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Memoirs of Disability That Expand the Story Beyond Overcoming

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Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
Books That Challenge Easy Judgements About Other People
by book_guy  • 
In common: El Deafo
A useful change of mind often begins with a judgement that stops feeling adequate. These novels and memoirs make room for conflicting loyalties, incomplete knowledge and lives that resist a...
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Books for Reading Ten Minutes at a Time
Books for Reading Ten Minutes at a Time
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Ten minutes can hold a complete encounter: a poem, an essay, a letter, a comic or one clearly bounded episode. These books give you natural stopping points and a welcoming way back after a gap...
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Shows Where Disabled Characters Have Full Lives
Shows Where Disabled Characters Have Full Lives
by tv_binger  • 
On a similar theme
A character should be able to want a job, make art, fall in love, annoy a friend or make a bad choice without disability turning every scene into a lesson. These British, American, Irish and...
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Political Figures Whose Memoirs Reward a Critical Reading
Political Figures Whose Memoirs Reward a Critical Reading
by curious_compiler  • 
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Political memoirs can reveal how decisions felt from inside an institution, how a leader wants a career remembered and which experiences they consider worth preserving. These 20 political figures...
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Disability Rights Campaigners Who Changed Public Life
Disability Rights Campaigners Who Changed Public Life
by list_wrangler  • 
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The ramps, accessible buses, independent living support and anti-discrimination laws many countries now take for granted were won by disabled people organising for themselves, often against...
Politics
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Travel Accounts That Treat Walking as a Method of Inquiry
Travel Accounts That Treat Walking as a Method of Inquiry
by wander_notes  • 
On a similar theme
A curated selection of narrative travel literature and field notebooks where on-foot journeys serve as a rigorous method of observation, philosophical inquiry, and cultural immersion. These...
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Books That Make Ordinary Life Feel Worth Paying Attention To
Books That Make Ordinary Life Feel Worth Paying Attention To
by book_guy  • 
In common: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
A packed bag, a working lunch, a meal prepared for someone else: these books make familiar actions worth looking at again. Their interest comes from precise observation of objects, work...
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Nature Poetry Collections That Change What You Notice on a Walk
Nature Poetry Collections That Change What You Notice on a Walk
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
Take one of these books out on a walk you already know. A grasshopper washing its face, a street fig ripening, or rain running over roof tiles can give you a different place to put your attention...
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Nigerian Novels With Different Kinds of City Life
Nigerian Novels With Different Kinds of City Life
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
Follow a mechanic through Yenagoa, new students around a Benin City campus, or three strangers to the water’s edge in Lagos. These novels let you choose a city by the part of life you want to...
Books
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Travel Writers Who Question Their Own Assumptions
Travel Writers Who Question Their Own Assumptions
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
Peter Hessler goes to a park in Fuling to study Chinese and gets annoyed when people interrupt. Eventually he goes expecting to talk and learns from the people who stop. These writers leave that...
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Memoirs About Parenthood That Leave the Mess In
Memoirs About Parenthood That Leave the Mess In
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
A newborn needs feeding while a parent is still figuring out how to get through the night. A school meeting ends with more questions than answers. These memoirs stay close to the work of raising...
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Books About Migration That Explain Systems as Well as Journeys
Books About Migration That Explain Systems as Well as Journeys
by book_guy  • 
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A job offer can open a route abroad. A missing document can close one, even after decades in the same country. These books follow people as they move, wait, settle, and sometimes return. Along the...
Books
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Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
by book_guy  • 
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Competence is usually less glamorous than it looks from the outside. These books notice the preparation, repetition, fatigue and awkward human exchanges that let a job continue. They range from...
Books
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Novels That Tell a Life Out of Order
Novels That Tell a Life Out of Order
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
The order in which we learn about a life can change what we think happened. These novels use returns, reversals, competing recollections or literal jumps through time to make that difference felt...
Books
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Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
by book_guy  • 
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Hope is more convincing when the work behind it remains visible. These novels, memoirs and reported accounts find it in practical care, resistance, persistent relationships and changed ways of...
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Food Writing Worth Reading Even When You Never Cook the Recipes
Food Writing Worth Reading Even When You Never Cook the Recipes
by book_guy  • 
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A recipe tells you what goes into a dish. A good piece of food writing can tell you who taught someone to make it, who did the work, and why it mattered that they ate it together. These essays...
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Missing-Person Novels That See the Lives Behind the Search
Missing-Person Novels That See the Lives Behind the Search
by book_guy  • 
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For readers who want a missing person to remain a person, with a history, relationships and a voice that complicates the first account. These novels follow families, investigators and communities...
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