In honor of Disability Pride Month, we’ve rounded up some powerful books that challenge stereotypes, celebrate resilience, and invite deeper understanding of disability in all its forms.
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
By Andrew Leland
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Andrew Leland, or view on Amazon.
A Measure of Intelligence: One Mother’s Reckoning with the IQ Test
By Pepper Stetler
In a quest to advocate for her daughter with Down syndrome, Pepper Stetler uncovers the dark history of the IQ that leads her to question what exactly we are measuring when we measure intelligence. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Pepper Stetler, or view on Amazon.
May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future
By Chris Martin
An educator’s pioneering approach to helping autistic students find their voices through poetry—a powerful and uplifting story that shows us how to better communicate with people on the spectrum and explores how we use language to express our seemingly limitless interior lives. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Chris Martin, or view on Amazon.
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By Ashley Shew
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Ashley Shew, or view on Amazon.
White Supremacy Is All Around: Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World
By Akilah Cadet
Founder and CEO of consulting firm Change Cadet Dr. Akilah Cadet shares a powerful, incisive look at where we are in the fight to dismantle white supremacy—and what we urgently need to do next. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Akilah Cadet, or view on Amazon.
We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
By Eric Garcia
With a reporter’s eye and an insider’s perspective, Eric Garcia shows what it’s like to be autistic across America. Listen to our Book Bite summary, read by author Eric Garcia, or view on Amazon.
The Key Ideas in 15 Minutes
“If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books,” Roald Dahl once famously said. The only trouble is, reading even one book from cover to cover takes hours—and you may not have many hours to spare.
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With the Next Big Idea App, we’ve turned this fantasy into a reality. We partnered with hundreds of acclaimed authors to create “Book Bites,” short audio summaries of the latest nonfiction that are prepared and read aloud by the authors themselves. Discover cutting-edge leadership skills, productivity hacks, the science of happiness and well-being, and much more—all in the time it takes to drive to work or walk the dog.
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