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Face Equality Reading List

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

Born Different

Author: Amit Ghose

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

Owning It: Our disabled childhoods in our own words

Author: Various

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 Hoge

Wonder

Author: R.J Palacio
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