Books by Autistic authors
From ActuallyAutistic Wiki
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
- Keep Clear: my adventures with Asperger's, Tom Cutler, 2019
- A Field Guide to Earthlings, Star Ford, 2010
- All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism, edited by E. Ashkenazy, Lydia X. Z. Brown, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, 2017
- Autistic and Expecting: Practical Support for Parents to Be, and Health and Social Care Practitioners, Alexis Quinn, 2021
- The Oscillations, Kate Fox, 2021
- Ten Steps to Nanette, Hannah Gadsby, 2022
- Trauma, Stigma, and Autism: Developing Resilience and Loosening the Grip of Shame, Gordon Gates, 2019
- Typed Words, Loud Voices, edited by Elizabeth J Grace, Amy Sequenzia, 2015
- Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels, Sara Gibbs, 2021
- Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, Temple Grandin, 1995
- From Here to Maternity: Pregnancy and Motherhood on the Autism Spectrum, Lana Grant, 2015
- Stim: An Autistic Anthology, 2020, Lizzie Huxley-Jones (editor, essays are by autistic people)
- Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World, Laura James, 2017
- Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism, Joanne Limburg, 2021
- The Autistic Alice, Joanne Limburg, 2017
- The Electricity of Every Living Thing: One Woman's Walk with Asperger's, Katherine May, 2018
- A Wild Child's Book of Birds, Dara McAnulty, 2022
- Diary of a Young Naturalist, Dara McAnulty, 2020
- Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature, Dara McAnulty, 2021
- Naming Adult Autism: Culture, Science, Identity, James McGrath, 2017
- Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir, Chris Packham, 2016
- Unmasking Autism, Devon Price, 2022
- Goalkeeper: Memoir of Poet Peter Street, Peter Street, 2021
- Hidden Depths, Peter Street, 2018
- Thumbing from Lipik to Pakrac: New and Selected Poems, Peter Street, 2009
- The Autism Relationships Handbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love, Joe Biel, 2021
- Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl, Donna Williams, 1992
- Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism, Donna Williams, 1994
- Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism, edited by Barb Cook, Michelle Garnett, 2018
Dutch books
- Lifehacks voor meiden met autisme, Marleen Bezemer, Els Blijd-Hoogewys and Audrey Mol, 2020
- Anders gaat ook: Hoe ik functioneer met autisme en ADHD, Elise Cordaro, 2019
- Aut of the box, Magali De Reu, 2021
- Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit, Bianca Toeps, 2019
- Zondagsleven, Judith Visser, 2020
- Zondagskind, Judith Visser, 2018
German books
- Nicht normal, aber das richtig gut: Mein wunderbares Leben mit Autismus und ADHS, Denise Linke, 2015
- Schattenspringer - Wie es ist, anders zu sein, Daniela Schreiter, 2014
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