Perspectives on Disability audiobooks

Unmasking Autism

By: Devon Price, PhD

Narrated by: Devon Price, PhD

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Against Technoableism

By: Ashley Shew

Narrated by: Maria Pendolino

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

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

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

By: Alice Wong

Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina & Alice Wong

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of... Read more

The Future Is Disabled

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

Narrated by: Fern Brady

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

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

True Biz

By: Sara Novic

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan & Kaleo Griffith

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Vision

By: David S. Tatel

Narrated by: John Lescault & David S. Tatel

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity.

David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many... Read more

Disability Intimacy

By: Alice Wong

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Leg

By: Greg Marshall

Narrated by: Greg Marshall

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Disfigured

By: Amanda Leduc

Narrated by: Amanda Barker

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Far From the Tree

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Andrew Solomon

Length: 40 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

* 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

Time and Time Again

By: Chatham Greenfield

Narrated by: SJ Valiquette

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club LitUp Pick

In this debut YA speculative romance perfect for fans of Rachael Lippincott, two queer, disabled, Jewish teens find themselves stuck in a time loop--and falling love.

Phoebe Mendel’s day is never ending--literally.

On August 6th, she woke up to find herself stuck in a time loop. And for nearly a month of... Read more

Out of My Mind

By: Sharon M. Draper

Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting!

“A gutsy, candid, and compelling story. It speaks volumes.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
“Unflinching and realistic.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From award-winning author Sharon Draper comes a story that will forever change how we all look at anyone with a disability,... Read more

A Disability History of the United States

By: Kim E. Nielsen

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present

Disability is not only the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first... Read more

One Two Three

By: Laurie Frankel

Narrated by: Emma Galvin, Jesse Vilinsky & Rebecca Soler

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"The smart choice of narrators Emma Galvin (One), Jesse Vilinsky (Two), and Rebecca Soler (Three) as the Mitchell triplets is entertaining in addition to their amazing synergy." -- Booklist (starred review)

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It... Read more

The Pretty One

By: Keah Brown

Narrated by: Keah Brown

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.

Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire... Read more

Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD

By: Eli R. Lebowitz

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Parenting an anxious child means facing constant challenges and questions: When should parents help children avoid anxiety-provoking situations, and when should they encourage them to face their fears? How can parents foster independence while still supporting their children? How can parents reduce the hold their child's anxiety has taken over... Read more

Smart but Scattered

By: Peg Dawson, Ed.D. & Richard Guare, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

There's nothing more frustrating than watching your bright, talented son or daughter struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following instructions at school. Your "smart but scattered" child might also have trouble coping with disappointment or managing anger. Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have great... Read more

Spectrum Women

By: Barb Cook & Michelle Garnett

Narrated by: Emily Joyce & Vivien Carter

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician's perspective, and provide extensive... Read more

Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

By: Alana Saab

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An "engrossing, affecting, and singular" (Publishers Weekly) debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world.

While god is sending her signs through Instagram and Spotify demanding she break up with her girlfriend, Norma meets with a new therapist for one reason: she really needs to write again. With only one... Read more

Different Kinds of Minds

By: Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo & Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Albert Einstein. Steve Jobs. Elon Musk. Katharine Johnson. These geniuses are all visual thinkers. Are you?

Do you like puzzles, coding, and taking things apart? Do you write stories, act in plays, slay at Wordle? The things you are good at are clues to how your brain works. Are you good at math? Working with your hands? Are you a neat freak or a... Read more

Give Me a Sign

By: Anna Sortino

Narrated by: Elizabeth Robbins

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Jenny Han meets CODA in this big-hearted YA debut about first love and Deaf pride at a summer camp.

Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when you don’t feel “deaf enough” to identify as Deaf or hearing enough to meet the world’s expectations. But this summer, Lilah is ready for a... Read more

How Not to Fit In

By: Jess Joy & Charlotte Mia

Narrated by: Emily Essery

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

’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

On the Spectrum

By: Daniel Bowman Jr.

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly everyone knows someone on the autism spectrum, whether it's a niece or nephew, a student in their classroom, a coworker, or a sibling, spouse, or child. One in fifty-four children have autism, according to the CDC, and autism is reported across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Yet most of what people think they know about autism... Read more