Looking for books for a young man with intellectual disabilities

I fully support him reading without nightmares.

I wonder, would Terry Pratchett work? And maybe Hitchhiker’s Guide? What does everyone think?

He might enjoy the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C Wrede. While I think technically one of the MC’s starts as an older teenager, all the characters are adults/written as adults with the age not specified.

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree might be another good option! It’s an adult fantasy with mature characters, but absolutely nothing explicit or sensitive. The worst/most sensitive things that happen (and their context) are (spoilers for the ending)>! the beginning where it shows the aftermath of a fantasy fight (doesn’t actually describe gore, but there are monster bodies, and the MC removes a gem from one of them), one character being a succubus (but nothing sexual is ever mentioned and it’s taken as a learning moment not to judge a book by its cover), a gang tries to pressure the shop into paying a ‘tax’ or vague bad things could happen (no violence happens), and a rival adventurer burns down the shop to steal the gem from earlier (but no one is harmed, and it’s rebuilt even better)!<

Was your son okay with some of the violence in Wings of Fire? Because if he was then *maybe* Warrior Cats by Erin Hunter would also be something up his alley.

Esio Trot by Roald Dahl is a much tamer (and shorter) one of his (about an old man replacing a lady’s turtle continuously to make her think the turtle is getting bigger).

Technically the main three MCs of Septimus Heap are kids that age/grow with the series, but there is a wide cast of interesting characters that get focused on that are definitely a wide range of adults-they’re clearly not just side characters.

The Chronicles of Narnia might also work well. There is a little bit of combat that you might need to check for to see if he would be okay with it, but generally I don’t recall much that could be too sensitive. There’s an odd balance with the ages of the main characters and the characters around them.

Gail Carson Levine has a lot of great books with slightly older or more older feeling MCs. Ella Enchanted might not be a great place to start, though, as it does the abusive/nasty stepsisters trope.

The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin (I believe the MC is an older guy)

Adventurer’s Wanted by M L Forman (in the first and second book the MC is a teen, but he becomes an adult of his own in 3, 4, and 5, and is always surrounded by other adult characters). There is fantasy violence, but not graphic whatsoever.

These are books that are great and I think would be well suited, but it continues the trend of the MCs being kids/teens.

* Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
* Dragonsdale by Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore (there are 4 books total in the series, even if there only appear to be two on a cursory search)
* Seekers by Erin Hunter

Edit: Oh! You also might find the website common sense media helpful, parents/people that review will cover even the slightest things that might be of concern when they review so anybody can sees can be aware of anything that might come up! The only thing is just whether the book is on the website or not.