Our Library team has curated a collection of memoirs and stories that celebrate disability and diversity.
Many of these stories reflect a firsthand experience with disability that shows us how important it is to have inclusion and access for everyone.
You can share these stories to spark discussion and begin to understand other communities.
These are:
- stories to share with young children
- fictional stories on disability for junior and teens
- memoirs for adults.
All of these stories represent people with a disability by what they can do, not by what they can’t.
Memoirs
- by Marie Younan with Jill Sanguinetti
- by Helen Sage
- by Dylan Alcott with Grantlee Kieza*
- by Michael J Fox
- by Cosentino with Hazel Flynn
- by Di Websdale-Morrissey
- by Adam Hills
- by Ron McCallum
- by Jonathon Welch
- by Caro Llewelyn
- by John Callahan
- by Turia Pitt
- by John P Coutis
- by Graeme Innes
- by Andrew Solomon
- by John Maclean with Mark Tabb
- by Luke Vujicic
- by Shane Burcaw
- by John Elder Robison
- by Christy Brown
- by Nujeen Mustafa with Christina Lamb
- by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- by Sam Bramham
- by Helen Keller
- by Fiona Place
- by Turia Pitt
- by Boris Starling
Picture books
- by Steve Antony
- by DK braille concept
- by Lesley Ely
- by Tracy Packiam Alloway
- by Nelly Thomas
- by Nelly Thomas
- by Julia Donaldson
- by R J Palacio
Junior fiction
- by Cece Bell
- by Sharon M. Draper
- by Stewart Foster
- by Michelle Kadarusman
- by Deborah Kelly
- by Jamie Sumner
- by R.J. Palacio
Teen fiction
- by Sara Barnard
- by Brigid Kemmerer
- by Harriet Reuter Hapgood
- by Natasha Friend
- by Eric Lindstrom
- by Anna Whateley
- by Kay Kerr
- by Hannah Moskowitz
- by C. G. Drews
- by Will Kostakis
- by Alison Gervais
- by S.C Megale
More recommended reading
Want more reading suggestions? You can always speak to our library staff, who will help you find new authors based on your preferences. Come into the library or call us to find your next favourite read.
You can also visit our for more reading recommendations, or our for everything you need for book groups.
