![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In “House Rules” (2010) by Jodi Picoult, Jacob Hunt is a teenager with Asperger’s syndrome.The six books listed here are just a few of those that fit that description. Sensitive, well-informed writers, however, can create inspiring, illuminating stories about people on the autism spectrum, real and fictional. Warner Brothers reportedly owns the movie rights.īut there are as many stories as there are people on the autism spectrum, so the Citizen-Times asked columnist Jennifer Prince to pick a half-dozen of her favorite books dealing with autism from the shelves of the Buncombe County libraries.Īutism is difficult subject matter. It’s been adapted as a hit play in London and is set to open on Broadway in the fall. That story is narrated by 15-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, who has Asperger’s syndrome and decides to solve the murder of a neighborhood canine. April is National Autism Awareness Month, yet the only best-selling book on the topic most people have heard of, much less read, is British writer Mark Haddon’s 2003 award-winning novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” ![]()
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