Perspectives on Disability bestsellers
The top 50 Perspectives on Disability audiobooks on Libro.fm based on sales from our 2,000+ partner bookstore locations.
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Unmasking Autism
Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By Devon Price
Narrated by: Devon Price
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity
“A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.”—Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP, author of... Read more »
Bestseller #2
Easy Beauty
By Chloé Cooper Jones
Narrated by: Chloé Cooper Jones
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Easy Beauty
“The subtitle ‘memoir’ doesn't do justice to this spectacular, sui generis meditation on art, disability, parenting, and travel. It's about more than memory — it's about living in the now and creating the future we want for our children.”
Rebekah Shoaf, Boogie Down Books
Bestseller #3
Invisible Storm
A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
By Jason Kander
Narrated by: Jason Kander & Diana Kander
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
“A truly special book. This combination of honesty, thoughtfulness, urgency, and vulnerability is not common in leaders, and Jason demonstrates boundless occupancy of all of these traits.” – Wes Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore
From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kander comes a...
Read more »Bestseller #4
True Biz
A Novel
By Sara Novic
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan & Kaleo Griffith
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War
“For those who loved the... Read more »
Bestseller #5
Mean Baby
A Memoir of Growing Up
By Selma Blair
Narrated by: Selma Blair
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as … a mean baby. In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Blair tells the... Read more »
Bestseller #6
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 »
Bestseller #7
One Two Three
A Novel
By Laurie Frankel
Narrated by: Emma Galvin, Jesse Vilinsky & Rebecca Soler
Length: 14 hours 58 minutes
One Two Three
“I absolutely loved this heartwarming story of three courageous sisters fighting for justice in their town. It’s a modern David and Goliath tale of small-town America told with wit and heart. Frankel is a superb storyteller, and I did not want my time with this wise and endearing family to end.”
Shannon Burgess, The Bookstore of Glen Ellyn
Bestseller #8
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
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of... Read more »
Bestseller #9
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 »
Bestseller #10
Demystifying Disability
What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
By Emily Ladau
Narrated by: Emily Ladau
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more accessible, inclusive place
People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of... Read more »
Bestseller #11
Ellen Outside the Lines
By A. J. Sass
Narrated by: Emma Galvin
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Rain Reign meets Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World in this heartfelt novel about a neurodivergent thirteen-year-old navigating changing friendships, a school trip, and expanding horizons.
Thirteen-year-old Ellen Katz feels most comfortable when her life is well planned out and people fit neatly into her predefined categories. She attends temple... Read more »
Bestseller #12
Thunder Dog
The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
By Michael Hingson
Narrated by: Christopher Prince
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Faith. Trust. Triumph.
"I trust Roselle with my life, every day. She trusts me to direct her. And today is no different, except the stakes are higher." ?Michael Hingson
First came the boom?the loud, deep, unapologetic bellow that seemed to erupt from the very core of the earth. Eerily, the majestic high-rise slowly leaned to the south. On the...
Read more »Bestseller #13
Disability and the Church
A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion
By Lamar Hardwick
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Lamar Hardwick was thirty-six years old when he found out he was on the autism spectrum. While this revelation helped him understand and process his own experience, it also prompted a difficult re-evaluation of who he was as a person. And as a pastor, it started him on a new path of considering the way disabled people are treated in the... Read more »
Bestseller #14
Firesong
Sky-Ship Adventure: Book #3
By Vashti Hardy
Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm are back home in Lontown after their exhilarating—and secret—adventures in Erythea. Maudie’s sky-ak invention is a hit and Harriet Culpepper has just announced that she will freely share her skyship’s hydroelectric technology. Even Eudora Vane seems to have softened toward them now that her memory has been... Read more »
Bestseller #15
Raising a Sensory Smart Child
The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, Revised and Updated Edition
By Lindsey Biel & Nancy Peske
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, Lindsey Biel & Nancy Peske
Length: TBA
A fully revised edition of the most comprehensive guide to sensory processing challenges
"At last, here are the insights and answers parents have been searching for." -Dr. Temple Grandin
For children with sensory difficulties - those who struggle process everyday sensations and exhibit unusual behaviors such as avoiding or seeking out touch,... Read more »
Bestseller #16
Care Work
Dreaming Disability Justice
By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for... Read more »
Bestseller #17
Year of the Tiger
An Activist's Life
By Alice Wong
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 10 hours 37 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 »
Bestseller #18
The Autistic Brain
Thinking Across the Spectrum
By Temple Grandin & Richard Panek
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate
When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in 88 children diagnosed on the spectrum. And our thinking about it has undergone a transformation in her lifetime: Autism studies... Read more »
Bestseller #19
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 »Bestseller #20
The Future Is Disabled
Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and... Read more »
Bestseller #21
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 »Bestseller #22
We're Not Broken
Changing the Autism Conversation
By Eric Garcia
Narrated by: Eric Garcia
Length: 7 hours 52 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...
