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*Fictional Books

Books

We recommend a warm drink, blanket, and some background music to go with your book of choice. Really sets the atmosphere :)

On Disability

  • If At Birth You Don’t Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny by Zach Anner

  • Look Me In The Eye: My Life with Aspergers by John Elder Robison

  • Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma

  • Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw

  • Criptionary: Disability Humor and Satire by Maria Palacios

  • Pride Against Prejudice: Transforming Attitudes to Disability by Jenny Morris

  • It’s Just Nerves:  Notes on a Disability by Kelly Davio

  • Welcome to Biscuit Land: A Year in the Life of a Touretteshero by Jessica Them

  • Ugly by Robert Huge

  • Thicker Than Water: Essays by Adult Siblings of People with Disabilities

  • Braided Cord by Liz Kulp

  • The Pretty One by Keah Brown

  • *The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison

  • *Beauty is a Verb edited by Bartlett, Black, and Northen

  • *The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

  • *Marcelo In The Real World by Francisco X. Stork

  • *Get A Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

  • *Song For a Whale by Lynne Kelly

  • *Love From A to Z by SK Ali

  • *Pages I Never Wrote by Marco Donati

  • *A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard

  • *Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom

  • *A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

  • *Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

  • *Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling

On Mental Illness

  • The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks

  • First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety by Sarah Wilson

  • I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott

  • Nobody Cares by Anne T. Donahue

  • Your Voice In My Head by Emma Forrest

  • Back, After the Break by Osher Gunsberg

  • An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame

  • Defying the Verdict: My Bipolar Life by Charita Cole Brown

  • Let Me Not Be Mad  by A.K. Benjamin

  • The Edge of Every Day by Marin Sardy

  • My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel

  • My Lobotomy by Howard Dully

  • An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

  • Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

  • Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

  • A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

  • *Ziggy, Stardust & Me by James Brandon

  • *Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

  • *Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett

  • *All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

  • *Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

  • *Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram

  • *One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

  • *Mrs.Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

  • *Still Alice by Lisa Genova

  • *The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer

  • *Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

  • *The Swan Thieves by Elisabeth Kostova

  • *Story of a Sociopath by Julia Navarro

  • *The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

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