DisLit 2019 Reading Challenge
There are so many reading challenges across the Internet encouraging us to read lots of kinds of books! Whether you read 1 book this year or more than 10, we offer this challenge to bring positive books about Disability into your life!
VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE
Read them in any order you like! Share your progress on Twitter with #DisLitReadingChallenge
Or try modifying the challenge to your own theme! Maybe all articles for you students out there? Or all POC writers? How about all graphic novels?
BOOKMARKS! POSTERS!
Click here for printable color bookmark or black and white bookmark versions of the challenge! Just cut and fold.
A book featuring a queer disabled protagonist.
A book from an independent press.
A book without a “cure or kill” ending for
a disabled character.
A book with disabled characters that also
works for a different challenge.
A book with assistive technology on the cover.
An Afrofuturism book.
An #ownvoices book.
A book recommended by a book blog / BookTube.
A book written by an author over 65.
A historical fiction book set in the Southern Hemisphere.
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2018 Challenge!
Click here for a printable bookmark version of the 2018 challenge! Just cut and fold.
Recommended Fiction:
Monstress Vol. 1 by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda
Pinned by Sharon G. FLake
Dangerous by Shannon Hale
Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo
Recommended
Non-Fiction:
A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
Don't Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back by Harilyn Rousso
When the Chant Comes by Kay Ulanday Barrett
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk
A book featuring a romance involving a character with a disability
A book with no romances
A Cyberpunk book
A book with a black and white
cover
A book written by an author
with a Disability
A graphic novel showing characters
with Disability or Neurodiversity
A book about human rights
A book about characters that are the
subjects of experimentation
A book about characters that don’t realize they are disabled
A book recommended by someone else reading the challenge