Book Club Schedule (October & November 2025)
It’s time to share the schedule for the #ChronicallyIconicBookClub for the last few months of 2025! (How are we only 3 months away from 2026??)
We will be discussing each of these books via Instagram group chat. Everyone is welcome so please comment below or DM me on Instagram if you’d like to join us!
I’ve read both of these books already and I loved them so I’m really excited to share them with you all and get an even deeper perspective through our discussion!
I know it’s merely a drop in the ocean in terms of the horrors going on today, but it makes me really happy that we’ve gotten to spend another year together reading and uplifting disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent voices. It’s more important than ever and I want to personally thank everyone who has joined me on this journey!
October’s Read
The Unexpected Consequence of Bleeding by Kelsey B. Toney
Representation: YA contemporary with endometriosis representation
Discussion date: November 1-3 on Instagram
Summary: High school senior Delia a killer GPA--and periods that are so painful they make her scream, pass out, and throw up. Though she doesn't know it yet, Delia has endometriosis, an affliction plaguing millions of people that is notoriously difficult to diagnose.
Pain makes everything harder, but Delia is just one semester away from graduating from Stockwood Prep and pursuing her dream of become the kind of doctor she's never one who takes her symptoms seriously. But when she breaks a rule for the first time ever, Delia is expelled.
Without her academic success and no closer to a diagnosis, is Delia anything more than her period?
Content warnings: gaslighting, medical trauma, drug use, car accident, panic attacks, vomit, racism, sexual content
November’s Read
The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Representation: essay collection by a chronically ill and autistic author
Discussion date: last weekend in November
Summary: Building on their/her previous work, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other - and the rest of the world - alive during Trump, fascism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disabled art practice as survival and joy.
This is a book of love letters to other disabled QTBIPOC (and those concerned about disability justice, the care crisis, and surviving the apocalypse); honour songs for kin who are gone; and wild brown disabled femme joy in the face of death. With passion and power, The Future Is Disabled remembers our dead and insists on our future.
Content warnings: ableism, grief, pandemic, racism, death, medical trauma, suicide, rape, sexual assault
We’ll be taking a break in December and will return in January 2026. If you have any suggestions for books, themes, or events you’d like to see in 2026, please comment below or on Instagram.