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A disability reading list
This is an incomplete look at some fiction, memoir (and occasional non-fiction) books about life with a disability.
Have you read something you'd like to see on this list? Send an email to nsleo2018@outlook.com
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Anderson, Catherine: Annie's Song
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Bayley, John: Elegy for Iris
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Beck, Martha: EXPECTING ADAM: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
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Bender, Karen: Like Normal People
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Brown, Rosellen: Tender Mercies
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Butler Hathaway, Katharine: The Little Locksmith: A Memoir
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Callahan, John: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
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Callahan, John: Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up?: A Quasi Memoir
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Cusk, Rachel: The Country Life
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Deaver, Jeff: A Maiden's Grave
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Dunn, Katherine: Geek Love
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Dyer, KC: Shades of red
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Finger, Ann: Bone Truth
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Fox, Laurie Anne: My sister from the Black Lagoon
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Fries, Kenney: Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out
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Fries, Kenney: Body, Remember: A Memoir
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Ganz, Heidi: Sparrows on Wheels
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Gilson, Jaime: Do bananas chew gum?
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Grealy, Lucy: Autobiography of a Face
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Green, Hannah: I never promised you a rose garden
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Greenberg, Joannn: Of Such Small Differences
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Grimley Mason, Mary Life: Prints: A Memoir Of Healing And Discovery
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Groom, Winston: Forrest Gump
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Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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Hecht, Daniel: Skull Session
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Heinlein, Robert: Waldo
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Herrmann, Dorothy: Helen Keller: A Life
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Hodgson Burnette, Frances: The Secret Garden
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Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Hulme, Keri: The Bone People
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Itari, Frances: Deafening
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Karp, Gary (Editor), Stanley D. Klein (Editor): From There to Here: Stories of Adjustment to Spinal Cord Injury
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Keith, Lois: What Happened to You: Writing by Disabled Women
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Keith, Lois: Take Up thy Bed And Walk
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Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon
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Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
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Konigsburg, E.L.: The View from Saturday
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Koontz, Dean: One Door Away from Heaven
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Kriegel, Leonard: Flying Solo: Reimagining Manhood, Courage, and Loss
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Lethem, Jonathan: Motherless Brooklyn
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Longmore, Paul K.: Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
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Lott, Brett: Jewel
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Mairs, Nancy: Waist High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
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Mazza, Chris: Disability
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McCullers, Carson: The Ballad of Sad Cafe and Other Stories
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Mee, Charles L.: A Nearly Normal Life
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Nichol, James W.: Midnight Cab
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Nixon, Shelley: From where I sit : making my way with cerebral palsy
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O'Brein, Ruth: Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and the Workplace
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Packer, Ann: The Dive From Clausen's Pier : A Novel
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Panzarino, Connie: The me in the mirror
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Peck, M. Scott: A Bed By the Window
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Philbrick, W.R.: Freak the Mighty
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Picoult, Jodi: My Sister's Keeper : A Novel
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Picoult, Jodi: Mercy
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Plain, Belva: Daybreak
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Pointon, Anne and Chris Davies: Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media.
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Pomerance, Bernard: The Elephant Man: A Play
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Rainer Dart, Iris: When I Fall In Love
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Romkema, Chris: Embracing the Sky, Poems beyond Disability
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Roos, Stephen: The Gypsies Never Came
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Russell, Marta: Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract
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Safran Foer, Jonathan: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Sherer Jacobson, Denise: The Question Of David: A Disabled Mother's Journey Through Adoption, Family, and Life
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Sturgeon, Theodore: The Clinic
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Wahl, Otto F.: Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness.
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Wilde Mayerson, Evelyn: Sanjo
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Woods, Stuart: Dead Eyes