Books by and on Diabled Canadians

Books on Disability & Accessibility

A select list of new, popular and acclaimed titles by Canadian writers.

Mom on Wheels: The Power of Purpose for a Parent With Paraplegia

Mom on Wheels

Aunos, Marjorie

Ingenium Books, May 2023

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The Winter Knight

The Winter Knight

Battis, Jes 

ECW Press, April 2023

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How to Lose Everything

How to Lose Everything

Couture, Christa

Douglas and McIntyre, November 2021

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The Ghost Garden: Inside the Lives of Schizophrenia's Feared and Forgotten

The Ghost Garden: Inside the Lives of Schizophrenia's Feared and Forgotten

Doherty, Susan 

Random House Canada, May 2019

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Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education

Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education

Dolmage, Jay T.

University of Michigan Press, December, 2017

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Knot Body 

Knot Body 

El Bechelany-Lynch, Tareq Eli

Metatron Press, October 2020

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Phantompains

Phantompains

Estacion, Therese 

Book*Hug Press, March 2021

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Dispatches from Disabled Country

Dispatches from Disabled Country

Frazee, Catherine

UBC Press, May 2023

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A World Without Martha

A World Without Martha

Freeman, Victoria

UBC Press, October 2019

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Beryl: The Making of a Disability Activist

Beryl | The Making of a Disability Activist

Galer, Dustin 

Between the Lines, 2023

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The Discovery of Flight

The Discovery of Flight

Glickman, Susan

Inanna Publications, April 2018

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On the Spectrum

On the Spectrum

Gold, Jennifer

Second Story Press, September 2017

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Finding Grace

Finding Grace

Greer, Daphne 

Nimbus Publishing, October 2018

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Untold Stories A Canadian Disability History Reader

Untold Stories A Canadian Disability History Reader

Hansen, Nancy | Hanes, Roy | Driedger, Diane

Canadian Scholars, May 2018

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Out Into the Big Wide Lake

Out Into the Big Wide Lake

Harbridge, Paul
Illustrated by Josée Bisaillon

Tundra Books, May 2021

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Something More

Something More

Khalilieh, Jackie 

Tundra Books, June 2024

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Sara and the Search for Normal 

Sara and the Search for Normal 

King, Wesley 

Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, May 2021

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I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir

I Overcame My Autism & All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder

Kurchak, Sarah 

Douglas & McIntyre, September 2020

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Care Work Dreaming Disability Justice

Care Work Dreaming Disability Justice

Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah 

Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018

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The Future is Disabled 

The Future is Disabled 

Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah 

Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022

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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Leduc, Amanda 

Coach House Books, February 2020

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More than Words

More than Words

MacLean, Roz 

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), September 2023

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Friends Find a Way

Friends Find a Way

O'Connor,, Heather M.  
Illustrated by Claudia Dávila

Scholastic Canada, September 2023

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Amazing Athletes 

Amazing Athletes 

Ouellet, Marie-Claude
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff

Owlkids Books, August 2021

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Kerfuffle: A Novel That Speaks Spoof to Power

Kerfuffle: A Novel That Speaks Spoof to Power

Palmer, Dorothy Ellen

Renaissance Press, April 2022

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Falling for Myself 

Falling for Myself 

Palmer, Dorothy Ellen 

Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd., October 2022

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Making a Home 

Making a Home 

Powley, Jen 

Fernwood Publishing, May 2023

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At the Speed of Gus

At the Speed of Gus

Scrimger, Richard 

Scholastic Canada, October 2023

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Caterpillars Can't Swim

Caterpillars Can't Swim

Shaw, Liane

Second Story Press, September, 2017

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Disabled Voices Anthology

Disabled Voices Anthology

smith, sb.

Rebel Mountain Press, September 2020

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About Canada: Disability Rights, 2nd ed.

About Canada: Disability Rights, 2nd ed.

Stienstra, Deborah 

Fernwood Publishing, September 2020

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act normal 

act normal 

viva davis halifax, nancy 

McGill-Queen’s University Press, October 2023

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Abolition is Love

Abolition is Love

Ware, Syrus Marcus
Illustrated by Alannah Fricker

Triangle Square, September 2023

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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Disability Visibility

Wong, Alice

Vintage, June 2020

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