I need emotionally tumultuous novels with neurodivergent characters which lingered with you after reading. I only read Almond by Sohn Won Pyung and The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. I need more though.
Half a soul by Olivia Atwater is heavily neurodivergent coded. Fantasy. If you’re into fantasy 🙂
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An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (main character is neurodivergent and the author is autistic and had ADHD)
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“The Death of Jane Lawrence” by Caitlin Starling is a trippy gothic haunted-house story, with a protagonist who’s written with modern ASD criteria in mind. Though because of the atmosphere the book’s going for, it’s not really on anybody’s medical radar, it’s more just part of the character-building for the protagonist.
Chuck Tingle’s “Camp Damascus” is another horror novel with an autistic protagonist and a non-autism-centered horror plot. The protagonist’s a young christian woman from a very conservative community, who notices gaps in her memory that might be linked to a nearby conversion-therapy program. At about half-way through the book, she sees some medical records that mention her being autistic, and she indicates she’s already aware. Not a book about fixing or being sad about autism.
Rivers Solomon is a spec fic+horror author who likes to include a neurodiverse protagonists. I don’t always like the pacing of her writing, but lots of other people don’t have that problem. I *really* loved her novella *The Deep* about an autism-coded mermaid fleeing from community pressure and trauma.
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The kiss quotient Helen Hoang makn character has ASD
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Pet by Akwaeke emezi has a neurodiberse trans character
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Happiness Falls by Angie Kim. Has a high support needs autistic character but the narrator is likely on the spectrum as well
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Half a soul by Olivia Atwater is heavily neurodivergent coded. Fantasy. If you’re into fantasy 🙂
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (main character is neurodivergent and the author is autistic and had ADHD)
“The Death of Jane Lawrence” by Caitlin Starling is a trippy gothic haunted-house story, with a protagonist who’s written with modern ASD criteria in mind. Though because of the atmosphere the book’s going for, it’s not really on anybody’s medical radar, it’s more just part of the character-building for the protagonist.
Chuck Tingle’s “Camp Damascus” is another horror novel with an autistic protagonist and a non-autism-centered horror plot. The protagonist’s a young christian woman from a very conservative community, who notices gaps in her memory that might be linked to a nearby conversion-therapy program. At about half-way through the book, she sees some medical records that mention her being autistic, and she indicates she’s already aware. Not a book about fixing or being sad about autism.
Rivers Solomon is a spec fic+horror author who likes to include a neurodiverse protagonists. I don’t always like the pacing of her writing, but lots of other people don’t have that problem. I *really* loved her novella *The Deep* about an autism-coded mermaid fleeing from community pressure and trauma.
The kiss quotient Helen Hoang makn character has ASD
Pet by Akwaeke emezi has a neurodiberse trans character
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim. Has a high support needs autistic character but the narrator is likely on the spectrum as well