Our Big Blog About Books
We have a number of book recommendations in our resource blogs and from our, AutismBC Connects Interviews from our members. We love when our members share with us books that they found helpful, impactful, or influential on their autism journeys. We hope to continue to share them here:
For Autistic Adults
Autistics Recommend: Books on Autism
Books about Autistic Women and Girls
NeuroDivergent Rebel’s 2021 Neurodiversity Book List
But You Don’t Look Autistic at All – Toeps, Bianca, MacCorquodale-Smith, Fay
For Everyone
Uniquely Human – Dr. Barry Prizant
Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 – Naoki Higashida (author of The Reason I Jump)
Thinking in Pictures – Dr. Temple Grandin
Neurotribes – Steve Silberman (TW: Language)
For Caregivers
The Explosive Child – Dr. Ross Greene
Lost at School: Why our kids with behavioural challenges are falling through the cracks and how we can help them – Dr. Ross Greene
Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with your Child
Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child and You Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life – Dr. Stuart Shanker
Beyond Behaviours: Using Brain Science & Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioural Challenges – Dr. Mona Delahooke
The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
Brain-Body Parenting – Mona Delahooke, Ph.D.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle – Emily Nagoski
The Power of Showing Up – Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
For Children
It’s OK to be Different: A Children’s Picture Book about Diversity and Kindness – Sujata Saha
Why Johnny Doesn’t Flap: NT is OK! – Clay & Gail Morton
Kindness is my SuperPower: A Children’s Book about Empathy, Kindness & Compassion – Alicia Ortego
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures – The Story of Dr Temple Grandin – Julia Finley Mosca & Daniel Rieley
Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different – Ben Brooks
For Teens/Tweens
The Awesome Autistic Go-to-Guide (for teens and tweens) – Yenn Purkis & Tanya Masterman
The Aspie Teen Survival Guide – J. D. Kraus
The ASD Independence Workbook: Transition Skills for Teens and Young Adults – Francis Tabone
Autistically Thriving – Judy Endow
Beyond Puberty (Workbook)– PowerUp Education
Take it from the Expert: Sixteen Years of Living on the Autism Spectrum – Kaitlin Smith
Non-Speaking Autistics:
Carly’s Voice: Breaking Through Autism – Arthur Fleischmann
Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism – Naoki Higashida
Autistic LGBTQIA+ Community:
The Autistic Trans Guide to Life – Yenn Purkis & Wenn Lawson
Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words – Maxfield Sparrow (editor)
Misfit: Changemaker with an Edge – Andreas Souvaliotis
Queerly Autistic – Be proudly autistic. Be proudly queer. Be proudly you. – Erin Ekins
Other Resources:
The AIDE Lending Library is a federally funded lending library for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities Community. Sign up for a free membership and you can borrow resources that will be mailed to you + return shipping for free. Learn more here:
