DABC Reads
DABC staff and board have compiled a list of our favourite disability-themed books, which are listed in the table below!
Where possible, we’ve linked to Cross & Crows bookstore for purchase links, as they are a local (Vancouver), community-minded, queer-owned bookstore. They set up/hosted (and continue to host) our original DABC Recommends page and donated proceeds to DABC as part of a special “Book Fair” day. If they don’t currently have a book, you can ask them to order it for you! That said, feel free to visit or order from any bookstore in your community.
| Author, Illustrator(s) | Title | Purchase Link |
|---|---|---|
| Meghan O'Rourke | The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness | Purchase Here |
| Oliver Sacks | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - And Other Clinical Tales | Purchase Here |
| Johanna Hedva | How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom | Purchase Here |
| Michael Davidson | Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body | Purchase Here |
| Ann Millett-Gallant | The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art | Purchase Here |
| Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Wayne Johnston, Catherine Frazee | Invisible No More: A Photographic Chronicle of the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities | Purchase Here |
| Marie-Claude Ouellet, Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott | Amazing Athletes: An All-Star Look at Canada's Paralympians | Purchase Here |
| Robert Bogdan | Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen and Other Photographic Rhetoric | Purchase Here |
| Roy Richard Grinker | Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness | Purchase Here |
| Russell A Barkley, Christine M Benton | Taking Charge of Adult ADHD: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships | Purchase Here |
| Devon Price | Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity | Purchase Here |
| Lenard Adler, Mari Florence | Scattered Minds: Hope and Help for Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | Purchase Here |
| Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs | Purchase Here |
| Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice | Purchase Here |
| Alice Wong | Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century | Purchase Here |
| Sara Novic | True Biz: Reese's Book Club: A Novel | Purchase Here |
| Al Etmanski | The Power of Disability: 10 Lessons for Surviving, Thriving, and Changing the World | Purchase Here |
| Barbara Arneil, Nancy J Hirschmann | Disability and Political Theory | Purchase Here |
| Dustin Galer | Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada | Purchase Here |
| Julie A. Stamm | Some Days: A Tale of Love, Ice Cream, and My Mom's Chronic Illness | Purchase Here |
| Ana Luísa Silva, Justine Green | Completely Emme: A Cerebral Palsy Story | Purchase Here |
| Carina Ho, Jesse Byrd, Monica Paola Rodriguez | Mighty Mara | Purchase Here |
| Carina Ho, Jesse Byrd, Monica Paola Rodriguez | Mighty Mara: Mighty Mara: Dancing with Dante | Purchase Here |
| Gemma Keir | The abilities in me: Tube Feeding | Purchase Here |
| Gemma Keir | The abilities in me: Hydrocephalus | Purchase Here |
