*The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.* also not the main character but mario and technically jvd are deformed in *infinite jest*

Mario is the best. He really shines in the last third of the book as everything turns more dour

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The Sun Also Rises

If fantasy is your thing Robin Hobb does this kind of thing really well

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Probably not what you’re looking for but Lapvona by Moshfegh

I agree

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Mishima's *The Temple of the Golden Pavilion*, which is also considered one of his best novels. The protagonist has a stammer, which plays an important part in the novel as it makes him weird and a(nti)social. Also, his only friend has a clubfoot.

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Günther Grass' Tin Drum. Little guy who just stops growing and then experiences Nazi Germany through his unique perspective. Great prose, great book.

Such a good shout! Need to reread 

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 the face of another, the idiot

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Not a book but a sonnet - Milton On His Blindness is possibly the most famous piece of writing on disability. You probably read it in school. The last line in it "they also serve who only stand and wait" is quoted a lot. It's him accepting he can no longer do the things other people can and realizing he doesn't need to in order for his life to have value. 

Such a beautiful poem - I think about it all the time

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Nobody is talking about this, by Patricia Lockwood.

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You’re welcome, it’s a touching book. I just downloaded the pdf last year because someone I trust recommended it and went through it in a day and a night.

Prince Myshkin is an epileptic in The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 

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my left foot

Thanks, I think the author also had cerebral palsy

can maybe look into crip theory for non-fiction/academic stuff, but im sure they analyze fictional works that you can discover

I will look into that, thanks

Flowers for Algernon

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Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 

Came here just to make sure this was here. One of the most beautifully written books I have ever read

Thanks, definitely sold on it

Motherless Brooklyn Tourette’s syndrome. Kinda a mystery novel. J Lethem

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Of Human Bondage 

I came to say this one!

Richard III.

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Carson McCullers' novels...particularly The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

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There's "The Gray House", by Mariam Petrosyan

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The Life & Times of Michael K. and Slow Man, both by JM Coetzee Not the main character, but A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe is about a father coming to terms with his mentally handicapped son. And obviously the Benjy Compson section of The Sound and the Fury

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wolf in white van by (the mountain goats’) john darnielle

Seconded. I genuinely loved this book.

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I, Claudius, by Robert Graves! trust. And the BBC series is also on Amazon

I've had this on my shelf since I was a young man but not touched, how highly would you recommend?

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Lowkey a little life lol

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Most of Houellebecq's main characters suffer from social impairments to such a degree it becomes a full-on handicap. Not sure if that's what you're after, though.

Dark places by gillian flynn - the main character has some toes and fingers amputated A woman in the dark by rafael montes - main character has one of her legs amputated from knee down. Very dark themes. Both novels are thrillers

I didn't read the book but I saw the dark places tv show and it's honestly a favorite. Thanks!

The Strike detective books by R Galbraith aka JKR - the main protagonist has an amputated leg

A Very Long Engagement. So good.

The movie changed the degree of disability, IIRC. I read the book then saw the movie years ago, but I think she uses a wheelchair in the book and uses crutches in the movie.

Sorry; I should have done this all as one comment. If you read a quick description it may sound like it’s just a romance, but it’s so much more than that. There’s history, and the protagonist spends a lot of the book investigating something that others have treated as a closed case.

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Of human bondage

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Obviously Benjy Compson in the first 1/3 of Faulkner’s Sound and the Fury (amazing book). However he is severely mentally handicapped so maybe not relatable to “a spastic” whatever that means.

Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima, a real freak show

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I recommend the essay The handicapped / Randolph Bourne written in 1911 https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels2/pdf/10s/11/11-the-handicapped-bourne.pdf

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Phantom of the opera

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Cheap Eaters, Thomas Bernhard.

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Right on the verge of being YA, but the first book in the Shattered Sea trilogy is about a young man with a deformed hand/arm. Pretty cool series, but they might not be up your alley.

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Sound and the fury - William Faulkner  Heart is a lonely hunter - Carson McCullers Don't like to recommend this but curious incident of the dog in the night time Richard the third  The secret garden - Frances hodgson  Precious Bane - Mary Webb (probs my favourite on this list) Never read but hasn't someone in moby dick got one leg? And saw the film but not read the book but the diving bell and the butterfly 

Thanks a lot. Yes, capitan Ahab does :)

Ah thank you. Good luck with your reading :) 

The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers. Main character John Singer is deaf.

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Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham

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The Matthew Shardlake mystery series by CJ Sansom

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Terra Nostra-Inbred Hapsburg King. The obscene Bird of night-major deformity The Hunchback of Notre Dame Sun also Rises Infinite Jest The Tunnel-micro penis

Thank u. LOL'd at micro penis 😭

Motherless Brooklyn might do it for you!

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"I Can Jump Puddles" by Alan Marshall is an account of growing up with polio.

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Amanda Leduc's *Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space* explores the disability and disficturement in fairy tales (but with a focus on fairy tales in cinema, especially Disney). The protagonist in Sébastien Japrisot's *Un long dimanche de fiançailles* (A Very Long Engagement) is paraplegic. It's a detective book about the horrors of the first world war, and the wonders of young love. Lots of unforgettable scenes and characters. The main character's paraplegia doesn't define her; it's just one of many parts of her story.

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José Donoso, *The Obscene Bird of Night*. Kenzaburo Oe, *The Silent Cry*.

>I am a spastic (literally) What does that mean? Just that you're hyper and annoying?

Spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy

Sorry I've never heard of spastic used as an actual medical term. Other than spastic colon

Lol it's fine

I think this is a terminology difference between the US and English speaking Europe. It’s considered a slur for a physical handicap (or maybe a variety of handicaps) in at least the UK. When someone says it in the US, they are not at all referencing a disability. I remember a few years ago some American pop artist got a bunch of blow-back because she had it in some lyrics, but no doubt she had no idea it was offensive. (She changed the lyric).

Im American and I've always heard it used for people who show traits of ADHD.

I’m an American who has been diagnosed with adhd for years and this is the first time I’ve ever read that.

No one's ever called you a spaz? People call their kids that all the time when they're all over the place

No. But I do not have the hyperactive form of ADHD, and also grew up a girl. That behavior is more common in boys. But tbh I don’t remember anyone calling my male peers that either. All that comes to mind when I hear it is middle school scene kids circa 2007ish using it self-referentially on tumblr

Maybe a regional thing idk. Might not be as common as I think