A disability reading list

This is an incomplete look at some fiction, memoir (and occasional nonfiction) books about life with a disability. Have you read something you'd like to see on this list? Send an email to paans@eastlink.ca

Anderson, Catherine: Annie's Song
Bayley, John: Elegy for Iris
Beck, Martha: EXPECTING ADAM: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
Bender, Karen: Like Normal People
Brown, Rosellen: Tender Mercies
Butler Hathaway, Katharine: The Little Locksmith: A Memoir
Callahan, John: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
Callahan, John: Will the Real John Callahan Please Stand Up?: A Quasi Memoir
Cusk, Rachel: The Country Life
Deaver, Jeff: A Maiden's Grave
Dunn, Katherine: Geek Love
Dyer, KC: Shades of red
Finger, Ann: Bone Truth
Fox, Laurie Anne: My sister from the Black Lagoon
Fries, Kenney: Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out
Fries, Kenney: Body, Remember: A Memoir
Ganz, Heidi: Sparrows on Wheels
Gilson, Jaime: Do bananas chew gum?
Grealy, Lucy: Autobiography of a Face
Green, Hannah: I never promised you a rose garden
Greenberg, Joannn: Of Such Small Differences
Grimley Mason, Mary Life: Prints: A Memoir Of Healing And Discovery
Groom, Winston: Forrest Gump
Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Hecht, Daniel: Skull Session
Heinlein, Robert: Waldo
Herrmann, Dorothy: Helen Keller: A Life
Hodgson Burnette, Frances: The Secret Garden
Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hulme, Keri: The Bone People
Itari, Frances: Deafening
Karp, Gary (Editor), Stanley D. Klein (Editor): From There to Here: Stories of Adjustment to Spinal Cord Injury
Keith, Lois: What Happened to You: Writing by Disabled Women
Keith, Lois: Take Up thy Bed And Walk
Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon
Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible
Konigsburg, E.L.: The View from Saturday
Koontz, Dean: One Door Away from Heaven
Kriegel, Leonard: Flying Solo: Reimagining Manhood, Courage, and Loss
Lethem, Jonathan: Motherless Brooklyn
Longmore, Paul K.: Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
Lott, Brett: Jewel
Mairs, Nancy: Waist High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
Mazza, Chris: Disability
McCullers, Carson: The Ballad of Sad Cafe and Other Stories
Mee, Charles L.: A Nearly Normal Life
Nichol, James W.: Midnight Cab
Nixon, Shelley: From where I sit : making my way with cerebral palsy
O'Brein, Ruth: Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability, and the Workplace
Packer, Ann: The Dive From Clausen's Pier : A Novel
Panzarino, Connie: The me in the mirror
Peck, M. Scott: A Bed By the Window
Philbrick, W.R.: Freak the Mighty
Picoult, Jodi: My Sister's Keeper : A Novel
Picoult, Jodi: Mercy
Plain, Belva: Daybreak
Pointon, Anne and Chris Davies: Framed: Interrogating Disability in the Media.
Pomerance, Bernard: The Elephant Man: A Play
Rainer Dart, Iris: When I Fall In Love
Romkema, Chris: Embracing the Sky, Poems beyond Disability
Roos, Stephen: The Gypsies Never Came
Russell, Marta: Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract
Safran Foer, Jonathan: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Sherer Jacobson, Denise: The Question Of David: A Disabled Mother's Journey Through Adoption, Family, and Life
Sturgeon, Theodore: The Clinic
Wahl, Otto F.: Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness.
Wilde Mayerson, Evelyn: Sanjo
Woods, Stuart: Dead Eyes