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Celebrating Disability Pride: Adult Reads

Celebrate Disability Pride with these memoirs and non-fiction titles written about the experiences and achievements of people with disabilities.

Contra Costa County Library

14 items

  • Soundtrack of Silence

    Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life

    Hay, Matt, 1973-
    An inspiring memoir of a young man who discovered he was going completely deaf just at the moment he'd fallen in love for the first time.
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — 362.4092 HAY
  • The Beauty of Dusk

    on Vision Lost and Found

    Bruni, Frank,
    A wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing one's eyesight.
    BookNew York : Avid Reader Press, 2022. — B BRUNI, F.
  • Against Technoableism

    Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

    Shew, Ashley, 1983-
    A manifesto exploring what we think we know about disability, and arguing that people with disabilities are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.
    BookNew York : W W Norton, [2023] — 604.87 SHEW
  • The Hard Parts

    a Memoir of Courage and Triumph

    Masters, Oksana, 1989-
    A Paralympic athlete tells how she overcame Chernobyl disaster-caused physical challenges through sheer determination and a drive to succeed to win the world's best in elite rowing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, and road cycling…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2023. — B MASTERS, O.
  • A collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more. Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life…
    BookNew York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022] — 362.4092 WONG
  • About Us

    Essays From the Disability Series of the New York Times

    A collection of personal essays and reflections that have transformed the national conversation around disability.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2019] — 362.40922 ABOUT
  • Demystifying Disability

    What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be An Ally

    Ladau, Emily, 1991-
    A guide for how to be a thoughtful, informed ally to people with disabilities written by a disability rights activist.
    BookCalifornia : Ten Speed Press, [2021] — 305.908 LADAU
  • Deaf Utopia

    a Memoir-and a Love Letter to a Way of Life

    DiMarco, Nyle, 1989-
    A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and deaf culture anthem by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and cultural icon of the international deaf community.
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — B DIMARCO, N.
  • Loving Our Own Bones

    Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole

    Belser, Julia Watts, 1978-
    A spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer a powerful new account of disability in biblical narrative and contemporary culture.
    BookBoston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2023] — 296.087 BELSER
  • Disability Intimacy

    Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

    A collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.
    BookNew York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2024. — 306.7087 DISABILITY
  • Sipping Dom Perignon Through a Straw

    Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever

    Ndopu, Eddie,
    Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu's rousing memoir about being both profoundly disabled and profoundly successful without trading one for the other.
    BookNew York : Legacy Lit, 2023. — 362.4092 NDOPU
  • Norwegian novelist Jan Grue confronts the tendency to portray narratives of disability with a tragic or inspirational lens in this memoir about his life with spinal muscular atrophy.
    BookNew York : FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. — B GRUE, J.
  • Cooper Jones confronts society’s standards on beauty, disability, and motherhood while relating stories of her travels across the world.
    BookNew York, NY : Avid Reader Press, 2022. — B COOPER JONES, C.
  • The Country of the Blind

    a Memoir at the End of Sight

    Leland, Andrew,
    A memoir that explores the physical and conceptual experience of blindness and addresses how ableism fueled the author's reticence to accept his diagnosis of a rare genetic disorder. A 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2023. — 362.41092 LELAND