Bestseller #23
Wiggles, Stomps, and Squeezes
Calm My Jitters Down
By Lindsey Rowe Parker
Narrated by: Elizabeth Nelson
Length: 9 minutes
This is a story about sensory differences and how some children experience their world, told from a child's perspective.
The vibration in her feet when she runs, the tap-tap-tap of her fork on the table at mealtime, the trickle of cool water running over her hands---these are the things that calm her jitters down.
This book is for anyone who has... Read more »
Bestseller #24
Wonder
Wonder
By R. J. Palacio
Narrated by: Kaya McLean, Lila Sage Bromley, Dariana Alvarez, Santino Barnard, Ry Chase & Madeleine Curry
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 acclaimed graphic novel White Bird.
And... Read more »
Bestseller #25
Miracle Creek
A Novel
By Angie Kim
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Miracle Creek
“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 when doing the right thing feels like swimming upstream, we never know what harm may be prevented and what good might come from our actions. Agreat read that deserves broad success.”
Sara Hinckley, Hudson Booksellers
Bestseller #26
Visual Thinking
The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
By Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo & Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Steve Silberman
“An absolute eye-opener.” —Frans de Waal
A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual... Read more »
Bestseller #27
Far From the Tree
Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
By Andrew Solomon
Narrated by: Andrew Solomon
Length: 40 hours 36 minutes
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2012, this masterpiece by the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also find profound... Read more »
Bestseller #28
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child
What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity
By Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network
Narrated by: Stephanie Jean Mounce
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
A diverse collection of autistic voices that highlights how parents can avoid common mistakes and misconceptions, and make their child feel truly accepted, valued, and celebrated for who they are.
Most resources available for parents come from psychologists, educators, and doctors, offering parents a narrow and technical approach to autism.... Read more »
Bestseller #29
No Time Like the Future
An Optimist Considers Mortality
By Michael J. Fox
Narrated by: Michael J. Fox
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
This program is read by Michael J. Fox.
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox.
The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin...
Bestseller #30
NeuroTribes
The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
By Steve Silberman
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 18 hours 46 minutes
This New York Times bestseller upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.
What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both...
Read more »Bestseller #31
Out of My Mind
By Sharon M. Draper
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting!
“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 all look at anyone with a disability,... Read more »
Bestseller #32
Being Seen
One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
By Elsa Sjunneson
Narrated by: Elsa Sjunneson
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.
As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of... Read more »
Bestseller #33
Happily Ever Afters
By Elise Bryant
Narrated by: Jordan Cobb
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Jane the Virgin meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before in this charming debut romantic comedy filled with Black Girl Magic. Perfect for fans of Mary H. K. Choi and Nicola Yoon, with crossover appeal for readers of Jasmine Guillory and Talia Hibbert romances.
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life....
Read more »Bestseller #34
What Doesn't Kill You
A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
By Tessa Miller
Narrated by: Tessa Miller
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
A riveting and candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today.
