Any good books on Aspergers?

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Can anyone recommend any good books on Aspergers? I'm look to understand more about it, and how to deal with certain traits that are troublesome.

Anyone read anything that they would recommend to others?

Tony Attwood's book.

Also: "A Curious Incident with A dog in the Night-Time," by Mark Haddon. It takes place in England. It's about a 15 year old
Aspie kid who's very perceptive and very good in math.

"Elijah's Cup," I met the author, Valerie Paradiz. It's about a kid who had severe symptoms as a young kid--yet emerged
quite well in adolescence.

All of Temple Grandin's works, and biographies of Temple Grandin.

Thank you will head over to Amazon and check these out.

Below is my reading list. Not all are directly related to Aspergers. Those in blue were my favorites. I am always looking for more...

- The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome (Tony Atwood)
- Thinking in Pictures (Temple Grandin)
- Living Well on the Spectrum (Valerie Gaus)
- A Field Guide to Earthlings (Ian Ford)
- The Autistic Brain (Temple Grandin)
- Asperger's from the Inside Out (Michael John Carley)
- Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's (John Elder Robison)
- Asperger Syndrome and Long-Term Relationships (Ashley Stanford)
- Solutions For Adults With Asperger Syndrome (Juanita P. Lovett)
- Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults (James Webb)
- Getting to Grips with Asperger Syndrome (Carol Hagland)
- Aspergers Syndrome and Employment (Sarah Hendrickx)
- Aspergers Syndrom and Anxiety (Nick Dubin)
- Asperger's on the Job (Rudy Simone)
- Asperger's Syndrome, A guide for Parents and Professionals (Tony Attwood)
- Introvert Power (Laurie Helgoe Ph.D)
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts (Susan Cain)
- Character Styles (Stephen M. Johnson)
- Crazy Love (Johnson, Murray)
- The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder (Carol Kranowitz)
- Loving Someone with Asperger's Syndrome (Cindy Ariel)
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult Asperger Syndrome (Valerie Gaus)

Wow that's a nice list. Will defiantly check those out too.

I was just watching a video from Temple Grandin called The Autistic Brain. She makes so much sense. When she was talking about why she could never understand algebra and math, and how that relates to the type of thinker, and learner, a person is I had an "omg" moment, I will defiantly have to purchase one of her books.

It's nearly 5am I should be asleep, but I'm fascinated by her. A 1 hour video has shed so much light on me as a person. I'm looking forward to reading her work.

I've started reading Anxiety and Asperger's -- something I'm bothered with right now because my mother has moved my $#!+ around yet again, and now I can't find it. Otherwise, I would give you the author's name as well.

I've read Tony Attwood's Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome, but it was pretty dry to me, although really informative. I preferred Valerie Gaus' Living Well on the Spectrum.

I have the same question! I don't have asperger books because I can't find them where I live. But now I discovered amazon does international shipping for a good price! So based on what I have been reading here this is my list (based mainly on female aspergers):
- pretending to be normal
- 22 things a woman with asperger syndrome wants her partner to know
- aspergers and anxiety
- women from wrong planet: our lives in the universe of autism
- living well on the autism spectrum

But price + shipping = expensive, so I will have to delete one book. I don't know which ones I should keep or delete! I was thinking of deleting pretending to be normal as I am not really sure how a biography of a person would be helpful to me. I think books that offer multiple perspectives are better, specially considering the spectrum is so diverse, but everyone talks so much about this book I wonder if I would miss something! Suggestions??

I would also like to comment I don't like the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. I think the main character is very hard to empathize with as he is very selfish. I actually never met an aspie that doesn't give a crap to what other people are going through like him. And I don't think like him. At all. And based on how the users here write neither do they. I think this book is more like "you tried to see an aspie point of view from inside. nice try"