What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Hey guys, i'm looking for some books that have heroines who have disabilities.
Such as having asperger's or being autistic.
They can also be mute or deaf.
Mainly looking for the book to include some romance in too.

Thanks!

Most, if not all books in this series, feature a disabled heroine.

Annie's Song. By he same author above is really good.

Adult, deaf h. Odalisque

A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley: Features amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas who has Asperger's.

The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen: Features Jessica who has to deal with losing a leg in a car accident.

Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John: Piper has one month to get the rock band Dumb a paying gig. And she happens to be deaf.

Blindsided by Priscilla Cummings: Natalie O’Reilly is a typical fourteen-year-old girl who just learned she will lose her sight within a few short months.

Harmonic Feedback by Tara Kelly: Sixteen-year-old, music- and sound design-obsessed Drea doesn't have friends. She has, as she's often reminded, issues. Drea's mom and a rotating band of psychiatrists have settled on "a touch of Asperger's."

Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine: In Caitlin’s world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That’s the stuff Caitlin’s older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon’s dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger’s, she doesn’t know how. When she reads the definition of closure, she realizes that is what she needs. In her search for it, Caitlin discovers that not everything is black and white—the world is full of colors—messy and beautiful.

The Magician's Tale by David Hunt: Kay Farrow, a professional photographer is an achromat who suffers from an extreme color blindness, yet possesses a unique vision that informs her world as well as sharpens her skills as a talented photographer.

Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper: Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom - the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy. And she's determined to let everyone know it - somehow.

Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser: 11 year old Tara Sullivan has OCD.

Check out Defying Doomsday which is a short story anthology full of people with disabilities.

I've written almost the same request and had quite a few good recommendations. You might find something you like there, too (though I think they're all physically disabled rather than mentally).

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Convenience Store Woman is about an autistic woman. (It's set in Japan, which works well if you're doing the popsugar challenge)

Neanderthal Seeks Human never explicitly states she's autistic, but she definitely is written with some autistic characteristics.

The Kiss Quotient is a book about an autistic woman, written by an autistic woman. The Bride Test is a sequel.

A Girl Like Her the h is specifically identified as autistic.

There's also these lists of neurodivergent characters in fiction:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Every Mountain Made Low has a heroine who is autistic and who has severe social phobia.

Autism characters with little to lot of romance.
A Girl Like Her
The State of Grace
The Easy Part of Impossible
May the Best Man Win
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Always Only You
Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Social Queue
Love Letters for Joy
Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl
Tilly in Technicolor
Good Morning, Dinah

Mute
The Shape of Water
A Quiet Kind of Thunder
Archer's Voice

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Deaf
Whisper
The Silence Between Us
Give Me a Sign
Sugaring Off

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Five Feet Apart