Disability Pride: Books for AdultsUnpublished

July is Disability Pride Month and to celebrate we are highlighting books from disabled writers, artists, and activists who have fought to create a more open, inclusive, and beautiful world. Find our list of creative works in literature, memoir, and history here.

Updated July 17, 2025

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Disability Pride: Books for Adults

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Disability intimacy : essays on love, care, and desire

Wong, Alice

Paper Book

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility- another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. What is intimacy? More than...

Sipping Dom PÃ©rignon through a straw : reimagining success as a disabled achiever

Ndopu, Eddie

Paper Book

Apple's Best Books of August 2023 A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful. Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare...

Leg : the story of a limb and the boy who grew from it : a memoir

Marshall, Greg (Essayist)

Paper Book

* A 2024 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST * *Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction of 2023 * NPR's Books We Love 2023 * * A New and Noteworthy Memoir of 2023 Selected by * Washington Post * USA Today * Esquire * Buzzfeed *<...

Special needs trusts : protect your child's financial future

Urbatsch, Kevin

Paper Book

Leave money to a loved one with a disability--without losing benefits Use a special needs trust to provide financial security for your child (or anyone) with a disability, without jeopardizing important government benefits. Funds in a special needs trust, when used correctly, do not...

Deaf utopia : a memoir-- and a love letter to a way of life

DiMarco, Nyle

Paper Book

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE CO-DIRECTOR OF DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco. Actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and now co-director of the acclaimed film Deaf President Now!, DiMarco both shares his...

Golem girl : a memoir

Lehrer, Riva

Paper Book

The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies "Golem Girl is luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young--and mature--woman; an...

The country of the blind : a memoir at the end of sight

Leland, Andrew

Paper Book

We meet Andrew Leland as he's suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he's midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his...

Mean baby : a memoir of growing up

Blair, Selma

Paper Book

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as ... a mean baby. In a...

Year of the tiger : an activist's life

Wong, Alice

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER . ONE OF USA TODAY'S MUST-READ BOOKS . This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project ...

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