Books by Autistic authors

For now this is just a list. Maybe it would be nice to organize it maybe in a table so people can sort by, e.g., genre, main topic, intended audience, language, etc?

English books [Show/hide]

Year	Title	Author(s)
2019	Keep Clear: my adventures with Asperger's	Tom Cutler
2010	A Field Guide to Earthlings	Star Ford
2017	All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism	edited by E. Ashkenazy, Lydia X. Z. Brown, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu
2021	Autistic and Expecting: Practical Support for Parents to Be, and Health and Social Care Practitioners	Alexis Quinn
2021	The Oscillations	Kate Fox
2022	Ten Steps to Nanette	Hannah Gadsby
2019	Trauma, Stigma, and Autism: Developing Resilience and Loosening the Grip of Shame	Gordon Gates
2015	Typed Words, Loud Voices	edited by Elizabeth J Grace, Amy Sequenzia
2021	Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels	Sara Gibbs
1995	Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism	Temple Grandin
2015	From Here to Maternity: Pregnancy and Motherhood on the Autism Spectrum	Lana Grant
2020	Stim: An Autistic Anthology	Lizzie Huxley-Jones (editor, essays are by autistic people)
2017	Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World	Laura James
2021	Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism	Joanne Limburg
2017	The Autistic Alice	Joanne Limburg
2018	The Electricity of Every Living Thing: One Woman's Walk with Asperger's	Katherine May
2022	A Wild Child's Book of Birds	Dara McAnulty
2020	Diary of a Young Naturalist	Dara McAnulty
2021	Disability and the Church: A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion	Lamar Hardwick
2020	Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You	Jenara Nerenberg
2021	Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature	Dara McAnulty
2017	Naming Adult Autism: Culture, Science, Identity	James McGrath
2016	Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir	Chris Packham
2022	Unmasking Autism	Devon Price
2021	Goalkeeper: Memoir of Poet Peter Street	Peter Street
2018	Hidden Depths	Peter Street
2015	Older Adults and Autism Spectrum Conditions: An Introduction and Guide	Wenn B. Lawson (Author), Carol Povey (Foreword by)
2009	Thumbing from Lipik to Pakrac: New and Selected Poems	Peter Street
2021	The Autism Relationships Handbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love	Joe Biel
2016	The Autism Spectrum Guide to Sexuality and Relationships: Understand Yourself and Make Choices That Are Right for You	Emma Goodall (Author), Wenn B. Lawson (Foreword by), Yenn Purkis (Foreword by)
2021	The Autistic Trans Guide to Life	Yenn Purkis (Author), Wenn B. Lawson (Author), Emma Goodall (Foreword by)
1992	Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl	Donna Williams
1994	Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism	Donna Williams
2020	Spectrum Women--Autism and Parenting	Renata Jurkevythz (Author), Maura Campbell (Author), Lisa Morgan (Author), Barb Cook (Foreword by)
2018	Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism	edited by Barb Cook, Michelle Garnett
2021	Spoon Knife 5: Liminal	Alice Beecher, Allyson Shaw, Alyssa Gonzalez, Alyssa Hillary, Amara George Parker, Andrew M. Reichart, Athena "Tina" Monday, Brett Gaffney, Brianna Bullen, Cody Goodfellow, Craig Laurance Gidney, David Robinson, Dora M. Raymaker, Jessica Goody, Lucas Scheelk, Margaret Killjoy, Nick Walker, Noley Reid, Orrin Grey, Phil Smith, R. M. Conrad, Scott Nicolay, Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, Verity Reynolds

Dutch books [Show/hide]

Year	Title	Author(s)
2020	Lifehacks voor meiden met autisme	Marleen Bezemer, Els Blijd-Hoogewys and Audrey Mol
2019	Anders gaat ook: Hoe ik functioneer met autisme en ADHD	Elise Cordaro
2021	Aut of the box	Magali De Reu
2019	Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit	Bianca Toeps
2020	Zondagsleven	Judith Visser
2018	Zondagskind	Judith Visser

German books [Show/hide]

Year	Title	Author(s)
2015	Nicht normal, aber das richtig gut: Mein wunderbares Leben mit Autismus und ADHS	Denise Linke
2014	Schattenspringer - Wie es ist, anders zu sein	Daniela Schreiter

Children's books

• A Kind of Spark, Elle McNicoll, 2020
• A Different Sort of Normal, Abigail Balfe, 2021
• Like a Charm, Elle McNicoll, 2021
• Show Us Who You Are, Elle McNicoll, 2021
• Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse, Susan Vaught, 2019
• Ellen Outside the Lines, A.J. Sass, 2022

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