Introduction

This directory lists 105 books written by 60 authors who are blind or have low vision. It is a companion to Blind Authors, which profiles the people. This page puts the books first, so you can find one by title, category, year, or format.

A book is included when all of the following are true, the same tests Blind Authors uses:

Blind Authors shows up to three books per person. This directory has no such limit: it includes every book that meets the tests and has a verified link.

Each book has a heading that links to where you can get it, a one-sentence description, and fields in alphabetical order: Author, Available from, Category, Format, Wikipedia where an article exists, and Year. The Author field links to that person’s entry in Blind Authors. A field is left out when it is not known. Books are listed alphabetically by title, ignoring a leading A, An, or The, under a heading for each letter. Statistics come next, and appendixes group the books by category, by year, and by author.

Each book belongs to its author and publisher. This directory’s own text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is English-language in scope. Its companions are Blind Apps, Blind Creators, Blind Developers, and Blind Presenters.

Table of Contents

By the Numbers

The directory holds 105 books by 60 authors, an average of 1.8 books per author (median 1). Of these, 42 authors have one book each; the most prolific are listed below.

When the books appeared

The year of first publication is listed for 84 of the 105 books.

Books per category

Most first; each book has one category.

Formats

Counted from the Format field, which is filled in for 84 of the 105 books; a book in several formats counts once for each. Most first.

In all, 13 books have an audio edition, and 9 books have a braille or large-print edition.

Where the books are available

Counted by each book’s main link.

Most books by one author

Authors with three or more books here, most first.

0-9

31 Cool Things You Can Do with Your iPhone: From Fun, to Practical, to Entertaining

A collection of fun, practical, and entertaining things blind and low-vision users can do with an iPhone.

A

Across Two Novembers: A Year in the Life of a Blind Bibliophile

A year-long diary woven through with books, food, music, and memory.

B

Become an Amadeus Pro Maestro

An audio tutorial that teaches blind Mac users to record, edit, and produce audio with the Amadeus Pro multitrack editor using VoiceOver.

Blind Ambition: How to Go from Victim to Visionary

An autobiographical account of turning the loss of sight into a competitive strength in business and life.

The Blind Detective

Four mysteries for readers aged 10 to 12, in which a blind police detective, his guide dog Missy, and a friend solve cases while opening conversations about blindness and guide dog etiquette.

The Blind Man of Hoy: A True Story

An account of becoming the first blind person to climb the Old Man of Hoy, the 449-foot sea stack off Orkney.

Blind Man’s Bluff: A Memoir

A candid, often funny memoir about being declared legally blind at sixteen and spending fifteen years hiding it.

Blind Not Broken: Your Guide to Turning Loss and Grief into Happiness

Part memoir, part guide to moving through grief toward independence after sudden sight loss.

Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller

A work of creative nonfiction addressed to Helen Keller, reckoning with the myth built around her and what it has meant for other blind people.

Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness

A brief, wide-ranging primer on blindness across visibility, accessibility, and culture, drawn from her own life and from blind pioneers through history.

Blind Vibe Coding: Building Apps Nonvisually with AI

How people who are blind or have low vision can build their own apps with AI coding tools, a keyboard, and a screen reader.

Blind: A Memoir

An account of the two years of rehabilitation after a 2007 assault left him blind at twenty-six.

Blindness for Beginners: A Renewed Vision of the Possible

Part memoir, part practical guide to adjusting emotionally and practically to vision loss.

Braided Love

A young-adult novel about two girls discovering what family means over a summer on a Colorado ranch.

The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight

An abecedarian memoir in brief essays and prose poems on losing her sight and learning braille as an adult.

Breaking Barriers: Working and Loving While Blind

A memoir of building a career and finding love as a man blind since birth, alongside the five guide dogs who shared the journey.

Breaking It Down and Connecting the Dots: Creating Common Ground Where Contention Rules

Essays on finding common ground and working through conflict in a divided world.

