Perspectives on Disability bestsellers

Unmasking for Life

The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically

By: Devon Price, PhD
Narrated by: Devon Price, PhD
Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Live your best, unashamedly unmasked Autistic life with this invaluable resource featuring tools for navigating friendships, family, work, and love, from the author of Unmasking Autism.

“Unmasking for Life should be read by not only autistic people but their loved ones, to ensure they facilitate a truly fulfilling life.”—Eric Garcia, author of... Read more

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

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

Strong Female Character

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

“Fern Brady is a hilarious Scottish comedian who is autistic. In this memoir she tells us about her life, upbringing, and career. She discusses what it’s like for her to be an autistic woman, and to not be believed by many about her autism diagnosis. I first came to know her through the British comedy game show “Taskmaster” but you definitely... 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

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

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

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

Self-Care for Autistic People

100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask!

By: Megan Anna Neff
Narrated by: Anna Caputo
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Ditch the stigma, celebrate your identity, and put yourself first with these 100+ exercises that reinforce the idea that neurodiversity is a strength and teaches you how to relax, destress, find your community, practice self-love, and more.

When you’re autistic, it can be tough to prioritize wellness.

Self-Care for Autistic People can help you... Read more

Spellbound

My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith

By: Phil Hanley
Narrated by: Phil Hanley
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

This program is read by the author, comedian and severe dyslexic Phil Hanley, who reveals his unlikely path to success in a story that is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.

When Phil Hanley was in first grade, he realized something that would forever set him apart from his peers: he couldn’t read. His teachers were ill-equipped to assist... 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

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

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

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

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

Unfit Parent

A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World

By: Jessica Slice
Narrated by: Finlay Stevenson
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

“A glorious, revelatory book.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of An Immense World

A paradigm shifting look at the landscape of disabled parenting—the joys, stigma, and discrimination—and how disability culture holds the key to transforming the way we all raise our kids

“A beautiful, transformative book about being a parent... 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

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

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

One Two Three

A Novel

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

“Laurie Frankel: If she sounds familiar it’s because she’s the author of the bestselling book This Is How It Always Is. Book groups and other lovers of great novels love her. If you’ve read that book, you already know why. If not, here’s your chance to find out. One Two Three tells the story of a small family, in a small town, struck by disaster... 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

I Am the Cage

By: Allison Sweet Grant
Narrated by: Allison Sweet Grant
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“I Am the Cage gives resounding voice to the voiceless.” –The Associated Press

“Powerful.″ –Booklist, starred review

“Visceral, wrenching, and beautiful.” –John Green, #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars

“The sense of powerlessness—and redemption—will stay with you.” –Jojo Moyes, #1 bestselling author of... 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

Bless the Blood

A Cancer Memoir

By: Walela Nehanda
Narrated by: Walela Nehanda
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout.

When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into... Read more

Your Child is Not Broken

Parent Your Neurodivergent Child Without Losing Your Marbles

By: Heidi Mavir
Narrated by: Heidi Mavir
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

This audiobook is passionately and evocatively read by the author, Heidi Mavir.

An updated edition of the Sunday Times bestseller.

Your Child Is Not Broken is THE book for parents who need permission to do things differently.

An unapologetic, deeply moving manual for parents of neurodivergent children from Heidi Mavir, a late-identified,... Read more

Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults)

First-Person Stories for Today

By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Sarah Ann Masse, Anthony Michael Lopez & Alice Wong
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities,... Read more

May Tomorrow Be Awake

On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future

By: Chris Martin
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

An author and educator’s pioneering approach to helping autistic students find their voices through poetry—a powerful and uplifting story that shows us how to better communicate with people on the spectrum and explores how we use language to express our seemingly limitless interior lives.
Adults often find it difficult to communicate with... Read more

brother. do. you. love. me.

By: Manni Coe
Narrated by: Manni Coe & Reuben Coe
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

The story of two brothers, one with Down syndrome, and their extraordinary journey of resilience and repair.

"Profoundly moving and hugely uplifting."—Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Reuben, aged 38, was living in a home for adults with learning disabilities. He hadn’t established an independent life in the... Read more

The Way I See It

A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's

By: Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

In this innovative book, Dr. Temple Grandin gets down to the REAL issues of autism, the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day. Temple offers helpful do’s and don’ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her “insider” perspective and a great deal of research. These are just some of the specific... Read more

Stella

By: McCall Hoyle
Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

“Stella is a touching story told from the perspective of Stella, a beagle struggling with PTSD. Through her eyes, ears, and nose, readers experience her journey of courage, healing, and friendship. The novel explores themes of compassion and resilience, making it an endearing read for animal lovers. Stella’s story of overcoming fear through love... Read more

Easy Beauty

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

“The subtitle ‘memoir’ doesn't do justice to this spectacular, sui generis meditation on art, disability, parenting, and travel. It's about more than memory — it's about living in the now and creating the future we want for our children. 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

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

Caterpillar Summer

By: Gillian McDunn
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Cat and her brother Chicken have always had a very special bond. When Chicken has a ""meltdown,"" Cat’s the one who scratches his back and reads his favorite story. She always knows what he needs. Since their mom has had to work double-hard to keep their family afloat after their father passed away, Cat is the glue holding her family... 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

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

Black Disability Politics

By: Sami Schalk
Narrated by: Imani Barbarin
Length: 8 hours

In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the... Read more

Wonder

Wonder

By: R. J. Palacio
Narrated by: Kaya McLean, Lila Sage Bromley, Dariana Alvarez, Santino Barnard, Ry Chase & Madeleine Curry
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME • Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face—who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Read the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement, a major motion picture, and the critically... 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

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

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 Boys of Riverside

A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory

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

NAMED A BEST BOOK BY BOOK RIOT, AND MORE! • 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 Page One Correspondent,... 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

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

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

The Sign for Home

A Novel

By: Blair Fell
Narrated by: Blair Fell
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

“Unforgettable and completely unique! Fell illuminates DeafBlind life in Arlo Dilly, who will steal your heart as he journeys to experience life and independence, and to break free of those who have been holding him back. A must read! 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

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

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

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