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1. A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain — Christina Crosby

2. A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome — Ariel Henley

3. Adult ADHD: How to Succeed as a Hunter in a Farmer’s World — Thom Hartmann

4. An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness — Kay Redfield Jamison

5. And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer’s Early Life — Nicola Griffith

6. Apocalyptic Best Practices: A unique approach to fear and change — Elisebeth VanderWeil

7. ASL Saved My Life…Until it didn’t — Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky

8. Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work — Jodi Ann Burey

9. Be Different — John Elder Robison

10. Being Heumann: an unrepentent memoir of a disability rights activist — Judith E. Heumann

11. Black, Blind, In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity — David A Paterson

12. Blind: A Memoir — Belo Cipriani

13. Body, Remember: A memoir — Kenny Fries

14. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness — Susannah Cahalan

15. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure — Eli Clare

16. Calling all Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor — Temple Grandin

17. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

18. Chef Interrupted — Trevis Gleason

19. Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity — Simi Linton

20. Count Us In: Growing Up with Down Syndrome — Jason Kingsley (Author), Mitchell Levitz (Author)

21. Crazy, Who Me?: My Journey as a Leader Overcoming Depression — John Panigas

22. Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity — Karen Nakamura

23. Deaf Utopia: A Memoir―and a Love Letter to a Way of Life — Coauthored by Nyle DiMarco

24. Defiant — Michael Scott Monje Jr.

25. Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally — Emily Ladau

26. Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada — Liat Ben-moshe (editor), Allison C. Carey (Editor), Chris Chapman (Editor), Angela Y. Davis (Foreword)

27. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century — Alice Wong

28. Disabled Leadership — Dr. Tom A. Wiggins

29. Disarm Your Limits: The flight formula to lift you to success and propel you to the next horizon — Jessica Cox

30. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disabiity and Making Space — Amanda Leduc

31. Dissonant Disabilities: Women With Chronic Illness Explore Their Lives — Michelle Owen, Diane Driedger (Editor)

32. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot — John Callahan

33. Elegy for a Disease: A Personal and Cultural History of Polio — Anne Finger

34. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation — Eli Clare

35. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature — Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

36. Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History — Corbett O’Toole

37. Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy caught multiple sclerrosis and didn’t tell nobody — David Lander

38. Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor’s Journey to Broadway’s Biggest Stage — Mickey Rowe

39. Feminist Queer Crip — Alison Kafer

40. Find Another Dream — Maysoon Zayid

41. Gaby Brimmer: An Autobiography in Three Voices — Gaby Brimmer (Author), Elena Poniatowska

42. Goalkeeper: Memoir of Poet Peter Street — Peter Street, Lorraine Worsley-Carter (Foreword)

43. Golem Girl — Riva Lehrer

44. Haben: The deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law — Haben Girma

45. Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation — Adrienne Maree Brown

46. House of Prayer No. 2 — Mark Richard

47. How I Became a Human Being: A Disabled Man’s Quest for Independence — Mark O’Brien, Gillian Kendall (Contributor)

48. How I See It: A Personal and Historical View of Disability — H Penny Mishkin

49. How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memior — Shayla Lawson

50. I Am Not a Label — Cerrie Burnell

51. I Am Schizophrenic: Poetry from a beautiful brain — Kerenza Ryan

52. I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir — Jan Grue

53. I’ll Scream Later — Marlee Matlin

54. If at Birth You Don’t Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny — Zach Anner

55. In the Province of Gods — Kenny Fries

56. Just Human: The Quest for Disability Wisdom, Respect, and Inclusion — Arielle Silverman, PhD

57. Laughing at My Nightmare — Shane Burcaw

58. Life in the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education — Katie Rose Guest Pryal

59. Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstances — Mallory Weggemann

60. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s — John Elder Robison

61. Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking — Julia Bascom

62. Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life — Margaret Price

63. Madness: A Bipolar Life — Marya Hornbacher

64. Marbles: Mainia, Depession Michelangelo, and Me — Ellen Forney

65. Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up — Selma Blair

66. Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir — Terry Galloway

67. More the Same than Different: What I Wish People Knew About Respecting and Including People with Disabilities — Lorraine Cannistra

