Thank you for taking the time to put this together. As an autistic person, I was really pleased that you included books by autistic (and other neurodivergent) people.
Click here to donate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-disabled-ukrainians *Book list continued from description box* The Red Room by Nicci French Gargoyles by Harriet Mercer* The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp* The Coward by Jarred McGinnis The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan Disability Visibility ed. Alice Wong Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig Constellations by Sinead Gleeson Firegirl by Tony Abbott Patient by Bettina Judd The Alarming Palsy of James Orr by Tom Lee* Dancing After Ten by Vivian Chong Chattering by Louise Stern Sanatorium by Abi Palmer* Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen A Room Called Earth by Madeline Ryan Modern Medicine by Lucy Hurst* Defying Doomsday anthology Rebuilding Tomorrow anthology Accessing the Future anthology What Meets the Eye: The Deaf Perspective On Being Ill anthology Suture by Nick Brewer Outsiders: www.3ofcups.co.uk/shop/outsiders Firsts: Coming of Age stories from people with disabilities Artificial Divide anthology ed Randy Lacey and Robert Kingett* Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty Bestiary by K Ming-Chang* The Girl with the Shark’s Teeth by Cerrie Burnell This is Our Undoing by Lorraine Wilson The River’s Memory by Sandra Gail Lambert Monsterhuman by Kjersti A Skomsvold At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp* Bed Zine The Book of Goodbye by Jillian Weise Veil and Burn by Laurie Clements Lambeth Phantompains by Therese Estacion* The Carrying by Ada Limon Much with Body by Polly Atkin A Place More Hospitable by Jason Purcell* Recovering Dorothy by Polly Atkin Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth A Face for Picasso by Ariel Henley Too Late to Die Young by Harriet McBryde Johnson Modern Nature by Derek Jarman The Undying by Anne Boyer Crippled by Frances Ryan Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg by Emily Rapp Black The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy There Plant Eyes by M. Leon Godin Disturbing the Body anthology Corpsing by Sophie White A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott Vagina Problems by Lara Parker Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays by Sonya Huber What Doesn’t Kill You by Tessa Miller Breaking and Mending by Joanna Canon Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown Carework: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau* Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer Below the Edge of Darkness by Dr. Edith Widder
I've ordered all of the children's books from my library to read with my two. I've bought quite a few of these in recent months on your recommendation, so many titles that sound so good! X
I hope you enjoy this video, folks. As always, if you have any recommendations for me - or if you've read any of the books I've talked about/are interested in them and want to chat - leave a comment down below. x
Have you read lampie and the children of the sea? It's a lovely middle grade book by Annet Schaap. It's roughly a fairy tale retelling (wont tell which, that would spoil it) and it deals with people's perception of people with disabilities and different bodies and economically disadvantaged people. I found it very heart warming and kept thinking you might really like it as well
I'm really not interested in that book, I'm afraid. I want to read primarily from disabled authors, with stories that centre disabled characters. This book makes me feel rather uneasy, in the same way that Wonder does. x
I shouldn't have read 'Show us who you are' by Elle McNicoll while commuting on a train. Required lots of efforts not to cry in front of strangers. I felt a chill when I caught myself feeling irritated whenever Cora or Adrien said they were different. I label certain group of people as different from myself. Then when those people start to tell me they are indeed different from me I feel upset. Whom have I become, demanding a living human being to stay in a box they would not to chose to be in and be...silent. The book was a roller-coaster for me in a very good way. Thanks for the recommendation!
Jen I've just watched your video - with very frequent pauses to search titles. Thanks so much for making it, I now have an awful lot of books to read. In fact I'm listening to There Plant Eyes right now, and enjoying it ENORMOUSLY. Lucy x
Thank you for another great video Jen! 💕 And for sharing the gofundme, I will absolutely be donating on pay day! Two books I've read and loved recently, both of which are own voices, are So Lucky by Nicola Griffith, and Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz. My partner has MS and I have inflammatory arthritis, so they hit home a lot, but both great reads!
I absolutely love Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance and Disfigured by Amanda LeDuc is the best non-fiction I’ve read in ages! Per your recommendation I bought Ultimatum Orangutan and am enjoying it.
thank you so much for this list Jen, loads added to my TBR! Places I've Taken My Body was fantastic, Notes Made While Falling I found really heavy going for such a short memoir but it really gave me so much to think about. X
Jillian Weise was my poetry professor! Her name is pronounced Vi-Sah, btw (kinda German). Cy has written some wonderful collections, so the "Book of Goodbyes” is a great read. Thanks for all the recommendations, Jen!
