6 must-read nonfiction books like My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures by John Williams

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My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures

By: John Williams

4.36

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

This isn't a story about autism. It's a story about a young boy who happens to have autism, and the…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures by John Williams , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Chimp Paradox: How Our Impulses and Emotions Can Determine Success and Happiness and How We Can Control Them

By: None , Steve Peters

3.99

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Leading consultant psychiatrist Steve Peters knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagg… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. The Door That Led to Where

By: Sally Gardner

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his GCSEs, and his future is looking far from rosy. So when… read more

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3. Asking For It

By: Louise O'Neill

3.16

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, … read more

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4. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

By: Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

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  • nonfiction

5. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

By: David Mitchell , Naoki Higashida , K.A. Yoshida

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy … read more

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6. Sister Sister

By: Sue Fortin

3.43

Format: 232 pages, ebook

From the bestselling author of The Girl Who Lied Alice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar. Clare:… read more

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7. Woman on the Edge of Time

By: Marge Piercy

3.29

Format: None pages,

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly s… read more

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8. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

By: Steve Silberman

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking… read more

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9. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

By: Matthew Dicks

4.11

Format: 274 pages,

Imaginary friend Budo narrates this heartwarming story of love, loyalty, and the power of the imagi… read more

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10. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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11. The Sealwoman's Gift

By: Sally Magnusson

4.15

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including … read more

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12. The House Share

By: Kate Helm

3.58

Format: 402 pages, ebook

Seven housemates. Seven lies. Would you join . . . The House Share?Immi thought she had found the p… read more

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13. Suddenly a Murder

By: Lauren Muñoz

3.65

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Seven friends throw a 1920s-themed party, where it's all pretend--until one of them is murdered. On… read more

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"He’s a Darcy in the streets but a Wickham in the sheets."

-Lauren Muñoz, Suddenly a Murder

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14. Champagne Football: The Rise and Fall of John Delaney and the Football Association of Ireland

By: Mark Tighe

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Over the course of fifteen years, John Delaney ran the Football Association of Ireland as his own p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Everything Is Beautiful

By: Eleanor Ray

3.87

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it's impossible to part with the things we love the most... When Amy Ashton's world ca… read more

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16. We Must Be Brave

By: Frances Liardet

3.63

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage. --… read more

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"No hunger or thirst of my youth was as strong as my love for my child. We'd never be apart, not completely. Even after death we'd find each other. Our atoms would be released into the earth, air, wat…"

-Frances Liardet, We Must Be Brave

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17. The Dog Share

By: Fiona Gibson

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The next gloriously uplifting book from the #1 bestselling author of The Mum Who Got Her Life Back.… read more

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18. Autism in Adults (Overcoming Common Problems)

By: Luke Beardon

4.01

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

If you've recently been diagnosed with ASD, or think you might be, or you are close to someone with… read more

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  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction
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19. Her Husband’s Grave

By: P.L. Kane

3.10

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Criminal psychologist Robyn Adams is at breaking point after a previous case resulted in an attempt… read more

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20. My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures

By: John Williams

4.36

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

This isn't a story about autism. It's a story about a young boy who happens to have autism, and the… read more

Similar categories in John Williams's My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures book and John Williams's My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A Million Adventures

  • nonfiction
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • biography
Cover of Reframe Your Thinking Around Autism: how the polyvagal theory and brain plasticity help us make sense of autism by Holly Bridges

21. Reframe Your Thinking Around Autism: how the polyvagal theory and brain plasticity help us make sense of autism

By: Holly Bridges

3.50

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

An easy to read book that offers a whole new paradigm for understanding and working with Autism. Fo… read more

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  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

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John Boyne

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