68. Moving Violations: Warzones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence — John Hockenberry

69. My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church — Amy Kenny

70. Not a Poster Child: Living Well with a Disability – A Memoir — Francine Falk-Allen

71. Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowerment — James I. Charlton

72. On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity — Daniel Bowman Jr.

73. Planet of the Blind — Stephen Kuusisto

74. Poster Child: A Memoir — Emily Rapp Black

75. Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People — edited by Alice Wong

76. Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Sotry of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution — Judith Heumann

77. Rough Waters: From Surviving to Thriving with a Progressive Muscular Dystrophy — Heather C. Markham

78. Sick: A Memoir — Porochista Khakpour

79. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Oridinary Resilient Disabled Body — Rebekah Taussig

80. Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism — Dawn Prince-Hughes

81. Speedbumps: Florring it through Hollywood — Teri Garr

82. Staring: How We Look — Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

83. Still Me — Christopher Reeve

84. Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse — Shane Burcaw

85. Successfull to Burnt Out: Experiences of Women on the Autism Spectrum — Karletta Abianac

86. Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening — John Elder Robison

87. The ADHD Advantage: What You Thought Was a Diagnosis May Be Your Greatest Strength — Dale Archer, MD

88. The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled — Robert Francis Murphy

89. The Difference That Disability Makes — Rod Michalko

90. The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging — Hannalora Leavitt

91. The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt — Franklin Roosevelt

92. The Fully Recovered Mindset — Maddie Neibanck

93. The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back — Clark Elliott

94. The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory — Kenny Fries

95. The Obsessive Joy of Autism — Julia Bascom

96. The pretty one: on life, pop cultue, disability, and other reasons to fall in love with me — Keah Brown

97. The Story of My Life — Helen Keller

98. The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s — Temple Grandin

99. The White Album — Joan Didion

100. The World I Live In — Helen Keller

101. Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism — Temple Grandin

102. To Know As We Are Known: Education as spiritual journey — Parker Palmer

103. Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life — Harriet McBryde Johnson

104. Typed Words, Loud Voices — Various (Author), Amy Sequenzia (Editor), Elizabeth Grace (Editor)

105. Unleash Different: Achieving Business Success Through Disability — Rich Donovan

106. Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding social mysteries theough autism’s unique perspectives — Temple Grandin

107. Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled — Nancy Mairs

108. Walking Papers: The Accident that Changed My Life, and the Business that Got Me Back on My Feet — Francesco Clark

109. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life — Smantha Irby

110. What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness – Lessons from a Body in Revolt — Tessa Miller

111. When the Chant Comes — Kay Ulanday Barrett

112. Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability — Paul K. Longmore

113. Wishful Drinking — Carrie Fisher

114. Year of the Tiger: An Activists Life — Alice Wong

115. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me — Sherman Alexie

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In honor of Latin American History Month, we updated our list of leadership books with 132 leadership books written by Hispanic/ Latino/ Latinx authors. This list is meant to be a resource, not an official endorsement. The books are not ranked or listed in any particular order.

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1. Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from a Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon by Alfredo Quinones-Hinjosa

2. [Un]framing the “Bad Woman”: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and othe rebels with a cause by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

3. The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed As You Are by Alicia Menendez

4. You Don’t Hae to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism by Alida Nugent

5. Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice by Alma Zaragoza-Petty

6. The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of Us All by Andrés Tapia (coauthor)

7. The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self Care by Anna Borges

8. In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil LIberties in the Age of Terror by Anthony D. Romero

9. Frida by Barbara Mujica

10. Growing American Roots by Bob Menendez

11. Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership by Camilla A. Montoya, Julieta V. García. et al.

12. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Strategies for Facilitating Conversations on Race by Caprice Hollins and Ilsa Govan

13. Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement by Carlos Munoz Jr.

