Exploring intersectional disability representation through reading.
A reader-centered community exploring disability in literature through monthly prompts, book recommendations, and a book club.
The Disability Reading Challenge
The Disability Reading Challenge is an annual, reader-centered initiative designed to help people learn more about disability justice, disability culture, and intersectional disabled experiences through books. Whether you’re hoping to read more disabled authors, expand the representation you engage with, or begin including disability in your journey of diversifying and decolonizing your reading, this challenge is a place to begin.
There is absolutely no pressure to complete every prompt or participate every month. Everyone reads at their own pace, and everyone brings different access needs and life circumstances to their reading practice. You are welcome here regardless of how much or how little you’re able to read.
Each year includes twelve prompts that highlight a wide range of disability representation. You can read in any order, in any format (audiobooks, graphic books, ebooks, print), and at any pace. The prompts are guideposts rather than requirements — choose the ones that speak to you.
How to participate
There are several ways to participate in the Disability Reading Challenge — choose whatever level of involvement feels right for you.
1. Join the Storygraph Challenge
Browse the prompts, track your reading, and explore hundreds of community-submitted book suggestions for each category.
2. Join the Discord Community
Connect with fellow readers, recommend books, discuss each month’s prompt, and take part in gentle, low-pressure conversations about disability in literature.
3. Attend the (Virtual) Monthly Book Club
At the end of each month, we meet on Zoom to discuss the featured book together. These meetings are relaxed, welcoming, and optional. You also do not have to have read the entire book to join and participate in the discussion.
4. Follow along via Email Newsletter & Instagram
Stay up to date on prompts, book club updates, recommendations, and new resources via founder Geetanshi Sharma’s newsletter on Substack, and on Instagram.
What This Challenge Values
Accessibility
We strive to make participation and resources as accessible as possible.
Intersectionality
Disability experience does not exist in isolation — race, gender, sexuality, class, culture, and more shape disabled lives and stories.
Community
This challenge grows through shared learning and collective care.
Choice + Pacing
There is no “right” way to participate. Your access needs and reading rhythms matter.
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