Non-fiction literature
A list of non-fiction about autism and autistic people. This list is not maintained super intensively and mostly features works accidentally found while researching fictional portrayals of autism.
Please note that some of these contain offensive, outdated, or blatantly false information. Inclusion on this list does not equal endorsement.
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | The Siege: The First Eight Years of an Autistic Child | Clara Claiborne Park | Parent account |
| 1986 | Emergence: Labeled Autistic | Temple Grandin | Autobiography |
| 1992 | Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic Girl | Donna Williams | Autobiography |
| 1995 | Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism | Temple Grandin | Autobiography |
| 2001 | Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism | Clara Claiborne Park | Parent account |
| 2002 | Van een andere planeet; autisme van binnen uit (From Another Planet: Autism from Within) | Dominique Dumortier | Autobiography |
| 2006 | Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism (ISBN 978-1-582-34619-9) | Kamran Nazeer | Anthology |
| 2007 | Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism (ISBN 978-0-525-95011-0) | Jenny McCarthy | Parent account |
| 2007 | Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption | Ralph James Savarese | Parent account |
| 2007 | The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism | Naoki Higashida | Autobiography |
| 2008 | Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds | Jenny McCarthy | Parent account |
| 2009 | Healing and Preventing Autism (ISBN 978-0-525-95103-2) | Jenny McCarthy | Parent account |
| 2009 | Parallel Play | Tim Page | Autobiography |
| 2012 | Boomer and Me: A Memoir of Motherhood, and Asperger's | Jo Case | Parent account |
| 2012 | Dear Miss Landau | James Christie | Autobiography |
| 2012 | Syngja (Sing) | Lars Amund Vaage | Parent account |
| 2012 | i am intelligent: From Heartbreak to Healing: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey through Autism | Peyton Goddard | Autobiography |
| 2013 | Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy | Susan Spencer-Wendel | Parent account |
| 2015 | Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism | Naoki Higashida | Autobiography |
| 2016 | In a Different Key: The Story of Autism | John Donvan, Caren Zucker | History of autism |
| 2017 | To Siri With Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of a Machine | Judith Newman | Parent account |
| 2017 | Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World | Laura James | Autobiography |
| 2017 | Successful to Burnt Out: Experiences of Women on the Autism Spectrum | Karletta Abianac | Anthology |
| 2018 | Op mijn manier: (over)leven met autisme | Dominique Dumortier | Autobiography |
| 2019 | Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman | Laura Kate Dale | Autobiography |
| 2021 | Label Me: My Journey Towards an Autism Diagnosis | Francesca Baird | Autobiography |