14. The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light by Carlos Santana

15. In The Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

16. Latina Empowerment Through Leadership: Mindful Stories from Inspiring Women by Catherine Munos Garces, Monica Rivera, et al

17. Leaving Little Havana: A memoir of Miami’s Cuban ghetto by Cecilia M. Fernandez

18. More than Ready: Be Strong and Be You… and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Muñoz

19. An Organizer’s Tale by Cesar Chavez

20. Leadership Lessons of the White House Fellows: Learn How to Inspire Others, Acheive Greatness, and Find Success in Any Organization by Charles P. Garcia

21. Latinization and the Latino Leader: How to Value, Develop, and Advance Latino Professionals by Cristina Benitez & Marlene Gonzalez

22. Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change by Cristina Jiménez

23. The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamcis by Cyndi Suarez

24. Burnt out to Lit Up by Daisy Auger-Dominguez

25. Inclusion Revolution: The Essential Guide to Dismantling Racial Inequity in the Workplace by Daisy Auger-Dominguez

26. A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernández

27. Undocumented: A Dominican boy’s odyssey from a homeless shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-el Padilla Peralta

28. El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition by David Hayes-Bautista

29. La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millenials by David Hayes-Bautista

30. Ready, Set, Manifest: A Handbook for the in-between and leaps in life by Debbie Lacey

31. Dream Big by Deborah Rosado Shaw

32. Latina Leadership Lessons: Fifty Latinas Speak by Delia Garcia (editor)

33. Thriving in the Fight: A Survival Manual for Latinas on the Front Lines of Change by Denise Padin Collazo

34. In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

35. The Story of Latinos and Education in American History by Dr. Abdín Noboa-Ríos

36. The Leadership Shift: The strategic Positioning of Latino Business Leaders by Dr. Nilda Perez

37. Latinos in American Society: Families and Communities in Transition by Dr. Ruth Enid Zambrana

38. Latinx: The New Force in American Politics by Ed Morales

39. American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise by Eduardo Porter

40. Dream First: How to Quit Overthinking and Make it Happen by Ellen Marie Bennett

41. Field Mice: Memoirs of a Migrant Child by Emma Gonzalez

42. Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago

43. When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

44. In My Own Words: A Memoir by Eva Peron

45. Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carment G. González

46. Gaby Brimmer: An Autobiography in Three Voices by Gaby Brimmer (Author), Elena Poniatowska

47. The Virtuous Circle: Restore Your Confidence, Bounce Back, and Emerge Stronger by Gaby Natale

48. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa

49. Breaking Ground and Barriers: Hispanic Women Developing Effective Leadership by Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, Ph.D.

50. Take Charge of your Brand: Quck and simple techniques to help you own and manage your personal brand for professional and personal success by Guisselle Nuñez

51. The Engine of America: The Secrets to Small Business Success From Entrepreneurs Who Have Made It! by Hector V. Barreto

52. Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Hermina Ibarra

53. The Secret Principles of Genius: The Key to Unlocking Your Hidden Genius Potential by I.C. Robledo

54. My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race by Ilia Calederon

55. My Invented Country: a Nostalgic Journey Through Chile by Isabel Allende

56. The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

57. Isabel’s Hand-Me-Down Dreams by Isabel Lopez

58. Latinas in Aviation by Jacqueline S. Ruiz

59. Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use it by Jamie Margolin

60. The Buena Salud Guide to Understanding Depression and Enjoying Life by Jane Delgado

61. The Latina Guide to Health: Consejos and Caring Answers by Jane Delgado

62. Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora

63. Crux: A cross-border memoir by Jean Guerrero

64. ¡Rise up, Mi Gente! A Roadmap for Latinos to Acheive Success in Corporate America by Jesse A. Mejia

65. And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir by Joan Baez

66. Powerhouse Principles: The Ultimate Bluepring for REal Estate Success in an Ever-Chaning Market by Jorge Perez

67. Take a Stand: Lessons from Rebels by Jorge Ramos

68. Dear America: Notes of an undocumented citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

69. From Farmworker to Astronaut by Jose Hernandez

70. Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a multicultural age by Juana Bordas

71. The Power of Latino Leadership: Culture, inclusion, and contribution by Juana Bordas

72. An Unlikely Journy: Waking up from My American Dream by Julián Castro

73. My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive by Julissa Arce

74. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Conejo Villavicencio

75. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

76. Justice & Space Matter in a Strong, Unified Latino Community by Kathy Bussert-Web, Maria Eugenia Diaz, Krystal A Yanez

