Volume 1. Table of contents by author -- Publisher's note regarding accessibility -- Introduction -- Preface -- Disability experiences in the classroom -- Thematic outline. Able-bodied: scenes from a curious life (2010) / Leslie Swartz -- "Account from Paris of a terrible operation" (1812) / Frances Burney -- After the stroke: a journal (1988) / May Sarton -- And there was light: the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II (1953) / Jacques Lusseyran -- Aphasia, my world alone (1973) / Helen Harlan Wulf -- Assembly required: notes from a deaf gay life (2009) / Raymond Luczak -- Autobiography of a face (1994) / Lucy Grealy -- The autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809-1882 (1887) / Charles Darwin -- Autobiography of James L. Smith: including, also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (1881) / James L. Smith -- The ballad of blind Tom (2009) / Deirdre O'Connell -- The bells of Nagasaki (1949) / Takashi Nagai -- Beyond the pale: folklore, family,a nd the mystery of our hidden genes (2015) / Emily Urquart -- Bitter medicine: a graphic memoir of mental illness (2010) / Clem Martini and Olivier Martini -- Blindsided: lifting a life above illness: a reluctant memoir (2004) / Richard M. Cohen -- Bob Flanagan: supermasochist (1993) / Bob Flanagan; interviews by Andrea Juno and V. Vale -- The body broken: a memoir (2009) / Lynne Greenberg -- Body, remember: a memoir (1997) / Kenny Fries - The body silent: the different world of the disabled (1987) / Robert F. Murphy -- The body, undone: living on after great pain (2016) / Christina Crosby -- Born on a blue day: a memoir of Asperger's and an extraordinary mind (2006) / Daniel Tammet -- Brain on fire: my month of madness (2012) / Susannah Cahalan -- A brain wider than the sky: a migraine diary (2009) / Andrew Levy -- Breath: a lifetime in the rhythm of an iron lung (2003) / Martha Mason -- The broken cord: a family's ongoing struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (1989) / Michael Dorris -- Bug: deaf identity and internal revolution (2007) / Christopher Jon Heuer -- The cancer journals (1980) / Audre Lorde -- The center cannot hold: my journey through madness (2007) / Elyn R. Saks -- A child of sanitariums: a memoir of tuberculosis survival and lifelong disability (2010) / Gloria Paris -- City of corpses (1948) / Yoko Ota -- Codeine diary: a memoir (1998) / Tom Andrews -- Confessions of and English opium-eater: being an extract from the life of a scholar (1821) / Thomas De Quincey -- Count us in: growing up with Down Syndrome (1994) / Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz -- The cry of the gull (1994) / Emmanuelle Laborit -- Darkness visible: a memoir of madness (1990) / William Styron -- The days: his autobiography in three parts (1926-1955) / Taha Hussein -- Deaf in Delhi: a memoir (2006) / Madan Vasishta -- The deaf mute howls (1930) / Albert Ballin -- Deafness: a personal account (1969) / David Wright -- Deep in the brain: living with Parkinson's Disease (2006) / Helmut Dubiel -- Deformity: an essay (1754) / William Hay -- Diary drawings; mental illness and me (2010) / Bobby Baker -- The diary of Alice James (late 1800s) / Alice James -- The diary of Frida Kahlo: an intimate self-portrait (1995) / Frida Kahlo -- Divided minds: twin sisters and their journey through Schizophrenia (2005) / Pamela Spiro -- The diving bell and the butterfly: a memoir of life in death (1997) / Jean-Dominique Bauby -- Don't call me inspiration: a disabled feminist talks back (2013) / Harilyn Rousso -- Double take: a memoir (2009) / Kevin Michael Connolly -- Dry: a memoir (2003) / Augusten Burroughs -- Elegy for Iris (1999) / John Bayley -- Emergence: labeled autistic (1986) / Temple Grandin -- Everything happens for a reason: and other lies I've loved (2018) / Kate Bowler -- Exile and pride: disability, queerness, and liberation (1999) / Eli Clare -- Exploding into life (1986) / Dorothea Lynch and Eugene

