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Not necessarily about blindness or blind people, these books--fiction, nonfiction, poetry--highlight the diversity of blind and visually-impaired writers.
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The Story of My Life
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4.08 avg rating — 150,666 ratings
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
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4.19 avg rating — 5,291 ratings
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Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir
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James Tate Hill (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 506 ratings
score: 200,
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Redsight
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3.48 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Paradise Lost
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3.85 avg rating — 180,273 ratings
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Planet of the Blind
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3.96 avg rating — 843 ratings
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Adventures in Darkness: The Summer of an Eleven-year-old Blind Boy
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4.02 avg rating — 246 ratings
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There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
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M. Leona Godin (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 318 ratings
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To Race the Wind; An Autobiography.
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3.86 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage
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Mickey Rowe (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Shouting in the Dark: My Journey Back To The Light
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4.38 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Exit Facility: A fast-paced and darkly humorous novel set in Scotland
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Fiona Scott-Barrett (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Blue Postcards
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Academy Gothic
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James Tate Hill (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 81 ratings
score: 99,
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Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
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Robert Kurson (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 4,048 ratings
score: 99,
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Together
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4.05 avg rating — 590 ratings
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The Exit Facility
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Fiona Scott-Barrett (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness
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3.44 avg rating — 188 ratings
score: 99,
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Blind Spot
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Laura Ellen (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
score: 98,
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Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
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Alive Day: A Story of Love and Loyalty
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3.83 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Slackjaw
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3.90 avg rating — 732 ratings
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Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Mountain Midwife
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Laurie Alice Eakes (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 4,383 ratings
score: 94,
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Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness
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3.97 avg rating — 458 ratings
score: 93,
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The Bright Side of Darkness
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J.E. Pinto (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 92,
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Sight Unseen
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3.89 avg rating — 91 ratings
score: 90,
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Do You Dream in Color?: Insights from a Girl Without Sight
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3.78 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Cockeyed: A Memoir
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3.82 avg rating — 884 ratings
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Ordinary Daylight: Portrait of an Artist Going Blind
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3.56 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Smoke City
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Keith Rosson (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 494 ratings
score: 86,
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Ulysses
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3.76 avg rating — 136,781 ratings
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Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
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3.98 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
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Eavesdropping
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3.96 avg rating — 180 ratings
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These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales: Stories
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2.96 avg rating — 469 ratings
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Unplugging Philco
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3.26 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The World I Live In
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3.97 avg rating — 1,244 ratings
score: 78,
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Midstream: My Later Life (American Biography Series)
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4.08 avg rating — 150,666 ratings
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A Sense of the Enemy: The High Stakes History of Reading Your Rival's Mind
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3.64 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 75,
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Face to Face: An Autobiography
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4.27 avg rating — 41 ratings
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To Catch an Angel: Adventures in the World I Cannot See
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score: 73,
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The Sound of the Walls
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 72,
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The Face of the Deep
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Now I See You: A Memoir
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Nicole C. Kear (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 2,769 ratings
score: 70,
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Blind: A Memoir
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Belo Miguel Cipriani (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 217 ratings
score: 69,
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Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
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4.37 avg rating — 732 ratings
score: 68,
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Holding On by Letting Go
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Heather Hutchison (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 29 ratings
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list created March 27th, 2021
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