77. Latino and Latina Leaders of the 21st Century: Ordinary Beginnings, Extraordinary Outcomes by Kay (Kayla) S. Garcia

78. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez

79. I Got This: To Gold and Beyond by Lauren Hernandez

80. The Far Away Brothers: Two young migrants and the making of an American life by Lauren Markham

81. Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question by Lázaro Lima

82. Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone by Leticia Nieto

83. Wealth Warrior: 8 Steps for Communities of Color to Conquer the Stock Market by Linda Garcia

84. Dream in Color: How the Sánchez Sisters are Making History in Congress by Linda Sánchez

85. Gmorning, Gnight!: Little pep talks for me & you by Lin-Mauel Miranda

86. Journey to the Future: A Roadmap for Success for Youth by Ltc. Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch

87. The Devil’s Highway, A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea

88. Still Dreaming: My Journey from the Barrio to Capitol Hill by Luis Gutiérrez

89. Always Running: La Vida Loca – gang days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez

90. Healing Journey: Surviving Domestic Violence by Lupe Valdez

91. AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes by Lynda Lopez

92. Children of the Land: A Memoir by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

93. An American Son: A Memoir by Marco Rubio

94. Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America by Margarita Longoria

95. Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by María Hinojosa

96. Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real by Mariana Atencio

97. The Latino Advantage in the Workplace by Mariela Dabbah, Arturo Poiré

98. Taking On the System: Rules for Change in a Digital Era by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga

99. From the Texas Cotton Fields to the United States Tax Court, the Life Journey of Juan F. Vasquez by Mary Theresa (Terry) Vasquez, Anthony Head

100. Latino Leaders Speak: Personal Stories of Struggle and Triumph by Mickey Ibarra (editor), Maria Pérez-Brown (Editor)

101. Finding Manana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus by Mirta Ojito

102. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Muñoz Martinez

103. Mean by Myriam Gurba

104. Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneuers by Nathalie Molina Niño

105. Hermanas: Deepening our identity and growing our influence by Natialia Kohn Rivera

106. Self Made: Becoming Empowered, Self Reliant and Rich in Every Way by Nely Galán

107. Spirit Run: A 6000 Mile Marathon Through America’s Stolen Land by Noe Alvarez

108. Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos

109. Tias and Primas, On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez

110. Latinas Rising Up in HR: Inspirational Stories of Human Resources Professionals Leading, Thriving, and Breaking Barriers by Priscilla Guasso

111. Bird of Paradise: How I became a Latina by Raquel Cepeda

112. The Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco

113. Me by Ricky Martin

114. Rita Moreno: A Memoir by Rita Moreno

115. Brown Church: Five centuries of Latina/o Social justice, theology, and identity by Robert Chao Romero

116. Autentico: The definitive guide to Latino career success by Robert Rodriguez

117. Latino Talent: Effective Strategies to Recruit, Retain, and Develop Hispanic Professionals by Robert Rodriguez

118. Get Rooted: Reclaim Your Soul, Serenity, and Sisterhood Throughthe Healing Medicine of the Grandmothers by Robyn Moreno

119. Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing up Mexican American by Rose Castillo Guilbault

120. Homeless by Choice by Roy Juarez Jr.

121. Presevere with Power: What Heaven Starts, Hell Cannot Stop by Samuel Rodriguez

122. A House of My Own: Stories From My Life by Sandra Cisneros

123. Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora by Saraciea J. Fennell (Editor)

124. This Little World: A How-To Guide for Social Innovators by Shelly Kurtz

125. IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN: A MEMOIR OF COURAGE by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

126. My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

127. Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines by Stephanie Elizondo Griest

128. Hispanic Women Seeking Higher Leadership Roles in Business by Syliva C. Motta, PhD

129. Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist―A Latina Engineer’s Odyssey from the Brownies to NASA by Sylvia Acevedo

130. Uncolonized Latinas: Transforming Our Mindsets and Rising Together by Valerie Aloe

131. ¡Ándale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family by Yasmin Ramirez

132. Through the Dark by Yolanda Nava

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