cage by Rachel Zemach
True Biz by Sara Nović
The Sign for Home by Blair Fell
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal by Gretchen Schreiber
The Four Treasures of Eirean is a fantasy book, part of a series, by Ali Isaac, who has a disabled daughter. Main character is a profoundly disabled boy who enters the world of the fae. Based on Irish folklore. It’s YA but not so YA that an adult can’t enjoy it (I did.)
tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin
the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
all the light we cannot see by anthony doerr
history of the rain by niall williams (chronic illness)
The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin comes to mind, if you like contemporary fantasy. It’s excellent for many reasons, and it also happens to have several great characters who also experience disability. I’ll keep it intentionally vague so as not to spoil anything, but it’s a definite recommendation.
Lurlene McDaniel. She specialized in writing YA romance books about chronically ill teens.
Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover
Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. The protagonist Prince Myshkin has epilepsy, which Dostoevsky himself had.