Richards -- Fading scars: my queer disability history (2015) / Corbett Joan O'Toole -- Falling into life: essays (1991) / Leonard Kriegel -- Fat girl: a true story (2005) / Judith Moore -- The flock: the autobiography of a multiple personality (1991) / Joan Frances Casey, with Lynn Wilson -- Fortunate son: the autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. (1991) / Lewis P. Puller, Jr. -- Fun home: a family tragicomic (2006) / Alison Bechdel -- Gaby Brimmer: an autobiography in three voices (1979) / Gabriela Brimmer, with Elena Poniatowska -- "The GENIUS, number II" (1761) / George Colman the Elder -- Geography of the heart: a memoir (1996) / Fenton Johnson -- The girl from Aleppo: Nujeen's escape form war to freedom (2016) / Nujeen Mustafa, with Christina Lamb -- Girl in need of a tourniquet: memoir of a borderline personality (2010) / Merri Lisa Johnson -- Girl, interrupted (1993) / Susanna Kaysen -- "Grove of the infirm" and "Wonder at the works of God" (1470s) / Teresa De Cartagena -- Happy old year: an autobiography (1982) / Marcelo Rubens Paiva -- A healing family (1995) / Kenzaburō Ōe -- Heart berries: a memoir (2018) / Terese Marie Mailhot -- Heaven's coast: a memoir (1997) / Mark Doty -- The history of the Carolina Twins: told in "their own peculiar way" by "One of them" (1866-1869?) / Millie McKoy and Christine McKoy -- Home bound: growing up with a disability in America (2004) / Cass Irvin -- How I became a human being: a disabled man's quest for independence (2003) / Mark O'Brien -- I knock at the door: swift glances back at things that made me (1939) / Sean O'Casey -- I raise my eyes to say yes (1989) / Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer and Steven B. Kaplan -- In our hearts we were giants: the remarkable story of the Lilliput Troupe - a dwarf family's survival of the Holocaust (2003) / Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev -- In praise of weakness (1999) / Alexandre Jollien -- In the body of the world: a memoir of cancer and connection (2013) / Eve Ensler -- In the face of death (1984) / Peter Noll -- In the jaws of the black dogs: a memoir of depression (1995) / John Bentley Mays -- In the land of pain (1897) / Alphonse Daudet -- Int eh shadow of memory (2003) / Floyd Skloot -- An Iranian odyssey (1991) / Gohar Kordi -- It's not yet dark: a memoir (2014) / Simon Fitzmaurice -- I've heard the vultures singing: field notes on poetry, illness, and nature (2007) / Lucia Perillo -- The language of me (2004) / Musa E. Zulu -- Learning sickness: a year with Crohn's Disease (2004) / James M. Lang -- Liar: a memoir (2016) / Rob Roberge -- LIfe as we know it: a father, a family, and an exceptional child (1996) and Life as Jamie knows it: an exceptional child grows up (2016) / Micahel Bérubé -- Life prints: a memoir of healing and discovery (2000) / Mary Grimley Mason) -- Lighter than my shadow (2013) / Katie Green -- Listening: ways of hearing in a silent world (1994) / Hannah Merker -- Lit: a memoir (2009) / Mary Karr -- The little locksmith: a memoir (1943) / Katharine Butler Hathaway -- Little people: learning to see the world through my daughter's eyes (2003) / Dan Kennedy -- A little pregnant: our memoir of fertility, infertility, and a marriage (1999) / Linda Carbone and Ed Decker -- Long time, no see (2003) / Beth Finke -- Look me in the eye: my life with Asperger's (2007) / John Elder Robison -- The loony-bin trip (1990) / Kate Millett -- Losing my mind: an intimate look at life with Alzheimer's (2002) / Thomas DeBaggio -- Love like salt: a memoir (2016) / Helen Stevenson -- Lucky man: a memoir (2002) / Michael J. Fox -- lying: a metaphorical memoir (2000) / Lauren Slater.

Anand Prahlad -- Self-consciousness: memoirs (1989) / John Updike -- Seven wheelchairs: a life beyond polio (2008) / Gary Presley -- Shadow and sunshine (1906) / Eliza Suggs -- The shaking woman: or, a history of my nerves (2010) / Siri Hustvedt -- The short bus? A journey beyond normal (2007) / Jonathan Mooney -- Sick: a memoir (2018) / Porochista Khakpour -- Sight unseen (1999) / Georgina Kleege -- Smalls acts of disappearance: essays on hunger (2015) / Fiona Wright -- A smell of burning: the story of epilepsy (2016) / Colin Grant -- The social meaning of mental retardation: two life stories (1982) / Robert Bogdan and Steven J. Taylor -- Songs of the gorilla nation: my journey through autism (2004) / Dawn Prince-Hughes -- Sounds like home: growing up black and deaf in the South (1999) / Mary Herring Wright -- The spiral cage: diary of an astral Gypsy (1988) / Al Davison -- Squint: my journey with leprosy (2009) / José P. Ramirez, Jr. -- Still me (1998) / Christopher Reeve -- The story of my father: a memoir (2003) / Sue Miller -- The story of my life (1903) / Helen Keller -- Stuttering: a life bound up in words (1997) / Marty Jezer -- Sweet invisible body: reflections on life with diabetes (1999) / Lisa Roney -- Taking heart (1990) / A.C. Greene -- Teach us to sit still: a skeptic's search for health and healing (2010) / Tim Parks -- Tell me the number before infinity: the story of a girl with a quirky mind, an eccentric family, and oh yes, a disability (2016) / ecky Taylor and Dena Taylor -- Too late to die young: nearly true tales from a life (2005) / Harriet McBryde Johnson -- Touching the rock: an experience of blindness (1990) / John M. Hull -- Truly blessed (1998) / Teddy Pendergrass and Patricia Romanowski -- Twitch and shout: a touretter's tale (1998) / Lowell Handler -- The two-in-one: walking with Smokie, walking with blindness (1999) / Rod Michalko -- Ugly: my memoir (2013) / Robert Hoge -- Under the eye of the clock: the life story of Christopher Nolan (1987) / Christopher Nolan -- The unheard: a memoir of deafness and Africa (2007) / Josh Swiller -- An unquiet mind: a memoir of moods and madness (1995) / Kay Redfield Jamison -- Unspeakable: the story of Junius Wilson (2007) / Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner -- Until further notice, I am alive (2012) / Tom Lubbock -- Victory in my hands (1949) / Harold Russell, with Victor Rosen -- Waist-high in the world: a life among the nondisabled (1996) / Nancy Mairs -- Waking: a memoir of trauma and transcendence (2006) / Matthew Sanford -- Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia (1998) / Marya Hornbacher -- What her body thought: a journey into the shadows (1999) / Susan Griffin -- What's that pig outdoors? A memoir of deafness (1990) / Henry Kisor -- Wheelchair warrior: gangs, disability, and basketball (2008) / Melvin Juette and Ronald J. Berger -- White on black (2002) / Ruben Gallego -- A whole new life: an illness and healing (1994) / Reynolds Price -- Wide awake: a memoir of insomnia (2010) / Patricia Morrisroe -- Willow weep for me: a black woman's journey through depression (1998) / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah -- The wounded breast: intimate journeys through cancer (2000) / Evelyne Accad. Further reading -- Subject index.

