Disability Pride Reading Recommendations
Merrill-Cazier Library | July 2025
Tyler Hill, Library Research Assistant | tyler.hill@usu.edu
Take a look at our reading recommendations in honor of Disability Pride month!
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest
Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay
The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time.
Demystifying Disability : What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau
An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more inclusive place.
Plums for Months: Memories of a wonder-filled, neurodivergent childhood by Zaji Cox
Through short essays that evoke the abundant imagination of childhood, Plums for Months explores the challenges of growing up mixed race and low-income on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon.
The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook by David Hartman
Adult autism assessment is a new and fast-growing clinical area, for which professionals often feel ill-equipped. Autistic adults are often misdiagnosed which has enormous implications for their mental health.
Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm by Emmeline Clein
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic John Singer, draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a doctor, a widowed café owner, and a young girl. Each yearns for escape from small town life, but the young girl, Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music.
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Disability Pride by Ben Mattlin
An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Exile & Pride: disability, queerness, and liberation by Eli Clare
First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics.