In case you don’t know bhavya_reads on Twitter put together this wonderful bingo board for the months of June and July to celebrate Pride Month and Disability Pride Month! If you want to take part, join their challenge on Storygraph and if you’re on Twitter, use the hashtag #QueerDisabledBooksBingo! The goal is to read a mixture of books by queer disabled authors and books featuring queer disabled MCs.

I finalized my list earlier this week and most of my books have arrived from the library (although I’m waiting for six more), so I’ll be reading a lot this June.

These are the books I’m planning to read for #QueerDisabledBooksBingo:

The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi

Three women, harmed and oppressed by a tyrannical empire, work together to spark a revolution just as the empire is changing its leaders. I’m about forty pages into this book and I’m really enjoying it. The world itself is horrible, but the worldbuilding is beautifully done and I’m already intrigued and invested in this world.

The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher by E. M. Anderson

A fun sounding story that provides a fun spin on the chosen one trope. Instead of a young person, Edna, an elderly person, is chosen to stop an invasion of dragon riders and save the empire, but nothing is as it seems and Edna has to figure out who truly needs her help.

Muted by Miranda Mundt

Camille, a young witch, is expected to summon a Demon when she is 21. However, the ceremony goes wrong and reveals several terrifying secrets about her family.

Sanctuary Andi C Buchanan

A group of queer neurodivergent friends adopt a haunted house, befriending its ghosts, and turning their home into a sanctuary for anyone who needs it. However, a ghost hunter takes control of the house and threatens everything the friends have built.

Dead Space by Kali Wallace

Hester investigates the murder of one of her friends at an abandoned mine station. As she investigates, she discovers deadly secrets that very powerful entities want to remain hidden and, after all, no one in space can hear you scream.

Glitches and Stitches: Death Violation by Nicole Givens Kurtz

An inspector with PTSD, Fawn, must investigate the strange murder of a world famous scientist obsessed with cybernetics. However, his rival scientists care more about their own tech than the death of a colleague, a hacker gets involved, and a group with a history of human rights violations issues their own threats. Fawn has to solve the murder before the case overwhelms her.

Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

Katrina Kim has been following a crush. However, after her crush commits suicide in front of her, she realizes he knew she was there and that he has a secret life that she, somehow, didn’t know anything about. The further she dives into his life, the more fragile her grasp on reality grows. Can she solve the mystery before the mystery consumes her?

Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism

This is both a memoir and analysis on the representation of disabilities in shows, books, movies, etc, written by a deaf blind writer

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

Amara and Nolan live completely different lives in completely different worlds, but they’re connected mentally through a power they don’t fully understand. As they work together to try and understand their connection, they bring upon themselves dangerous forces that want to utilize their power no matter the cost.

In-Between by MJ James

Alicia is a single mother with a son who is struggling in school. As she tracks down her son’s father, she discovers he was an Elf prince and now he wants his son to embrace his true role as his heir. I’m super excited about this book because it has aro and ace rep!

Timekeeper by Tara Sim

In an alternative Victorian England, clocks control time and a broken clock can freeze time. Danny’s father is frozen in a stopped town, and so he dedicated himself to fixing clocks. Now he is a skilled clockmaster who befriends a clock spirit. As a group begins to blow up clocks all over the empire, Danny and his friend must figure out how to stop them before the clock spirit becomes the next target.

Nothing Without Us

Nothing Without Us and Nothing Without Us Too are two anthologies of short stories written by disabled authors and put together by my friend Cait Gordon and Kohenet Talia Johnson.