Disability Pride

The title of this booklist says it all! Here are some of our staff's favorite books from disabled authors, selected because they are soaked in pride, full of love for disabled communities, and advocate for disability justice.

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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body By Rebekah Taussig Cover Image
$14.44
ISBN: 9780062936806
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Published: HarperOne - July 6th, 2021

Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life By Harriet McBryde Johnson Cover Image
$23.00
ISBN: 9780312425715
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(This book cannot be returned.)
Published: Picador - February 21st, 2006

A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome By Ariel Henley Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780374314071
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) - November 2nd, 2021

Planet of the Blind: A Memoir By Stephen Kuusisto Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780385333276
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Published: Delta - December 29th, 1998

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Raising a Rare Girl By Heather Lanier Cover Image
$14.45
ISBN: 9780525559658
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Published: Penguin Books - July 6th, 2021

True Biz: A Novel By Sara Novic Cover Image
$23.80
ISBN: 9780593241509
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Published: Random House - April 5th, 2022

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life By Alice Wong Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593315392
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Published: Vintage - September 6th, 2022

Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today By Alice Wong (Editor) Cover Image
By Alice Wong (Editor)
$17.99
ISBN: 9780593381670
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Published: Delacorte Press - October 26th, 2021

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What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World By Sara Hendren Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9780735220003
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 18th, 2020

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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (American Lives ) By Sonya Huber Cover Image
$15.26
ISBN: 9780803299917
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Published: University of Nebraska Press - March 1st, 2017

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (Cultural Front #9) By Robert McRuer, Michael Bérubé (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Robert McRuer, Michael Bérubé (Foreword by)
$30.00
ISBN: 9780814757130
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Published: New York University Press - June 1st, 2006

This Is One Way to Dance: Essays By Sejal Shah Cover Image
$23.95
ISBN: 9780820357232
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Published: University of Georgia Press - June 1st, 2020

How to Communicate: Poems By John Lee Clark Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9781324035343
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - December 6th, 2022

Show Me a Sign (Show Me a Sign, Book 1) By Ann Clare LeZotte Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781338255812
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Published: Scholastic Press - March 3rd, 2020

El Deafo: A Graphic Novel By Cece Bell Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9781419712173
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Published: Abrams Fanfare - September 2nd, 2014

Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey By Stephen Kuusisto Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781451689808
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Published: Simon & Schuster - March 19th, 2019

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law By Haben Girma Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781538728734
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Published: Twelve - August 11th, 2020

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781551527383
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Published: Arsenal Pulp Press - October 30th, 2018

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Cover Image
$21.95
ISBN: 9781551528915
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Published: Arsenal Pulp Press - October 4th, 2022

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Exploded Views) By Amanda Leduc Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781552453957
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Published: Coach House Books - March 3rd, 2020

Deaf Republic: Poems By Ilya Kaminsky Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781555978310
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Published: Graywolf Press - March 5th, 2019

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound By Torrin A. Greathouse Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781571315274
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Published: Milkweed Editions - December 22nd, 2020

You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness By Heather Sellers Cover Image
$24.00
ISBN: 9781594485404
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Published: Riverhead Books - October 4th, 2011

Phantompains By Therese Estacion Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781771666862
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Published: Book*hug Press - March 31st, 2021

Cyborg Detective By Jillian Weise Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781942683858
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Published: BOA Editions - September 3rd, 2019

This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown By Taylor Harris Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781646221622
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Published: Catapult - January 17th, 2023

Panpocalypse By Carley Moore Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781952177606
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Published: Amethyst Editions - April 5th, 2022

The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me By Keah Brown Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781982100544
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Published: Atria Books - August 6th, 2019

All's Well: A Novel By Mona Awad Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982169664
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Published: S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books - August 3rd, 2021

The Sign for Home: A Novel By Blair Fell Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9781982175955
Published: Atria/Emily Bestler Books - April 5th, 2022

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Golem Girl: A Memoir By Riva Lehrer Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781984820327
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Published: One World - October 26th, 2021

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally By Emily Ladau Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781984858979
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Published: Ten Speed Press - September 7th, 2021

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century By Alice Wong (Editor) Cover Image
By Alice Wong (Editor)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781984899422
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Published: Vintage - June 30th, 2020