Novels about disability

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

novel by Victor Hugo

novel by D. H. Lawrence

1910 novel by Gaston Leroux

short story by Daniel Keyes, later expanded into a novel

1959 novel by Günter Grass

1912 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

1934 novel by Robert Graves

1915 novel and bildungsroman by William Somerset Maugham

2012 children's novel by Raquel J. Palacio

1996 novel by David Foster Wallace

book series by Lois McMaster Bujold

novel by Jerzy Kosinski

2023 fantasy novel

novel by Nicholas Evans

science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey

Japanese light novel series

novel by Gabrielle Zevin

novel by Jonathan Lethem

2023 novel by Rebecca Yarros

2025 novel by Rebecca Yarros

novel by J. M. Coetzee

short story by Maurice Renard

short story by Alexander Belyayev