Favorites

Autism and Special Needs

• More Than a Mom: Living a Full and Balanced Life When Your Child Has Special Needs, Heather Fawcett and Amy Baskin.
• Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, Shannon des Roches Rosa et al.
• Autism Solutions: How to Create a Healthy and Meaningful Life for Your Child, Ricki G. Robinson. 

Poetry

• Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, Naomi Shihab Nye
• Alive Together, Lisel Mueller

Writing

• Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives, Louise Desalvo

Parenting

• Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting, Myla and John Kabat-Zinn

Other

• The Life Organizer: A Woman's Guide to a Mindful Year, Jennifer Loudon
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, Anne Fadiman
• The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien

Also check on my Autism Pinterest board for my favorite products and tips.