If you have known me for a while now, you would know that I try to read and promote disability in young adult novels as much as I can. So today I thought I would share some of those on my TBR for this year. And you know what is sad? There isn’t many coming out, that I know of so far. Ely over at Oh Wonderland has put together a full list of disability releases this year. And it’s an ongoing list as well, where she will be updating constantly. 

But today, I’m sharing 4 titles that I cannot wait to get my hands on this year. I hope to do another one of these lists when I find more books featuring disability that I want to read. Like always these are in no order.  

 

 

A Curse So Dark and Lonely (A Curse So Dark and Lonely #1) by Brigid Kemmerer: From the Brigid Kemmerer books that I have read, I’ve adored. So when I heard she was bringing out a new fantasy, I knew that I needed to get my hands on it. This one is a beauty and the beast retelling with the female protagonist also having cerebral palsy.

Um yes, please! I mean there aren’t many fantasy books with what sounds like a badass, disabled, female heroine. Plus the concept of the ‘beast’ in this one is oh so intriguing. 

 

 

 

 

Impossible Music by Sean Williams: I found this one the other day when I checking NetGalley. And let me tell you, I need it now. This one features protagonist Simon whose life is turned upside down after he has a stroke and loses his hearing. Before the stroke, music was his life, it was everything to him, and now he refuses everything that could assist him with this new way of life.

And then he meets G, who has also newly experienced deafness. Now Simon’s quest is to experience music in a different way. Impossible Music also explores Simon’s connection to the hearing world as well as the girl he meets along the way. 

 

 

 

Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon: This one sounds like it’s going to break my heart into so many little pieces. Sophie would do anything for Peter, even if it meant giving up one of her kidneys. He means everything to Sophie from best friend to secret crush. So when Sophie finds out she’s a match, there isn’t much to think about. Before the transplant, Peter wasn’t living life to the fullest, and now after his life has changed.

But it isn’t what Sophie or Peter expected. Peter has become more distant, his drawn to guitarist Chase and he is pulling away from Sophie. And when one event changes everything again and is their friendship worth saving. 

 

 

 

 

The Great Unknowable End by Kathryn Ormsbee: I hadn’t heard about this one until I saw it on Ely’s post and now I need it. When Stella’s mum dies and her brother runs off to join the local hippie group Red Sun, she has to drop everything and care for her sister. Galliard has always lived his life with the Red Sun. They accept him for his tics and everything that comes with it. But then he is denied the resident artist role and for the first time starts to think of his life out of the compound.

Then Stella and Galliard met, what follows is something very strange. Red rain, storms out of nowhere and a countdown clock. But no one knows what will happen when the clock hits zero. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that includes a protagonist that has Tourette’s and that makes me so so excited. 

 

And that is it! These are the some of the books that feature YA protagonists with disabilities that I can’t wait to read. I like that there is a range of genre’s here as well. What are some of the books that feature disability that you can’t wait to read? Let’s Chat!