Fiction books on autism

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Hi ,

I wondered whether members of this forum have read or know any fiction works where the main character has autism and is a girl/woman.
For example both "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and newly published "The Eagle Tree" by Ned Hayes the main character is a boy with autism. Also in "The Rosie Project" the main character is a man with autism/Asperger.

I would be interested to read similar books but then from a 'female' point of view.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions!

I have the curious incident of the dog in the night time, and a book called "the reason i jump"

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, all Steig Larsson and The Girl in the Spider's Web, by David Lagercrantz. (Larsson died after his third book in this series. Lagercrantz has done a wonderful job imitating him).
These books follow the life and adventures of Lisbeth Salander, in her home city of Stockholm. All the books written by Larsson have been made into films.
In one of the books (I forget which, sorry), one of the main characters speculates about whether or not Lisbeth has Aspergers. It is never stated outright but to me it is obvious that Lisbeth is one of us, our sister. These are truly great reads as well. Here in England they can be bought cheaply second hand. I urge you to try them!

- Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
- Wild Orchid, Waiting for No One and The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna
- Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
- Lisa and the Lacemaker by Kathy Hoopmann

Try this to get you started

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f ... Literature

The Remains of the Day

Thank you for your recommendations

The Way Things Look to Me by Roopa Farooki

Sparrow Migrations (one of the characters in it is autistic but the whole book isn't about autism)
Inside Out by Ann M. Martin
Kristy and the Secret of Susan (one of the Babysitters Club Book)

Chime has a main character which is autistic. It's probably better because it's NOT told from her perspective, freaking tired of NTs trying to steal our voice.

I second Rain Reign, it's about a fifth grade girl with autism whose dog runs away and it's really good.

On the Edge of Gone is a young adult book by autistic author Corinne Duyvis that was published earlier this year, and it's fantastic, not just for its depiction of a protagonist with autism, but also for its worldbuilding, plotting, overall development, and quality of prose. I also recommend Rogue by Lyn Miller-Lachmann, who has Asperger's. That book's for 8-12 year old readers and has a main character with Asperger's. Anne Ursu does not have autism (although her son does), but her children's fantasy novel The Real Boy has been highly praised, including by reviewers with autism, for its depiction of an autistic main character.

There's The Regulators by Stephan King (as Richard Bachman) but it's pretty gross in a lot of parts.

"The story takes place in the fictional town of Wentworth, Ohio, a typical suburban community. On Poplar Street, an autistic boy named Seth has gained the power to control reality through the help of a being known as Tak. Soon, Poplar Street begins to change shape, transforming from a quiet suburb into a wild west caricature based on what Seth has seen on his television. Meanwhile, the other residents of the street are being attacked by the many beings that Seth's imagination is creating, due to Tak's control over them. These residents are forced to work together to stop Seth and Tak from completely transforming the world around them and stop Tak before he kills anyone else.

Seth's imagination is heavily influenced by a western called The Regulators and a cartoon called MotoKops 2200. The novel contains excerpts from scripts for both"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Regulators_(novel)#Synopsis

King's descriptions of Seth's autism are interesting.

Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris.
The main male character, Claude, is patently Aspie.
He's studied in every faculty of the university by 20, is academically obsessive and brilliant (into philosophy, hermetic mysticism, alchemy), kind to orphans, but has minimal social skills, and his emotional/sexual crisis is fuelled even further by being a 15C priest under vows of celibacy. He implodes completely at 35: a magnificent, passionate, tragic mess, who destroys himself and everything around him. And even though he was written in 1831, he's quite clearly one of us. I first read about him as a teenager, some 35 years before my own diagnosis, and I've loved him ever since. He has lots of rare books and his own laboratory... What more could a girl want?!