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Sixteen + books on disability by disabled writers.

July 17, 2018 Carly Findlay

Here are some books on disability – by disabled writers – that I have bought and you might like.  I have not read them all, but I plan to read a few this weekend when I’m in a hotel on enforced rest – bliss!

A colleague of six books, blue and greeen in colour A collage of six books, Brown in colour A collage of two books -blue and yellow

Many are memoir but some are poetry and others are fiction. It’s so important to read within our community!

Note – some writers might identify as chronically ill, living with a facial difference or Deaf, rather than disabled.

I am proud to call many of the writers here my friends. Happy reading!

Notes on the Flesh – Shahd Ashammari

In sickness and in health Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Inter-abled Romance – Ben Mattlin

Sonata: a memoir of pain and the piano – Andrea Avery

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating – Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Stairs and Whispers – edited by Khairani Barokka, Sandra Alland and Daniel Sluman.

Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy

Music Our Bodies Can’t Hold – Andy Jackson

Ugly – Robert Hoge

Chronic Babe 101 – Jenni Grover

Sick – Porochista Khakpour

Ride High Pineapple – Jenny Woolsey

Introducing Teddy – Jessica Walton  (not about disability)

Southerly Journal – Disability edition

Welcome to Biscuitland – Jess Thom

Jeanette Purkis has lots of books

El Deafo – CeCe Bell

Shaping the Fractured Self – Heather Taylor Johnson

(My book –Say Hello – is out early next year through Harper Collins. It is on Good Reads.)

Here’s some kids books on facial difference and ichthyosis.

Robyn Hunt compiled an excellent children’s and YA book list too. 

Got any other books on disability by disabled writers that you’d recommend? Tell me on my Facebook page.

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