Physical Disability in Literature

Adult Fiction

• Deafening by Frances Itani (Canadian) 

• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (American)

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer (American)

• Animal's People by Indra Sinha (Indian) ♂︎ 

• Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz  (Egypt)

• Cracking India, by Bapsi Sidhwa (India)

Young Adult

• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (YA)

• Cursed by  Karol Ruth Silverstein (YA) #ownvoices

• The Running Dream by Wendelen van Draanen (YA)

• Mannequin Girl by Ellen Litman (YA)

• You're Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner (YA)

• The Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman  (YA)

• The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider (YA)

• The Last Leaves Falling by Sarah Benwell (YA)

• Burning the Boats by Christina Minaki (YA)

• Good Kings, Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum (YA) #ownvoices

• How we Roll by Natasha Friend (YA)

• Handle with Care and House Rules by Jodi Piccoult (YA)

• Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali (YA)

• The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (YA) 🏳️‍🌈

Short Stories

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens by Marieke Nijkamp 

• Call be Ahab: a short story collection by Anne Finger 

Plays

• Atypical Plays for Atypical Actors: plays chosen by Kaite O'Reilley (Plays)

• Stage Turns: Canadian disability theater (Plays)Short Stories

Poetry

• Beauty is a Verb: the new poetry of disability (poetry)

• Bodymap: poems by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Non-Fiction

• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Essays)

• The Disabilities Studies Reader (Anthology)

• Disfigured: on fairy tales, disability and making space