Disability & Disfigurement 📚 100+ Book recommendations & TBR
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- An updated video with 100+ book recommendations, including a TBR. Grab a cup of tea and pull up a seat. xx
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MY BOOKS:
THE SISTER WHO ATE HER BROTHERS tinyurl.com/7d266zxj
THE GIRL AQUARIUM: tinyurl.com/yc6tn9xs
THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT tinyurl.com/lnz5bb6
FRANKLIN’S FLYING BOOKSHOP: tinyurl.com/hlsgkjq
FRANKLIN AND LUNA GO TO THE MOON tinyurl.com/yb2xnuv2
FRANKLIN AND LUNA AND THE BOOK OF FAIRY TALES: tinyurl.com/y2g9wqv5
THE BOOKSHOP BOOK: tinyurl.com/qbs3d2p
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The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night by Jen Campbell
The Girl Aquarium by Jen Campbell
The Sister Who ate Her Brothers by Jen Campbell
The Ice Bear Miracle by Cerrie Burnell
Growing Up Disabled in Australia ed. by Carly Findlay
The Anthology of Illness
Chroma by Derek Jarman
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Show Us Who You Are by Elle McNicoll
A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
Like a Charm by Elle McNicoll*
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus
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To Sweeten Bitter by Raymond Antrobus
All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus
Where I'd Watch Plastic Trees Not Grow by Hannah Hodgson
Dear Body by Hannah Hodgson
Disfigured by Amanda Leduc*
Sick Magazine
Ache Magazine
With Invisible Rain by Polly Atkin
Tract by Jane Hartshorn
Can Bears Ski? by Raymond Antrobus and Polly Dunbar
Splash! by Claire Cashmore
What Happened to You? by James Catchpole
A Puff of Smoke by Sarah Lippett*
El Deafo by Cece Bell
The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O'Neill
Ultimatum Orangutan by Khairani Barokka
How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil
Schizophrene by Bhanu Kapil
I Live a Life Like Yours by Jan Grue
Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro
What Willow Says by Lynn Buckle
Duck Feet by Ely Percy
Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick*
Still Life by Josie George
The Sea Women by Chloe Timms*
The Secret of Haven Point by Lisette Auton
Lumen by Tiffany Atkinson*
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth MacNeal
The Boy with Wings by Lenny Henry
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WHO I AM
Hello, my name's Jen. I'm an award-winning poet and short story writer. My debut short story collection 'The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night' is published by Two Roads, and my children's books 'Franklin's Flying Bookshop,’ ‘Franklin and Luna Go To The Moon’ and ‘Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales’ are published by Thames and Hudson. I'm also the author of the Sunday Times bestselling 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops' series, 'The Bookshop Book,' 'The Hungry Ghost Festival’ and ‘The Girl Aquarium.’ I run writing workshops, give talks at universities & book festivals on a variety of topics, judge literary prizes, and take on freelance writing and editing. If you would like to speak with me about the possibility of working together, please get in touch via email: jenvcampbell@gmail.com x
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Thank you for taking the time to put this together. As an autistic person, I was really pleased that you included books by autistic (and other neurodivergent) people.
I hope you enjoy this video, folks. As always, if you have any recommendations for me - or if you've read any of the books I've talked about/are interested in them and want to chat - leave a comment down below. x
Have you read lampie and the children of the sea? It's a lovely middle grade book by Annet Schaap. It's roughly a fairy tale retelling (wont tell which, that would spoil it) and it deals with people's perception of people with disabilities and different bodies and economically disadvantaged people. I found it very heart warming and kept thinking you might really like it as well
I'm really not interested in that book, I'm afraid. I want to read primarily from disabled authors, with stories that centre disabled characters. This book makes me feel rather uneasy, in the same way that Wonder does. x
Only book with a disabled main character to be shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud awards - Thimble Monkey Superstar.
