Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life
By: Nyle DiMarco
4.25
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and Deaf culture anthem by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time…
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1. Deaf Child Crossing (Deaf Child Crossing #1)
By: Marlee Matlin
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The Barnes & Noble Review Oscar-winning actor Marlee Matlin teaches us about friendship, difference… read more
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- disability
2. Mean Little Deaf Queer
By: None
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. … read more
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3. I'll Scream Later
By: Marlee Matlin , None
3.96
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
Critically acclaimed and award-winning actress Marlee Matlin reveals the illuminating, moving, and … read more
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4. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability
- audiobook
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
5. Pageboy
By: Elliot Page
3.75
Format: 271 pages, None
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."-Elliot Page, Pageboy
6. If You Would Have Told Me
By: John Stamos
3.81
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
7. True Biz
By: Sara Nović
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
TRUE BIZ (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk Tr… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- disability
- lgbt
"No one is comforted by salad."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"-Sara Nović, True Biz
"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."-Sara Nović, True Biz
8. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
9. We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
By: Simu Liu
4.35
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Marvel's newest recruit shares his own inspiring and unexpected origin story, from China to the bri… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Nobody forced us to come here,"-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
"Canada is not unilaterally friendly, nor is “friendly"-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
"Acting, like life, gets a bit stale when you only make safe choices."-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
"Jared had taught me the value of swinging for the fences and being the master of my own destiny."-Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
10. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
By: Judith Heumann
4.48
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of f… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight bac…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
"When someone ignores you, it's an intentional display of power. They're essentially acting like you don't exist, and they do it because they can. They believe that nothing will happen to them. Ignori…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
11. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
By: Rebekah Taussig
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
12. Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir
By: Colton Haynes
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow a… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
13. The Silence Between Us
By: Alison Gervais
3.86
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Deaf teen Maya moves across the country and must attend a hearing school for the first time. As if … read more
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- disability
- audiobook
14. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)
By: Steven Rowley
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- lgbt
15. Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust
By: Renee Hartman
4.01
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn ever… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- disability
16. Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life
By: Nyle DiMarco
4.25
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and Deaf culture anthem by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- disability
- queer
17. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By: Andrew Leland
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
18. Show Me a Sign (Show Me a Sign #1)
By: Ann Clare LeZotte
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Deaf author and librarian Ann Clare LeZotte weaves an Own Voices story inspired by the true history… read more
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- disability
- audiobook
"Does being deaf determine my worth?"-Ann Clare LeZotte, Show Me a Sign (Show Me a Sign #1)
19. The Sign for Home
By: Blair Fell
4.24
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize When a young DeafBlind man learns the gi… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- adult
- disability
- audiobook
"You would probably die without the hearing-sighted to assist you, and sometimes you absolutely hate them for that."-Blair Fell, The Sign for Home
"They probably know, just like I do, that our freedom is precarious and everything still might fall apart. It could, right? In real life, things don't end so happily, right? But, at the moment, we are…"-Blair Fell, The Sign for Home
20. Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
By: Tom Felton
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, g… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
21. or, on being the other woman
By: Simone White
4.00
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
In or, on being the other woman , Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminis… read more
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22. Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
By: Haben Girma
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Audiobook
Born with deaf-blindness, Girma grew up with enough vision to know when someone was in front of her… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- disability
- audiobook
"Communities designed with just one kind of person in mind isolate those of us defying our narrow definition of personhood."-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"Sighted or blind, Deaf or hearing, each of us holds just the tiniest fraction of the world's wisdom. Admitting we don't know everything will aid us on this Trek for Knowledge."-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"It's a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I'm disabled. They…"-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
"Here at LCB, I'm surrounded by people who understand that blindness is just limited eyesight. With the right tools and training, blind people can compete as equals with sighted peers. Places like LCB…"-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
23. Give Me a Sign
By: Anna Sortino
4.11
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when… read more
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- disability
- audiobook
24. Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
By: Eddie Ndopu
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly s… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- queer
25. Mom Dad Not Hear: 30 Powerful Stories and Lessons about Leadership, Life, and Love from My Deaf Parents
By: Mickey Carolan
3.93
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
In this endearing, non-traditional memoir, the son of a Deaf mother and father takes you on an adve… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- disability
"Heavy are the hands that bear the signs."-Mickey Carolan, Mom Dad Not Hear: 30 Powerful Stories and Lessons about Leadership, Life, and Love from My Deaf Parents
26. Leap of Faith
By: Cameron Hamilton
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The fan-favorite couple from Netflix’s Love Is Blind share their engaging and accessible love advic… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
27. Ruin (Fire & Blood #1)
By: Alexa B. James
3.84
Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition
In a world of perpetual night, vampires rule and humans have no chance of escape. On the surface, … read more
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- audiobook
28. The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness
By: Katie Booth
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell — renowned inventor of the telephone an… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- disability
- audiobook
29. The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley
By: Shelley Wood
3.97
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An inspired, sweeping, historical epic tracing the remarkable life story of a baby girl born on lea… read more
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- audiobook
30. A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole
By: Marian Schembari
4.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
One woman’s decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neur… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
31. The Butterfly Cage
By: Rachel Zemach
4.84
Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition
Joy, heartache, and Teaching while Deaf in a California public school This book is tender, funny, … read more
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- memoir
