The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

An anonymous Autistic library staff member recommended this book when asked for her favorite media representing Autistic people. She had this to say:

"A few things I like about this book is that as readers we get to read from the point of view of Stella who is Autistic. Most books I read are about outsiders observing the Autistic characters. As readers, we get to read what goes on in her mind and how she reacts to changes in her life when she meets Michael. The book is part of a series and Helen Hoang was able to describe a different Autistic character in The Bride Test. I always like to point out Autistic people are also different across the neurodivergent spectrum. For people who identify themselves as Autistic or neurodivergent, I do recommend the books by Helen Hoang."

Unlearning Shame by Devon Price

The latest book by Dr. Devon Price, acclaimed author of Unmasking Autism and forthcoming Unmasking for Life. Unlearning Shame tackles the role that shame places in our culture. "The more we try and ultimately fail to live up to impossible societal standards of moral goodness, the more shame we feel — and the more we retreat into isolation and despair." In addition to spreading self-loathing, shame also leads us to judge others for the things we most need to accept about ourselves. Dr. Price explores how we can deal with those hard emotions more effectively, tackling the societal shame we've absorbed and directed at ourselves. He introduces the antidote to Systemic Shame: expansive recognition, an awareness of one's position in the larger social world, and the knowledge that our battles are only won when they are shared.

Sensory - Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comic Anthology

This anthology of comics by 30 Autistic creators contains illustrated explorations of everything from life pre-diagnosis to tips on how to explain autism to someone who isn't autistic, to suggestions for how to soothe yourself when you're feeling overstimulated. With unique, vibrant comic-style illustrations and the emotional depth and vulnerability of memoir, this book depicts these varied experiences with the kind of insight that only those who have lived them can have.

Model Home by Rivers Solomon

Multi-award-winning and, you guessed it, Autistic author Rivers Solomon, most known for An Unkindness of Ghosts, brings us a new kind of haunted house novel. The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things — the strange and the unexplainable — began to happen in their house. As adults, the siblings could finally get away from the horrors of home, leaving their parents all alone in the house. But when news of their parents' death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to Texas with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their family’s past and present, and to find out what happened while they were away. It was not a "natural" death for their parents ... but was it supernatural?

All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

Poetic and often funny, this is the tale of an Autistic mother as she and her headstrong daughter are befriended by a glamorous, charismatic couple with dark ulterior motives. Sunday Forrester lives with her 16-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. The one thing very much out of her control is Dolly — her clever, headstrong daughter, now on the cusp of leaving home. Into this carefully ordered world step Vita and Rollo, a couple who move in next door, disarm Sunday with their charm, and proceed to deliciously break just about every rule in Sunday's book. Soon they are in and out of each others' homes, and Sunday feels loved and accepted like never before. But beneath Vita and Rollo's polish lies something else, something darker. For Sunday has precisely what Vita has always wanted for herself: a daughter of her own. 

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Bestselling Autistic romance novelist Talia Hibbert, author of the Autistic romance novel Act Your Age, Eve Brown, makes her first foray into the world of Young Adult novels with this funny and charming coming-of-age story that follows two former best friends as they try to survive the great outdoors to win a grand prize. Bradley is perfect, perhaps too perfect. Despite his OCD, he comes out on top in football and in his classes. Maybe that's why he left behind his childhood friend Cecile to join the popular crowd. Cecile may be a loner at school, but online her followers can't get enough of her takes on everything strange from UFOs to conspiracy theories to holiday overconsumption. Can Cecile and Bradley heal their friendship and survive the wilderness? Will a new kind of relationship spark? Talia Hibbert does it again with another feel-good novel with complex, fleshed-out characters.

Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee

Award-winning and Autistic Science Fiction author Yoon Ha Lee, author of The Machineries of Empire trilogy makes his first foray into Young Adult with the first in a new series of mecha books. Hwa Young was just ten years old when imperial forces destroyed her rebel moon home. Now, six years later, she is a citizen of the very empire that made her an orphan. Desperate to shake her rebel past, Hwa Young dreams of one day becoming a lancer pilot, an elite group of warriors who fly into battle using the empire's most advanced tech-giant martial robots. Her dreams become a nightmare when she enlists in training and uncovers a conspiracy that puts her entire world at risk. Hwa Young is forced to make a choice between her rebel past and an empire she's no longer sure she can trust.