Top 5 Tuesday: Books with Disability Rep

Hey, guys!
It’s Tuesday, that means it’s time for a bookish favorites posts. Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by Meeghan over on Meeghan Reads and is quite simple: check out the topic and write a post with your picks.
This week, we talk about books that feature some disability representation. I struggled quite a bit with the topics and it was challenging to come up with my picks. So, I will definitely make sure to include more novels with some disability rep into my reading list!

#1 The Percy Jackson Novels

With the Percy Jackson books, Rick Riordan not only included a character with disabilities, but he also made him the hero. Percy has issues with dyslexia and ADHD. If I remember correctly, Riordan specially wrote the character like this because his son had similar things to deal with.

#2 Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom

Leigh Bardugo’s novels Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom feature several characters with disabilities but most prominently Kaz Brekker. The badass leader has a limp and often uses a cane. This was to some extent inspired by Leigh Bardugo personal life as she suffers from osteonecrosis and has to use a cane herself.

#3 Everything, Everything

Okay, so this one is a bit more complex but I won’t go into that to avoid spoilers. (I wasn’t too fond of the book but nevermind.)
Here the protagonist suffers from severe combined immunodeficiency and is thus confined to her own home.

#4 The Fault in Our Stars

This one is a real tearjerker. Hazel suffers from thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs. But she’s not the only teenaged character in this book battling cancer. As much as I hated other John Green novels, this one was amazing.

#5 The Magnus Chase novels

Once more it is Rick Riordan, the king of representation. In his novels, he always makes a point to include characters from a variety of backgrounds, to feature genderfluidity, etc.
I already mentioned the Percy Jackson books but in the Magnus Chase series, the protagonist has asthma and an important supporting character named Hearth is deaf.