The Bright Side of Darkness

A novel.

Bringing a Book from Mind to Market: Accessibility, Authoring, and Self-Publishing Through Amazon

The story of publishing a first Kindle book without sight, from manuscript and cover to pricing and promotion, with the accessibility problems met at each stage and the solutions that worked.

The Bumpy Road to Assisted Living: A Daughter’s Memoir

A daughter’s account, as an only and blind child, of moving her mother into assisted living.

C

C’mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark

His second memoir, a funny and harrowing account of his first year of fatherhood as a blind dad.

Captivating Numbers: 26 Intriguing Numbers Discovered in Mathematics and Science

The constants that shape mathematics and physics, from pi and e to Graham’s number and Chaitin’s Omega, and the people who found them.

Caroline

A novel about a young blind lawyer in 1980s New York and a love that shapes him.

Christian Apologetics Through African Eyes

A wide-ranging reference work defending the Christian faith from an African perspective.

Chrome Plated Revisited: Using Google Chrome with JAWS for Windows

A 2026 text training book, in Word and HTML, showing JAWS for Windows users how to browse efficiently with Google Chrome, from tabs, forms, and tables to extensions, passwords, and AI features.

Cobwebs

A novel.

Cockeyed: A Memoir

An irreverent, tragicomic memoir of his fifteen-year descent into blindness.

Computers You Can Talk To: Siri, Alexa, Google Now, and Cortana

An introduction to using voice assistants on phones, computers, and smart speakers.

Connecting Dots: A Blind Life

A memoir of curiosity and invention, tracing a path through science, activism, and the disability rights movement.

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

A Pulitzer-finalist memoir of going blind that doubles as an exploration of the culture and history of blindness.

D

Daddy Won’t Let Mom Drive the Car: True Tales of Parenting in the Dark

Warm, funny short vignettes about raising a sighted daughter as a blind mother.

Dating in the Digital Age: An Accessible Journey for Finding Love Online

A practical guide to online dating as a blind or low-vision user, covering self-presentation, safety, disclosure, and the accessibility of major dating platforms.

The Demmies: A Novel

A science-fiction novel.

Designing Documents for Appearance: Using a Screen Reader to Create Eye-Catching Newsletters, Flyers, Certificates, and More

How to use a screen reader to create visually polished newsletters, flyers, certificates, and similar documents.

Destiny Is Debatable: A Memoir of Meningitis, Losing Sight, and the Love I Didn’t See Coming

A candid, darkly funny memoir about surviving meningitis, going blind, and rebuilding a life and a family.

Don Mahoney: Television Star

A biography of a blind entertainer who kept his blindness secret through a long television career.

Drawing with Your Perkins Brailler

Step-by-step instructions for creating three dozen tactile pictures — shapes, animals, and seasonal themes — on a Perkins Brailler.

E

Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening

A poet’s memoir of a life lived by ear, from childhood hours learning birdsong to sightseeing in cities around the world by listening.

The Edges of Maps: Understanding and Managing the Limits of Human Knowledge

Five kinds of limit on what anyone can ever know, in physics, mathematics, computation, and the mind, and how to live and decide well within them.

Elizabeth Blackwell: Physician and Health Educator

A biography of the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.

Enduring Enigmas: 26 Unresolved Mysteries in World History

Questions of history, forensics, and archaeology on which the evidence stops just short of certainty, each examined for what is known and what is not.

F

Follow Your Dog: A Story of Love and Trust

A memoir about the trust and partnership between a handler and her guide dogs.

Freedom for the Blind: The Secret is Empowerment

An argument that strong training and high expectations are the real keys to independence.

G

Get Cracking with Chrome for Windows

A practical guide to using the Chrome browser efficiently with a screen reader.

Getting Started with the MacBook Neo

A hands-on setup guide for blind and low-vision users of Apple’s MacBook Neo, walking through configuring a new machine from first boot.

