A Book By or About Someone With a Disability

This list of titles fulfills the UBN 2025 category of a book by or about someone with a disibility.

Updated January 2, 2025
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The country of the blind : a memoir at the end of sight
Leland, Andrew
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE Named one of the best books of the year by- THE NEW YORKER . THE WASHINGTON POST . THE ATLANTIC . NPR . PUBLISHERS WEEKLY . LITHUB "Fascinating...The great strength of this memoir is its voracious, humble...
A room called earth
Ryan, Madeleine
Paper Book
"A resolute deep dive into an inner self, a transcendent character study, and a timely reminder that there's an entire universe inside of everyone we meet. You will be moved." --Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook "[N]uanced...
The silence between us
Gervais, Alison
Paper Book
"The Silence Between Us is eminently un-put-down-able." (NPR) Schneider Family Book Award, Best Teen Honor Book 2020 "This is a great YA contemporary (clean) romance that follows Maya as she navigates a new school and plans for her future. The addition of...
Sitting pretty : the view from my ordinary resilient disabled body
Taussig, Rebekah
Paper Book
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and...
TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW
ZEVIN, GABRIELLE
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Sam and Sadie--two college friends, often in love, but never lovers--become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It...
True biz : a novel
Novi , Sara
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * A "tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged" (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf,...
WHERE YOU SEE YOURSELF
FORREST, CLAIRE
Paper Book
A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book What does it take to follow your dreams? Where You See Yourself is a relatable, romantic, and necessary story about a girl who has to figure out what--and who--will bring her the happiness she deserves. By the time Effie...

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