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
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This list was just something I had to knock together for my TAFE course, so it had to cover a variety of "topics", not just first person accounts. I thought, since I put the hours into making it, I might as well reproduce it here.
Also, the Autistic Author's Booklist is approximately six months to one year out of date. It needs a fair bit of work done to get it up to scratch. I left a message on the forums there about the things that most needed fixing or adding, but they're reworking the whole site at the moment from the looks of it, so I guess the booklist isn't the main priority.
The most notable absences in my mind from the booklist are Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day, Mary and Jerry Newport's Mozart and the Whale, Caiseal Mor's A Blessing and a Curse, Kamran Nazeer's Send in the Idiots and Expecting Teryk by Dawn Prince-Hughes (which is still marked as future - it got published two years ago).
Also, I think Finding Ben by Barbara LaSalle warrants an entry. It's co-written by Benjamin Levinson (he is credited on the verso) and contains many of his own thoughts and feelings in distinct sections of the book.
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