H

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

A memoir of a refugee family, Harvard Law, and a life spent making the world more accessible.

Harnessing Courage: Overcoming Adversity with Grit and Gratitude

A memoir of the first thirty years of her life and how she met vision loss and other adversity with grit and gratitude.

Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey

A lyrical memoir about independence and the bond with a first guide dog.

Haven

A contemporary novel about a blind mother building a new life and finding love in a small town.

Health Care Professionals Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired

Profiles of blind and low-vision people working across the health professions.

The Heart of Applebutter Hill

A young-adult adventure novel with a blind heroine and her guide dog at its center.

Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness Into an Extraordinary Vision for Life

A memoir of going blind at nineteen and building a life of achievement through enduring friendship.

I

Insight Out: One Blind Woman’s View of Her Life

A frank, warm memoir of the everyday strategies and experiences of living without sight.

iOS Access for All

A thorough guide to running the iPhone and iPad with VoiceOver and the other built-in accessibility features.

iOS Without the Eye

A comprehensive guide to operating the iPhone and iPad without sight.

J

John Swearingen: Know Your Place Blind Boy!

A biography of a man blinded at thirteen who battled prejudice to win an education, become a teacher, and champion quality schooling for all children in the American South after the Civil War.

The Journey: A Life in Three Parts

A romance following Carrie, a divorced nurse’s aide and mother of two, whose life changes when she meets a charming newspaper reporter with political ambitions.

K

Karsten Ohnstad: I Wanted to Be a Teacher Just Like My Dad

A biography of a Minnesota boy who loses his sight over two years and must remake his path toward his dream of teaching, learning to trust himself as a blind man.

L

Legacy of Mazrui: Enduring Esteem for the Man and His Work

A tribute to the life and enduring influence of the scholar Ali Mazrui, written by his son.

Letters to Borges

Poems addressed to the blind writer Jorge Luis Borges as a traveler’s letters from shifting cities, where blindness opens onto invented landscapes.

Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness

A personal, often witty cultural history of blindness in the West, woven through her own loss of sight.

Living Vicariously in Wyoming: Stories

A collection of twenty-five short stories, most set in Wyoming, about ordinary people navigating love, loss, and upheaval.

M

Mastery in Men’s Tennis: Among the Greatest Strokes of All Time

Names the greatest player of each of 23 strokes of tennis’s open era, with how he hit it and the matches where it mattered.

Mastery in Music Genre: Among the Greatest Albums of All Time

A listening guide to one hundred English-language albums, ten in each of ten genres from blues to vocal jazz, with what each album is and why it lasts.

Mastery in Nonvisual Accomplishment: Among the Greatest Blind Persons of All Time

Profiles of some of the greatest blind achievers across many fields.

Profiles of two hundred musicians across ten roles and ten genres of English-language popular song, with a woman and a man in each pairing.

Mental Marvels: 26 Remarkable Feats of the Human Mind

Documented extremes of memory, calculation, and perception, from a deck of cards memorized in under fourteen seconds to a grandmaster playing 48 games blindfolded.

Mobility Matters: Stepping Out in Faith

A memoir of resisting and then embracing white-cane training as retinitis pigmentosa takes her sight.

More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art

An exploration of blindness and visual art: how blindness is represented, how blind artists work, and how museums can offer genuine access.

Mortal Ventures: 26 Daring Demonstrations of Human Capacity

Deliberate, verified feats that succeeded, from a rope crossing of Niagara Gorge in 1859 to record free dives.

My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared For the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds

A memoir of love and caregiving through her husband’s disabling illness.

The Mystery of America: What I Learned and Love About this Country

Reflections from an immigrant on what he came to admire about the United States.

N

Navigating Healthcare When All They Can See Is That You Can’t

A guide to advocating for yourself in medical settings as a blind or low-vision patient.

No Sight Required — The Blind User’s Guide to AI

A practical guide to using ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini with NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.

