Autism Acceptance/Appreciation Month (45 books)

Books about being Autistic, mostly by actual Autistic people - not their neurotypical families, caregivers, or researchers.

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1	NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman 4.28 avg rating — 17,729 ratings score: 287, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin 4.10 avg rating — 16,982 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Afrotistic by Kala Allen Omeiza (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 122 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Strong Female Character by Fern Brady (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 40,391 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 24,063 ratings score: 187, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women by Sarah Bargiela 3.78 avg rating — 1,964 ratings score: 183, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The ABCs of Autism Acceptance by Sparrow Rose Jones 4.57 avg rating — 35 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism by Barry M. Prizant 4.46 avg rating — 7,041 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 4,162 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Neurodiversity in the Workplace: How to create an inclusive and safe environment by Alice Hewson (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults by Finn V. Gratton 4.31 avg rating — 108 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism by Dawn Prince-Hughes 3.81 avg rating — 1,292 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book) by Temple Grandin 4.15 avg rating — 9,928 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary 3.77 avg rating — 15,492 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage by Mickey Rowe (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 347 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move: Inside My Autistic Mind by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay 4.03 avg rating — 1,145 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin 4.11 avg rating — 10,908 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	And Straight on Till Morning: Essays on Autism Acceptance by Autistic Self Advocacy Network 4.23 avg rating — 70 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Atypical: Life with Asperger's in 20 1/3 Chapters by Jesse A. Saperstein 3.69 avg rating — 550 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Odd Girl Out by Laura James 3.92 avg rating — 4,163 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism by Lydia X.Z. Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.55 avg rating — 131 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Asperger's on the Inside by Michelle Vines 4.07 avg rating — 357 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The State of Grace by Rachael Lucas (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 1,482 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words by Maxfield Sparrow (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.26 avg rating — 262 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin 4.06 avg rating — 2,181 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Please Don't Hug Me by Kay Kerr (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 752 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism by Eva A. Mendes 3.61 avg rating — 185 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's by Temple Grandin 4.20 avg rating — 2,792 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal by Anna Whateley (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 625 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Sincerely, Your Autistic Child by Sharon daVanport (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 1,994 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll (Goodreads Author) 4.49 avg rating — 10,542 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau 4.44 avg rating — 176 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love―with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Sarah Nannery 3.99 avg rating — 260 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Tornado Brain by Cat Patrick (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 2,104 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Knowing Why: Adult-Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism by Elizabeth Bartmess (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 307 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Worlds of Autism: Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference by Joyce Davidson (Editor) 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	No You Don't: Essays from an Unstrange Mind by Sparrow Rose Jones 4.25 avg rating — 99 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	NeuroDiversity: The Birth of an Idea by Judy Singer 3.93 avg rating — 301 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Different Sensory Experiences - Different Perceptual Worlds by Olga Bogdashina 4.16 avg rating — 162 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Drawing Autism by Jill Mullin (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 198 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	There's a Boy in Here: Emerging from the Bonds of Autism by Judy Barron 4.01 avg rating — 650 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Asperger's and Girls by Tony Attwood 3.47 avg rating — 596 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Grace, Under Pressure: A Girl with Asperger's and Her Marathon Mom by Sophie Walker (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 86 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Freaks, Geeks & Aspergers Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence by Luke Jackson 3.95 avg rating — 1,518 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome by Liane Holliday Willey (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 1,791 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars