Disability Reading Challenge 2021 - hosted by boneloose

Read a memoir, autobiography, or biography by or about a disabled person
Bonus points if they're a disabled activist, like Judy Heumann!
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

Marcus Rediker

212 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

Eli Clare

156 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

Abby Norman

288 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism health memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown

The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

Keah Brown

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Haben Girma

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer

Golem Girl: A Memoir

Riva Lehrer

448 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy by Kelly Jensen

Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy

Kelly Jensen

256 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays short stories challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Places I've Taken My Body: Essays by Molly McCully Brown

Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

Molly McCully Brown

224 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected by Nnedi Okorafor

Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected

Nnedi Okorafor

112 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
Say Hello by Carly Findlay

Say Hello

Carly Findlay

7 hours, 58 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced