Disabled Authors

Songs of Suffering

By: Joni Eareckson Tada

Narrated by: Joni Eareckson Tada

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

As an author, speaker, and advocate for people with disabilities, Joni Eareckson Tada has inspired people around the world with her story of faith in the midst of suffering. In this beautiful collection of hymns and devotions she acts as a "song leader," guiding readers through their own painful seasons with heartfelt praises to God. Songs of... Read more

Stronger

By: Dinesh Palipana

Narrated by: Dinesh Palipana

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A puddle of water on a highway changed Dinesh Palipana's life forever. Halfway through medical school, Dinesh was involved in a catastrophic car accident that caused a cervical spinal cord injury. After his accident, his strength and determination saw him return to complete medical school - now with quadriplegia. Dinesh was the first... Read more

You Are The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

By: Samantha Renke

Narrated by: Samantha Renke

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

'A life with a disability is most certainly a life worth living and I wouldn't change who I am for all the Louboutin's in the world. I write this for anyone who is seen to be 'different'. We all have much more in common than we think, no matter who we are.'

Growing up with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Sam felt restricted by... Read more

Can You Feel the Noise?

By: Stewart Foster

Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A profound story about inner strength and perseverance in the face of a life-changing event, from the award-winning author of The Bubble Boy. Perfect for fans of R. J. Palacio's Wonder and Lisa Thompson's The Goldfish Boy.

‘A wonderful book about overcoming a life-changing event and the remarkable power of music.’ – Lisa Thompson, author of The... Read more

Invisible Storm

By: Jason Kander

Narrated by: Jason Kander & Diana Kander

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“A truly special book. This combination of honesty, thoughtfulness, urgency, and vulnerability is not common in leaders, and Jason demonstrates boundless occupancy of all of these traits.” – Wes Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes MooreFrom political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kander comes a... Read more

The Little Locksmith

By: Katharine Butler Hathaway

Narrated by: Julia Atwood

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1895, a specialist straps five-year-old Katharine Hathaway, then suffering from spinal tuberculosis, to a board with halters and pulleys in a failed attempt to prevent her from becoming a “hunchback” like the “little locksmith” who does odd jobs at her family’s home. Forced to endure her confinement for ten years, Katharine remains immobile... Read more

Look at It This Way

By: Sammy SweetSpirit

Narrated by: Sammy SweetSpirit

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful book that creates a conversation around the topic of blindnessLook at It This Way answers questions we all may have been reluctant to ask, it gives us a glimpse into what blind people experience living in a sighted world, and it breaks through barriers that may cause people to think that differences equate to superiority or... Read more

Just by Looking at Him

By: Ryan O'Connell

Narrated by: Ryan O'Connell

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and beautiful” (Gary Janetti, New York Times bestselling author) novel following a gay TV writer with cerebral palsy as he fights addiction and searches for acceptance in an overwhelmingly ableist world.

Elliott appears to be living the dream as a... Read more

Mean Baby

By: Selma Blair

Narrated by: Selma Blair

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Ali and the Sea Stars

By: Ali Stroker

Narrated by: Ali Stroker

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Tony Award-winning actress Ali Stroker captures the magic and community of theater in her debut book, about a spirited girl in a wheelchair who stages a show for her hometown. Based on the pivotal summer Ali performed in her first musical by the Jersey Shore! Ali loves to dance, sing, and act. But she had never thought of putting on her own show... Read more

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

By: Natalia Sylvester

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Quand Dieu pleure

By: Joni Eareckson Tada & Steven Estes

Narrated by: Tiffany Sagnol

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Il est facile de faire confiance à Dieu quand les choses vont comme nous le voulons et quand le monde a toujours un sens. Mais lorsque la souffrance frappe, nous sommes remplis de doutes et stupéfaits par toutes sortes d’événements qui échappent à notre contrôle. Au milieu de la souffrance, nous remettons souvent en question le fondement même de... Read more

Deaf Utopia

By: Nyle DiMarco & Robert Siebert

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and cultural icon of the international Deaf communityBefore becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf... Read more

Ellen Outside the Lines

By: A. J. Sass

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Rain Reign meets Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World in this heartfelt novel about a neurodivergent thirteen-year-old navigating changing friendships, a school trip, and expanding horizons.

Thirteen-year-old Ellen Katz feels most comfortable when her life is well planned out and people fit neatly into her predefined categories. She attends temple... Read more

Decarcerating Disability

By: Liat Ben-Moshe

Narrated by: Margaret Strom

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of... Read more

The Beauty of Dusk

By: Frank Bruni

Narrated by: Frank Bruni

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes “a book about vision loss that becomes testimony to human courage, a moving memoir that offers perspective, comfort, and hope” (Booklist, starred review).

One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first... Read more

Diary of a Young Naturalist

By: Dara McAnulty

Narrated by: Dara McAnulty

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it.

Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of a year in Dara's Northern Ireland home patch. Beginning in spring—when "the sparrows dig the moss from the guttering... Read more

Only When It's Us

By: Chloe Liese

Narrated by: CJ Bloom & Nelson Hobbs

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Revised and Expanded 2021 Edition



Prepare for an emotional rollercoaster brimming with laughter, tears, and slow-burn sexiness in this new adult romance that tackles the vulnerability of love with humor and heart.



Ryder: Ever since she sat next to me in class and gave me death eyes, Willa Sutter's been on my shit list. Why she hates me, I don't... Read more

The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

Narrated by: Amy J. Johnson

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This inspiring autobiography by Helen Keller is an account of her life from her family history up to her last years of college, supplemented by her personal letters from age seven to twenty-one. This edition includes letters and reports contributed by her teacher, Anne Sullivan, and the editor, John Albert Macy.Not only does her story... Read more

Focused

By: Alyson Gerber

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the critically acclaimed Braced comes a story of a girl caught between her love of chess and her ADHD.Clea can’t control her thoughts. She knows she has to do her homework … but she gets distracted. She knows she can’t just say whatever thought comes into her head … but sometimes she can’t help herself. She know she needs to... Read more

The Autistic Brain

By: Temple Grandin & Richard Panek

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate
When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in 88 children diagnosed on the spectrum. And our thinking about it has undergone a transformation in her lifetime: Autism studies... Read more

Centered

By: Anthony Ianni & Rob Keast

Narrated by: Anthony Ianni

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"They don't know me. They don't know what I'm capable of." Diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, a form of autism, as a toddler, Anthony Ianni wasn't expected to succeed in school or participate in sports, but he had other ideas. As a child, Ianni told anybody who would listen, including head coach Tom Izzo, that he would one day play... Read more

Demystifying Disability

By: Emily Ladau

Narrated by: Emily Ladau

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more inclusive place
 
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Booklist • “A candid, accessible cheat sheet for anyone who wants to thoughtfully join the conversation... Read more

Jabberwocky

By: Steven Gardner

Narrated by: Scott Wallace

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

”This is a holy book” —Rabbi Lawrence KushnerGraham Hale Gardner died before turning twenty-three and never learned to walk or speak due to severe cerebral palsy complicated by epilepsy. Yet he left a legacy of love and compassion that deeply moved scores of people from widely different backgrounds.How was that possible?Graham’s story, written... Read more