Disability and Independent Living Book & Movies List

Nonfiction

• From Shack to White House: A Memoir of Four Lives by Theo Braddy (2025)
• An Independent Man: Ed Roberts and the Fight for Disability Rights by Scot Danforth (2025)
• Unseen: How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice by Molly Burke (2025)
• Interabled: True Stories About Love and Disability from Squirmy & Grubs and Other Interabled Couples by Shane Burcaw and Hannah Burcaw (2025)
• Disability Intimacy by Alice Wong (2024)
• Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, forging change and building a disability-inclusive world by Tiffany Yu (2024)
• Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew (2024)
• To Be a Problem by Dara Baldwin (2024)
• Sipping Dom Perignon through a Straw by Eddie Ndopu (2023)
• Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (2022)
• Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong (2022)
• The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2022)
• Disability Pride by Ben Mattlin (2022)
• Making Their Days Happen: Paid Personal Assistance Services Supporting People with Disability Living in Their Homes and Communities by Lisa Iezzoni (2022)
• Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (2021)
• Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau (2021)
• Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig (2021)
• Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid (2021)
• Disability Visibility by Alice Wong (2020)
• Being Heumann by Judy Heumann (2020)
• Haben: The Deafblind Women who Conquered Havard Law by Haben Girma (2020)
• Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space – non-fiction by Amanda Leduc (2020)
• The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang (2019)
• Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement by Dixon, Ejeris, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2019)
• Resistance and Hope edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility Project (2018)
• A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen (2018)
• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2018)
• Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability by Shane Burcaw (2017)
• Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights by Charles Claggett and Richard Weiss (2015)
• The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation by Doris Zames Fleischer (2011)
• Skin Tooth and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People (Disability Justice Primer) by Patty Berne, Sins Invalid (2005)
• Nothing about Us without Us by James Charlton (2000)
• Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare (1999)
• No Pity by J.P. Shapiro (1994)

Fiction

• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (2023)
• True Biz by Sara Novic (2022)
• A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (2019)
• Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (2019)

Childrens & Young Adults:

• A Day with No Words by Tiffany Hammond and illustratored by Kate Cosgrove (2023)
• Breathe and Count Back from Ten by Natalia Sylvester (2022)
• The Chance to Fly by Ali Stroker and Stacy Davidowitz (2021)
• All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimente and illustrated by Nabi Ali (2020)
• El Deafo by Cece Bell (2014)

Activity/Coloring Book

• Crip Wisdom Coloring Book by Miso Kwak and Emily Nott (available in Braille!)