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Beyond Barriers: A Disability Pride Reading List

July is Disability Pride Month, a time to recognize the disability community, celebrate disability as a natural part of human diversity, and learn from stories that inspire understanding and connection. Celebrate with books that amplify disabled voices and experiences. Explore memoirs, fiction, essays, and advocacy works that highlight disability culture, identity, history, and the ongoing pursuit of accessibility and inclusion.

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  • Book, 2026London ; New York : Hogarth, [2026] — FIC BROW
  • I Identify as Blind

    a Brazen Celebration of Disability Culture, Identity, and Power

    Lachi (Singer),
    Book, 2026New York : Tiny Reparations Books, [2026] — 362.41 LACH
  • Book, 2025London ; New York, NY : Hogarth, 2025. — FIC ICHI
  • Spellbound

    My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith

    Hanley, Phil,
    Book, 2025New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2025. — BIO HANLEY PHIL Hanl
  • Book, 2024New York : Hillman Grad Books, a Zando imprint, 2024. — BIO HEDVA JOHA Hedv
  • This Is Body Grief

    Making Peace With the Loss That Comes With Living in a Body

    Mattingly, Jayne,
    Book, 2025New York : Penguin Life, [2025] — 306.4 MATT
  • The Anti-ableist Manifesto

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

    Yu, Tiffany,
    Book, 2024New York : Hachette Go, 2024. — 305.908 YU
  • Born Extraordinary

    Empowering Children With Differences and Disabilities

    Zucker, Meg,
    Book, 2023New York : TarcherPerigee, [2023] — 649.15 ZUCK
  • Disability Intimacy

    Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

    Wong, Alice, 1974-
    Book, 2024New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2024. — 306.7087 WONG
  • Disability Pride

    Dispatches From a post-ADA World

    Mattlin, Ben, 1962-
    Book, 2022Boston : Beacon Press, [2022] — 323.37 MATT
  • My Body Is Not a Prayer Request

    Disability Justice in the Church

    Kenny, Amy, 1987-
    Book, 2022Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2022] — 248.8 KENN
  • Demystifying Disability

    What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be An Ally

    Ladau, Emily, 1991-
    Book, 2021Emeryville, California : Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021. — 305.908 LADA
  • Book, 2022New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022] — BIO WONG ALICE Wong
  • Mean Baby

    a Memoir of Growing Up

    Blair, Selma, 1972-
    Book, 2022New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2022. — BIO BLAIR SELM Blai
  • Book, 2022New York : Random House, [2022] — FIC NOVI
  • Being Heumann

    An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

    Heumann, Judith E.,
    Book, Unrepentant memoir of a disability rights activist — BIO HEUMANN JUDI Heum
  • Empire of Normality

    Neurodiversity And Capitalism

    Chapman, Robert
    eAudiobook, 2025Tantor Media, Inc, 2025
  • Disability Visibility

    First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century

    Book, 2020New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, c2020. — 305.908 DISA
  • Sitting Pretty

    the View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

    Taussig, Rebekah,
    Book, 2020New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — 362.4 TAUS