Books Written by Disabled Authors

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ALS Saved My Life ... until it didn't
ALS Saved My Life ... until it didn't 4.55 avg rating β€” 181 ratings
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened 4.17 avg rating β€” 213,878 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating β€” 258,411 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating β€” 5,732,383 ratings
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 4.28 avg rating β€” 321,405 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death 3.98 avg rating β€” 76,140 ratings
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El Deafo
El Deafo
by: Cece Bell
4.20 avg rating β€” 89,220 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,154,226 ratings
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The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1) 3.88 avg rating β€” 485,504 ratings
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law 4.19 avg rating β€” 5,208 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time 4.21 avg rating β€” 467,072 ratings
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Ascension
Ascension 3.59 avg rating β€” 1,694 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,024,871 ratings
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Look Me in the Eye
Look Me in the Eye 3.92 avg rating β€” 69,104 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating β€” 150,155 ratings
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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait 3.90 avg rating β€” 48,385 ratings
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating β€” 33,254 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating β€” 569,016 ratings
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Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
by: Eli Clare
4.46 avg rating β€” 1,038 ratings
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot 3.91 avg rating β€” 947 ratings
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Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
by: Eli Clare
4.37 avg rating β€” 2,482 ratings
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The Princess Diarist
The Princess Diarist 3.70 avg rating β€” 88,162 ratings
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A Prayer for Vengeance
A Prayer for Vengeance 3.82 avg rating β€” 314 ratings
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When The Chant Comes
When The Chant Comes 4.48 avg rating β€” 116 ratings
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The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism 3.88 avg rating β€” 61,101 ratings
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's 3.83 avg rating β€” 286,601 ratings
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Laughing at My Nightmare
Laughing at My Nightmare 4.08 avg rating β€” 5,050 ratings
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Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,234 ratings
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating β€” 177,972 ratings
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QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology 3.97 avg rating β€” 62 ratings
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Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life 4.21 avg rating β€” 428 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating β€” 285,050 ratings
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating β€” 13,223 ratings
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Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating β€” 86 ratings
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An Orchid in my Belly Button
An Orchid in my Belly Button 4.70 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Sick: A Memoir
Sick: A Memoir 3.34 avg rating β€” 3,387 ratings
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice 4.53 avg rating β€” 4,859 ratings
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The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me 3.70 avg rating β€” 1,323 ratings
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The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating β€” 40,393 ratings
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The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion
The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion
by: Eli Clare
4.41 avg rating β€” 93 ratings
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book) 4.15 avg rating β€” 9,826 ratings
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QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology 3.97 avg rating β€” 62 ratings
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Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life 4.55 avg rating β€” 137 ratings
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Broken
Broken 4.02 avg rating β€” 45,019 ratings
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Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking
Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking 4.66 avg rating β€” 447 ratings
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So Lucky
So Lucky 3.63 avg rating β€” 1,818 ratings
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Dhalgren
Dhalgren 3.78 avg rating β€” 12,077 ratings
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1) 3.79 avg rating β€” 203,011 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals 4.42 avg rating β€” 5,111 ratings
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,424 ratings
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating β€” 363,719 ratings
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Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir
Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir 3.65 avg rating β€” 1,190 ratings
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Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1)
Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1) 3.85 avg rating β€” 12,546 ratings
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating β€” 16,571 ratings
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Autobiography of a Face
Autobiography of a Face 3.97 avg rating β€” 29,612 ratings
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Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1) 3.81 avg rating β€” 120,827 ratings
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Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled 3.97 avg rating β€” 436 ratings
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Thoreau at Walden
Thoreau at Walden 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,119 ratings
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Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability 3.99 avg rating β€” 437 ratings
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Moojag and the Auticode Secret
Moojag and the Auticode Secret 4.02 avg rating β€” 64 ratings
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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist 4.48 avg rating β€” 6,433 ratings
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All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home
All the Memories That Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home 4.46 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
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If the Cardinal Flies Home
If the Cardinal Flies Home 4.39 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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Fall Down Laughing: How Squiggy Caught Multiple Sclerosis and Didn't Tell Nobody
Fall Down Laughing: How Squiggy Caught Multiple Sclerosis and Didn't Tell Nobody 4.10 avg rating β€” 195 ratings
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Moojag and the Lost Memories (MOOJAG #2)
Moojag and the Lost Memories (MOOJAG #2) 4.43 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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True Biz
True Biz 4.06 avg rating β€” 77,919 ratings
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My Left Foot
My Left Foot 4.05 avg rating β€” 8,748 ratings
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Seabiscuit: An American Legend 4.23 avg rating β€” 167,150 ratings
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The World I Live In
The World I Live In 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,223 ratings
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Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)
Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction) 3.64 avg rating β€” 69 ratings
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) 3.89 avg rating β€” 270,638 ratings
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Accidents of Nature
Accidents of Nature 3.70 avg rating β€” 792 ratings
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Niagara Falls, Or Does It? (Hank Zipzer, #1)
Niagara Falls, Or Does It? (Hank Zipzer, #1) 3.92 avg rating β€” 2,431 ratings
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Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence 4.08 avg rating β€” 530 ratings
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Pygmalion
Pygmalion 3.89 avg rating β€” 108,312 ratings
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Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity
Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity 4.28 avg rating β€” 61 ratings
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Typed Words, Loud Voices
Typed Words, Loud Voices 4.47 avg rating β€” 72 ratings
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All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism
All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism 4.55 avg rating β€” 127 ratings
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Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,282 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 4.06 avg rating β€” 281,460 ratings
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Report from Planet Midnight (PM's Outspoken Authors, #9)
Report from Planet Midnight (PM's Outspoken Authors, #9) 3.93 avg rating β€” 555 ratings
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Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History
Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History 4.58 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
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Epileptic
Epileptic
by: David B.
3.89 avg rating β€” 13,738 ratings
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Feminist, Queer, Crip
Feminist, Queer, Crip 4.39 avg rating β€” 987 ratings
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness 4.32 avg rating β€” 22,260 ratings
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Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression 4.28 avg rating β€” 611 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 4.09 avg rating β€” 496,056 ratings
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Falling in Love with Hominids
Falling in Love with Hominids 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,457 ratings
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Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability 4.14 avg rating β€” 252 ratings
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The River's Memory
The River's Memory 4.34 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
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No You Don't: Essays from an Unstrange Mind
No You Don't: Essays from an Unstrange Mind 4.25 avg rating β€” 99 ratings
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Wishful Drinking
Wishful Drinking 3.82 avg rating β€” 91,344 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted 3.94 avg rating β€” 269,450 ratings
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Still Me
Still Me 4.11 avg rating β€” 2,855 ratings
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It's Not Yet Dark
It's Not Yet Dark 4.16 avg rating β€” 2,808 ratings
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My Invisible Cosmic Zebra Has Rheumatoid Arthritisβ€”Now What?
My Invisible Cosmic Zebra Has Rheumatoid Arthritisβ€”Now What? did not like it 1.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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The Storyteller's Muse
The Storyteller's Muse 4.05 avg rating β€” 152 ratings
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 3.67 avg rating β€” 10,526 ratings
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The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked: The Fiction of Disability: An Anthology
The Right Way to be Crippled and Naked: The Fiction of Disability: An Anthology 3.90 avg rating β€” 62 ratings
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Willkommen im Erdgeschoss: Wie ich mich mit 17 im Rollstuhl wiederfand
Willkommen im Erdgeschoss: Wie ich mich mit 17 im Rollstuhl wiederfand 4.12 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
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