Disabled Authors

The Deaf Girl

By: Abigail Heringer

Narrated by: Abigail Heringer

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring story of hearing loss and hope from The Bachelor’s first deaf contestant

Abigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favorite on season 25 of The Bachelor. Stepping out of the limousine, she approached her bachelor with a playful declaration: she would be staring at his lips all night for two compelling reasons—her... Read more

Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal

By: Gretchen Schreiber

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Naudus brings emotion, life, and energy to the story...her expert range of voices helps the listener picture Ellie’s friends and fellow residents at the hospital house. Her emotion-driven performance matches the heartfelt tone of the overall story and reels the reader in, ensuring the reader can empathize with Ellie, who is struggling to find... Read more

How to Be Human

By: Jory Fleming

Narrated by: Jory Fleming & Lyric Winik

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A “beautiful and astonishing” (Walter Isaacson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker) narrative that examines the many ways to be fully human, told by the first young adult with autism to attend Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

As a child, Jory Fleming was wracked by uncontrollable tantrums, had no tolerance for... Read more

Being Seen

By: Elsa Sjunneson

Narrated by: Elsa Sjunneson

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

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

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

Hard Landings

By: Cammie McGovern

Narrated by: Cammie McGovern

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

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

I Live a Life Like Yours

By: Jan Grue

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Singing in the Dark

By: Ginny Owens

Narrated by: Ginny Owens

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Far too often, life’s challenges and questions cause people to fight feelings of doubt and despair, as they search endlessly for hope. In Singing in the Dark, Ginny Owens introduces the reader to powerful ways of drawing closer to God and how the elements of music, prayer, and lament offer rich, vibrant, and joyful communion with Him, especially... Read more

Phantompains

By: Therese Estacion

Narrated by: Therese Estacion

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Therese Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several fingers, and reproductive organs. Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with dreamlike surrealism.Taking inspiration from Filipino horror... 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

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

The Kids of Widney Junior High Take Over the World!

By: Mathew Klickstein

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Before they became the world-famous Kids of Widney High, they first had to survive junior high! This rock band, composed entirely of members with developmental disabilities, loves to put on a show, but boy can they can get into fights, trouble, and sticky situations. Join their friend and honorary assistant manager Robbie as he introduces the... 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

Rolling Warrior

By: Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner

Narrated by: Ali Stroker

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for readers of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong.

“If I didn’t fight, who would?”

Judy Heumann was only 5 years old when she was first denied her right to attend school. Paralyzed from polio and... 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

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

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

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 Butterfly Assassin

By: Finn Longman

Narrated by: Chloe Massey

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF AN ABA AWARD. Innocent by day, killer by night: a dark, twisting thriller about a teen assassin’s attempt to live a normal life. Don't miss the second book in the trilogy, The Hummingbird Killer, out now. 

'An electrifying debut!’ Chelsea Pitcher, author of This Lie Will Kill You

Trained and traumatised by a secret assassin programme... 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

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

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