Book Recommendations

Fiction

• A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow (Fantasy)
• Life’s Too Short by Abby Jimenez
• Angels Don’t Get Tattoos by Cecelia Zorn

Non-Fiction / Biography

• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong
• Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
• Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong
• Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities & Experiences edited by Alex Iantuffi
• Strength: Lives Touched By Cystinosis edited and compiled by Amanda Leigh and Amanda Buck
• I want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
• Disability Pride by Ben Mattlin
• It Wasn’t Meant To Be Perfect by Gaelynn Lea
• Haben The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
• Don’t Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back by Harilyn Rousso
• Roller Skating with Rickets: And Other Paradoxes of Life with Genetic Disease by Jessica Jondle
• Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
• Live Laugh Lemonade: A Journey of Choosing to Beat the Odds by Kendra Gottsleben
• Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People: A Disability Justice Primer by Sins Invalid
• Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
• Rare Like Us: From Losing My Dad to Finding Myself in a Family Plagued By Genetic Disease by Taylor Kane

Poetry

• Guided By Moonlight: Poetry and Photography by Amanda Leigh
• Map of My Heart: A Portrait of the Girl Behind a Letter to My Friend by Rebekah Palmer
• How To Communicate: Poems by John Lee Clark
• Two Girls Staring At The Ceiling by Lucy Frank