Your favorite books about autism (or Aspergers)?

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Are there any books about autism (or Aspergers) that you think are especially worth reading?

I'm planning to create a list of books for a forthcoming page on my website. I would like to list books in all of the following categories (and perhaps others as well):

1) Books by autistic people.
2) Books by therapists.
3) Books about the history of the autism community and/or the history of the idea of autism and relevant sicience.

For categories #1 and #2 above, I am primarily interested in books intended to be helpful to adults on the autism spectrum, and perhaps also a few books for spouses/partners thereof. (I am less interested in books aimed at parents, although I might include a few especially good books of that kind as well, if they are also useful to autistic adults.)

It's an oldie but I still like Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger's Syndrome. All Cats have Asperger's is pretty good too. On the fiction side of thing... I honestly haven't read that many that I like :-/

"Look me in the eye" by John Elder Robison is pretty good. "A Field Guide to Earthlings" by Ian Ford was a big disappointment.

I just finished reading a very helpful book by Tony Attwood, "The Complete Guide to Aspergers Syndrome". It is copyright in 2007, during he DSM IV era, but everything he says is just as relevant today as it was then. In fact here is a link where you can download your own copy:

http://www.autismforthvalley.co.uk/file ... ndrome.pdf

Enjoy!

Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age,
(Sarah Hendrickx, 2015)

Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism (edited by Barb Cook and Dr Michelle Garnett, 2018)

NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman for history of the community and Explaining Humans by Dr Camilla Pang for its blend of science and tips for autistic people, by an autistic person.

In a Different Key, The Story of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker for a thorough history of autism.

"Look Me in the Eye" by John Elder Robison was very enjoyable to me. He was born only a few weeks before me and his life has had much in common with mine. Mostly our lives have had "anything but conventional" in common.

I still have not yet created the promised page on my website, but hopefully now I will finally create it in the not-too-distant future.

In the meantime, here is a much older similar thread here on WP and a similar thread on Neurovoice.

(To the moderators: Please consider this thread to be a timeless general resource thread, not a dated advice thread.)