Which Aspie or Autie books have you read?

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The Blue Bottle Mystery: An Asperger Adventure-A book for kids, but a quick and entertaining read. A true portrait of what people with AS face.

The very first autism-related work I ever read was the Reader's Digest condensed version of For The Love of Ann, about an English girl whose parents brought her out of autism. The methods used were disturbing, but the story was interesting. Ann Hodges would be 55 years old today. It would be interesting to find out what she's doing now, if she is still alive.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. I read it before I found out that I have AS, and it surprised and confused me that I identified so much with the main character, who is autistic. I mentioned it to my husband and he rolled his eyes and told me I wasn't autistic. heh.

Nobody Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere by Donna Williams are both great books. (I like Nobody Nowhere better, however).

Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet is also good. It is interesting reading about a savant with Asperger's Syndrome, because usually savants have more noticeable developmental delays than him.

The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships by Temple Grandin and Sean Barron is incredibly useful to me in a practical way. Grandin writes some interesting ideas about it being easier to be a child with AS in the 1950s and 60s because society was more structured than it is now. There are also many strategies in this book for living adaptively with AS.

I'm currently reading "Right Address...Wrong Planet" by Gena P. Barnhill.
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" by Mark Haddon
seems to be about a Stereotypical Autie than a person with AS.

Asperger's Syndrome by Tony Attwood
Born On A Blue Day by Daniel Tammet

I've also had a quick look at a number of other books in libraries and bookshops trying to
get different perspectives,ranging from the teenager Luke Jackson to medical dictionaries.