 | By the Light of the Moon by Dean R. Koontz
Buy used from: £0.01 Dreadful and tedious with unappealing characters. Crazy Jilly has nothing to recommend her. Shep, who has autism sounds neurotypical compared to her! I didn't like the tiresome repetition.
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 | Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 Wim is a stereotype. I didn't like the line about him not having emotions, which is bull. I'm sick of people with autism being described as automaton-like savants. A must to avoid!
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 | Kristy and the Secret of Susan (Baby-Sitters Club) by Ann Matthews Martin
Buy used from: £0.01 A badly written book calling autism "a mental illness" and is rife with inaccuracies about it. The title character is a musical prodigy with Kanner's autism. I'm sick of the savant stereotypes.
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 | Little Rainman by R. Wayne Gilpin
Buy new: £10.95 / Used from: £7.18 I am sorry, but I think this is a dreadful book. I am sick of the Rainman stereotype being applied to people with autism and the handwritten font wasn't helpful. Let the title serve as a warning!
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 | Eating an Artichoke: A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome: A Mother's Perspective on Asperger's Syndrome by Tony Attwood (Foreward)
Buy new: £12.08 / Used from: £0.68 I found this book surfacy and full of misspellings and awkward sentence construction. I was annoyed with the infantile way the author spoke to her son.
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 | Looking for X by Deborah Ellis
Buy used from: £0.12 Although the characters were appealing for the most part, I didn't care for the story and felt it did not really go anywhere.
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 | Home Free by Kathryn Lasky
Buy used from: £16.07 This is a tediously written book that relies on some stereotyping. Although I loved the part about the eagles, I didn't like the way Lucy's privacy was disregarded.
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| Autism (Diseases & disorders series) by Michele Engel Edwards
Buy used from: £3.08 The title should serve as a warning because autism ISN'T a disease.
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 | Autism (Understanding Diseases and Disorders) by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Buy used from: £4.68 This book hinders understanding by making the spurious claim that autism is a disease. It isn't. Let the title serve as a warning.
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| Early Childhood Autism: An Ethological Approach (Advances in Ethology, 10) by Elisabeth A. Tinbergen
Buy used from: £18.82 One of the worst books about autism. This smugly written work touts a disproven 100% success rate using an unsatsifactory method and blames mothers. A must miss!
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| Autistic Children: New Hope for a Cure by Niko Tinbergen
Buy used from: £20.00 Bar none, the WORST and most misleading book about autism. It makes grandiose claims; blames mothers; touts a punitive, self-serving method that has long been disproved. Truly for the birds!
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 | Gentle Giant by Wendy Robinson
Buy used from: £21.95 Truly one of the worst books under the sun! This book is just a manifesto of abuse and illustrates how NEVER to treat others!
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 | An Asperger Marriage by Gisela Slater-Walker
Buy new: £11.35 / Used from: £3.99 The relationship in this book sounded like spousal abuse of an a/A partner to me.
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 | The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of Self by Bruno Bettelheim
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £7.18 A steaming crock of bull manure replete with fallacies and parent blaming. The author's concept of autism was an empty fortress! Skip this book! It's dangerously misleading!
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 | Autism, Pre Rain Man: Pre Rain Man Autism by Rich Shull
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £10.92 Relies too heavily on stereotypes and negates the autistic features and experiences of people who don't fit his mold, e.g. not all autistics think in pictures.
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 | I Don't Want to be inside ME Anymore: Messages from an Autistic Mind by Birger Sellin
Buy used from: £7.97 Full of myths about autism, e.g. choosing not to communicate and nothing registering. Questionable claims about facilitated communication and cites questionable sources. Relies on tired stereotypes.
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 | Holding Time: How to Eliminate Conflict, Temper Tantrums, and Sibling Rivalry and Raise Happy, Loving, Successful Children by Martha G. Welch
Buy used from: £0.01 One of the worst books! This is a very punitive method that does not cure autism and resorts to parent blaming and leaning on disproved theories. This method is replete with yelling and restraint.
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 | The Boy Who Ate Stars by Kochka
Buy used from: £0.01 Gives an incorrect definition of autism; cites Bettelheim, a notorious fraud as an expert. This is not a helpful book about a boy with autism.
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 | Caleb's Twin by Kristina Mooney
Buy new: £16.95 / Used from: £12.15 "This is one of the worst novels I have EVER read! It is about parents being given the choice to clone and replace their autistic children with their NT clone."
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 | Defying Autism by Karen Mayer Cunningham
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.88 This is one of the worst books about autism since Bettelheim. The author claims that autism is a case of demonic possession and that people who have autism are cursed. AVOID THIS ONE!"
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