Each year, the Orange County Human Relations Commission hosts a “Community Read” – inviting residents to read a particular book and come together in the spring for a community discussion.

Organizers have just announced the books – three of them this time! – for next year’s Community Read, all revolving around the topic of living with disability.

Why disability? 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act, a major civil rights law that banned discrimination against disabled individuals and required public facilities to be handicap-accessible.

Why three books instead of one? In addition to a full-length book, there’s also a book of poems and an anthology of shorter pieces; the idea, say organizers, is to give people a chance to participate even if they don’t have time to read an entire book. The three books also cover very different aspects of the broader topic: one book focuses on veterans, for instance, while another focuses on families.

The three books are:

“Beauty is a Verb,” a book of poetry by individuals with disabilities (edited by Sheila Black, Jennifer Bartlett and Michael Northen);

“Far From the Tree” by Andrew Solomon, examining families living with a variety of challenges;

and “Paying with their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran,” a history of war and disability in America by John M. Kinder.

All three books are available now. The Community Read discussion will take place sometime in March 2016, moderated by Kim Lan Grout of the Redefining Disabled Project.

James Davis of the Orange County Human Relations Commission and Natalie Turner of the Community Read subcommittee joined Aaron Keck on WCHL last week. (Davis also spoke about the upcoming Constitution Day ceremony on September 19.)