- No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement by Joseph Shapiro. An easy-to-read book about disability history and the disability rights movement.
- Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with Autism edited by Dawn Prince-Hughes. A collection of personal stories by students on every part of the Autism Spectrum, including students with Asperger’s. Includes topics usually not covered by books about autism and college, including dating, spirituality, and dealing with practical aspects of college like scheduling and choosing a degree.
- Disabled Faculty and Staff in a Disabling Society: Multiple Identities in Higher Education edited by Mary Lee Vance. This book includes stories by faculty and staff with disabilities. Many also discuss their own educational journeys as college students.
- The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal by Jonathan Mooney. The author, who has a learning disability and ADHD, writes about his journey across the United States in a symbol of special education – the yellow short bus. Along the way, he meets many people with different disabilities and explores what it means to normal, to have a disability, and to get an education.
- The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness by Elyn Saks. This book documents Elyn Saks’ experiences growing up, getting an education in the United States and the United Kingdom, and becoming a lawyer. Throughout her life, she has also had schizophrenia, which greatly affected her experiences learning and working in higher education
- Learning Outside the Lines: Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools to Academic Success and Education Revolution by Jonathan Mooney and David Cole. Two students who wanted to drop out of school instead share their stories of graduating from Brown University. Their unconventional tips for navigating higher education emphasize the ways colleges are set up for traditional learners, not those with disabilities. Most of the advice applies to students with other learning-related disabilities, and not only dyslexia or ADHD.
- Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts: Incorporating Disability in the University Classroom and Curriculum edited by Liat Ben-Moshe, Rebecca Cory, M. Feldbaum and K. Sagendorf. Targeting professors, this book explains how traditional methods of college teaching do not reach all learners – including those with disabilities. Suggests ways that disability studies can lead to more inclusive classrooms for all students.
- Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel. While attending Harvard University, Elizabeth Wurtzel also dealt with worsening symptoms of depression, complicated by her difficulty in finding helpful medical and psychiatric resources.
- Universal Design in Higher Education: From Principles to Practice edited by Sheryl Burgstahler and Rebecca Cory. Written for academics, this collection of articles
- Think College! Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities by Meg Grigal and Debra Hart. Written for professionals and parents, this is the first book of its kind to explain options for students with intellectual disabilities (including Down Syndrome and Fragile X) who want to audit college courses.