I really appreciate you sharing these titles. I currently am reading Song For A Whale by Lynne Kelly. The main character is deaf, and relates her life to a whale she learns about in science class. I am loving this story. I started it just yesterday for Middle Grade March and I am already a good chunk of the way through. Thank you again for your recommendations.
@@jenvcampbell “A puff of smoke”, “on being ill”, and “the sisters who ate her brothers” are at the top of my list! I’ve also loved your fairy tale series for the longest time so I can’t wait to check out “disfigured: on fairy tales, disability & making spaces”
Thanks Jen lots of books to look out for! I read in January a book called Every Note Played by Lisa Genova it’s book based on motor neurone disease, it really gave me an insight into the disease even though it was fiction.
Just finished a graphic novel called "Spiral Cage: An Autobiography by Al Davison", an English artist/Buddhist priest/karate athlete who was born with Spina Bifida. Since I have SB as well I've been eyeing it for years. (The attempt to ban Maus from schools the other week was the impetus to finally order it.) It definitely has it's quirks, sudden jumps in time and narrative voice, swerves into fantasy, and asides about Buddhism and karate that were outside my scope of knowledge and interest, etc., but I look forward to a reread.
Lots of great ones on this list! I enjoyed Care Work in particular for the mix of disability and queer activism. I also listened to one by Elsa Sjunneson after liking her essay in Disability Visibility, called Being Seen, which looks at ableism in pop culture and her experience being Deafblind
Hiiii!!!! I have a recommendation for you i haven’t finished this video so I don’t know if you mention it! You should read Out of my Mind by: Sharon M. Draper its the perfect depiction of Cerebral Palsy and it’s by a Non Disabled author which is crazy!!! It’s so beautiful and my favorite book there is also a second book to it!!! Read it and recommend it I love it!!!!!❤ I also love that she is a like a prodigy because that’s super fun!! Obviously disabled people doesn’t mean prodigy but it makes me happy that she has disabilities and abilities You should also read The Insignificant Events in a Life of a Cactus there is a second book to it, also The Year I Got Polio super cool book love it And you should read these really cute kids books Rescue and Jessica a life changing friendship, and, The Princess Panda Tea Party a cerebral palsy fairytale by jewel Kats
Oh hurray you got Defying Doomsday and Rebuilding Tomorrow! I found some new to me authors in Defying Doomsday which I promptly went off and bought their books. Still need to read Defying Doomsday!
“I’m pretty sure I have it on my shelf, but couldn’t spy it” - every bookseller’s worst, most anxious nightmare 😂😬 And then ofc you manage to fish it after they’ve gone
Wowza! Thanks for the 💯 list! My in-person book club is considering reading *The Murmur of Bees* by Mexican author Sofia Segovia, translated to English. An abandoned infant boy, disfigured and covered in a living blanket of bees, is taken in and raised by a citrus-farming family. It’s supposed to be a beautiful story yet has issues such as abandonment, witchcraft, Mexican Revolution, and 1918 influenza. Magical realism seems present. Have you or any of your readers read it yet?
I haven't picked that one up as I'm always very wary of nondisabled authors who use disfigurement or disability as some kind of 'divinity/witchcraft' (in this case a cleft palate and the child having 'the sight'); I find it's often very Othering. I'd personally recommend reading something by a disabled writer instead. xx
I’ll suggest one of the 100 instead. Several bookclub members speak Spanish so they were drawn to *Murmur* When I explain the othering representation of disability they will learn too.
@@jenvcampbell I loved Elena Knows. But one of my bookies has chronic illness and disability. Part of her disability is fused neck vertebrae. I think I will ask her about it individually before I put it forth to our group. If not that, then I'm thinking What Willow Says or Sitting Pretty might be good reads for our group. Thanks for all the insights and reviews you offer!
Thank you for taking the time to put this together. As an autistic person, I was really pleased that you included books by autistic (and other neurodivergent) people.
