Perspectives on Disability bestsellers

Unmasking Autism

Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price, PhD
Narrated by: Devon Price, PhD
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity

“A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.”—Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP, author of... Read more

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Unabridged Selections

By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina & Alice Wong
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

“Containing dozens of personal stories, this is an absolute must-read for anyone looking to learn about the breadth, diversity, and history of disabled experience(s) from disabled folks themselves. Read more

How To Tell When We Will Die

On Pain, Disability, and Doom

By: Johanna Hedva
Narrated by: Johanna Hedva
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.   In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to... Read more

Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady
Narrated by: Fern Brady
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Witty, dry, and gimlet-eyed, this is a necessary corrective in a world where Autistic women are all either written off as quiet and docile, or erased entirely.” —Devon Price, Ph.D., author of Unmasking Autism

Scottish comedian Fern Brady was told she couldn't be autistic because she'd had loads of boyfriends and is... Read more

The Boys of Riverside

A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory

By: Thomas Fuller
Narrated by: Thomas Fuller
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

The incredible story of an all-deaf high school football team’s triumphant climb from underdog to undefeated, their inspirational brotherhood, a fascinating portrait of deafness in America, and the indefatigable head coach who spearheaded the team, by New York Times reporter and San Francisco Bureau Chief, Thomas Fuller.

"The Boys of Riverside is... Read more

Disfigured

On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Exploded Views

By: Amanda Leduc
Narrated by: Amanda Barker
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and... Read more

A Little Less Broken

How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole

By: Marian Schembari
Narrated by: Marian Schembari
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

“I really loved Marian's story. I related to so many aspects of her childhood and how misunderstood she felt. And you don't need to be diagnosed with Autism (or even suspect you have it) to find your own gems among A Little Less Broken. We all feel so broken compared to what society tells us we should be, want, or think. I can't count how many... Read more

Is This Autism?

A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else

By: Donna Henderson & Sarah Wayland
Narrated by: Sarah Wayland
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Though our understanding of autism has greatly expanded, many autistic individuals are still missed or misdiagnosed. This highly accessible book clarifies many ways that autism can present, particularly in people who camouflage to hide their autistic traits.



The authors take the listener step by step through the diagnostic criteria, incorporating... Read more

Miracle Creek

A Novel

By: Angie Kim
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

“Miracle Creek is a courtroom drama with impeccable pacing, an original plot, and stellar writing. It’s also a remarkably empathetic book, exploring the ripple effects of causality and the urgent need to do right by each other in big and small ways, recognizing that even the best of us will fail once in a while. It is a lovely reminder that even... Read more

No Time Like the Future

An Optimist Considers Mortality

By: Michael J. Fox
Narrated by: Michael J. Fox
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

“With no hint of self-pity, actor Michael J. Fox gives a clear-eyed take on the daily challenges of living with Parkinson's. His honesty and resilience in coping with the physical devastation he faces every waking moment is no less than remarkable. Read more

Out of My Dreams

The Out of My Mind Series

By: Sharon M. Draper
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

“Sharon Draper has done it again! Melodi is back for the conclusion of this middle grade trilogy. It is a powerful example of the importance of inclusion and acceptance. Read more

Easy Beauty

By: Chloé Cooper Jones
Narrated by: Chloé Cooper Jones
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

“Such beauty and tenderness in this memoir written by a philosophy professor and journalist born with a condition that severely affects her height and gait. An intimate portrait of a life of the mind from the perspective of a woman with a disabled body - part travel essay, part philosophy reader, all brilliance. For fans of Joan Didion, Michelle... Read more

Looking After Your Autistic Self

A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being

By: Niamh Garvey
Narrated by: Lara Hutchinson
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism'

Take charge of your needs including sensory self-care and emotional regulation for a calmer and happier life.

It is a myth that autistic children grow into 'less autistic' adults. In fact, many autistic adults feel more overwhelmed as they age as the stresses of social demands... Read more

The Tennis Partner

A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss

By: Abraham Verghese
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend... Read more

The Mourner’s Bestiary

By: Eiren Caffall
Narrated by: Eiren Caffall
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness.Author Eiren Caffall is the inheritor of a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease and the mother of a child who may inherit that legacy.A literary memoir on loss,... Read more

Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors

Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work

By: Robyn Gobbel
Narrated by: Robyn Gobbel
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

"All behavior makes sense"
'"It most certainly does not!", is probably your first reaction.

