Autism books

Hi! I've created this guide to help people looking for great books on autism and/or Asperger's Syndrome. This is only a short list of some of the great books out there, that I originally created for a college assignment. (That's why they're written in a bibliographic notation style.)

This bibliography has been roughly grouped by topic, then alphabetically by author. Though some books may have subject matter that fits into more than one topic, I have only listed them under what I feel to be the major theme or subject of the book. These are all books I own or have read, or which have been recommended to me by others.


Autistic adult autobiographies
Birch, Jen, 2003, Congratulations! It's Asperger syndrome, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Lawson, Wendy, 2000, Life behind glass : a personal account of autism spectrum disorder, Jessica Kingsley, Philadelphia.
Mor, Caiseal, 2007, A blessing and a curse : autism and me, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Prince-Hughes, Dawn, c2004, Songs of the gorilla nation : my journey through autism, Harmony Books, New York.
Tammet, Daniel, 2006, Born on a blue day : a memoir of Asperger's and an extraordinary mind, Hodder & Stoughton.
Willey, Liane Holliday, 1999, Pretending to be normal : living with Asperger's syndrome, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Williams, Donna, 1992, Nobody nowhere : the extraordinary autobiography of an autistic, Jessica Kingsley, London.

Autistic young adults
Hall, Kenneth, c2001, Asperger syndrome, the universe and everything, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Jackson, Luke, 2003, Freaks, geeks and Asperger syndrome : a user guide to adolescence, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Jackson, Nita, 2002, Standing down falling up : Asperger's syndrome from the inside out, Paul Chapman Educational.
Sainsbury, Claire, 2000, Martian in the playground : understanding the schoolchild with Asperger's syndrome, Paul Chapman Educational.
Willey, Liane Holliday & Jackson, Luke (editors), 2003, Asperger syndrome in adolescence : living with the ups, the downs and things in between, Jessica Kingsley, London.

Communication without words
Blackman, Lucy, 2001, Lucy's story : autism and other adventures, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Crossley, Rosemary, 1997, Speechless : facilitating communication for people without voices, Dutton, Ringwood Vic.
Dyrbjerg, Pernille & Vedel, Maria, 2007, Everyday education : visual support for children with autism, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Eastham, David & Eastham, Margaret, 1992, Silent words : forever friends, Oliver Pate.

Marriage, relationships and social issues for autistic people
Aston, Maxine C., 2003, Aspergers in love : couple relationships and family affairs, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Barron, Sean & Grandin, Temple, c2005, The unwritten rules of social relationships, Future Horizons, Arlington TX.
Lawson, Wendy, 2005, Sex, sexuality and the autistic spectrum, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Murray, Dinah (editor), 2005, Coming out Asperger : diagnosis, disclosure and self-confidence, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Newport, Jerry, 2001, Your life is not a label : a guide to living fully with autism and Asperger's syndrome, Future Horizons, Arlington, TX.
Newport, Jerry & Newport, Mary, c2007, Mozart and the whale : an Asperger's love story, Touchstone, New York.
Zaks, Zosia, 2006, Life and love : positive strategies for autistic adults, Autism Asperger, Shawnee Mission KS.

Parental accounts
Collins, Paul, 2004, Not even wrong : adventures in autism, Bloomsbury, New York.
LaSalle, Barbara & Levinson, Benjamin, 2003, Finding Ben : a mother's journey through the maze of Asperger's, McGraw Hill.
Moore, Charlotte, 2006, George and Sam : two boys, one family, and autism, St. Martin's Press, New York.
Paradiz, Valerie, 2002, Elijah's cup : a family's journey into the community and culture of high functioning autism and Asperger's syndrome, Free Press, New York.
Stacey, Patricia, 2004, The boy who loved windows : opening the heart and mind of a child threatened with autism, Da Capo, Cambridge MA.
Waites, Junee & Swinbourne, Helen, 2002, Smiling at shadows : a mother's journey through heartache and joy, HarperCollins Australia.

Textbooks, scientific and psychological works about autism
Attwood, Tony, 2006, The complete guide to Asperger's syndrome, Jessica Kingsley, London.
Bashe, Patricia Romanowski, ...[et al], 2005, The OASIS guide to Asperger syndrome : advice, support, insight and information, Rev. ed., Crown.
Biklen, Douglas (editor), 2005, Autism and the myth of the person alone, New York University Press, New York.
Lovecky, Deirdre V., 2004, Different minds: gifted children with ad/hd, Asperger syndrome, and other learning deficits, Jessica Kingsley, London.