Book Bingo: Disability
Here are some suggestions for your 2025 Book Bingo NW category: Disability. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures and King County Library System.
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To Be A Problem
Nonfiction. Candidly sharing her journey to becoming a disability activist and policymaker in Washington, DC, while critiquing the disability rights community, the author, drawing from her unique vantage point, calls for a collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color. (NoveList)
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Beautiful People
Nonfiction. The disability activist and social media influencer shares her story of living with a genetic bone and muscular disorder and the struggles that millions like her face in a society that makes them feel invisible. (NoveList)
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Out on A Limb
Fiction. An accidental pregnancy after a one-night stand forever changes life for the better for the soon-to-be parents...[their] emotional turmoils, as well as their disabilities, are portrayed with love and sensitivity, creating a tender, thoughtful feel throughout. (Kirkus)
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Màgòdiz
Fiction. For fans of Love after the End: [a] novel of Indigenous futurism in which Two-Spirit, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, neurodivergent, and disabled characters – survivors of a devastating war – fight to save what’s left of their world. (Novelist)
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The Hearing Test
Fiction. In this quietly electrifying debut, a young composer who makes her living scoring short films loses her hearing over the course of a year and contends with making new sense of her life and the world. (Booklist)
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Failure to Comply
Fiction. In this poetic, experimental, speculative novel, an unnamed protagonist is a deviant adrift from the regimented world of RSCH, in which there are daily weigh-ins and monitoring via implanted contacts, mandated nutritional shakes for all meals, and enforced socialization... It's a powerful novel exploring disabled and queer love, connection, and possibility as well as the way tyrannies can wield language to make it violent, to turn our own minds against us. (Booklist)
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Disability Intimacy
Nonfiction. Disabled writer and thinker Wong’s latest book focuses on expanding the idea of intimacy beyond ableist interpretations... A poignant anthology about ability and intimacy that espouses a gorgeously original worldview. (Kirkus)
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The Sign for Home
Fiction. Arlo Dilly, DeafBlind, a Jehovah's Witness and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle, sets out, with his gay interpreter and his wildly inappropriate Belgian best friend, to find the love of life, who he thought he lost forever but has come to learn otherwise. (NoveList)
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I Live A Life Like Yours
Nonfiction. Norwegian novelist Grue elegantly flows between memoir, essay, and intellectual discourse in this magnificent story about living with a disability... he brilliantly articulates what it’s like to be “erased and rewritten,” and, more poignantly, what it’s like to obliterate the narrative one’s been handed. (Publishers Weekly)
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Rolling Warrior
Teen Nonfiction. One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong in school and society -a powerful role model for young adults with a passion for activism. (NoveList Plus)
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