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Read Harder 2024 – Read a Genre Book By A Disabled Author

Stretch yourself with Book Riot's 2024 Read Harder Challenge! Here are some titles for Challenge #12: Read a genre book (SFF, horror, mystery, romance) by a disabled author. Please note: This list is heavy on science-fiction/fantasy and romance titles. While the mystery genre contains many disabled detectives, it’s difficult to find known information about disabled authors. Also, in creating this list we found that more is known and published about neuro-divergency than physical disabilities.

Pima County Public Library

9 items

  • Genre: Romance| Helen Hoang is autistic.
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2018. — Fiction Hoang
  • Genre: Romance | Talia Hibbert is autistic.
    eBookNixon House, 2019
  • Genre: Horror | Chuck Tingle is autistic.
    BookNew York : Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — Fiction Tingle
  • Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy| Nnedi Okorafor has scoliosis and experienced paralysis after a surgery. She talks about her personal experiences and writing disability in her work here:…
    eAudiobookTantor Media, Inc, 2021
  • Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Nicola Griffith lives with an auto-immune disease.
    eBookFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013
  • Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Meredith Mooring is blind. She discusses what it’s like to be a blind author here: https://authormeredithmooring.com/blog/blindness-awareness-month-what-its-like-to-be-a-blind-author
    BookOxford, UK : Solaris, 2024. — SciFic Mooring
  • Genre: Mystery/Crime fiction | Meredith Doench has an auto-immune disease. She discusses disability in crime fiction here: https://crimereads.com/representationmatters-disability-and-crime-fiction/.
    BookValley Falls, NY : Bold Strokes Books, 2022. — Fiction Doench
  • Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Rivers Solomon had ADHD and is on the autism spectrum.
    eAudiobookBlackstone Publishing, 2017
  • Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Octavia Butler is believed to have had undiagnosed dyslexia is a child.
    BookNew York : Warner Books, [2000],1993. — SciFic Butler