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Disability Awareness Month: Recommended Reads for Adults (2021)

The Chicago Public Library celebrates Disability Awareness Month by recognizing the contributions and achievements of individuals with disabilities as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act Anniversary during the month of July. This recommended reading list from CPL’s Diversability Advocacy Committee shares books by authors with disabilities and featuring main characters with disabilities.

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13 items

  • PaperbackMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2019. — PS3611.A467A6 2019
  • Disability Visibility

    First Person Stories From the Twenty-first Century

    PaperbackNew York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020. — HV1552.3.D57 2020
  • BookNew York : One World, [2020] — RJ496.S74L44 2020
  • BookNew York : First Second, 2019. — QC16.H33O88 2019
  • PaperbackSan Diego, CA : Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing, [2021] — PN6747.D873P3713 2021
  • Sitting Pretty

    the View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

    Taussig, Rebekah,
    BookNew York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — RC406.P3T38 2020
  • Wheels of Courage

    How Paralyzed Veterans From World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation

    Davis, David, 1962-
    BookNashville ; New York : Center Street, 2020. — GV886.5.D28 2020
  • PaperbackNew York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020. — PS3609.R465A6 2020