Perspectives on Disability bestsellers

ADHD is Awesome

A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD

By: Penn Holderness & Kim Holderness
Narrated by: Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness, Nathan Rosborough, Ann Marie Taepke, Tyrrell Harrell & Lola Holderness
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

“If you know someone, love someone, or are someone with ADHD, this book is for YOU. This text provides approachable, honest, and realistic advice to those in any of the aforementioned categories. Readers are taken into the mind of an ADHD-er husband and his wife, who have spent years formulating how to talk about what it's REALLY like to live... Read more

Unmasking Autism

Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price, PhD
Narrated by: Devon Price, PhD
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

“Whether or not you or someone else close to you has received an autism spectrum diagnosis, I GUARANTEE this book will leave you with a new, more expansive view of yourself and others. We all wear "masks" sometimes, but this insightful and fascinating work by an autistic, trans psychologist is an essential antidote to letting these masks truly... 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

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

“Unmasking For Life is a companion work to Unmasking Autism, a book dedicated to uplifting the existence of people who live while masking their neurodivergence. In his newest work, Price explores concrete practices for unmasking and building a more neurodivergent friendly life for yourself. Reading it, I was even inspired to take some steps... 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 about Black Disability Politics

We're Not Broken

Changing the Autism Conversation

By: Eric Garcia
Narrated by: Eric Garcia
Length: 7 hours 53 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 about We're Not Broken

The Future Is Disabled

Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

“A great follow up to Care Work, and prescient in many of its topics and discussions. It completely re-contextualized the Covid-19 pandemic for me, and helped me understand that experience from a different perspective. 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 the... Read more about How to Tell When We Will Die

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

Life Hacks for a Little Alien

By: Alice Franklin
Narrated by: Sally Phillips
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

“Such a cute and fun audiobook. I haven't been able to stop listening since I've started! Read more

Hunchback

A Novel

By: Saou Ichikawa
Narrated by: Yuriri Naka
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

“This book is short, but it packs a punch. The basic premise is that a wealthy disabled woman wants to exercise her autonomy in an unconventional way. Through this, the author, a disabled woman herself, tells a story that is defiant, surreal, and at times, uncomfortable. It explores an interesting intersection between financial status and... 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 about Caterpillar Summer

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By: Gabrielle Zevin
Narrated by: Jennifer Kim & Julian Cihi
Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

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This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love.

When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one morning he is catapulted straight back to childhood, and the hours they spent immersed in playing games.

Their spark is instantly reignited and... Read more about Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Wonder

Wonder

By: R. J. Palacio
Narrated by: Kaya McLean, Lila Sage Bromley, Dariana Alvarez, Santino Barnard, Ry Chase & Madeleine Curry
Length: 7 hours 9 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 about Wonder

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 about Disfigured

The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery

Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult

By: Sol Smith
Narrated by: Sol Smith
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Live Authentically and Function Effectively in All Areas of Your Life

In this first-of-its-kind book, Sol Smith combines current research, his personal experience as a late-diagnosed autistic adult, and lessons learned as an educator to show how you can transcend common mischaracterizations, overcome shame, and gain the skills to flourish. Sol... Read more about The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery

True Biz

A Novel

By: Sara Novic
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan & Kaleo Griffith
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

“This audiobook is incredible! It takes place in a school for the deaf and hard of hearing. Several characters speak in sign language, which you obviously can’t see in the audiobook, so they included the sounds of a person signing with the dialogue so you have an audio cue. It’s a great story about a teen finding her way in making choices for her... Read more

It's All in Your Head

A Novel

By: Sabina Nordqvist
Narrated by: Austin Rising & Mollie Stark
Length: 12 hours

A “poignant and swoony” romance about a woman with a rare neurological condition who agrees to fake-date the hot guy in her chronic pain support group—only to discover he’s an Olympic snowboarder whose career-ending injury is as infamous as his dating history (Gigi Griffis, author of The Empress).

Your fake relationship shouldn’t come with... Read more about It's All in Your Head

Unmasking Autism

The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity

Unmasking Autism Series: Book #1

By: Devon Price
Narrated by: Devon Price
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

'Reading this felt like being at home - I didn't realise how much I masked. What an incredible book that I know will be re-read many times over.' - Dr Camilla Pang, author of Explaining Humans

'Unmasking Autism is at once a most deeply personal and scholarly account of the damage caused by autistic (and all) people leading masked lives, and how... Read more about Unmasking Autism

Out of My Mind

The Out of My Mind Series

By: Sharon M. Draper
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting and now an original film on Disney+!

“A gutsy, candid, and compelling story. It speaks volumes.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
“Unflinching and realistic.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From award-winning author Sharon Draper comes a story that will forever change how we... Read more about Out of My Mind

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 about Against Technoableism

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto

Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World

By: Tiffany Yu
Narrated by: Tiffany Yu
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Founder of advocacy organization Diversability and creator of the viral Anti-Ableism Series on TikTok, Tiffany Yu takes readers on a revelatory examination of disability—how to unpack your biases and build a disability-inclusive and accessible world.

As the Asian American daughter of immigrants, living with PTSD and a permanent arm injury... Read more about The Anti-Ableist Manifesto

I Identify as Blind

A Brazen Celebration of Disability Culture, Identity, and Power

By: Lachi
Narrated by: Lachi
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

With style and straight talk, musician and changemaker Lachi flips disability and neurodivergence into an empowering identity, a cultural movement, and an innovation engine

What if the most taboo parts of our identity—the parts we’re taught to mask—are exactly the ones that hold our greatest power? Lachi is an award-winning singer and leader who... Read more about I Identify as Blind

The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy

By: Steph Jones
Narrated by: Collette Byrne
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

The ultimate autistic survival guide to therapy

"This is the book that would've saved me nine different therapists, decades of self-analysis, thousands of pounds, twelve different doctors and untold amounts of pain, frustration and trauma - in spending a lifetime looking for the right answers in the wrong places I've become an accidental... Read more about The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy

One Two Three

A Novel

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

“One Two Three is the story of a town destroyed by the pollution of the town’s river by a chemical plant. A plant that still has not admitted or taken responsibility for the deaths, cancers and birth defects that are higher in Bourne than anywhere else in the country. One would think this would be a very depressing read but Laurie Frankel has... Read more

Unmasking for Life

A Guide to Embracing your Autism in a Neurotypical World

Unmasking Autism Series: Book #2

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

'Devon Price is the most exciting, revolutionary voice in autism advocacy today.'-Fern Brady, comedian and author of Strong Female Character

'Deeply insightful and empowering, illuminating a path for those of us searching for authentic connections and relationships [...] This is the book I desperately needed.' -Emily Katy, author of Girl... Read more about Unmasking for Life

But Everyone Feels This Way

How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

By: Paige Layle
Narrated by: Paige Layle
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically. 

“For far too long, I was told I was just like everyone else. But knew it couldn’t be true. Living just seemed so much harder for me. This wasn’t okay. This wasn’t normal. This wasn’t functioning. And it... Read more about But Everyone Feels This Way

Welcome to AuDHD

How to Survive (and Thrive) as an Adult with Autism and ADHD

By: Megan Griffith
Narrated by: Megan Griffith
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Whether you just got diagnosed as AuDHD, or came to the realization on your own, you're probably wondering...what do I do now? That's how Megan Griffith felt after her own AuDHD diagnosis in her late 20s. So she wrote the AuDHD welcome guide that she (and so many other late-realized AuDHDers) desperately needed.