Parenting and neuroscience expert Robyn Gobbel is here to reveal how all behavior, no matter how baffling, can be explained and remedied. You just need to look past the behavior and understand what's going on inside.

Robyn decodes the latest brain science... Read more

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto

Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World

By: Tiffany Yu
Narrated by: Tiffany Yu
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Founder of advocacy organization Diversability and creator of the viral Anti-Ableism Series on TikTok, Tiffany Yu takes readers on a revelatory examination of disability—how to unpack your biases and build a disability-inclusive and accessible world.

As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD and a permanent arm injury... Read more

What Doesn't Kill You

A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt

By: Tessa Miller
Narrated by: Tessa Miller
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

A riveting and candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today.

Tessa Miller was an ambitious twentysomething writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. At... Read more

One Two Three

A Novel

By: Laurie Frankel
Narrated by: Emma Galvin, Jesse Vilinsky & Rebecca Soler
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

“One Two Three is the story of a town destroyed by the pollution of the town’s river by a chemical plant. A plant that still has not admitted or taken responsibility for the deaths, cancers and birth defects that are higher in Bourne than anywhere else in the country. One would think this would be a very depressing read but Laurie Frankel has... Read more

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

By: Natalia Sylvester
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body.Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability.... Read more

How Not to Fit In

An Unapologetic Guide to Navigating Autism and ADHD

By: Jess Joy & Charlotte Mia
Narrated by: Emily Essery
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

’The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.’ – Jess Joy and Charlotte Mia Written by two late-diagnosed neurodivergent women... Read more

Aspergirls

Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome

By: Rudy Simone
Narrated by: Lucie McNeil
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Award winning handbook for girls and women on the autism spectrum, perceptive and wise reflections and advice .

*Gold Medal Winner in the Sexuality / Relationships Category of the 2011 IPPY Awards*

* Honorary Mention in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Women's Issues Category *

The award-winning handbook for girls and women on the autism spectrum, perceptive... Read more

Freak the Mighty

By: Rodman Philbrick
Narrated by: Elden Henson
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Meet Maxwell Kane, narrator of Freak the Mighty. He’s a timid soul stuck in the body of a teenage giant with size 14 shoes. Haunted by a dark secret in his past, he hides out in his basement room, avoiding the world. But when a new kid moves in next door Max’s life changes forever. The two outcasts form the ‘normal’ world team up to become... Read more

The Out-of-Sync Child, Third Edition

Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Differences

The Out-of-Sync Child Series

By: Carol Stock Kranowitz
Narrated by: Ellen Archer
Length: 11 hours

2022 Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner

The groundbreaking book that explains Sensory Processing Difference (SPD)--and presents a drug-free approach that offers hope for parents--now revised and updated.

Does your child exhibit...

Over-responsivity--or under-responsivity--to touch or movement? A child with SPD may be a "sensory avoider," withdrawing... Read more

Deer Run Home

By: Ann Clare LeZotte
Narrated by: Sarah Tubert
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Effie is Deaf, and no one in her family speaks sign language, her language. This moving story of survival and found family, inspired by a true court case, is perfect for fans of Wonder and Out of My Mind."Will break your heart and then make it whole again." -Holly Goldberg Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s"Ann Clare... Read more

The Future Is Disabled

Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and... Read more

True Biz

A Novel

By: Sara Novic
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan & Kaleo Griffith
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

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, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War

“For those who loved the... Read more

Against Technoableism

Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew
Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

When Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disabled people don't want what the abled assume... Read more

Sitting Pretty

The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body

By: Rebekah Taussig
Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

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 early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted... Read more

Disability Intimacy

Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.

