The Autistic Book Club discussion

Hi, I'm autistic but I haven't read a lot of books with autistic main characters so if you know of any good ones let me know ^_^

A Kind of Spark
Show Us Who You Are
The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family
Act Your Age, Eve Brown
American Girl
Convenience Store Woman
Queens of Geek
The Someday Birds
Every Mountain Made Low
The Heart Principle
Anything But Typical

Non-Fiction
Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism
Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome
Asperger's on the Inside
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Coded Autistic
The Real Boy
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Neanderthal Seeks Human

The London Eye Mystery
Tornado Brain
The State of Grace
Livvie Owen Lived Here
Counting by 7s
When My Heart Joins the Thousand
A Girl Like Her
A Boy Called Bat

Non-Fiction
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir

Ginny Moon

That is an excellent list, brilliant! 👍

thank you for the recommendations very nice long list :-D

Wow, thanks for these.

Thank you. 😊

And I've just realised you've linked every title to the book!
Your diligence is impressive, thank-you once again!

Rachel wrote: "And I've just realised you've linked every title to the book!
Your diligence is impressive, thank-you once again!"

😊

Some more books
A Mismatch of Salience
This Other World
The Nowhere Girls
Hoshi and the Red City Circuit
Cress & Petra Should be release late 2022 or 2023
Izzy at the End of the World 2023 release date
Frankie's World: A Graphic Novel
Human Enough
The Question of the Missing Head

Foreign books
Desnoods de hele wereld
Niet ongevoelig: vrouwen met autisme
Zondagskind

Non-Fiction
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Coded Autistic
The Good Sister

My favorite book of all time, Wade was confirmed autistic by the author in an interview:

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Jess wrote: "My favorite book of all time, Wade was confirmed autistic by the author in an interview:

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline"

I thought that Halliday was autistic.

They definitely both could be! (Wade & Halliday) But has anyone read ‘Ready Player Two’? If so, was it as good as Ready Player One? I haven’t read it yet because I read some reviews that weren’t terribly nice!

Rachel wrote: "They definitely both could be! (Wade & Halliday) But has anyone read ‘Ready Player Two’? If so, was it as good as Ready Player One? I haven’t read it yet because I read some reviews that weren’t te..."

I have tried to read it. It wasn't very good I DNF it.

Right! So Halliday is canon autistic from the first book. Wade was confirmed in interviews AND if you read Ready Player Two, you will see his sensory sensitivities come out and he has a meltdown as well.

The second book was not overall well received, no. I enjoyed it very much, though I could see where there were technical problems with the story. I do NOT agree with the reviews critiquing Wade's character. I think they are critiquing autism tbf. And a lot of the outrage was over the heavy handed social justice themes

If you enjoy three-chapter-long infodumps about the same subject, you will enjoy that part of the book. If you want to revisit the characters and world, you will probably enjoy it. But if you are into it more for a story that excites and satisfies you, you might be disappointed

Jess wrote: "Right! So Halliday is canon autistic from the first book. Wade was confirmed in interviews AND if you read Ready Player Two, you will see his sensory sensitivities come out and he has a meltdown as..."

I wanted the third option.

Good talk. This is why I wanted to join this club.

The Kiss Quotient

Here's some books I've gotten recommended from others on the spectrum, most of them new or coming out pretty soon. I haven't read any of these, so these are secondhand.

Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
Moonwalking
#VIRAL
On the Edge of Gone
Unseelie

Janine wrote: "Here's some books I've gotten recommended from others on the spectrum, most of them new or coming out pretty soon. I haven't read any of these, so these are secondhand.

[book:Get a Grip, Vivy Cohe..."

Three out five of these books I never heard of. Thank you.

Chara's Craftsations wrote: "Janine wrote: "Here's some books I've gotten recommended from others on the spectrum, most of them new or coming out pretty soon. I haven't read any of these, so these are secondhand.

[book:Get a ..."

Likely because they are new or not even out yet.

Janine wrote: "Chara's Craftsations wrote: "Janine wrote: "Here's some books I've gotten recommended from others on the spectrum, most of them new or coming out pretty soon. I haven't read any of these, so these ..."

LOL. Yep. :0)

Invisible Differences: A Story of Asperger's, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color

It's a graphic novel and a quick read. My library had it on a list of Neurodivergent books and I loved it, so here!

