Contains all non-fiction books read since 2019. Not all of these books are reviewed on the site. Links go to the author/editors website where possible – otherwise to the publishers’ website.
Anthologies
- “Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy”
- Edited by Kelly Jensen
- Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020
- “Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire”
- Edited by Alice Wong
- Published by Vintage Books, 2024
- “Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century”
- Edited by Alice Wong
- Published by Vintage Books, 2020
- “(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health”
- Edited by Kelly Jensen
- Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018
- “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019”
- Edited by Ibram X. Kendi with Keisha N. Blain
- Published by One World, February 2021
- “In Between Spaces: An anthology of disabled writers”
- Edited by Rebecca Burke
- Published by Stillhouse Press, November 2022
- “This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers”
- Edited by Elias Jahshan
- Published by Saqi Books, January 2022
- “We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health”
- Edited by L. D. Green and Kelechi Ubozoh
- Published by North Atlantic Books, 2019
Essay Collections / Philosophy and Insight
- “Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement”
- Written by by Ashley Shew
- Published by W.W. Norton, September 2023
- “Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future”
- Written by Patty Krawec with Nick Estes
- Published by Broadleaf Books, 2022
- “Black Disability Politics”
- Written by Sami Schalk
- Published by Duke University Press, 2022
- “BodyMinds ReImagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction”
- Written by Sami Schalk
- Published by Duke University Press, 2018
- “Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice”
- Written by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Published by Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018
- “The Climate Book”
- Edited by Greta Thunberg
- Published by Penguin Press, February 2023
- “Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space”
- Written by Amanda Leduc
- Published by Coach House Books, 2020
- “The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred”
- Written by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
- Published by Bold Type Books, March 2021
- “The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs”
- Written by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Published by Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022
- “Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture”
- Written by Lee Airton, PhD
- Published by Adams Media, 2018
- “Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto”
- Written by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant
- Published by Verso, 2022
- “Laziness Does Not Exist”
- Written by Devon Price
- Published by Atria Books, 2021
- “Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion”
- Written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Published by Beacon Press, 2021
- “Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair”
- Written by: Mercury Stardust
- Published by Alpha, August 2023
- “Some Kids Left Behind: A Survivor’s Fight for Health Care in the Wake of 9/11”
- Written by Lila Nordstrom
- Published by Apollo Publishers, 2021
- “This Is One Way to Dance: Essays”
- Written by Sejal Shah
- Published by University of Georgia Press, 2020
- “Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity”
- Written by Devon Price
- Published by Harmony, 2022
- “Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair”
- Written by Danielle Sered
- Published by The New Press, 2019
- “Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want”
- Written by Ruha Benjamin
- Published by Princeton University Press, 2022
- “The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide”
- Written by Steven W. Thrasher
- Published by Celadon Books, 2022
- “We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation”
- Written by Eric Garcia
- Published by Harvest, 2021
Autobiographies / Memoirs
- “A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome”
- Written Ariel Henley
- Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2021
- “A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder”
- Written by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer
- Published by University of Manitoba Press, April 2016
- “Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist”
- Written by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
- Published by Beacon Press, 2022
- “Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism”
- Written by Elsa Sjunneson
- Published by S&S/Simon Element, 2021
- “The Collected Schizophrenias”
- Written by Esmé Weijun Wang
- Published by Graywolf Press
- “Diary of a Young Naturalist”
- Written by Dara McAnulty
- Published by Greystone Books, 2021
- “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story: The Oldest Living Survivor of the Tulsa Massacre in Her Own Words”
- Written by Ike Howard, Viola Ford Fletcher
- Published by Mocha Media Publishing, July 2023
- “Golem Girl: A Memoir”
- Written by Riva Lehrer
- Published by One World, 2021
- “Haben: The DeafBlind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law”
- Written by Haben Girma
- Published by Twelve; Illustrated edition, 2019
- “Making It So: A Memoir”
- Written by Patrick Stewart
- Published by Gallery Books, October 2023
- “The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me”
- Written by Keah Brown
- Published by Atria Books, 2019
- “Scars and Stars”
- Written by Jesse Thistle
- Published by McLelland & Stewart, October 2022
- “We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir”
- Written by Samra Habib
- Published by Viking, June 2019
- “What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma”
- Written by By Stephanie Foo
- Published by Ballantine Books, 2022
- “Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life”
- Written by Alice Wong
- Published by Penguin Random House, 2022
- “You Sound Like a White Girl:The Case for Rejecting Assimilation”
- Written by Julissa Arce
- Published by Flatiron Books, 2022