As an adult who's AuDHD, you need... Read more about Welcome to AuDHD

Bless the Blood

A Cancer Memoir

By: Walela Nehanda
Narrated by: Walela Nehanda
Length: 6 hours 18 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... Read more about Bless the Blood

In Sickness and in Health

Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis

By: Laura Mauldin
Narrated by: Laura Mauldin
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spouses and intimate partners.When twenty-seven-year-old Laura Mauldin moved to New York for graduate school, she fell headlong into love. But just... Read more about In Sickness and in Health

The Neurodivergence Skills Workbook for Autism and ADHD

Cultivate Self-Compassion, Live Authentically, and Be Your Own Advocate

By: Jennifer Kemp, Mpsych & Monique Mitchelson, Mpsych
Narrated by: April Doty
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

As an autistic person or neurodivergent individual with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you may sometimes feel as if you're living in a world that wasn't designed for you. You may have sensory sensitivities, social difficulties, struggles with executive functioning, sleep issues, depression, anxiety, burnout and meltdowns, and... Read more about The Neurodivergence Skills Workbook for Autism and ADHD

Stop the World I Want to Get Off

A guide to understanding and supporting the recovery of autistic burnout in children and young people

By: Jodie Clarke
Narrated by: Rebecca Courtney
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

With mental health crisis in autistic young people on the rise we need to accept that Living as an autistic person in a world that doesn't cater to your needs is exhausting at best and harmful at worst.

Autistic burnout is a common experience for autistic children and young people. This book, authored by a neurodivergent practitioner with... Read more about Stop the World I Want to Get Off

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 about Sitting Pretty

Easy Beauty

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

“Such beauty and tenderness in this memoir written by a philosophy professor and journalist born with a condition that severely affects her height and gait. An intimate portrait of a life of the mind from the perspective of a woman with a disabled body - part travel essay, part philosophy reader, all brilliance. For fans of Joan Didion, Michelle... Read more

The Tennis Partner

A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss

By: Abraham Verghese
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 13 hours 50 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 about The Tennis Partner

Miracle Creek

A Novel

By: Angie Kim
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 14 hours 5 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

The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli
Narrated by: Roger Rees
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Set in the fourteenth century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs. Read more about The Door in the Wall

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 about A Disability History of the United States

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 20 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 about The Upside-Down Magic Collection (Books 1-6)

When the Cranes Fly South

By: Lisa Ridzén
Narrated by: Ifan Huw Dafydd
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

“(Indies Introduce) This honest, beautiful journey to the end of a life is the most affective piece of literature I’ve read in a long time. I haven't gone a day without thinking of this book, these characters, and this author since I closed it. Read more

The Quiet Ear

An Investigation of Missing Sound: A Memoir

By: Raymond Antrobus
Narrated by: Raymond Antrobus
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

A groundbreaking exploration of deafness by a young award-winning poet—a memoir, a cultural history, and a call to action hailed as “insightful, bighearted [and] a transformative story for all readers” (The New York Times Book Review)

“Beautifully complicates and expands our understanding of what deafness is . . . a book that changed how I will... Read more about The Quiet Ear

A Little Less Broken

How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole

By: Marian Schembari
Narrated by: Marian Schembari
Length: 7 hours 52 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

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 about Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded

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 38 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 about Year of the Tiger

Life on the Bridge

Linking My World to Yours as an Autistic Therapist

By: Kaelynn Partlow
Narrated by: Kaelynn Partlow & Cian O'Clery
Length: TBA

The forthcoming hardcover and digital audio editions will feature new material, and a new introduction from Cian O'Clery, director of Netflix's hit series Love on the Spectrum!From Autistic Advocate, Love on the Spectrum cast member, and therapist Kaelynn Partlow, a warm, personal, and practical guide to understanding autism—from behaviors to... Read more about Life on the Bridge

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 about Self-Care for Autistic People

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 about Being Heumann

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... Read more about The Country of the Blind

Is This Autism?

A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else

By: Donna Henderson & Sarah Wayland
Narrated by: Sarah Wayland
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Though our understanding of autism has greatly expanded, many autistic individuals are still missed or misdiagnosed. This highly accessible book clarifies many ways that autism can present, particularly in people who camouflage to hide their autistic traits.



The authors take the listener step by step through the diagnostic criteria, incorporating... Read more about Is This Autism?