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items A mix of novels I have both read and that are on my TBR. Some are even written by authors that have lived experiences with chronic illness and disabilities
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Neurodiversity 🧩
Chronic Pain❤️🩹
Deaf/HOH 🧏♂️
Endometriosis 💛
Limb indifference 🦿
Migraine🧠
Neurodiversity 🧩
Stella Lane is an econometrician with ASD who hires Michael Phan, a professional escort, to teach her about physical intimacy. Fake dating/practice dating trope.
The Kiss Quotient
This book is about a man who falls in love with a woman who works for his hockey team, who has RA and autism
Always Only You (Bergman Brothers, #2) by Chloe Liese
enemies to lovers trope with the FMC having ASD
Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3) by Talia Hibbert
Main character has Autism and is struggling with burnout from masking
From the Start (Quiblings #1) by Katie Duggan
The main male character has ADHD. I absolutely love Hannah Grace’s writing.
Daydream (Maple Hills, #3) by Hannah Grace
Ocd representation from the FMC
All Our Broken Pieces by L.D. Crichton
Chronic Pain❤️🩹
Features Isabel diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and Sasha diagnosed with Gaucher disease and they meet in a hospital drip room. The novel focuses on illnesses that are not immediately visible, highlighting the emotional and physical toll of hidd...
Sick Kids In Love
A fake relationship trope novel about a woman with a rare neurological condition who agrees to fake-date the hot guy in her chronic pain support group, only to discover he’s an Olympic snowboarder whose career-ending injury is as infamous as his dati...
It's All in Your Head
This is a YA contemporary romance featuring a love interest, Connor, with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), a chronic disability. The story follows Cara, who joins a reality dating show with her mother, where she falls for fellow contestant Connor. The n...
All the Right Reasons
Meet Chloe, a chronically ill computer geek who, after a near-death experience, creates a bucket list to "get a life".
the FMC Chloe, has fibromyalgia, and the MMC Red, is a handyman/artist with a painful past.
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1) by Talia Hibbert
A friends to lovers trope featuring Nick, a witty karaoke-loving math teacher with cerebral palsy, and Hayley, a passionate dancer. It explores their developing friendship and love, challenging perceptions about disability and intimacy
How to Dance
Melting For You (Spears Players Series #1) by Tegan Phillips
Deaf/HOH 🧏♂️
Grumpy/sunshine trope where two strangers navigate becoming foster gaurdians to their younger siblings. Warren’s 15 year old brother is deaf and there is ASL representation in the novel.
Next of Kin
FMC is deaf
Sweet Soul (Sweet Home Series Book 5)
This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy
True Biz by Sara Nović
Endometriosis 💛
Thirty-something Ellie Hayes is generally prepared for the worst—living with endometriosis will do that—but when a new medical flare-up points to a possible MS diagnosis, all her careful plans fall apart. Suddenly, Ellie needs a new lease on life and...
Ellie Hayes and the Himbos by Vanessa King
In this forced proximity, second chance romance, we follow Eva and Riley as they go from viral social media bickering to manufactured dating to something
Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings
more of a non fiction read but talks about endometriosis and other diseases and complications within the uterus and reproductive system
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe
endometriosis representation and follows Evie’s diagnosis journey with a fake dating trope
Finding Gene Kelly by Torie Jean
Second chance romance trope with endometriosis representation
Still Into You by Erin Connor
Limb indifference 🦿
A "one-night stand-turned-accidental-pregnancy" story. After connecting at a Halloween party, Win finds herself pregnant, leading to a journey where she and Bo decide to navigate parenthood and a blossoming relationship together.
Out on a Limb
Migraine🧠
A novel that has chronic migraine representation
Seven Days in June
A romantic comedy about two teenagers who fall in love over the course of a year through missed connections and chance meetings on holidays, exploring themes of self-discovery, identity, and the power of fate.
Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling
Two opposites decide to test their chemistry with one steamy night together. But will once be enough? This novel includes migraine representation as the FMC has migraine
Business Casual (Lovelight, #4) by B.K. Borison
sapphic novel with queer joy that has with migraine representation
How You Get the Girl (Nashville Love, #3) by Anita Kelly