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The Red Room by Nicci French
Gargoyles by Harriet Mercer*
The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp*
The Coward by Jarred McGinnis
The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan
Disability Visibility ed. Alice Wong
Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig
Constellations by Sinead Gleeson
Firegirl by Tony Abbott
Patient by Bettina Judd
The Alarming Palsy of James Orr by Tom Lee*
Dancing After Ten by Vivian Chong
Chattering by Louise Stern
Sanatorium by Abi Palmer*
Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen
A Room Called Earth by Madeline Ryan
Modern Medicine by Lucy Hurst*
Defying Doomsday anthology
Rebuilding Tomorrow anthology
Accessing the Future anthology
What Meets the Eye: The Deaf Perspective
On Being Ill anthology
Suture by Nick Brewer
Outsiders: www.3ofcups.co.uk/shop/outsiders
Firsts: Coming of Age stories from people with disabilities
Artificial Divide anthology ed Randy Lacey and Robert Kingett*
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
Bestiary by K Ming-Chang*
The Girl with the Shark’s Teeth by Cerrie Burnell
This is Our Undoing by Lorraine Wilson
The River’s Memory by Sandra Gail Lambert
Monsterhuman by Kjersti A Skomsvold
At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp*
Bed Zine
The Book of Goodbye by Jillian Weise
Veil and Burn by Laurie Clements Lambeth
Phantompains by Therese Estacion*
The Carrying by Ada Limon
Much with Body by Polly Atkin
A Place More Hospitable by Jason Purcell*
Recovering Dorothy by Polly Atkin
Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth
A Face for Picasso by Ariel Henley
Too Late to Die Young by Harriet McBryde Johnson
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
The Undying by Anne Boyer
Crippled by Frances Ryan
Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg by Emily Rapp Black
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
There Plant Eyes by M. Leon Godin
Disturbing the Body anthology
Corpsing by Sophie White
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
Vagina Problems by Lara Parker
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays by Sonya Huber
What Doesn’t Kill You by Tessa Miller
Breaking and Mending by Joanna Canon
Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown
Carework: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Demystifying Disability by Emily Ladau*
Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer
Below the Edge of Darkness by Dr. Edith Widder
This was wonderful! Thanks so much for putting this together.
I shouldn't have read 'Show us who you are' by Elle McNicoll while commuting on a train. Required lots of efforts not to cry in front of strangers. I felt a chill when I caught myself feeling irritated whenever Cora or Adrien said they were different. I label certain group of people as different from myself. Then when those people start to tell me they are indeed different from me I feel upset. Whom have I become, demanding a living human being to stay in a box they would not to chose to be in and be...silent. The book was a roller-coaster for me in a very good way. Thanks for the recommendation!
I've ordered all of the children's books from my library to read with my two.
I've bought quite a few of these in recent months on your recommendation, so many titles that sound so good! X
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is incredible! Also found I Live a Life Like Yours & Sitting Pretty fantastic. Thank you for all the recommendations.
Thank you for the Support for Ukraine ❤️ It’s terrible what’s going on there .
thank you so much for this list Jen, loads added to my TBR! Places I've Taken My Body was fantastic, Notes Made While Falling I found really heavy going for such a short memoir but it really gave me so much to think about. X
Thank you for another great video Jen! 💕 And for sharing the gofundme, I will absolutely be donating on pay day!
Two books I've read and loved recently, both of which are own voices, are So Lucky by Nicola Griffith, and Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz. My partner has MS and I have inflammatory arthritis, so they hit home a lot, but both great reads!
Jen I've just watched your video - with very frequent pauses to search titles. Thanks so much for making it, I now have an awful lot of books to read. In fact I'm listening to There Plant Eyes right now, and enjoying it ENORMOUSLY. Lucy x
Hurray! Big love xx
Thank you so much, Jen. I'm writing a lot of these titles down! x
I absolutely love Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance and Disfigured by Amanda LeDuc is the best non-fiction I’ve read in ages! Per your recommendation I bought Ultimatum Orangutan and am enjoying it.
Brilliant as ever! TBR just went 📈📈📈
Thank you for all these recommendations Jen - I first discovered Hannah Hodgson through your channel and I think her poetry is brilliant!
She’s a gem ♥️
I really appreciate you sharing these titles. I currently am reading Song For A Whale by Lynne Kelly. The main character is deaf, and relates her life to a whale she learns about in science class. I am loving this story. I started it just yesterday for Middle Grade March and I am already a good chunk of the way through. Thank you again for your recommendations.
Thanks for the video, lots of wonderful books to check out. Donated to the go fund me page you posted.,
Thank you, Nola. x
Jillian Weise was my poetry professor! Her name is pronounced Vi-Sah, btw (kinda German). Cy has written some wonderful collections, so the "Book of Goodbyes” is a great read. Thanks for all the recommendations, Jen!