What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating... Read more

The Country of the Blind

A Memoir at the End of Sight

By: Andrew Leland
Narrated by: Andrew Leland
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

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 curiosity." - The Atlantic, The 10 Best Books of the Year

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of... Read more

The Upside-Down Magic Collection (Books 1-6)

Upside-Down Magic

By: Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle & Emily Jenkins
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
Length: 19 hours 19 minutes

The first six books in the New York Times bestselling series -- soon to be a Disney Channel movie!What do you do when you try to turn into a dragon or a kitten, but you accidentally turn into a dritten instead? Or you try to conjure fire but can only make flurries? Or maybe you get to fly, but you can't come back down? For Nory and her friends... Read more

Neuroqueer Heresies

Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

By: Nick Walker
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.



Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.



This book is essential for... Read more

Mean Baby

A Memoir of Growing Up

By: Selma Blair
Narrated by: Selma Blair
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as … a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Blair tells the... Read more

We're Not Broken

Changing the Autism Conversation

By: Eric Garcia
Narrated by: Eric Garcia
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where all the road signs are written in another language.”

With a reporter’s eye and an insider’s... Read more

Leg

The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By: Greg Marshall
Narrated by: Greg Marshall
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy



Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries,... Read more

Being Seen

One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism

By: Elsa Sjunneson
Narrated by: Elsa Sjunneson
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.

As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of... Read more

The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy

By: Steph Jones
Narrated by: Collette Byrne
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

The ultimate autistic survival guide to therapy

"This is the book that would've saved me nine different therapists, decades of self-analysis, thousands of pounds, twelve different doctors and untold amounts of pain, frustration and trauma - in spending a lifetime looking for the right answers in the wrong places I've become an accidental... Read more

Visual Thinking

The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

By: Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo & Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD

“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Steve Silberman

“An absolute eye-opener.” —Frans de Waal

A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds... Read more

Out of My Heart

The Out of My Mind Series

By: Sharon M. Draper
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

A New York Times bestseller!

Melody faces her fears to follow her passion in this stunning sequel to the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling middle grade novel Out of My Mind.

Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing’s out of her reach, not even... Read more

Being Heumann

An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

By: Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner
Narrated by: Ali Stroker
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Tony-award winning actress Ali Stroker reads the story of Judy Heumann—one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history

A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts... Read more

NeuroTribes

The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

By: Steve Silberman
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

This New York Times bestseller upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both... Read more

Fish in a Tree

By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives listeners an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in.
 
“Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is... Read more

Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition

Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age

By: Sarah Hendrickx & Jess Hendrickx
Narrated by: Lucie McNeil
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Comprehensive overview of autism in females with lived experience accounts and latest research.

The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of an autistic person is hugely significant. In this widely expanded second edition, Sarah Hendrickx combines the latest research with personal stories from girls and women... Read more

Year of the Tiger

An Activist's Life

By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project

In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting... Read more

Sincerely, Your Autistic Child

What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity

By: Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network
Narrated by: Stephanie Jean Mounce
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

A diverse collection of autistic voices that highlights how parents can avoid common mistakes and misconceptions, and make their child feel truly accepted, valued, and celebrated for who they are.

Most resources available for parents come from psychologists, educators, and doctors, offering parents a narrow and technical approach to autism.... Read more

Autism in Heels

The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

By: Jennifer Cook O'Toole
Narrated by: Jennifer O'Toole
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense. Now, she exposes the constant struggle between carefully crafted persona and authentic existence, editing the... Read more

Far From the Tree

Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

By: Andrew Solomon
Narrated by: Andrew Solomon
Length: 40 hours 36 minutes

* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times *

* WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Books for a Better Life Award * The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year *

This masterpiece by the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only... Read more

Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded

A Different Way of Seeing Autism

By: Barry M. Prizant
Narrated by: Barry M. Prizant
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Winner of the Autism Society of America’s Dr. Temple Grandin Award for the Outstanding Literary Work in Autism

A groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the world’s leading experts, who portrays autism as a unique way of being human—this is “required reading....Breathtakingly simple and profoundly positive” (Chicago Tribune).

Autism therapy... Read more

Jubilee

The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

By: KT Johnston
Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
Length: 19 minutes

Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio in 1944. Her dreams of riding horses and competing in the sport of dressage were shattered. After months in the hospital, doctors told her she'd never ride again. Lis tried anyway. But how do you stay on a horse without using your legs? How do you give the subtle cues needed in dressage with... Read more