About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times
By: Peter Catapano
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Boldly claiming a space in which people with disabilities can be seen and heard as they are—not as …
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1. A Disability History of the United States
By: Kim E. Nielsen
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability… read more
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- disability
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2. Feminist, Queer, Crip
By: None
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
In Feminist, Queer, CripAlison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies… read more
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3. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
By: Paul A. Offit
3.21
Format: 192 pages,
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with… read more
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4. Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller
By: Georgina Kleege
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard the refrain, "Why can't you be more like He… read more
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5. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
6. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- health
7. 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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"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
8. You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
By: Meera Shah
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling” —Cecile Richards, au… read more
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- memoir
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- social justice
- audiobook
9. Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
By: Emily Ladau
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable step… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
- disability
- audiobook
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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- 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. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
- disability
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
12. 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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- disability
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
- 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
13. Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
By: Nick Walker
4.37
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on h… read more
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- essays
- disability studies
- disability
- audiobook
"If you see anyone trying to narrow the definition of neuroqueer and trying to police who gets to use the tern, feel free to tell them that I said to stop acting like a fucking cop. The world needs mo…"-Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
14. Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
By: Liat Ben-moshe
4.47
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into ac… read more
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- disability
- health
- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
15. Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
By: Alisa Roth
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made … read more
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
- health
16. 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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- memoir
- 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
17. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more
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- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
- disability
- audiobook
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
18. 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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"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
19. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
From the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, and the editor of the acclaimed… read more
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- disability
- audiobook
20. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
By: Amanda Leduc
4.09
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more
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- disability studies
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- audiobook
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
21. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
By: Eli Clare
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the… read more
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- disability
- health
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
"But in today’s world, being seen as intellectually, cognitively, or developmentally disabled is dangerous because intelligence and verbal communication are entrenched markers of personhood."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"Simply put, the DSM is a highly constructed projection placed on top of particular body-mind experiences in order to label, organize, and make meanings of them from within a specific worldview."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"Simply put, diagnosis wields immense power. It can provide us access to vital medical technology or shame us, reveal a path toward less pain or get us locked up. It opens doors and slams them shut."-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
"Our body-minds tumble, shift, ease their way through space and time, never static. Gender transition in its many forms is simply another kind of motion. I lived in a body-mind assigned female at birt…"-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
22. River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more
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"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
23. Goliath
By: Tochi Onyebuchi
3.29
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the gr… read more
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"Everywhere I landed, I didn't really feel like I belonged. Doing postgrad stuff, I felt like I didn't have any skills. Just felt unaccomplished. I was just there to ride out the downturn, and I felt …"-Tochi Onyebuchi, Goliath
24. The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
By: Keah Brown
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtfu… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- disability studies
- disability
- audiobook
"There is power and excitement in reclaiming things that were once used to hurt or demean you."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"I know that I'm not the first person in the world to say "I love music; it saved me." But that doesn't make it less true."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"Power is tricky to navigate; to understand it you have to lay the groundwork for what makes you powerful in the first place."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
"Beyoncé said it best in "Haunted": "Perfection is so...mmm," and what she means is that the idea of perfection is so boring, so overdone and outdated."-Keah Brown, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
25. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- memoir
- disability
- health
- anthologies
- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
26. Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
By: Ben Mattlin
4.24
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A disabled journalist documents how the “ADA Generation” has grown up, the rise of neurodiversity, … read more
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- social justice
- disability studies
- audiobook
27. About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times
By: Peter Catapano
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Boldly claiming a space in which people with disabilities can be seen and heard as they are—not as … read more
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- disability
- health
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- disability studies
- audiobook
28. Black Disability Politics
By: Sami Schalk
4.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue t… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
- disability
29. The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman
By: Lucy Webster
4.29
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, eye-opening insight into navigating the world as a disabled young woman Women’s lives a… read more
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- nonfiction
- disability studies
- disability
- audiobook
30. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence
By: J. Logan Smilges
4.27
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queer… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
31. Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
By: Marta Russell
4.44
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disab… read more
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- disability