Click here to donate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-disabled-ukrainians
*Book list continued from description box*
The Red Room by Nicci French
Gargoyles by Harriet Mercer*
The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp*
The Coward by Jarred McGinnis
The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan
Disability Visibility ed. Alice Wong
Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig
Constellations by Sinead Gleeson
Firegirl by Tony Abbott
Patient by Bettina Judd
The Alarming Palsy of James Orr by Tom Lee*
Dancing After Ten by Vivian Chong
Chattering by Louise Stern
Sanatorium by Abi Palmer*
Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen
A Room Called Earth by Madeline Ryan
Modern Medicine by Lucy Hurst*
Defying Doomsday anthology
Rebuilding Tomorrow anthology
Accessing the Future anthology
What Meets the Eye: The Deaf Perspective
On Being Ill anthology
Suture by Nick Brewer
Outsiders: www.3ofcups.co.uk/shop/outsiders
Firsts: Coming of Age stories from people with disabilities
Artificial Divide anthology ed Randy Lacey and Robert Kingett*
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
Bestiary by K Ming-Chang*
The Girl with the Shark’s Teeth by Cerrie Burnell
This is Our Undoing by Lorraine Wilson
The River’s Memory by Sandra Gail Lambert
Monsterhuman by Kjersti A Skomsvold
At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp*
Bed Zine
The Book of Goodbye by Jillian Weise
Veil and Burn by Laurie Clements Lambeth
Phantompains by Therese Estacion*
The Carrying by Ada Limon
Much with Body by Polly Atkin
A Place More Hospitable by Jason Purcell*
Recovering Dorothy by Polly Atkin
Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth
A Face for Picasso by Ariel Henley
Too Late to Die Young by Harriet McBryde Johnson
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
The Undying by Anne Boyer
Crippled by Frances Ryan
Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg by Emily Rapp Black
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
There Plant Eyes by M. Leon Godin
Disturbing the Body anthology
Corpsing by Sophie White
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
Vagina Problems by Lara Parker
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays by Sonya Huber
What Doesn’t Kill You by Tessa Miller
Breaking and Mending by Joanna Canon
Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown
Carework: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau*
Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer
Below the Edge of Darkness by Dr. Edith Widder
I've ordered all of the children's books from my library to read with my two.
I've bought quite a few of these in recent months on your recommendation, so many titles that sound so good! X
I hope you enjoy this video, folks. As always, if you have any recommendations for me - or if you've read any of the books I've talked about/are interested in them and want to chat - leave a comment down below. x
Have you read lampie and the children of the sea? It's a lovely middle grade book by Annet Schaap. It's roughly a fairy tale retelling (wont tell which, that would spoil it) and it deals with people's perception of people with disabilities and different bodies and economically disadvantaged people. I found it very heart warming and kept thinking you might really like it as well
I'm really not interested in that book, I'm afraid. I want to read primarily from disabled authors, with stories that centre disabled characters. This book makes me feel rather uneasy, in the same way that Wonder does. x
Only book with a disabled main character to be shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud awards - Thimble Monkey Superstar.
This was wonderful! Thanks so much for putting this together.
I shouldn't have read 'Show us who you are' by Elle McNicoll while commuting on a train. Required lots of efforts not to cry in front of strangers. I felt a chill when I caught myself feeling irritated whenever Cora or Adrien said they were different. I label certain group of people as different from myself. Then when those people start to tell me they are indeed different from me I feel upset. Whom have I become, demanding a living human being to stay in a box they would not to chose to be in and be...silent. The book was a roller-coaster for me in a very good way. Thanks for the recommendation!
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is incredible! Also found I Live a Life Like Yours & Sitting Pretty fantastic. Thank you for all the recommendations.
Jen I've just watched your video - with very frequent pauses to search titles. Thanks so much for making it, I now have an awful lot of books to read. In fact I'm listening to There Plant Eyes right now, and enjoying it ENORMOUSLY. Lucy x
Hurray! Big love xx
Thank you for another great video Jen! 💕 And for sharing the gofundme, I will absolutely be donating on pay day!
Two books I've read and loved recently, both of which are own voices, are So Lucky by Nicola Griffith, and Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz. My partner has MS and I have inflammatory arthritis, so they hit home a lot, but both great reads!
I absolutely love Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance and Disfigured by Amanda LeDuc is the best non-fiction I’ve read in ages! Per your recommendation I bought Ultimatum Orangutan and am enjoying it.
Thank you so much, Jen. I'm writing a lot of these titles down! x
Brilliant as ever! TBR just went 📈📈📈
thank you so much for this list Jen, loads added to my TBR! Places I've Taken My Body was fantastic, Notes Made While Falling I found really heavy going for such a short memoir but it really gave me so much to think about. X
Thank you for the Support for Ukraine ❤️ It’s terrible what’s going on there .
Thank you for all these recommendations Jen - I first discovered Hannah Hodgson through your channel and I think her poetry is brilliant!
She’s a gem ♥️
Jillian Weise was my poetry professor! Her name is pronounced Vi-Sah, btw (kinda German). Cy has written some wonderful collections, so the "Book of Goodbyes” is a great read. Thanks for all the recommendations, Jen!
Ah, thank you ☺️
I really appreciate you sharing these titles. I currently am reading Song For A Whale by Lynne Kelly. The main character is deaf, and relates her life to a whale she learns about in science class. I am loving this story. I started it just yesterday for Middle Grade March and I am already a good chunk of the way through. Thank you again for your recommendations.
