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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLook Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
John Elder Robison · 304 pages
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits--an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)--had earned him the label "social deviant." No guidance came from his mother, who conversed with light fixtures, or his father
Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story
Jerry Newport, Mary Newport, Johnny Dodd · 272 pages
Twirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Autism
Jeannie Davide-Rivera
The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
David Finch · 224 pages
At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds herself asking, What the ... is wrong with my husband?! In the author's case, this turns out to be an apt question. Five years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains his ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, his lifelong propensity to quack and otherwise melt down i
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Kristine Barnett · 250 pages
The mother of an autistic child who was eventually recognized as a genius recounts her rejection of conventional advice from developmental experts and shares the strategies she utilized for tapping her son's potential.
Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome
Liane Holliday Willey · 182 pages
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
Daniel Tammet · 256 pages
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Gerald Durrell · 250 pages
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives is the second volume of the autobiographical Corfu Trilogy by naturalist Gerald Durrell. The trilogy describes his childhood spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. This follows My family and Other Animals and concludes with The Garden Of The Gods
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren · 408 pages
An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. Lab
A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess
Amanda Owen · 320 pages
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed · 315 pages
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything when her mother died young of cancer. Her family scattered in their grief, her marriage was soon destroyed, and slowly her life spun out of control. Four years after her mot
David Attenborough's Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster
David Attenborough · 384 pages
An African Love Story: Life, Love and Elephants
Daphne Sheldrick
This Is Not a Love Story
Judy Brown · 347 pages
The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centuries of religious teaching, and the faith and lore that sustained her people for generations. But her carefully constructed world begins to crumble when her "crazy" brother Nachum returns home after a year in Israel living with relatives. Though supposedly "cured," he is
In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country
Kim Barnes · 264 pages
Poet Kim Barnes grew up in Northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great sheltering power of the wilderness. But in the mid-1960s, as automation and a declining economy drove more and more loggers out of t
You're Never Weird on the Internet
Felicia Day · 272 pages
The Internet isn't all cat videos. There's also Felicia Day -- violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer, hoagie specialist, and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world... or at least semi-influential in the world of Internet Geeks and Goodreads book clubs. After growing up in the south where she was "homeschooled f
This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
Ivan Doig · 314 pages
Autobiography of a newspaperman and editor who grew up in the wilderness of Montana.
Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
Brad Cohen, Lisa Wysocky
Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 368 pages
Warm, leisurely account of author's neighbors, and her everyday affairs while living for thirteen years in a remote section of the Florida hammock at Cross Creek.
Thorn in My Pocket: Temple Grandin's Mother Tells the Family Story
Eustacia Cutler · 227 pages
Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism
Jenny McCarthy · 213 pages
The remarkable story of one mother's fight to 'heal' her autistic son.On the morning Jenny McCarthy discovered her two-year-old son Evan having a seizure, her life turned upside down. From being the mother of an average toddler she was suddenly thrown into a world of turmoil. As doctor after doctor misdiagnosed his symptoms, Evan suffered many harrowing, life-threatening episodes. Then, one amazin
Here's to Not Catching Our Hair on Fire: An Absent-Minded Tale of Life with Giftedness and Attention Deficit - Oh Look! A Chicken!
Stacey Turis · 218 pages
"A belly-laugh inducing romp through a life so convoluted and chaotic you know it has to be true, Stacey Turis's debut gives a voice to the genius yet tormented souls suffering from giftedness, ADHD, or a combination of both (a condition known as twice-exceptional) who are too afraid to speak. Chronicling her life journey from a state of self-loathing to one of self-acceptance, the stories flow ti
West with the Night
Beryl Markham · 293 pages
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.