READING LIST - books by autistic people
NON-FICTION
Memoirs (personal stories and experiences)
Ten Steps to Nanette (2022) - Hannah Gadsby
Strong Female Character (2023) - Fern Brady
But you don’t look autistic at all (2019) - Bianca Toeps
Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and Life of Unhelpful Labels (2021) - Sara Gibbs
The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman’s Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home (2021) - Katherine May
Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World (2017) - Laura James
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir - Sarah Kurchak
Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life (2017) - Clem Bastow
Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and Life of Unhelpful Labels (2020) - Sara Gibbs
The Reason I Jump (2014) - Naomi Higashida
Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life (2024) - Emily Katy
Anthologies (multiple contributors' experiences)
Stim: An Autistic Anthology (2020) - edited by Lizzie Huxley-Jones
We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation (2021) - Eric Garcia
Typed Words, Loud Voices (2017) - edited by Amy Sequenzia & Elizabeth J. Grace
Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking (2012) - Julia Bascom
Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection (2020) - Noah Adams & Bridget Laing
Our Autistic Lives: Personal Accounts from Autistic Adults Around the World Aged 20 to 70+ (2020) - Alex Ratcliffe
Autistic and Black: Our Experiences of Growth, Progress and Empowerment (2024) - Kala Allen Omeiza
All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism (2017) - edited by Lydia Z. X. Brown, E. Ashkenazy & Morénike Giwa Onaiwu
Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in their Own Words (2020) - edited by Maxfield Sparrow
Sensory, Life on the Spectrum: an Autistic Comics Anthology (2022) - edited by Ben Owlerton
Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum (2024) - Daniel Tammet
The Autists: women on the spectrum (2023) - Clara Törnvall (Author), Alice E. Olsson (Translator)
Zines
Broader Books about Autism & Autistic People
Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity (2024) - Jodie Hare
Unmasking Autism: The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity (2022) - Dr Devon Price
The Lost Girls of Autism: How Science Failed Autistic Women - and the New Research that's Changing the Story (coming in spring 2025) - Gina Rippon
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently (2015) - Steven Silberman
Thinking in Pictures (2006) - Temple Grandin
The Autistic Brain (2014) - Temple Grandin
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns and Abstractions (2022) - Temple Grandin
Untypical: How the world isn’t built for autistic people and what we should all do about it (2024) - Peter Wharmby
Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women (2019) - Dr Sarah Bargiela,
with art by Sophie Standing
Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism (2021) - Joanne Limberg
Explaining Humans (2020) - Dr Camilla Pang
Self-Help for Autistic People
All Tangled Up in Autism and Chronic Illness: A guide to navigating multiple conditions (2023) - Charli Clement
The Autistic Trans Guide to Life (2021) - Yenn Purkis and Wenn Lawson (forward by Dr Emma Goodall)
How Not to Fit In: An Unapologetic Guide to Navigating Autism and ADHD (2024) - Jess Joy & Charlotte Mia
The Autism Friendly Cookbook (2022) - Lydia Wilkins
Unmasked: The Ultimate Guide to ADHD, Autism and Neurodivergence (2023) - Ellie Middleton
Divergent Mind: Thriving in A World That Wasn't Designed for You (2020) - Jenara Nerenberg
So, I'm Autistic: An Introduction to Autism for Young Adults and Late Teens (2023) - Sarah O’Brien
Different Not Less: A neurodivergent’s guide to embracing your true self and finding your happily ever after (2022) - Chloé Hayden (the actress playing Quinni)
Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically (coming spring 2025) - Dr Devon Price
The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy: navigating the world of ‘normal people’ (2024) - Clara Törnvall
Welcome to the Autistic Community (2020) - Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
FICTION
The Outside (2019) - Ada Hoffman
The Kiss Quotient (2018) - Helen Hoang
The Brown Sisters Series - Talia Hibbert
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown (2019; chronic illness representation too)
- Take a Hint, Dani Brown (2020)
- Act Your Age, Eve Brown (2021)
Failure to Communicate (2017) - Kaia Sønderby
An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017)- Rivers Solomon
Exciting Times (2020) - Naoise Dolan
Geek Girl (2013) - Holly Smale (YA; now also a TV series on Netflix)
A Kind of Spark (2020) - Ellie McNicoll (YA; now also a TV series on BBC)
Can You See Me? (2019) - Libby Scott & Rebecca Westcott (children's / teens)
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