O

Off the Grid: Living Blind Without the Internet

A firsthand account of going without the internet as a blind man.

Old Horse, What Is to Be Done?

A poetry collection of spare, sound-driven lyrics moving through memory, aging, and the natural world.

Original Senses: The Wondrous Ways that Life Senses the World

Sixteen sensory systems that life has evolved, from echolocation in bats to the magnetic compass of sea turtles.

Outside Myself

A novel in two voices about a blind teenage girl and an older blind man who meet through a library for the blind.

P

People With Disabilities and Employment Law: Recent Developments, Emerging Issues, and What They Mean in Everyday Life

An overview of disability employment law and what recent changes mean in daily life.

Persistent Paradoxes: 26 Challenges to Human Reason Across the Ages

Puzzles from Zeno’s race to the black hole information paradox, with what their solutions produced and where they remain open.

Personal Power: The iOS Edition

A wide-ranging guide to getting the most from an iPhone or iPad as a totally blind user.

The Power of PowerPoint: Using a Screen Reader to Create Attention-Grabbing Presentations

How to build attention-grabbing presentations using a screen reader.

R

Recipes from My Home Kitchen: Asian and American Comfort Food

A cookbook of Vietnamese and American comfort food, woven through with personal narrative.

Returning Alive: 26 Amazing Stories of Human Survival

Two centuries of verified survival stories, with what each survivor did to come home.

Riding Elephants: Creating Common Ground Where Contention Rules

Brief essays arguing that common ground at home, at work, and in faith communities comes from guiding our unruly emotions with patience and deliberate thought.

S

Sites Unseen: Traveling the World Without Sight

A travel memoir of seeing the world as a blind traveler, in the company of a series of guide dogs.

Stand Up or Sit Out: Memories and Musings of a Blind Wrestler, Runner, and All-Around Regular Guy

A memoir traversing a lifetime of challenges, from his slow trek to blindness to life as a scholar-athlete.

Strange Truths: Objective Stories that Challenge Our Understanding of the World

An omnibus that gathers the author’s Strange Truths series of accessible books on science, history, and the limits of human knowledge.

T

There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness

A blend of memoir and cultural history tracing how blindness has shaped art, language, and ideas.

Time to Go Zoom Revisited

A roughly 550-page, keyboard-driven text book teaching JAWS for Windows users to join, host, schedule, record, and manage Zoom Workplace meetings, webinars, and Zoom Phone.

Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man’s Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See

A bestselling memoir of growing up blind and climbing toward the world’s Seven Summits.

The Transcriber

A short novel narrated by the younger brother of a blind girl.

U

Uncanny Creatures: 26 Astonishing Forms of Life

Organisms improbably shaped by evolution, from a salamander that regrows its legs to a bacterium that shrugs off radiation.

Unseen: How I Lost My Vision but Found My Voice

A candid memoir about identity, self-acceptance, and being seen in a world built for the sighted.

Unsettled Universe: 26 Baffling Anomalies in Modern Cosmology

The open puzzles of astronomy and cosmology that sit beside what is known for certain about a 13.8-billion-year-old universe.

Upwelling: Poems

Her debut poetry collection: 23 short, accessible poems on guide dogs, marriage, grief, and adjusting to blindness.

V

Vision Dreams: A Parable

A dystopian science-fiction novella in which four companions chase their deepest wishes inside a fearful, hyper-vigilant society that hoards its resources for self-protection.

Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice

A memoir of a distinguished legal career and of coming to terms with blindness.

W

What Should Not Remain Silent

A collection of personal essays written between 2021 and 2024, responding to the politics, pandemic, and public events of those years and tying them to wider themes.

When Your Ears Can’t Help You See: Strategies for Blind and Low Vision Individuals with Hearing Loss

Techniques and technologies for navigating blindness alongside hearing loss.

Why Grandma Doesn’t Know Me

A novel in which a teenager, told a family secret by her grandmother with dementia, sets out to find her biological father and reshapes the whole family.

