Audiobooks by Disabled Authors

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

Decarcerating Disability

Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

By: Liat Ben-Moshe
Narrated by: Margaret Strom
Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

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

Hard Landings

Looking Into the Future for a Child With Autism

By: Cammie McGovern
Narrated by: Cammie McGovern
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

A game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age.

After sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22. Once Ethan turns twenty-two,... Read more

There Plant Eyes

A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness

By: M. Leona Godin
Narrated by: M. Leona Godin
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight.
 
There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture,... Read more

A Disability History of the United States

ReVisioning History

By: Kim E. Nielsen
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

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

What to Say Next

Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love—with Autism Spectrum Disorder

By: Sarah Nannery & Larry Nannery
Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Using her personal experience living as a professional woman with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sarah Nannery, together with her husband, Larry, offers this timely communication guide for anyone on the Autism spectrum looking to successfully navigate work, life, and love.

When Sarah Nannery got her first job at a small nonprofit, she thought she... Read more

Fourth Wing

Empyrean: Book #1

By: Rebecca Yarros
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler & Teddy Hamilton
Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

“Violet Sorrengail was everything but a warrior when her mother, who happens to be a ruthless commander of dragon warriors, forces her into altering her decided path by joining the Rider Quadrant of Navarre. As she is thrown into ruthless training with her mother’s sworn enemy Xaden Riorson, she must adapt the skills she learned preparing to be... Read more

Food, We Need to Talk

The Science-Based, Humor-Laced Last Word on Eating, Diet, and Making Peace with Your Body

By: Juna Gjata & Edward M. Phillips, M.D.
Narrated by: Edward M. Phillips, M.D. & Juna Gjata
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

This program is read by the authors.

This is an unusual—and unusually interesting—exploration of diet, weight and health that touches on memoir but lands on practicality. It’s a cut-to-the-chase audiobook that makes you realize that not everything you know about dieting and weight loss—no matter how much you've read or experienced before—is true,... Read more

Late Bloomer

A Novel

By: Mazey Eddings
Narrated by: Ellie Gossage
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

“This sapphic romance novel was impossible to put down, I was invested in the enemies-to-lovers story of Opal and Pepper, their bickering was entertaining and kept me wanting more! Read more

Dear Black Girls

How to Be True to You

By: A'ja Wilson
Narrated by: A'ja Wilson
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

“I adored this, I was sad that it isn’t available in print in the UK as I think it has so much to say about high performance in life. Read more