Top 10 List - Stuttering Books
(UPDATED 1/21/21)
People often ask us for the best books we recommend on the topic of stuttering. So we put together a list of books.
(If you prefer videos, see our documentaries, and best stuttering films.)
We hand-picked them, and we know and respect several of the authors - some of whom we count among our colleagues and friends.
Disclaimer: some of these books are LESS about “stuttering” and MORE about opening up the lived experience of people (who stutter.) The challenges, the triumphs and transcendence.
While no single book is right for everyone, this list has something for everyone.
These pages are filled with insight, support and inspiration.
We also encourage you to go further… contact the authors, check-out the podcasts and tap-into the global stuttering community…
Of course, we'd be interested to hear from you as well (suggestions, feedback, etc.). Contact us.
Now without further adieu, here is our top 10:
(Titles and authors are clickable links)
1) Out With It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice, by Katherine Preston (2014)
2) The Gift of Stuttering - Confronting Life's Challenges: A Personal Journey by Moe Mernick (2016)
3) Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom by Peter Reitzes (2014)
4) Living with Stuttering by Kenneth O. St.Louis
5) Solo Ascent by Matthew LaRue (2014)
6) V-V-Voice: A Stutterer's Odyssey by Scott Damian (2013)
7) Jaguar: One Man's Struggle To Establish The World's First Jaguar Preserve by Alan Rabinowitz (2000)
And the following books recommended for kids and families!
8) A Boy and A Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz (2014)
9) Paperboy by Vince Vawter, (2013) and Copyboy by Vince Vawter, (2018)
10) When Oliver Speaks by Saadiq Wicks and Kimberly Garvin (2017)
11) The Adventures of Phil and Dotty by Michael Sugarman and Kim Swain (1987)
12/ Stuttering is Cool. A Guide to Stuttering in a Fast Talking World, by Daniele Rossi
*And more added in 2020
11) I Talk Like A River, Jordan Scott (2020)
Now, what’s you story?
And these free e-books
courtesy of and thanks to Stuttering Foundation of America.
Advice to Those Who Stutter by 28 speech therapists who stutter themselves.
Trouble at Recess by Jamie (8 year old girl who stutters)
Sometimes I Just Stutter by Eelco de Geus (for ages 7-12)
Self-Therapy for the Stutterer by Malcolm Fraser
The Child Who Stutters: To the Pediatrician by Barry Guitar and Edward G. Conture
Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teachers
Stuttering: Its Nature and Management by Courtney Stromsta, Ph.D.
The Girl Who Stutters by Mia J., Rebecca D., and Casey W. (school-age girls who stutter)
Pages 77-81 from Stuttering: Successes and Failures by Joseph Sheehan
The Stuttering Little Ballet Boy by Sohel Bagai