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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Get A Life, Chloe Brown
Fiction. When computer geek Chloe realizes she has allowed her chronic illness to shrink her world, she creates a list of risky adventures that her building superintendent, a hunky artist, is all too happy to share. (Kirkus)
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Hunchback
Fiction. A disabled woman confronts her sexual desires in this debut novel... Audacious, insightful, bold, and—with its critique of ableism—necessary. (Kirkus)
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The Country of the Blind
Nonfiction. Believer editor Leland delivers a masterful exploration of disability in his brilliant debut. Living with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that gradually results in total vision loss, since he was a teenager, Leland considers his ongoing transition from sightedness to blindness with ambivalence and curiosity. (Publishers Weekly)
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Leg
Nonfiction. A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy. (Publisher Description)
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Sipping Dom Pérignon Through A Straw
Nonfiction. In his sharp, illuminating debut memoir, South African disability rights advocate Ndopu chronicles his trials and triumphs as a disabled gay Black man enrolled at Oxford University... This raw yet triumphant tale should be required reading. (Publishers Weekly)
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True Biz
Fiction. Novic returns with an electrifying narrative set at a present-day boarding school for Deaf high school students, where they find love and friendship and battle a series of injustices... With complex characters seething with rage against the injustices they face, and an immersive and novel treatment of Charlie’s experience learning ASL, Novic offers an unforgettable homage to resilience. (Publishers Weekly)
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Just by Looking at Him
Fiction. Unable to stop cheating on his boyfriend with various sex workers, and grappling with an intensifying alcohol addiction, a successful TV writer with cerebral palsy, Eliot, searches for redemption, but soon learns that facing his demons is easier said than done. (NoveList)
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Death of the Author
Fiction. A paraplegic Nigerian American writer finds her life turning into a rollercoaster ride... While Zelu’s novel imagines a future without human beings on Earth, the near-future world she lives in feels distinctly and promisingly within reach: It’s a place where self-driving electric cars make cities more accessible, people with movement disabilities are supported by robotic engineering, and families with deeply held patriarchal customs are brought closer together rather than torn apart when confronting these dynamics. (Kirkus)
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The Future Is Disabled
Nonfiction. An essay collection that expands on Leah's bestselling book Care Work, centering and uplifting disability justice and care in the pandemic era. (Publisher description)
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Against Technoableism
Nonfiction. Disability activist Shew asks people to reconsider the assumption that disability is a problem that needs to be solved by technology in this amusing and persuasive polemic. (Publishers Weekly)
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