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2022 Authors with Disability Leadership Booklist

October 19, 2022 Mikaila Culverson Leave a Comment

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We created this list to promote leadership narratives written by authors with disabilities. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement. The books are not ranked or listed in any particular order.

  1. Disarm Your Limits: The flight formula to lift you to success and propel you to the next horizon by Jessica Cox
  2. The White Album by Joan Didion
  3. Chef Interrupted by Trevis Gleason 
  4. Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy caught multiple sclerosis and didn’t tell nobody by David Lander
  5. Speedbumps: Flooring it through Hollywood by Teri Garr
  6. And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer’s Early Life by Nicola Griffith
  7. To Know As We Are Known: Education as Spiritual Journey by Parker Palmer
  8. The World I Live In by Helen Keller
  9. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot  by John Callahan
  10. Haben: The Deafblind Woman who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
  11. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare
  12. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
  13. House of Prayer No. 2 by Mark Richard
  14. Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People edited by Alice Wong
  15. Marbles: Mania, Depression Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney
  16. Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse by Shane Burcaw
  17. I Am Schizophrenic: Poetry from a Beautiful Brain by Kerenza Ryan
  18. Apocalyptic Best Practices: A Unique approach to fear and change by Elisebeth VanderWeil
  19. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
  20. Being Huemann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith E. Heumann
  21. The Pretty One: On life, pop culture, disability, and other reasons to fall in love with me by Keah Brown
  22. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Diabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
  23. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
  24. Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment by James I. Charlton
  25. I Am Not a Label by Cerrie Burnell
  26. Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstances by Mallory Weggemann
  27. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  28. Life in the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education by Katie Rose Guest Pryal
  29. Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution by Judith Heumann
  30. The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging by Hannalora Leavitt
  31. When the Chant Comes by Kay Ulanday Barrett
  32. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  33. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison
  34. Be Different by John Elder Robison
  35. Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening by John Elder Robison
  36. Moving Violations: Warzones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence  by John Hockenberry
  37. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
  38. Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
  39. Calling all Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor by Temple Grandin
  40. The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s by Temple Grandin
  41. Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding social mysteries through autism’s unique perspectives by Temple Grandin
  42. Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer
  43. Find Another Dream by Maysoon Zayid
  44. Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life by Harriet McBryde Johnson
  45. If at Birth You Don’t Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny by Zach Anner
  46. Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History by Corbett O’Toole
  47. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
  48. Staring: How We Look by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
  49. Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio by Anne Finger
  50. Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled by Nancy Mairs
  51. In the Province of God by Kenny Fries
  52. The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory by Kenny Fries
  53. Body, Remember: A Memoir by Kenny Fries
  54. Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life by Margaret Price 
  55. The Obsessive Joy of Autism by Julia Bascom 
  56. Blind: A Memoir by Belo Cipriani 
  57. Count Us In: Growing Up with Down Syndrome by Jason Kingley and Mitchell Levitz
  58. Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation by Adrienne Maree Brown
  59. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
  60. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare
  61. Feminist Queer Crip by Alison Kafer
  62. ASL Saved My Life…Until it Didn’t by Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky
  63. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
  64. Disabled Leadership by Dr. Tom A. Wiggins
  65. Deaf Utopia: A Memoir – and a Love Letter to a Way of Life coauthored by Nyle DiMarco
  66. Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally by Emily Ladau
  67. Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
  68. What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness – Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller
  69. A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome by Ariel Henley 
  70. Just Human: The Quest for Disability Wisdom, Respect, and Inclusion by Arielle Silverman, PhD
  71. Different, Not Less: A neurodivergent’s guide to embracing your true self and finding your happily ever after by Cholé Hayden
  72. How I See It: A Personal and Historical View of Disability by H Penny Mishkin
  73. Successful to Burnt Out: Experiences of Women on the Autism Spectrum by Karletta Abianac 
  74. Adult ADHD: How to Succeed as a Hunter in a Farmer’s World by Thom Hartmann
  75. More the Same than Different: What I Wish People Knew About Respecting and Including People with Disabilities by Lorraine Cannistra
  76. Not a Poster Child: Living Well with a Disability – A Memoir by Francine Falk-Allen
  77. My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church by Amy Kenny
  78. The ADHD Advantage: What You Thought was a Diagnosis May Be Your Greatest Strength by Dale Archer, MD
  79. Black, Blind, & In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overconing Adversity by David A. Paterson
  80. Unleash Different: Achieving Business Success Through Disability by Rich Donovan 
  81. Crazy, Who Me?: My Journey as a Leader Overcoming Depression by John Panigas

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