Disability Pride 2024
General Fiction
Bewilderment
by Richard Powers
The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife.
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
by James Hannaham
After two decades in a men’s prison, a free trans woman is surprised to see that New York City has changed as much as she has in the new novel by the award-winning author of Delicious Foods.
Everything Here is Beautiful
by Mira T. Lee
The bond between a responsible, self-contained older sister and her mentally ill, impulsive younger sister is shaped and tested over years marked by the loss of their mother, an impetuous first marriage, a fling that results in the birth of a baby and painful sacrifices.
Greta and Vladin
by Rebecca K. Reilly
Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a Ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn’t know how to pronounce Greta’s surname, Vladisavljevic, properly. From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather the small storms of their eccentric Maori-Russian-Catalonian family.
Mother Country
by Jacinda Townsend
Saddled with personal troubles, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. In Marrakech, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. With the help of her boyfriend and a bribed official, Shannon makes the decision to adopt and raise the girl in Louisville, Kentucky. But the girl already has a mother: Souria, an undocumented Mauritanian woman who was trafficked as a teen, and who managed to escape to Morocco to build another life.
Nobody’s Magic
by Destiny O. Birdsong
Three black women with albinism find themselves at a crossroads in their lives, in this novel, told in three parts, that is a meditation on grief, female strength and self-discovery set against the backdrop of social and racial histories.
The Color of Family
by Jerry McGill
Devon and James Payne are brothers and rivals since childhood. But they share an affinity for sports that brings glory to their Connecticut town and promise for the future. Then they’re in a car accident. Devon is paralyzed for life, while James goes on to live the dream. For the Paynes, the tremulous repercussions of that evening never settled. Over the course of a decade, Devon decides to visit his seven siblings now scattered across the globe. Each has moved on, yet each struggles to cope with the traumatic event that irrevocably connects them.
To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human–fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness.
True Biz
by Sara Novic
The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies.
Ways the World Could End
by Kim Hooper
A dad on the autism spectrum becomes a single parent to his 15-year-old daughter in the wake of a traumatic loss. As the two struggle to live with new challenges, they must revisit the tragedy that upended their world.
When We Were Vikings
by Andrew David MacDonald
When 21-year-old Viking enthusiast Zelda finds out that her older brother, Gert, has resorted to some questionable—and dangerous—methods to make enough money to keep them afloat, Zelda decides to launch her own quest.
Historical Fiction
A Sign of Her Own
by Sarah Marsh
Inspired by a true story, describes the life of Ellen Lark, a deaf woman who became a favorite student of Alexander Graham Bell while he raced against Western Union to cast a human voice over wires.
Lost in the Long March
by Michael X. Wang
In 1934 China, during the Long March and Mao’s rise to power, shy gunsmith Ping and skilled marksman Yong leave their baby with a woman, promising to return once the war is won, and 12 years later, during World War II, their son enlists in the Japanese army to find them.
The Circus Train
by Amita Parikh
Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in this World War II debut about a magnificent travelling circus, a star-crossed romance, and one girl’s coming-of-age during the darkest of times.
Horror
The Pallbearer’s Club
by Paul Tremblay
A volunteer pallbearer for poorly attended funerals, Art Barbara, a 17-year-old loner in the 1980s, meets a cool girl who has an obsessive knowledge of strange, terrifying things that he tries to make sense of years later while writing a book.
Withered
by A. G. A. Wilmot
Moving to the small town of Black Stone with her mom to recover after surviving a life-threatening eating disorder, 18-year-old Ellis discovers their new house is the battleground in a decades-long spectral war, one that will claim their family–and the town–if it’s allowed to continue.
Camp Damascus
by Chuck Tingle
Situated high up in the mountains, Camp Damascus offers a sin-free and “saved” life to its ultra-conservative Christian patrons as the self-proclaimed “most effective” gay conversion camp in America, while hiding a host of very unholy secrets.
Humor
Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead
by Emily Austin
A morbidly anxious woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and becomes obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.
Nature Girl
by Carl Hiaasen
Honey Santana, the bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes,” has plans to give Boyd Shreave and his mistress a lesson in civility, unaware that she is being followed by her obsessed ex-employer and her one-time drug runner ex-husband.
Never Been Better
by Leanne Toshiko Simpson
Dee, Misa, and Matt were the “three musketeers” of the psych ward. A year after discharge, Dee is eager to convince everyone that she’s finally turning things around. But Matt and Misa are tying the knot in Turks and Caicos, surrounded by guests who have no idea where they met, and the secrecy isn’t sitting well with Dee, who has been hopelessly in love with Matt since before she got kicked out of the hospital.
Nuclear Family
by Joseph Han
Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, the members of a Korean family living in Hawai’i, when their son tries–and fails–to cross the Korean demilitarized zone, find themselves under suspicion, while their daughter gets constantly high as she witnesses her family’s undoing.
Mystery/Thriller
More Than Meets the Eye
by Roy and Iris Johansen
When brutal murders with the same signature as serial killer James Michael Barrett mysteriously continue after his death, FBI consultant Kendra Michaels teams up with the only survivor of Barrett’s attacks and soon discovers the killer has a terrifying plan that they are only beginning to understand.
One of Us Knows
by Alyssa Cole
Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can’t refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she’s determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home’s conservation trust just as a Nor’easter bears down on the island disrupts her newfound life, leaving Ken trapped with a group of strangers—including the man who brought her life tumbling down years earlier.
