The Face Equality reading list features a selection of books and reading material from authors with lived experience or who have a loved one with a facial or visible difference.
A Face for Picasso
Author: Ariel Henley
Can You See My Scars?
Author: Samuel Moore-Sobel
Changing Faces: The Challenge of Facial Disfigurement
Author: James Partridge
Diary of a Beautiful Disaster
Author: Kristin Bartzokis
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Author: Amanda Leduc
Face
Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Face It: Facial Disfigurement and my Fight for Equality
Author: James Partridge
Faces of Equality
Author: Changing Faces
Facial Shift: Adjusting to an Altered Appearance
Author: Dawn Shaw
Flashback Girl: Lessons on Resilience from a Burn Survivor
Author: Lise Deguire
God Never Moved: A Couple’s Journey Through Fire to Life
Author: Diana Tenney and Jerry Laperriere
Growing up Disabled in Australia
Author: Carly Findlay
How I Learned to Rock My Life: The Peter Dankelson Story
Author: Peter Dankelson
I Almost Lost Her: A Memoir Of Unthinkable Tragedy
Author: André Xavier and Charlie Anne Xavier
I Like Me
Author: Nancy Carlson
In This Altered Body: A Survivor’s Story of Resilience and Love
Author: Charlene Pell
Isaac & Lilah: A story of similarities and differences
Author: Liz Jones – Microtia UK
It’s Okay to be Different
Author: Todd Parr
I’ve Got Scars, Baby!: How To Embrace Your Scars and Power Your Purpose
Author: Audra Bryant
I’ve Just Seen a Face
Author: Amy Mendillo
Lucia’s Story: My Imperfect Beauty
Author: Bella Lucia
MI9: The Beginning
Author: Adam Rood
No Horn Unicorn
Shani Dhanda
Not All Heroes Wear Capes
Author: Jono Lancaster
Peter’s Rockin’ Ear
Author: Peter Dankelson
Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care
Author: Susannah Fox
Ride High Pineapple
Author: Jenny Woolsley
Smile with Simon
Author: Patricia A. Simon, RN
Standing at the Back Door of Happiness: and How I Unlocked It
Author: David Roche
The Courage to Be Kind
Author: Jenny Levin and Rena Rosen
Two Sides to a Face
Author: Chelsey Peat
Ugly
Author: Robert Hodge
Wonder
Author: R.J Palacio
Our member organisation Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors have created a Burn Community Bookshelf which can be found here.
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