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Our Recommended Adult Books

All books have been reviewed by at least one of our sensitivity readers, with more being added all the time!


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Biography/Memoir

Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century edited by Alice Wong
When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, & Transformation
The Collected Schizophrenias Essays by Esme Weijun Wang
Brady's Brilliance by Tara Soesbe
The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland
When I Grow up I Want To Be a Chair by Ryan Rae Harbuck
Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness by Shahd Alshammari
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor
Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano
Who is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who it Leaves Behind by Fariha Roisin
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
Being Huemann by Judith Huemann with Kristen Joiner
Beyond the Shunt by Samantha Lee Schmall
For Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family by Lou Ann Walker
Haben: The Deafbllind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law A Memoir by Haben Girma
What Doesn't Kill You by Tessa Miller
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Strangers Assume my Girlfriend is My Nurse by Shane Burcaw
Goal Keeper: Memoir of Poet Peter Street
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nonfiction

Capitalism & Disability by Marta Russell
A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice by Katie Tastrom
Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau
Can You Hear me Now? by Tiffany Dawn Kohnen
Can You See Me Now? by Tiffany Dawn Kohnen

Historical nonFiction

The Devil's Castle by Susanne Paola Antonetta

Historical Fiction

The Things we Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Fantasy

Dragonfall by L.R. Lam
The Witch Collector by Charissa Weaks
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
To Cage a God by Elizabeth May
The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao
The Invisible College by Jeff Wheeler
No Rest for the Wicked by Naomi Valkyrie
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The Fire Prophecy by Megan Linski & Alicia Rades
The Lost Legends by Cait Marie

Horror/dark fantasy

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
The Shadow Man by Amelia Cognet
The Lesser Remain by Melissa McPherson

literary fiction

Priden's Children: Purgatory by Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
True Biz by Sara Novic
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
Panpocalypse by Carley Moore
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa
All's Well by Mona Awad
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

realistic fiction

Gut Feelings by C.G. Moore
James Ticking Time Bomb by Tylia Flores
Vessel of Miracles by Loredana Rivers

Women's Fiction

Dahlia Almost Drowning by Amanda Gale
rehoming breanna huxley: a novel by Keli O'Connor
Maybe She Will: A Novel by Gina Andrew
Everything Left Unsaid: A Short Story by Gina Andrew

contemporary romance

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
It's All in Your Head by Sabina Nordqvist
Curated: A Museum Love Story by Nellie Wilson
The Last Summer by Cait Marie
Always Only You by Cloe Liese
Cream and Punishment by Brianne Ritchie Cordova
Float Plan by Trish Doller
Stuck on the Slopes by Jessica Salina
Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young
Ocean of Sun by Halli M. Castro
California Promises by Erin Spineto
Make Mine Sweet by Genny Carrick

Historical Romance

Pastiche by Celia Lake
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
Letters to Half Moon Street by Sarah Wallace

Romantic Fantasy/Paranormal Romance

The Rise of House Valdis by Naomi Valkyrie
A Soul to Heal by Opal Reyne
How to Sell Your Blood and Fall in Love by D.N. Bryn
Behooved by M. Stevenson

science fiction

Defying Doomsday edited by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Seven Devils by L.R. Lam and Elizabeth May
Redsight by Meredith Mooring
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal

mystery/thriller

The Framed Women of Ardemore House by Brandy Schillace
The Maid by Nita Prose
Strike Out by Arleigh Jacobs

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