The Framed Women of Ardemore House
by Brandy Schillace
The first book in a cozy mystery series starring an autistic, hyperlexic book editor who inherits a crumbling English estate, only to find herself at the center of a murder investigation when a family portrait vanishes and a dead body shows up in the manor.
The Maltese Iguana
by Tim Dorsey
When the only witness to a CIA revenge mission gone wrong is forced to flee his home country, he arrives in the Florida Keys where he runs into the Sunshine State’s most lovable serial killer, Serge A. Storms, and his convoy of hardcore partiers.
The Mystery Guest
by Nita Prose
When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it’s up to a fastidious maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty.
You Know What You Did
by K. T. Nguyen
When her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly, Annie Shaw finds her OCD coming back with a vengeance, and when the investigation zeroes in on her, her mind increasingly fractures and the only thing she knows is this: she will do anything to protect her daughter even if it means losing herself.
Romance
A Holly Jolly Ever After
by July Murphy and Sierra Simone
A washed-up former member of a boy band agrees to star in a sexy Santa biopic that also stars his ex in the second novel of the series following A Merry Little Meet Cute.
Act Your Age
by Eve Brown
When his life is taken over by a purple-haired tornado of a woman named Eve Brown, B&B owner Jacob Wayne tries to fight his attraction to this sunny, chaotic woman who is his natural-born enemy.
Always Remember
by Mary Balogh
The ton suspiciously gossips about the bastard son of the Earl of Stratton who embarks on a friendship with Lady Jennifer, left unable to walk by a childhood illness in the third novel of the series.
Honey Girl
by Morgan Rogers
With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know, until she does exactly that.
How to Dance
by Jason B. Dutton
Opposites attract and sparks fly as a passionate dancer and a ladies’ man who’s given up on love fall for each other—one tango at a time! Jason B. Dutton takes readers on a swoon-filled journey as two lost souls learn that neither physical disability nor emotional scars disqualify us from finding beauty, validation, and love amidst the chaos of being human.
How to Find a Princess
by Alyssa Cole
Makeda Hicks has lost her job and her girlfriend in one fell swoop. The last thing she’s in the mood for is to rehash the story of her grandmother’s infamous summer fling with a runaway prince from Ibarania, or the investigator from the World Federation of Monarchies tasked with searching for Ibarania’s missing heir. Yet when Beznaria Chetchevaliere crashes into her life, the sleek and sexy investigator exudes exactly the kind of chaos that organized and efficient Makeda finds irresistible, even if Bez is determined to drag her into a world of royal duty Makeda wants nothing to do with.
Last Call to the Local
by Sarah Grunder Ruiz
When a careless mistake in Ireland leaves her unable to perform, Rainie Hart, a free-spirited American singer-songwriter living with ADHD, starts working at a local pub where she helps her charming OCD employer, Jack Dunne, reinvent his business, discovering a love to last a lifetime along the way.
Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up
by Charish Reid
Total opposites. Totally irresistible.
Paris Daillencourt is About to Crumble
by Alexis Hall
When his roommate enters him in the nation’s favorite baking show, Paris Daillencourt finds love with a fellow contestant until his fear of failure spoils his happiness, forcing him to face his past, his future and his constant self-doubt to embrace the sweet things in life.
The Charm Offensive
by Alison Cochrun
In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy, an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.
The Happiness Blueprint
by Ally Zetterberg
When her dad falls ill, Klara begrudgingly agrees to help run his small construction company while he recovers, even though it means moving back home and pushing the boundaries of her comfort zone to the extreme. Alex has been a shell of himself since his brother died in an accident. When an ad pops up for a carpenter position at a small construction company, he jumps at the chance to take a step forward. Klara’s and Alex’s stories unfold through a series of miscommunications in this debut from author Ally Zetterberg that’s about finding acceptance and even love in unexpected places.
The Hate Project
by Kris Ripper
Unemployed, and completely over love, romance and relationships, Oscar Nelson, an anxious overthinker, falls victim to the matchmaking grandmother of Jack, the grumpy friend-of-friend he has been casually hooking up with.
The Heart Principle
by Helen Hoang
When she suddenly loses her ability to play the violin, Anna Sun must learn to listen to her heart and falls in love with a man her parents disapprove of, forcing her to choose between meeting expectations and finding happiness in who she really is.
The Plus Ones
by Matey Eddings
In Cabos for the wedding of Radhika Singh and Raj Joshi, which marks the union of two highly influential and wealthy Indian-American families, outsider Shay Kapoor, who’s dating Raj’s best friend, when the bride and groom are murdered, must untangle everyone’s lies before her own hidden agenda is revealed.
The Rosie Project
by Graeme Simsion
A socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father.
What You Wish For
by Alexis Hall
A woman who has fled her abusive husband begins a new life across the country, but her past eventually catches up with her.
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Folklorn
by Angela Mi Young Hur
A Korean-American particle physicist learns she can’t run from ancient magic when her mother’s prophetic warning that the women in their family were cursed and destined to repeat the lives of their ancestors from Korean myths and legends comes true.
Gods of Mercy
by James S. A. Corey
An Igbo village where people adhere to ancient traditions must reckon with both outside tensions from neighboring, colonized villages, as well as internal changes when a war sparks between their old gods and a girl who can fly.
Noor
by Nnedi Okorafor
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.