There's a J In there… Somewhere!

I find that books help me to understand the world. One of the first things I did when I got my diagnosis was to hit the library & read some books. These books focus on stories and characters that are autistic and/or ADHD. I know there are many other things that fall under the neurodivergent banner, however these are ones that I am highlighting here as they are the ones that apply to me.

This is a list of books that I have read. I will update this post as I read more. If there are any amazing books you’ve read that should be added to this list, please let me know in the comments. I’m especially interested in positive representation and stories of late diagnosed autistic women.

With the fiction books, these are stories where the main character is identified as autistic or ADHD. There is another list with characters I think are neurospicy, however they aren’t identified as such. That post is here.

This is simply a list, I will add reviews as I get around to it.

Memoir

• Different, Not Less by Chloe Hayden
• Growing into Autism by Sandra Thom-Jones
• What I Mean When I Say I’m Autistic by Annie Kotowicz
• Little Victories by Yvon Roy (parent of an autistic child)
• Late Bloomer by Clem Bastow
• The Year I Met My Brain by Matilda Boseley

Non-Fiction

• Aspergirls by Rudy Simone

Novels

• The Wonderful Thing about Phoenix Rose by Josephine Moon
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• .Wishing on a Star by Mandy Baggot (main character is the mother of an autistic child, however I think she is autistic too!)
• Act Your Age Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Middle Grade Novels

• Paws by Kate Foster
• Harriet Hound by Kate Foster
• The Unlikely Heroes Club by Kate Foster
• The Secret Science Society’s Spectacular Experiment by Kathy Hoopmann & Josie Montano
• The Secret Science Society in Space by Josie Montano & Kathy Hoopmann
• A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
• The Thing About Oliver by Deborah Kelly (the main character is the sibling of an autistic brother)

Picture Books

• The Wobbly Wallaby and the Absolute Bandicoot by Pamela Jacqueline and Irene Brown
• Talking is not my thing by Rose Robbins
• It Was Supposed to be Sunny by Samantha Cotterill
• A Friend Like Mine by Samantha Warne (book about children with disability, not neurospicy specific)
• Alexander the Avoider by Nicole Filippone
• Roseanne the Seeker by Nicole Filippone
• Paisley the Perfectionist by Nicole Filippone
• Preston the Procrastinator by Nicole Filippone
• Some Brains by Nelly Thomas
• The Me You Don’t See by Sam Matthews
• The Big Hungry Tree by Jo Rothwell
• Unmasking Milie by Millie Carr & Polina Povshedna
• Forgetful Freddie by Manisha J Poudyal & Jonathon Klassen
• Why Johnny Doesn’t Flap: NT is OK! by Clay Morton, Gail Morton & Alex Merry
• Don’t Tell Me What to Do by Renee Connoulty

Middle Grade Non Fiction

• Perfectly Weird, Perfectly You by Camilla Pang