10 Must-Read Fantasy Sci-Fi Books with Autistic Main Characters Now that you have ten fantasy and sci-fi books with autistic main characters added to your TBR, it’s time to start reading them! You can read these in April for National Autism Awareness Month, or have these to help you further diversify your reading
Magical Minds: Neurodivergent Fantasy Recs! - Every Book a Doorway Sometimes multiple forms of neurodivergence can manifest in one person, even; autism and ADHD show up together surprisingly often, for example (it’s me, I’m the example) This, then, is a list of fantasy books where the main characters are all some kind of neurodivergent
Books With Neurodivergent Characters - Beyond the Bookends I love that recent books showcase many different people and personalities The surge in books with neurodiverse characters feels like a welcome change from the books written in the 90s and 2000s
Science Fantasy – The Disability Book Archive An anthology of apocalypse fiction featuring disabled and chronically ill protagonists, proving it’s not always the “fittest” who survive, it’s the most tenacious, stubborn, enduring and innovative characters who have the best chance of adapting when everything is lost
Books with neurodivergent characters | BookTrust This non-exhaustive selection of books is an introduction to the range of books that feature neurodivergent (ND) characters It includes characters with OCD, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia, as well as autistic protagonists
Autism | Disability | Metaphors and Moonlight Representation of physical disabilities is hard to find, especially in sci-fi fantasy, so my goal is to make a list containing as many sci-fi fantasy books with physically disabled and chronically ill characters as possible
Six Sci-Fi Books With Disability Rep – A. ZAYKOVA As some of you may know, I'm neurodivergent with autoimmune chronic illnesses and I think science fiction—a genre that is meant to be forward-looking—could really shine with disability representation, and explore how things like accessibility and ethics are handled in worlds with advanced science