Thanks for the video, lots of wonderful books to check out. Donated to the go fund me page you posted.,
Thank you, Nola. x
So many fantastic ones! I added more than 20 to my TBR while watching this video. Can’t wait to delve into them
Thanks, Farnia! What’s top of your list? x
@@jenvcampbell “A puff of smoke”, “on being ill”, and “the sisters who ate her brothers” are at the top of my list! I’ve also loved your fairy tale series for the longest time so I can’t wait to check out “disfigured: on fairy tales, disability & making spaces”
Yaaaaayyyy it's finally here!!!!
Thanks Jen lots of books to look out for! I read in January a book called Every Note Played by Lisa Genova it’s book based on motor neurone disease, it really gave me an insight into the disease even though it was fiction.
Just finished a graphic novel called "Spiral Cage: An Autobiography by Al Davison", an English artist/Buddhist priest/karate athlete who was born with Spina Bifida. Since I have SB as well I've been eyeing it for years. (The attempt to ban Maus from schools the other week was the impetus to finally order it.) It definitely has it's quirks, sudden jumps in time and narrative voice, swerves into fantasy, and asides about Buddhism and karate that were outside my scope of knowledge and interest, etc., but I look forward to a reread.
Thanks for bringing that book to my attention :) x
Lots of great ones on this list! I enjoyed Care Work in particular for the mix of disability and queer activism.
I also listened to one by Elsa Sjunneson after liking her essay in Disability Visibility, called Being Seen, which looks at ableism in pop culture and her experience being Deafblind
Ooh, will add that to the list, thank you. x
Hiiii!!!! I have a recommendation for you i haven’t finished this video so I don’t know if you mention it! You should read Out of my Mind by: Sharon M. Draper its the perfect depiction of Cerebral Palsy and it’s by a Non Disabled author which is crazy!!! It’s so beautiful and my favorite book there is also a second book to it!!! Read it and recommend it I love it!!!!!❤
I also love that she is a like a prodigy because that’s super fun!! Obviously disabled people doesn’t mean prodigy but it makes me happy that she has disabilities and abilities
You should also read The Insignificant Events in a Life of a Cactus there is a second book to it, also The Year I Got Polio super cool book love it
And you should read these really cute kids books
Rescue and Jessica a life changing friendship, and, The Princess Panda Tea Party a cerebral palsy fairytale by jewel Kats
My TBR list just got considerably longer! 😬
Oh hurray you got Defying Doomsday and Rebuilding Tomorrow! I found some new to me authors in Defying Doomsday which I promptly went off and bought their books. Still need to read Defying Doomsday!
Oops I meant read Rebuilding Tomorrow….
“I’m pretty sure I have it on my shelf, but couldn’t spy it” - every bookseller’s worst, most anxious nightmare 😂😬 And then ofc you manage to fish it after they’ve gone
Ha! I used to work in an antiquarian bookshop which was this times a million. x
Wowza! Thanks for the 💯 list! My in-person book club is considering reading *The Murmur of Bees* by Mexican author Sofia Segovia, translated to English. An abandoned infant boy, disfigured and covered in a living blanket of bees, is taken in and raised by a citrus-farming family. It’s supposed to be a beautiful story yet has issues such as abandonment, witchcraft, Mexican Revolution, and 1918 influenza. Magical realism seems present. Have you or any of your readers read it yet?
I haven't picked that one up as I'm always very wary of nondisabled authors who use disfigurement or disability as some kind of 'divinity/witchcraft' (in this case a cleft palate and the child having 'the sight'); I find it's often very Othering. I'd personally recommend reading something by a disabled writer instead. xx
I’ll suggest one of the 100 instead. Several bookclub members speak Spanish so they were drawn to *Murmur* When I explain the othering representation of disability they will learn too.
@@jorjastonej Elena Knows is Spanish and Own Voices, so perhaps that's an option for you :) x
@@jenvcampbell I loved Elena Knows. But one of my bookies has chronic illness and disability. Part of her disability is fused neck vertebrae. I think I will ask her about it individually before I put it forth to our group. If not that, then I'm thinking What Willow Says or Sitting Pretty might be good reads for our group. Thanks for all the insights and reviews you offer!
@@jorjastonej That's a good idea, and both of those other books would be excellent book club choices x
Please can someone help recommend me a good book for Disability Inclusion?
Thank you for another wonderful video. I want to read all of the books you mentioned in this video. 🤍 So so many fantastic sounding picture books.🥰
Thanks, Angela. Let me know if you end up reading any of these and what you think of them. x