Anybody Here Seen Frenchie?
Mighty Jack
Speak Up!
Frankie and Amelia
Chester and Gus
Ginny Moon
Can You See Me?
Olive
Non-Player Character
A Bird Will Soar
Not If I Can Help It
Tune It Out

Investigation in Nottingham

Good Different March 2023
Social Queue
Late Bloomer: How an Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life
Paws

Update: I checked out a listopia that has a bunch of books with Actually Autistic authors, and I think we should check it out and add the books. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Hey Chara, Have you read ‘Late Bloomer’ yet? I’ve been meaning to read it and haven’t…

Has anyone else read ‘Late Bloomer’ by Clem Bastow?
If so, what did you think of it?

Rachel wrote: "Hey Chara, Have you read ‘Late Bloomer’ yet? I’ve been meaning to read it and haven’t…

Has anyone else read ‘Late Bloomer’ by Clem Bastow?
If so, what did you think of it?"

I haven't read it yet.

So You Think You’re Autistic: A Workbook for the Confused Person Who’s Just Trying to Figure Things Out by Autistic YouTuber Yo Samdy Sam

I didn't know that Tori from Solitaire is Autistic. I'll have to check it out. :0)

Can you see me? Is good I've been trying to get State of Grace from my library

It's hard to find AuDHD characters. We've only recently found a link between the two NDs. So we haven't gotten any canonical characters yet. There may be some coded ones, though I can't think of any at the moment.

Possible AuDHD
Show Us Who You Are

ADHD
Button Pusher
The Extraordinaries

Something More Palestinian-Canadian girl

Cassandra in Reverse

A more adult recommendation How to Be a Movie Star

Can you see me series. It’s a kids series but it’s my favourite!

I recently read a romance called Two Wrongs Make a Right and I loved it! It's a MF romance but the woman is pansexual and autistic.

Two Wrongs Make a Right
Can You See Me?
Made clickable.

I found these on Twitter
A Prayer for Vengeance
Tilly in Technicolor
Freya Harte is Not a Puzzle
The Luis Ortega Survival Club
Harriet Hound
Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl
Love Letters for Joy
The Unlikely Heroes Club
Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend
This Is the Way the World Ends
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
The Ojja-Wojja
The Fire, the Water and Maudie McGinn
Nick and the Brick Builder Challenge

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Chloe Liese is on the spectrum and many of her books feature main characters who are autistic. I love her books!
Her book Two Wrongs Make a Right has been mentioned a few times here already, but do check out her other books as well for autistic characters.

More Twitter books.
All The Little Bird-Hearts
Amazing Me, Amazing You – from autism ambassador, Christine McGuinness
Neurodivergent Voices Series: Grief Volume 1
The Right Wavelength
Dear Mothman
Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-being
The Autistic Guide to Adventure: Active Pursuits from Archery to Wild Swimming for Tweens and Teens
Love & Autism
Finding My Voice

I found this Goodreads users called Lilly (The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project). Check out her profile page. She's has made a website where she has/is putting together autistic books by actual autistic authors.

There are currently 655 books on the website. It's very well organize (Of course she's autistic) So if you're interested in Middle grade, YA, Ect. You can find what you're looking for there

She even does reviews! :0)

Chara's Craftsations wrote: "I found this Goodreads users called Lilly (The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project). Check out her profile page. She's has made a website where she has/is putting together autistic books by ac..."

Can you post the link please?

Sorry. I didn't think that Goodreads would let me post the links.

Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...

Her website. https://autismbooksbyautisticauthors....

The Luis Ortega Survival Club is my most anticipated release this year. It features a queer autistic Latinx main character like the author (Sonora Reyes) themself and comes out on the 23rd May!!!!

Kids Like Us

Kids Like Us made clickable

I own the book so if needed when I read it I can send you my thoughts on it

Storm The Tiny Hooman wrote: "I own the book so if needed when I read it I can send you my thoughts on it"

Good to know. :)

I know it is romance

Found some more!
The Right Wavelength
Growing in to Autism
Tell Me How It Ends
Our Voices
Sunny Side Up
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason
The Lakeside Kids and the Covert Conspiracy: Book Four of the Lakeside Adventures
Jude and their same food.
Timmy's Story: A Sensory Friendly Birthday
A Different Sort of Normal
Hell Followed With Us
Failure to Communicate

I'm loving Lilly's site
Good Morning, Dinah
Cracked As A Crab
Can't Not Won't: A Story About A Child Who Couldn't Go To School
All The Little Bird-Hearts
False Attachments
Stubbed Toes and Dating Woes
The Problem with Gravity