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items A mix of novels I have read and loved and books on my TBR. Happy reading
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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.
Author has lived experience with chronic illness
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
OCD
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert - Goodreads
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
this book warmed my heart!!!!
she has fibromyalgia
Melting For You (Spears Players Series #1) by Tegan Phillips
a good fantasy read
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) by Leigh Bardugo
fibromyalgia and fake marriage trope
Just Go With It: Wright, Madison
ME/CFS rep
Meet Me on the Buddy Bench by Hannah Pearl | Goodreads
main character has chronic pain
Firekeeper's Daughter
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)
CODA representation
Give Me a Sign by Anna Sortino
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
endometriosis representation and follows Evie’s diagnosis journey with a fake dating trope
Finding Gene Kelly by Torie Jean
infertility and endometriosis
The Friend Zone #1 - Abby Jimenez - Goodreads
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
Forced proximity, grumpy x sunshine, faking dating with chronic pain and limb indifference rep
Darn Knit All (All Access, #3) by Evie Mitchell | Goodreads
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
MMC has chronic migraine + concussions from hockey injury. Forced proximity
Make It Sweet - Livre de Kristen Callihan
Mobility Aids/Service Animal 🦮🦽
Seeking a fresh start after a sudden divorce on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, she decides to make a new life for herself and her service dog in Los Angeles. But when her living arrangements fall through just before takeoff, a handsome stranger o...
Speechless (California Love) by Lindsey Lanza
wheelchair user
content warning is a spicy novel
Knot My Type (All Access, #1) by Evie Mitchell | Goodreads
When two biochemistry majors meet…sparks fly. EDS, POTS AND Wheelchair user
The Chemistry Test: Frankie, Georgina
Autoimmune
Rooney's life is currently in a tailspin as she takes time off from her studies to deal with her health with IBD. Hoping for a peaceful getaway, she stays at the Bergman family's remote A-frame property, only to discover she'll be living next to her ...
With You Forever (Bergman Brothers, #4) by Chloe Liese - Goodreads
Elsie is a professor juggling three teaching loads. Because she has Type 1 Diabetes and lacks health insurance, she relies on her fake-dating side gig to survive.
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood - Goodreads
MMC has MS
Love from A to Z (Coming-of-Age Romance)
MCAS POTS AND EDS.
Brynn Kwan has spent the last few years of her life pretending to be normal by hiding her health from people at school. Brynn has done everything to keep her chronic illness a secret and has created “Perfect Brynn” a popular and he...
Conditions of a Heart by Bethany Mangle | Goodreads
A second chance romance featuring the FMC to have crohn’s disease. Author has lived experience with chronic illness
Love Flushed