Research Guides: Amplifying Disabled Voices: Perspectives and Stories from Disabled Authors: Selected Books

Selected Books: In Syracuse University Libraries Collection

This curated selection features a mix of genres and formats, offering diverse perspectives and voices from disabled authors. Whether you're looking for fiction, memoirs, essays, or poetry, there's something here for everyone. Check back monthly as new titles will be added to highlight even more works from disabled authors.

You may find titles listed under each genre below.

Memoirs

The Beauty of Dusk by Frank Bruni
ISBN: 9781982108571
Publication Date: 2022-03-01
From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight.
Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong
ISBN: 0593315391
Publication Date: 2022-09-06
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.

Graphic Memoir

Stitches by David Small
ISBN: 9780393068573
Publication Date: 2009-09-08
In this Kafkaesque graphic memoir, David Small at 14 years old wakes from a "harmless" operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute.
El Deafo by Cece Bell
ISBN: 9781613126219
Publication Date: 2014-09-02
Cece Bell's #1 New York Times Bestseller graphic novel El Deafo is the origin story of a student with hearing loss and a hearing aid who becomes a superhero! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age.

Anthology

Disability Visibility by Alice Wong (Editor)
ISBN: 9781984899439
Publication Date: 2020-06-30
A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of disabled activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people.
Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked by Sheila Black (Editor); Michael Northen (Editor); Annabelle Hayse (Editor)
ISBN: 9781941026359
Publication Date: 2017-02-07
An anthology written by authors, all who experience the "disability" they write about -- crack open the cage of our culture's stereotypes.

Fiction

True Biz: Reese's Book Club by Sara Novic
ISBN: 9780593241509
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
Fiction 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.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
ISBN: 9781635575637
Publication Date: 2020-09-15
Piranesi is set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.

Poetry

Beauty Is a Verb by Sheila Black (Editor); Jennifer Bartlett (Editor); Michael Northen (Editor)
ISBN: 9781935955054
Publication Date: 2011-10-11
Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and disability intersect, overlap, collide and make peace.
Veil and Burn by Laurie Clements Lambeth
ISBN: 1283583240
Publication Date: 2014-05-10
Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body.Laurie Clements Lambeth is a poet with Multiple Sclerosis.