Disability/Neurodivergence

Because disabled, chronically ill, and/or neurodivergent queer rep is so rare, I’ve included “Additional books of note,” which are books by disabled and/or neurodivergent queer authors which feature both major queer/trans characters and disabled and/or neurodivergent characters, although queerness and disability/neurodivergence do not intersect in a single character.

Addiction

ADHD

Female Protag

Male Protag

  • Connection Error by Annabeth Albert
  • Fall for Him by Andie Burke
  • The Prospects by KT Hoffman
  • The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune (YA)
  • Cafe con Lychee by Emery Lee (YA)
  • In Pursuit Of… by Courtney Milan

Non-Binary Protag

Agoraphobia

Anxiety

Female Protag

Male Protag

Non-Binary Protag

Arthritis

Asthma

Female Protag

Male Protag

Autism/ASD

Female Protag

*Additional books of note:

Male Protag

Nonbinary/Agender/Gender-Questioning Protag

Bipolar Disorder

Female Protag

  • Girl on the Line by Faith Gardner (YA) (Amz)
  • For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig (YA)
  • Cursebreakers by Madeleine Nakamura
  • Black Iris by Leah Raeder (LI)
  • “The Ballad of Weary Daughters” by Kristine Wyllys in Unbroken

Male Protag

Blindness/Visual Impairment

Book of note: Run by Kody Keplinger

Body Dysmorphia

Borderline Personality Disorder

  • Borderline by Mishell Baker
  • *Though This Be Madness by Cass Biehn (YA)
  • Black Iris by Leah Raeder
  • The Survivor Wants to Die at the End by Adam Silvera (YA)

Celiac Disease

  • Behooved by M. Stevenson

Cerebral Palsy

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Pain

Crohn’s 

(See: “Irritable Bowel Disease)

Cyclothymia

Cystic Fibrosis

Deaf/HoH

Depression

CW: Titles may include suicidal ideation, past or present, and self-harm

Female Protag

Male Protag

Non-Binary Protag

  • Moonflower by Kacen Callender (MG)
  • Power Surge by Sara Codair

Diabetes

  • Accidental Demons by Clare Edge (MG)
  • The Girls are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh (YA)
  • Their Troublesome Crush by Xan West z”l

Dissociative Dysthymia

Dyscalculia

  • These Thin Lines by Milena McKay

Dyslexia

Dyspraxia

  • An Unseen Attraction by KJ Charles

Eating Disorder

Female Protag

Male Protag

Non-Binary Protag

  • And They Lived by Steven Salvatore (YA)

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Endometriosis

  • It’s Always Been You by Elin Annalise
  • The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe

Epilepsy

Face Blindness

Fibromyalgia

Hemophilia

Irritable Bowel Disease/Crohn’s

Limb Difference

Female Protag

Male Protag

Non-Binary Protag

Limp/Cane User

Lyme Disease

Multiple Sclerosis

Mutism

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Panic Disorder

Paralysis

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Female Protag

Male Protag

Non-Binary Protag

Scoliosis

Speech Impediment

Tourette’s

Wheelchair User

  • *Loser New Year by Celine Ong
  • “The Leap and the Fall” by Kayla Whaley in Unbroken
  • “Old Rifts and Snowdrifts” by Kayla Whaley in Up All Night

Queering up your shelf, one rec at a time!