10 Best autistic spectrum disorder books like A Place for Everything by Anna Wilson

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A Place for Everything

By: Anna Wilson

4.11

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A searing account of a mother’s late-diagnosis of Aspergers – and its reaching effects on a whole f…

"Just imagine how many judgements we could avoid if there was a better understanding of Autism. (In 'A Place for Everything.' )"

-Anna Wilson, A Place for Everything

"Just imagine how many judgements we could avoid if there was a better understanding of Autism. (In 'A Place for Everything.' )"

-Anna Wilson, A Place for Everything

If you liked the autistic spectrum disorder plot in A Place for Everything by Anna Wilson , here is a list of 10 books like this:

1. Odd Girl Out: Being Autistic in a Neurotypical World

By: Laura James

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From early childhood, Laura James knew she was different, but it wasn't until her mid-forties that … read more

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2. The Liars' Club

By: Mary Karr

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. I… read more

Similar categories in Mary Karr's The Liars' Club book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"A pool game mixes ritual with geometry."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild..."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it."

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

"Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, “go in,"

-Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

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3. The Mother

By: T.M. Logan

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Framed for murder. Now she's free . . . A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and w… read more

Similar categories in T.M. Logan's The Mother book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
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4. 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

Similar categories in Suzie Miller's Prima Facie book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

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

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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5. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
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6. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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7. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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8. Lessons (Maggie Adair, #3)

By: Jenny Colgan

3.81

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

Jenny Colgan's return to the Little School by the Sea - perfect for anyone who ever dreamed of goin… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Colgan's Lessons (Maggie Adair, #3) book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
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9. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

Similar categories in Chetna Maroo's Western Lane book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
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10. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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11. Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

By: Pete Wharmby

4.35

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for … read more

Similar categories in Pete Wharmby's Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • biography
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."

-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

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12. I Am an Island

By: Tamsin Calidas

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on an island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home.… read more

Similar categories in Tamsin Calidas's I Am an Island book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"It was a time of hope and dreaming of your beautiful life, and Brit Pop singing the world real again."

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"On dementia: It is like you are living in a world with no connection to anyone or anything. It is lonely. It is like nobody is there."

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"Cancer bleeds the life out of you until there is nothing left. Once the body is not able to eat, it starts to sleep and its muscles and strength begin to waste away. But even then, the mind can still…"

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

"When someone dies, their spirit is free. But no one is free that is left behind. (...) Grief is like soil. It is heavy and clings to your skin, even when you come up for air. And sometimes, even afte…"

-Tamsin Calidas, I Am an Island

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13. The Swimmer

By: Graham Norton

3.86

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

Quick Reads 2022 Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and qu… read more

Similar categories in Graham Norton's The Swimmer book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
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14. A Lesson in Cruelty

By: Harriet Tyce

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

WHAT PRICE WOULD YOU PAY FOR THE PERFECT LIFE? They say you can't always get what you want. But … read more

Similar categories in Harriet Tyce's A Lesson in Cruelty book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
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15. Betrayal

By: Lesley Pearse

4.17

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Eve should never have married Don Hathaway. Yes, he gave her two beautiful children - Olly and Tabi… read more

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  • audiobook
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16. Dust Child

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more

Similar categories in Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's Dust Child book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

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17. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

Similar categories in Katriona O'Sullivan's Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. A Kind of Spark

By: Elle McNicoll

4.52

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

A neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to… read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's A Kind of Spark book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • mental health
"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

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19. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

By: Maddie Mortimer

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and d… read more

Similar categories in Maddie Mortimer's Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
"the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"For we inherit the haunts of our mothers; we are left with the guests they let in."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

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20. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

By: Chloé Hayden

4.34

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more

Similar categories in Chloé Hayden's Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."

-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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21. Blossomise

By: Simon Armitage

4.22

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more

Similar categories in Simon Armitage's Blossomise book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • nonfiction
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22. Lost & Found: A Memoir

By: Kathryn Schulz

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Schulz's Lost & Found: A Memoir book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

Cover of Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels by Sara Gibbs

23. Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

By: Sara Gibbs

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neithe… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gibbs's Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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24. UNMASKED

By: Ellie Middleton

4.24

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Middleton's UNMASKED book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Bad Men

By: Julie Mae Cohen

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the most irresistible serial killer of the year in this twisty feminist thriller that's as wic… read more

Similar categories in Julie Mae Cohen's Bad Men book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
Cover of Sincerely, Your Autistic Child by Sharon daVanport

26. Sincerely, Your Autistic Child

By: Sharon daVanport

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A rare and diverse collection of autistic voices that highlights to parents the unique needs of gir… read more

Similar categories in Sharon daVanport's Sincerely, Your Autistic Child book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

By: Joanne Limburg

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me … read more

Similar categories in Joanne Limburg's Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
"Guilt attaches to an act, but shame attaches to a person."

-Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

"We are, all of us, striving constantly to pass those normality exams, to take our raw and boundless selves and squash them into the forms of neater and nicer girls."

-Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

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28. Show Us Who You Are

By: Elle McNicoll

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The second book from the author of A Kind Of Spark, with Neurodivergent characters you'll root for … read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Show Us Who You Are book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • audiobook
"There are no useless facts, Cora."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"Grief is just love asking for more time."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"As soon as I gave up caring, everything got easier."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"People's minds are all so different. All capable of different things."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

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29. Imperfect Women

By: Araminta Hall

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of Our Kind of Cruelty comes an enthralling, irresistible novel of psychological su… read more

Similar categories in Araminta Hall's Imperfect Women book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
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30. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

Similar categories in Clare Chambers's Shy Creatures book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • audiobook
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31. A Place for Everything

By: Anna Wilson

4.11

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A searing account of a mother’s late-diagnosis of Aspergers – and its reaching effects on a whole f… read more

Similar categories in Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything book and Anna Wilson's A Place for Everything

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Just imagine how many judgements we could avoid if there was a better understanding of Autism. (In 'A Place for Everything.' )"

-Anna Wilson, A Place for Everything

24 Top audiobook books like A Place for Everything by Anna Wilson

Transform Your Habits

The Mother

T.M. Logan

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Prima Facie

Suzie Miller

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Soldier Sailor

Claire Kilroy

4.10

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19 Best nonfiction books like Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg

Transform Your Habits

Aspergirls

Rudy Simone

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Strong Female Character

Fern Brady

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

Pete Wharmby

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit

Bianca Toeps

4.05

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