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Disability Pride Month 2025: 10 Recommendations for Booksellers

July is Disability Pride Month! To help bookstores and libraries celebrate, we’ve put together this roundup of 10 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to spotlight all month and year-round. (We publish longer reading lists each month as well—check out our most recent reading list for Disability Pride Month for more ideas!)

 

Poetry

My Love Is Water by Rob Macaisa Colgate

Ugly Duckling Presse | June 1, 2025

Distributor: Asterism Books

ISBN: 9781946604347

In this hybrid collection of drama and poetry “tracing the disintegration of a recent relationship,” the narrator “traverses a Chicago apartment filled with gay ghosts and broken Tagalog.”

 

 

Cover of Decade of the Brain featuring an image of photograph-like, grayscale ovals over a background that is blue on the top and orange on the bottom.Decade of the Brain by Janine Joseph

Alice James Books | January 17, 2023

Distributor: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

ISBN: 9781948579308

This poetry collection explores “what it means to recover—physically and mentally—in the aftermath of trauma and traumatic brain injury.”

 

 

Cover of Close Escapes by Stephen Kuusisto, with a watercolor painting of tree branches against a landscape.Close Escapes by Stephen Kuusisto

Copper Canyon Press | April 22, 2025

Distributor: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

ISBN: 9781556596896

“Navigating a sightless world with intelligence and dark humor,” this poetry collection “searches for an answer to our earthly existence by way of visions only the blind can see.”

 

 

Cover of Cyborg Detective by Jillian Weise featuring white text and a black silhouette of long hair, bangs, and glasses against a purple background.Cyborg Detective by Jillian Weise

BOA Editions | September 3, 2019

Distributor: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

ISBN: 9781942683858

This poetry collection claims “space and pride for the people who already use technology and cybernetic implants every day.”

 

 

Fiction

Cover of Panpocalypse by Carley Moore featuring an upside-down bicycle in purple against a pale yellow background.Panpocalypse by Carley Moore

Feminist Press | April 4, 2022

Distributor: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

ISBN: 9781952177606

This is a novel in which “a queer disabled woman bikes through a locked-down NYC for the ex-girlfriend who broke her heart.”

 

 

Cover of Jellyfish Have No Ears featuring an illustration of a jellyfish on a green background.Jellyfish Have No Ears by Adèle Rosenfeld

Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

Graywolf Press | August 6, 2024

Distributor: Farrar, Straus & Giroux via Macmillan

ISBN: 9781644452967

This is a novel that “shines an extraordinary light on the black hole of losing a sense and on the vibrancy that can arise to fill the void.”

 

 

 

Nonfiction

Cover of A Perfect Turmoil by Alex Green, featuring sepia- and pink-toned square images and a photograph of a man in a bowler hat.A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled by Alex Green

Bellevue Literary Press | April 1, 2025

Distributor: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

ISBN: 9781954276420

This book is “the story of a doctor, educator, and policymaker who… led a wholesale transformation of our understanding of disabilities.”

 

 

Cover of The Gloomy Girl Reality Show, featuring a painting of a Black woman in an orange shirt holding her hands to her head.The Gloomy Girl Variety Show by Freda Epum

The Feminist Press | January 14, 2025

Distributor: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

ISBN: 9781558613102

This debut memoir “traces a first-generation Nigerian American’s search for home and belonging on her own terms.”

 

 

Cover of The Braille Encyclopedia, featuring black text and the corresponding braille on a cream-colored field.The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn

Rose Metal Press | October 23, 2024

Distributor: Itasca Books

ISBN: 9781941628331

This memoir “shapeshifts between lyric essay and prose poetry and traverses the divides between lived experience, history, and scientific knowledge.”

 

 

Cover of Floppy featuring a contoured line illustration of a person on their black with a cat on their stomach, in black and white and gold against a blue background.Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World by Alyssa Graybeal

Red Hen Press | May 30, 2023

Distributor: Publishers Group West

ISBN: 9781636280974

This memoir explores “the emotional landscape of living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome from a patient’s perspective.”