Tessa Miller was an ambitious twentysomething writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. At... Read more »
Bestseller #35
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Life of a Cactus: Book #1
By Dusti Bowling
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
The audio edition of the bestselling middle grade novel about a spunky girl born without arms and a boy with Tourette syndrome navigating the challenges of middle school, disability, and friendship—all while solving a mystery in a western theme park.
Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a... Read more »
Bestseller #36
The Reason I Jump
The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
By Naoki Higashida
Narrated by: Tom Picasso
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
You' ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought... Read more »
Bestseller #37
The Sign for Home
A Novel
By Blair Fell
Narrated by: Blair Fell
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
The Sign for Home
“Unforgettable and completely unique! Fell illuminates DeafBlind life in Arlo Dilly, who will steal your heart as he journeys to experience life and independence, and to break free of those who have been holding him back. A must read!”
Maxwell Gregory, Madison Street Books
Bestseller #38
The Pretty One
On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me
By Keah Brown
Narrated by: Keah Brown
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.
Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire... Read more »
Bestseller #39
Smart but Scattered
The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
By Peg Dawson, Ed.D. & Richard Guare, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
There's nothing more frustrating than watching your bright, talented son or daughter struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following instructions at school. Your "smart but scattered" child might also have trouble coping with disappointment or managing anger. Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have great... Read more »
Bestseller #40
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 »
Bestseller #41
Deaf Utopia
A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life
By Nyle DiMarco & Robert Siebert
Narrated by: Dan Bittner
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality show winner, and cultural icon of the international Deaf community
Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf...
Read more »Bestseller #42
Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition
A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic
By Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Narrated by: Abby Craden
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Including real life stories, this newly revised third edition of the award-winning bestseller—voted one of the top twenty parenting books—provides parents with the most up-to-date research, effective discipline tips, and practical strategies for raising spirited children.
Do you ever wonder why your child acts the way he or she does? Are you at a...
Read more »Bestseller #43
The Highly Sensitive Child
Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them
By Elaine N. Aron, PhD
Narrated by: Susan Boyce
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
With the publication of The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aron became the first person to identify the inborn trait of high sensitivity and to show how it affects the lives of those who possess it. Now, Aron shifts her focus to highly sensitive children.
Rooted in Aron's years of experience as a psychotherapist and her original research on... Read more »
Bestseller #44
Scattered
How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
By Gabor Maté, M. D
Narrated by: Barry Abrams
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe the condition as inherited, Dr. Gabor Maté believes that our social and emotional environments play a key role in both the cause of and cure for this condition. In Scattered, he describes the painful realities of... Read more »
Bestseller #45
Overcoming Dyslexia
Second Edition, Completely Revised and Updated
By Sally Shaywitz, M.D. & Jonathan Shaywitz MD
Narrated by: Sally Shaywitz, M.D.
Length: 25 hours 55 minutes
From one of the world's preeminent experts on reading and dyslexia, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book available on identifying, understanding, and overcoming reading problems--now revised to reflect the latest research and evidence-based approaches.
Dyslexia is the most common learning disorder on the planet, affecting about... Read more »
Bestseller #46
Fish in a Tree
By Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives listeners an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in.
“Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is... Read more »
Bestseller #47
Golem Girl
A Memoir
By Riva Lehrer
Narrated by: Riva Lehrer & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 14 hours
The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies
“Golem Girl is luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young—and mature—woman; an unflinching social history of disability over the last six decades; and a hymn to life, love,... Read more »
Bestseller #48
Family Pictures
A Novel
By Sue Miller
Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
Length: 17 hours 54 minutes
“Profoundly honest, shapely, ambitious, engrossing.”—New York Times Book Review
From bestselling author Sue Miller comes a masterful novel about the life of a large family that is deeply bonded by the stranger in their midst—an autistic child.
The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is...
Read more »Bestseller #49
Haben
The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
By Haben Girma
Narrated by: Haben Girma
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.
Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an... Read more »
Bestseller #50
Funny, You Don't Look Autistic
A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
By Michael McCreary
Narrated by: Michael McCreary
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn’t “look” autistic. But, as he’s quick to point out in this memoir, autism “looks” different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary...
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