Volume 2. Madonna Swan: a Lakota woman's story as told through Mark St. Pierre (1991) / Mark St. Pierre -- The man of Jasmine (1971) / Unica Zürn -- Man to man: surviving prostate cancer (1996) / Michael Korda -- Mapping fate: a memoir of family, risk, and genetic research (1995) / Alice Wexler -- Marbles: mania, depression, Michelangelo, and me (2012) / Ellen Forney -- Matthew's enigma: a father's portrait of his autistic son (2003) / Matei Călinescu -- The me in the mirror (1994) / Connie Panzarino -- Mean little deaf queer: a memoir (2009) / Terry Galloway -- Meaning of a disability: the lived experience of paralysis (1999) / Albert B. Robillard -- Meditations from a movable chair: essays (1998) / Andre Dubus -- Memoir of a debulked woman: enduring ovarian cancer (2012) / Susan Gubar -- Memoir of the early life of William Cowper, Esq. (1816) / William Cowper -- Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Robinson (1801) / Mary Robinson -- Memoirs of my nervous illness (1903) / Daniel Paul Schreber -- Memoirs of the celebrated dwarf, Joseph Boruwlaski, a Polish gentleman (1788) / Joseph Boruwlaski -- Memory's last breath: field notes on my dementia (2017) / Gerda Saunders -- The mind tree: a miraculous child breaks the silence of autism (2000) / Tito Rajarshi -- Miracle boy grows up: how the disability rights revolution saved my sanity (2012) / Ben Mattlin -- Missing pieces: a chronicle of living with a disability (1982) / Irvin Kenneth Zola -- Moonrise: one family, genetic identity, and Muscular Dystrophy (2003) / Penny Wolfson -- Mortal embrace: living with AIDS (1987) / Emmanuel Dreuilhe -- Moving violations: war ones, wheelchairs, and declarations of independence (1995) / John Hockenberry -- My age of anxiety: fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind (2013) / Scott Stossel -- My left foot (1954) / Christy Brown -- My life in my hands (2005) / Alison Lapper, with Guy Feldman -- My stroke of insight: a brain scientist's personal journey (2006) / Charles L. Mee -- No one's perfect (1998) / Hirotada Otatake -- Nobody nowhere: the extraordinary autobiography of an autistic (1992) / Donna Williams -- The noonday demon: an atlas of depression (2001) / Andrew Solomon -- Not all black girls know how to eat: a story of bulimia (2009) / Stephanie Covington Armstrong -- Notes on the flesh (2017) / Shahd Alshammari -- "On personal defects: proposals for an ugly club" (1711) / Richard Steele -- One more theory about happiness: a memoir (2010) / Paul Guest -- Out of joint: a private and public story of arthritis (2005) / Mary Felstiner -- The outsider: a journey into my father's struggle with madness (2000) / Nathaniel Lachenmeyer -- Over my head: a doctor's own story of head injury from the inside looking out (1998) / Claudia L. Osborn -- "The pain scale" (2005) / Eula Biss -- Pain woman takes your keys: and other essays from a nervous system (2017) / Sonya Huber -- Passing for normal: a memoir of compulsion (1999) / Amy S. Wilensky -- Past due: a story of disability, pregnancy and birth (1990) / Anne Finger -- Planet of the blind: a memoir (1998) / Stephen Kuusisto -- Poster child: a memoir (2007) / Emily Rapp -- Prozac nation: young and depressed in America (1994) / Elizabeth Wurtzel -- Putting myself in the picture: a political, personal and photographic autobiography (1986) / Jo Spence -- The question of David: a disabled mother's journey through adoption, family, and life (1999) / Denise Sherer Jacobson -- Reasonable people: a memoir of autism and adoption (2007) / Ralph James Savarese -- Reflections: the life and writings of a young blind woman in post-revolutionary France (1825) / Thérèse Adèle Husson -- Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place (1991) / Terry Tempest Williams -- Reversals: a personal account of victory over dyslexia (1979) / Eileen Simpson -- The ride together: a brother and sister's memoir of autism in the family (2003) / Judy Karasik and Paul Karasik -- The secret life of a black aspie: a memoir (2017)