Disability Visibility

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead By Emily Austin
F AUSTIN Emily 
A morbidly anxious woman stumbles into a job at a Catholic church and becomes obsessed with a mysterious death.
*Anxiety 
 

Anxious People By Fredrik Backman
F BACKMAN Fredrik
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight strangers discover their unexpected common traits.
*Depression 
 

This Close to OK By Leesa Cross-Smith
F CROSS-SMITH Leesa 
A friendship is created once a recently divorced therapist spots a man standing on the edge of a bridge and convinces him to join her for coffee instead of jumping. *Depression

So Lucky By Nicola Griffith
F GRIFFITH Nicola
The story of a confident woman forced to confront an unnerving new reality when in the space of a single week her wife leaves her and she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. 
*Multiple Sclerosis

True Biz By Sara Novic
F NOVIC Sara
The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to be teenagers but a series of crises threaten to change their lives forever.
*Deaf

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow By Gabrielle Zevin
F ZEVIN Gabrielle 
A modern love story about two childhood friends and the videos games they make. 
*Physical Disability

The Witch Elm By Tana French
M FRENCH Tana 
Left for dead by burglars Toby takes refuge at his family home before a discovery reveals an unsuspected family history. 
*Traumatic Brain Injury 

Getting His Game Back By Gia De Cadenet
R DE CADENET Gia 
A romance about a man struggling to be his perfect self and a woman who is ready to break her "rules" for him.
*Depression
 

The Bride Test By Helen Hoang
R HOANG Helen KISS 2
Esme must convince Khai that there is more than one way to love. And Khai must figure out the inner workings of his heart before Esme goes home and is an ocean away. 
*Autism

Highfire By Eoin Colfer
FAN COLFER Eoin
Burned out by the days of yore, a vodka-drinking dragon endures misadventures when he crosses paths with a 15-year-old troublemaker on the run.
*Physical Disability

Into the Drowning Deep By Mira Grant
SF GRANT Mira DEEP 2
For the ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart her most recent voyage is to uncover the fate of the sister she lost. 
*Deaf
 

Black Sun By Rebecca Roanhorse
FAN ROANHORSE Rebecca BETWEEN 1
A powerful priest, an outcast seafarer, and a man born to be the vessel of a god come together in the first of Roanhorse’s Between Earth and Sky trilogy.
*Blindness

Haben By Haben Girma
340.092 GIR
The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.
*Blind+ Deaf

What Doesn’t Kill You By Tessa Miller
616.3 MIL
A candid account of a journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together personal story with reporting.
*Chronic Illness/Crohn’s Disease
 

Autism in Heels By Jennifer Cook O'Toole
616.8 OTO
At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Autism now, Jennifer exposes the constant struggle between carefully crafted persona and authentic existence.
*Autism

Fall Down Seven Times Get Up 8 By Naoki Higashida
616.85 HIG
Higashida shares his thoughts and experiences as a 24-year-old living with severe autism.
*Autism

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki By Baek Sehee
616.8527 SEH 2022
Baek Sehee is a successful social media director when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her depression. She hides her feelings at work and with friends, performing the calmness her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting and keeps her from forming deep relationships. Is this just what life is like? *Depression

Ask Me About My Uterus By Abby Norman
618.1 NOR 2018
This memoir follows the author’s years-long journey to discover why she was in constant pain, and puts her trials into a broader historical and political context. *Endometriosis