Ah, thank you ☺️
Thanks Jen lots of books to look out for! I read in January a book called Every Note Played by Lisa Genova it’s book based on motor neurone disease, it really gave me an insight into the disease even though it was fiction.
So many fantastic ones! I added more than 20 to my TBR while watching this video. Can’t wait to delve into them
Thanks, Farnia! What’s top of your list? x
@@jenvcampbell “A puff of smoke”, “on being ill”, and “the sisters who ate her brothers” are at the top of my list! I’ve also loved your fairy tale series for the longest time so I can’t wait to check out “disfigured: on fairy tales, disability & making spaces”
Just finished a graphic novel called "Spiral Cage: An Autobiography by Al Davison", an English artist/Buddhist priest/karate athlete who was born with Spina Bifida. Since I have SB as well I've been eyeing it for years. (The attempt to ban Maus from schools the other week was the impetus to finally order it.) It definitely has it's quirks, sudden jumps in time and narrative voice, swerves into fantasy, and asides about Buddhism and karate that were outside my scope of knowledge and interest, etc., but I look forward to a reread.
Thanks for bringing that book to my attention :) x
Hiiii!!!! I have a recommendation for you i haven’t finished this video so I don’t know if you mention it! You should read Out of my Mind by: Sharon M. Draper its the perfect depiction of Cerebral Palsy and it’s by a Non Disabled author which is crazy!!! It’s so beautiful and my favorite book there is also a second book to it!!! Read it and recommend it I love it!!!!!❤
I also love that she is a like a prodigy because that’s super fun!! Obviously disabled people doesn’t mean prodigy but it makes me happy that she has disabilities and abilities
You should also read The Insignificant Events in a Life of a Cactus there is a second book to it, also The Year I Got Polio super cool book love it
And you should read these really cute kids books
Rescue and Jessica a life changing friendship, and, The Princess Panda Tea Party a cerebral palsy fairytale by jewel Kats
Lots of great ones on this list! I enjoyed Care Work in particular for the mix of disability and queer activism.
I also listened to one by Elsa Sjunneson after liking her essay in Disability Visibility, called Being Seen, which looks at ableism in pop culture and her experience being Deafblind
Ooh, will add that to the list, thank you. x
Yaaaaayyyy it's finally here!!!!
Oh hurray you got Defying Doomsday and Rebuilding Tomorrow! I found some new to me authors in Defying Doomsday which I promptly went off and bought their books. Still need to read Defying Doomsday!
Oops I meant read Rebuilding Tomorrow….
“I’m pretty sure I have it on my shelf, but couldn’t spy it” - every bookseller’s worst, most anxious nightmare 😂😬 And then ofc you manage to fish it after they’ve gone
Ha! I used to work in an antiquarian bookshop which was this times a million. x
My TBR list just got considerably longer! 😬
Wowza! Thanks for the 💯 list! My in-person book club is considering reading *The Murmur of Bees* by Mexican author Sofia Segovia, translated to English. An abandoned infant boy, disfigured and covered in a living blanket of bees, is taken in and raised by a citrus-farming family. It’s supposed to be a beautiful story yet has issues such as abandonment, witchcraft, Mexican Revolution, and 1918 influenza. Magical realism seems present. Have you or any of your readers read it yet?
I haven't picked that one up as I'm always very wary of nondisabled authors who use disfigurement or disability as some kind of 'divinity/witchcraft' (in this case a cleft palate and the child having 'the sight'); I find it's often very Othering. I'd personally recommend reading something by a disabled writer instead. xx
I’ll suggest one of the 100 instead. Several bookclub members speak Spanish so they were drawn to *Murmur* When I explain the othering representation of disability they will learn too.
@@jorjastonej Elena Knows is Spanish and Own Voices, so perhaps that's an option for you :) x
@@jenvcampbell I loved Elena Knows. But one of my bookies has chronic illness and disability. Part of her disability is fused neck vertebrae. I think I will ask her about it individually before I put it forth to our group. If not that, then I'm thinking What Willow Says or Sitting Pretty might be good reads for our group. Thanks for all the insights and reviews you offer!
@@jorjastonej That's a good idea, and both of those other books would be excellent book club choices x
Please can someone help recommend me a good book for Disability Inclusion?
Thank you for another wonderful video. I want to read all of the books you mentioned in this video. 🤍 So so many fantastic sounding picture books.🥰
Thanks, Angela. Let me know if you end up reading any of these and what you think of them. x