Audiobooks by Disabled Authors

Access Your Drive and Enjoy the Ride

A Guide to Achieving Your Dreams from a Person with a Disability

By: Lauren Spencer
Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Lauren "Lolo" Spencer provides a candid look into the life of being a person with a disability. This disability advocate embarks on the importance of visibility for the disabled community because representation matters!



Words from someone doing the work. Lolo Spencer gained popularity as a YouTube personality. On her platform, Sitting Pretty, she... Read more

Stressed to the Max

Peace for Women under Pressure

By: Joni Eareckson Tada
Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
Length: 36 minutes

Does it seem like your to-do list always gets longer instead of shorter? Do you try to slow down but find yourself scrambling just to keep up? Stress is an unavoidable part of life, but it often seems you have more than your fair share. You can t continue at this pace forever, but there doesn t seem to be a way out. With characteristic... Read more

Let Faith Grow

Running Through Adversity

By: Ben Hinton
Narrated by: Ben Hinton
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Let Faith Grow: Running Through Adversity is an inspiring story that delves into the remarkable life journey of Ben Hinton, a marathon runner, devoted Christian, and a man whose relentless spirit has overcome unimaginable challenges. Born with a rare brain inflammation disease, Ben's survival was nothing short of miraculous. Raised as an only... Read more

The Pretty One

On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

By: Keah Brown
Narrated by: Keah Brown
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

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

The Deaf Girl

A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds

By: Abigail Heringer
Narrated by: Abigail Heringer
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

“I adored this memoir! As someone who is familiar with the show the Bachelor, it was fascinating seeing behind the scenes through the eyes of a contestant - especially a contestant with hearing loss! Simple and easy read. It’s hard not to fall in love with the narrator/author! Read more

Chronic

A Memoir

By: Rebecca Dimyan
Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

In this powerful debut, Rebecca Dimyan details her experience with endometriosis, a chronic disease which effects one in ten women worldwide. This painful condition takes an average of seven years to be diagnosed and has no proven cure. Most women will undergo multiple surgeries, take countless painkillers and other drugs, and will still endure... 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

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

“This hilarious memoir tells the story of Greg Marshall's coming of age as a gay and disabled boy in the ’90s and of his being unaware of either label. Told by his parents that he had “tight tendons,” Marshall did not know that he had cerebral palsy until he was in his thirties. Marshall brings us into his wild and bizarre family, their fights... 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

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

White Supremacy Is All Around

Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World

By: Akilah Cadet
Narrated by: Akilah Cadet
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Founder and CEO of consulting firm Change Cadet Dr. Akilah Cadet shares a powerful, incisive look at where we are in the fight to dismantle white supremacy—and what we urgently need to do next​.

This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me... 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

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

Care Work

Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

“A primer on disability justice, memoir, personal activism history, and love letter to disabled BIPOC femmes all at once. 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

I Live a Life Like Yours

A Memoir

By: Jan Grue
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Jan Grue was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three. Shifting between specific periods of his life—his youth with his parents and sister in Norway; his years of study in Berkeley, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam; and his current life as a professor, husband, and father—he intersperses these histories with elegant, astonishingly... Read more

How to Be Human

An Autistic Man's Guide to Life

An Inspiring Memoir

By: Jory Fleming
Narrated by: Jory Fleming & Lyric Winik
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

“While adamant that his experience is one of many, Jory Fleming's How to Be Human is so much more than a memoir about autism. This book is a celebratory reminder that people are different in so many ways and expecting otherwise is harmful to all of us. I walked away from this book hopeful about what the world could be if we just slow down 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

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 Brain

Thinking Across the Spectrum

By: Temple Grandin & Richard Panek
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

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