July is Disability Pride Month! I’m disabled and I’ve got pride! Because I have so many picks, I thought I would focus this post on just the mental health side of things. Some of these books overlap between physical and mental disabilities. Stay tuned later this month for the physical side of things.
While I think we should be reading from and about disabled voices all year long, I have been making a conscious effort to read more in the month of July just as I do in June for Pride.
Young Adult:
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
Yolk by Mary HK Choi
Pieces of Me by Kate McLaughlin
We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
Made You Up by Francesca Zappia
The Sea is Salt and So Am I by Cassandra Hartt
Breath Like Water by Anna Jarzab
When We Collided by Emery Lord
Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
Darius The Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Under Rose-Tainted Sky by Louise Gornall
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
Fiction:
Take a Hit, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
The Crane’s Dance by Meg Howrey
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
Honey Girl by Morgan Rodgers
Non-Fiction
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
Crying in the Bathroom by Erika L Sanchez
Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened Jenny Lawson
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
Broken by Jenny Lawson
Lindsay Glenne 