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#ActuallyAutistic: Voices in Adult Fiction

April is Autistic Acceptance Month! Celebrate by reading one of these great works of fiction with autistic characters, by autistic authors. Whether they're formally diagnosed or self-diagnosed, these #ActuallyAutistic authors write from a place of lived experience.

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  • An autistic mother is befriended by a charismatic couple who make her feel loved and accepted, despite breaking every rule in her etiquette handbook... but something darker lurks beneath their charm.
    Book, 2023Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023. — FICTION LLOYDBAR V
  • Humanity’s super-intelligent AI Gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brilliant space opera.
    Book, 2019London : Angry Robot, 2019. — SCIFI FANTASY HOFFMANN A
  • When her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves!), Eve's parents draw the line. It's time for Eve to grow up and prove herself—even though she's not entirely sure how…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — ROMANCE HIBBERT T
  • Follows the experiences of a plucky chip-shop worker whose coming-of-age in the post-Troubles years is upended by abandonment and growing tensions between local Catholics and Protestants.
    Book, 2020Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020. — FICTION GALLEN M
  • A conwoman has her sights set on a wealthy mayor - the man who stole her father's music-streaming algorithm and ruined his life. She's ready to take him down... all she needs is the cooperation of librarian and piano teacher Preston Jones.
    Book, 2024New York : Alcove Press, 2024. — FICTION SCHWARTZ L
  • An autistic college student who is the latest reincarnation of Sir Gawain into the family secrets and round table feuds he's spent his life trying to avoid while a Valkyrie tries to figure out who is murdering knights.
    Book, 2023Toronto : ECW Press, 2023. — 813.6000
  • It's an office romance on the ice rink in this heart-melting story about love's power not in spite of difference but because of it.
    Book, 2020[United States?] : Chloe Liese, [2020] — ROMANCE LIESE C
  • When his difficulties with processing emotions complicate the search for his bride, a Vietnamese-American on the autism spectrum is pursued by a hopelessly smitten girl from the Ho Chi Minh City slums.
    Book, 2019New York : Jove, 2019. — Hoang, H
  • Two friends enter into a marriage of convenience to save one from deportation—but everything changes when they unexpectedly fall in love.
    Book, 2025New York : Forever, Hachette Book Group, 2025. — PS3618.E939 B76 2025
  • The Maxwell siblings return to their childhood home in the Dallas suburbs after the shocking news of their parents' death. They return to find the house, and the family itself, haunted by strange, inexplicable terrors.
    Book, 2024New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — FICTION SOLOMON R
  • Attending a party under the full moon in Melbourne, a young woman on the autism spectrum makes magical, extraordinary connections with the people she encounters.
    Book, 2020New York : Penguin Books, 2020. — FICTION RYAN M
  • Cassie discovers she can go back and change the past. One small rewind at a time, Cassie attempts to fix the life she accidentally obliterated, but soon she'll discover she's trying to fix all the wrong things.
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2023] — FICTION SMALE H
  • The first book in a cozy mystery series starring an autistic, hyperlexic book editor who inherits a crumbling English estate, only to find herself at the center of a murder investigation when a family portrait vanishes and a dead body shows up in…
    Book, 2024Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2024] — MYSTERY SCHILLAC B
  • To escape a relentless– and increasingly unhinged– stalker, actress Meribel Mills, along with her daughter, moves from Los Angeles to Atlanta for a fresh start only to find herself alone in the fight of her life.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — FICTION JACKSON J
  • Iris, an autistic, lesbian tarot reader is given an ultimatum: earn a thousand coins or leave the family. Enter Marin, a charming young person who's willing to pay a high sum for Iris's talents in order to rescue a falsely-imprisoned witch.
    Book, 2023[Melbourne] : [Quinton Li Editorial], 2023 — TEEN FICTION LI Q
  • In this sweet sapphic romance between an ADHD artist and an autistic flower-grower, Opal wins the lottery and buys a flower farm, except Pepper refuses to move off the farm! Can these opposites both live out their dreams and plant roots?
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2024. — ROMANCE EDDINGS M
  • Caiden has been on the run for ten years with his unique starship in order to keep his adversary, Threi, imprisoned. But when an old friend he'd once thought dead reappears, he is lured into a game of cat and mouse.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Orbit, 2022. — 813.6000
  • A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : A Nightfire Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — Tingle, C.
  • Beneath the waters by the islands of Gelle-Geu, new starkeeper Ranra Kekeri and poet Erígra Lilún fall deeply in love, until an unforeseen configuration of their magical deepnames spells danger.
    Book, 2022San Francisco : Tachyon, 2022. — Lemberg, R.
  • An alien invasion hits the town of Muddy Gap, but a disgruntled pie aficionado is the only one who seems to remember it… Is xir reputation as the town eccentric impeding xir quest for answers?
    Book, 2024London N1 3DF : Angry Robot, 2024. — SCIFI FANTASY HESS A