Windows Keyboard Power User Guide

Keyboard commands and customizations across Windows, JAWS, and Microsoft Word for faster, more effective screen-reader use.

The Windows Screen Reader Primer: All the Basics and More

A teaching guide for JAWS, NVDA, and Narrator users covering Windows, Office, browsers, and more.

Winning Teams Version 3

A fully rewritten text training book, in Word and HTML, on using Microsoft Teams efficiently with JAWS for Windows, covering chats, channels, meetings, calls, and files.

Words of Life: Poems and Essays

Poems, essays, and flash fiction on nature, vision loss, family, and the writing life.

Books by Category

Categories in alphabetical order, each with its books ordered by title.

Biography (5 books)

Disability, rehabilitation, and law (5 books)

Essays and commentary (3 books)

Fiction (14 books)

Food and cooking (1 book)

History and culture of blindness (7 books)

Memoir and personal narrative (31 books)

Music (2 books)

Poetry (4 books)

Science, history, and ideas (12 books)

Sports (1 book)

Technology and how-to guides (20 books)

Books by Year

Newest first, each year’s books ordered by title; books whose year is not listed come last.

2026 (8 books)

2025 (6 books)

2024 (6 books)

2023 (3 books)

2022 (2 books)

2021 (9 books)

2020 (2 books)

2019 (10 books)

2018 (7 books)

2017 (5 books)

2016 (5 books)

2015 (2 books)

2014 (2 books)

2013 (5 books)

2012 (2 books)

2011 (1 book)

2010 (2 books)

2009 (1 book)

2006 (3 books)

2004 (1 book)

2002 (1 book)

2001 (1 book)

Year not listed (21 books)

Books by Author

Authors in alphabetical order by surname, each with books ordered by title. Each heading links to the author’s profile in Blind Authors.

Peter Altschul (3 books)

Taylor Arndt (1 book)

Amy Bovaird (1 book)

Laura Bratton (1 book)

Tristen Breitenfeldt (1 book)

Shelly Brisbin (1 book)

Molly Burke (1 book)

Anthony R. Candela (3 books)

Kim Charlson (1 book)

Ann Chiappetta (3 books)

Peggy Chong (3 books)

Belo Cipriani (1 book)

Naomi Cohn (1 book)

Wendy S. David (1 book)

Judy Dixon (3 books)

Anna Dresner (1 book)

Lucy Edwards (1 book)

David L. Faucheux (1 book)

Michael Feir (1 book)

Chad E. Foster (1 book)

Tony Gebhard (1 book)

Haben Girma (1 book)

M. Leona Godin (1 book)

Sherry Gomes (1 book)

Sanford D. Greenberg (1 book)

John B. Grimes (1 book)

Christine Ha (1 book)

Brian Hartgen (3 books)

Mary Hiland (2 books)

Donna W. Hill (1 book)

James Tate Hill (1 book)

Deborah Kendrick (3 books)

Deborah Kent (1 book)

Reuben Kigame (1 book)

Robert Kingett (1 book)

David Kingsbury (1 book)

Georgina Kleege (2 books)

Ryan Knighton (2 books)

Stephen Kuusisto (4 books)

Bobbi LaChance (2 books)

Andrew Leland (1 book)

Dean Martineau (2 books)

Jamal Mazrui (18 books)

Steven B. Mendelsohn (1 book)

Joshua A. Miele (1 book)

Selina Mills (1 book)

Jalil Mortazavi (1 book)

Jonathan Mosen (2 books)

Kim Nova (1 book)

James H. Omvig (1 book)

Ann K. Parsons (1 book)

J. Pinto (3 books)

Maud Rowell (1 book)

Adrian Spratt (1 book)

Maribel Steel (1 book)

Red Szell (1 book)

David S. Tatel (1 book)

Abbie Johnson Taylor (3 books)

Erik Weihenmayer (1 book)

Kristen Witucki (2 books)