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