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Disabled Disasters: Defying Doomsday Welcome, survivors and catastrophes! The theme this month is dystopias and the apocalypse, featuring disabled characters forming communities, finding new hope, and facing down the end of the world! 🦽👨‍🦯🐕‍🦺 But first, a special shout out to Defying Doomsday, the title that inspired this list. You can find it already on the blog as a Daily Book here.

If You Liked … A Lady for a Duke Check out these five titles to try next! The vibes are soft historical romances with transgender main characters, for both YA and adults; there may be historical-transphobia, but nothing overwhelmingly grim 💙💗🤍💗💙 The Nightland Express by J. M. Lee At the Pony Express station, Jesse meets Ben Foley, a quiet but determined boy, so secretive about his origin story…

Welcome, hunters and prey! Are you sick of brooding alpha male anti-heroes? Do you love lady villains, criminals, and masterminds? Join us in celebrating LGBT+ rights this pride month with some women's wrongs! As a treat 💄😘🔪

Killer Queens: Gay Rights, Women’s Wrongs

A Merry Little Meet Cute Julie Murphy • Adult Romance, 2022, 418 pg• fat bisexual female sex worker MC x bisexual male MC Bee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. With a huge following and two supportive moms, Bee couldn’t ask for more. But when Bee’s favorite producer casts her to star in a Christmas movie he’s making for the squeaky-clean Hope…

Call That Camp, Honey Welcome, campers and counselors! Let’s enjoy some fond summer memories before we hit autumn with this month’s theme: Call That Camp, Honey. The vibes are: hot summer nights, queer shenanigans, and ride or die friend groups 🏕️☀️👀

If You Liked … Flip the Script Check out these five titles to try next! The vibes are: drama on the set of dramas, love triangles, live TV, fake dating, secret dating, aaand lights, camera, ACTION! 🎥💥💄 And a quick honorable mention to I’ll Be the One, also by Lyla Lee, about a teenager ready to become the world’s first plus-sized K-pop star! Kiss & Tell by Adib Korram Hunter never expected to…

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe Carlos Hernandez Junior Fantasy / Sci-Fi (Sal and Gabi #1), 2019, 416 pg diabetic Cuban-American aromantic-asexual male MC; black aromantic-asexual female MC What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer living (in this universe, anyway)?When Sal Vidon meets Gabi…

Defying Doomsday ed. Tsana Dolichva, Holly Kench Adult Sci-Fi, 2016, 432 pg male and female MCs with: cystic fibrosis, schizophrenia, autism, cerebral palsy, dyspraxia, muscle dysmorphia, arthritis, chronic pain, blindness, pituitary gigantism, hard of hearing, chron’s disease note: unconfirmed if any are queer

How would you survive the apocalypse?

Defying Doomsday is 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.