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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.

 

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• Anderson, Catherine: Annie's Song​

• Bayley, John: Elegy for Iris

• Beck, Martha: EXPECTING ADAM: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

• Bender, Karen: Like Normal People

• Brown, Rosellen: Tender Mercies

• Butler Hathaway, Katharine: The Little Locksmith: A Memoir

• Callahan, John: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot

• Callahan, John: Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up?: A Quasi Memoir

• Cusk, Rachel: The Country Life

• Deaver, Jeff: A Maiden's Grave

• Dunn, Katherine: Geek Love

• Dyer, KC: Shades of red

• Finger, Ann: Bone Truth

• Fox, Laurie Anne: My sister from the Black Lagoon

• Fries, Kenney: Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out

• Fries, Kenney: Body, Remember: A Memoir

• Ganz, Heidi: Sparrows on Wheels

• Gilson, Jaime: Do bananas chew gum?

• Grealy, Lucy: Autobiography of a Face

• Green, Hannah: I never promised you a rose garden

• Greenberg, Joannn: Of Such Small Differences

• Grimley Mason, Mary Life: Prints: A Memoir Of Healing And Discovery

• Groom, Winston: Forrest Gump

• Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

• Hecht, Daniel: Skull Session

• Heinlein, Robert: Waldo

• Herrmann, Dorothy: Helen Keller: A Life

• Hodgson Burnette, Frances: The Secret Garden

• Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

• Hulme, Keri: The Bone People

• Itari, Frances: Deafening

• Karp, Gary (Editor), Stanley D. Klein (Editor): From There to Here: Stories of Adjustment to Spinal Cord Injury

• Keith, Lois: What Happened to You: Writing by Disabled Women

• Keith, Lois: Take Up thy Bed And Walk

• Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon

• Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible

• Konigsburg, E.L.: The View from Saturday

• Koontz, Dean: One Door Away from Heaven

• Kriegel, Leonard: Flying Solo: Reimagining Manhood, Courage, and Loss

• Lethem, Jonathan: Motherless Brooklyn

• Longmore, Paul K.: Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability

• Lott, Brett: Jewel

• Mairs, Nancy: Waist High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

• Mazza, Chris: Disability

• McCullers, Carson: The Ballad of Sad Cafe and Other Stories

• Mee, Charles L.: A Nearly Normal Life

• Nichol, James W.: Midnight Cab

• Nixon, Shelley: From where I sit : making my way with cerebral palsy

• O'Brein, Ruth: Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and the Workplace

• Packer, Ann: The Dive From Clausen's Pier : A Novel

• Panzarino, Connie: The me in the mirror

• Peck, M. Scott: A Bed By the Window

• Philbrick, W.R.: Freak the Mighty

• Picoult, Jodi: My Sister's Keeper : A Novel

• Picoult, Jodi: Mercy

• Plain, Belva: Daybreak

• Pointon, Anne and Chris Davies: Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media.

• Pomerance, Bernard: The Elephant Man: A Play

• Rainer Dart, Iris: When I Fall In Love

• Romkema, Chris: Embracing the Sky, Poems beyond Disability

• Roos, Stephen: The Gypsies Never Came

• Russell, Marta: Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract

• Safran Foer, Jonathan: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

• Sherer Jacobson, Denise: The Question Of David: A Disabled Mother's Journey Through Adoption, Family, and Life

• Sturgeon, Theodore: The Clinic

• Wahl, Otto F.: Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness.

• Wilde Mayerson, Evelyn: Sanjo

• Woods, Stuart: Dead Eyes