Below find a comprehensive list fiction of books about autistic twins, triplets and quadruplets. You can also find non-fiction recommendations. If you are an author and would like to have your book added, please get in touch.
Fiction: Picture books
My Twintelligent Besties: A story of friendship with twins on the autism spectrum by Eva-Tatiana Siakham (2024)
Even though they are twins and look the same, Lana and Leslie are like two sides of a magical coin. Leslie talks at the speed of lightning, but Lana uses her hands to chat, and while Lana can miraculously pull things apart and put them together, Leslie creates the most incredible stories for everyone to act out! But even if the twins think and act a little differently, this doesn’t stop the three friends from having hours of endless fun, from epic hide-and-seek adventures to some “flapping” amusement!
Reading age: Up to 8 years
The Awesome and Amazing Autistic Twins by N. Tran (2023)
The Awesome and Amazing Autistic Twins is a story about how a set of 6-year-old brothers cope with and overcome daily challenges. It takes you through a day in their shoes by sharing examples of how practicing healthy habits such as breathing and counting exercises has empowered them to be brave, confident, and to thrive each and every day. Every milestone leads to a bigger and brighter future.
Reading age: Up to 8 years
Kingston and Kody: Two Boys, One House and Autism by Kelley D. Harvey (2023)
Kingston and Kody are twins. Like most kids their age, Kingston likes cartoons and Kody likes apples. However, these brothers are not your typical 5 year olds. Kingston and Kody have autism.
This heartwarming story is told from Kingston’s point of view. He explains what autism is and how it affects him and Kody differently. He also encourages children not to look down or be afraid of those with autism, but instead be a friend.
Reading age: Up to 8 years
My Autistic Twin: Kasper and Nellie Adventures by H. Falhi (2021)
Twins Kasper and Nellie enjoy most things other children their age do. However, their adventures are limited due to Kasper’s autism and lack of speech.This story, the first in a series, sheds light on the quirks and challenges autism families often live with – especially siblings. Written with endearing positivity and humour, Kasper’s and Nellie’s adventures in the park will engage and encourage all those who can relate to them, and ‘educate’ those to whom autism is still something of a mystery.
Reading age: Up to 8 years
Temprano y a Tiempo: The Twins Super Powers by Irma Heidi Ortiz Torres (2021)
An easy-to-read bilingual book about prematurity, autism, and unlocking potentials through early intervention for Hyperlexia and ADHD. Julián was born first, two minutes before Ana Marie. They were born before the time babies need to form in mommy’s tummy. At two, neither of them did not talk. Mom was worried and took them to the doctor. The doctor helped mom find teachers who would help them learn how to behave well and become superheroes. A great gift for children and their families who learn, grow, and thrive with ASD.
Reading age: Up to 8 years
Growing up with Autism by Andrea Reid (2018)
This book was written to help raise autism awareness for the author’s autistic twin sons, including the bullying they have experienced. Having autism is not a choice but accepting autism is.
Reading age: 6 to 10
My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete (2010)
Charlie has autism. His brain works in a special way. It’s harder for him to make friends. Or show his true feelings. Or stay safe. But as his twin sister tells us, for everything that Charlie can’t do well, there are plenty more things that he’s good at. He knows the names of all the American presidents. He knows stuff about airplanes. And he can even play the piano better than anyone he knows. Actress and national autism spokesperson Holly Robinson Peete collaborates with her daughter on this book based on Holly’s 10-year-old son, who has autism.
Reading age: 6-10 years
Fiction: Chapter books
Cally & Jimmy: Twinseperable by Zoe Antoniades
Can Cally and her ADHD twin, Jimmy, be trusted to walk home alone for the first time? Will there be mayhem at the movies? And what could possibly go wrong when they go to work at Dad’s office or camp out in the forest on a school residential trip? Plus, there’s a new girl at school who’s not quite as perfect as she might at first seem…
Book 4 of 4
Reading age: 7 to 9 years
Cally & Jimmy: Twins Together by Zoe Antoniades (2022)
There’s always double trouble when these two are about, so get ready for more mayhem as they look after the school hamster for half term, have a competition to build the best snowman, raise money with a yard sale, and have a rollercoaster of a time at the local theme park!
Book 3 of 4
Reading age: 7 to 9 years
Cally & Jimmy: Twintastic by Zoe Antoniades (2021)
Cally has a twin brother with ADHD, and he is always getting into some kind of mischief – which usually means double trouble! Thankfully their Greek granny is usually on hand to help – or add to the mayhem! In these four fab stories, the twins make a splash on their beach holiday, run into trouble on sports day, get spooked while trick or treating, and uncover a thief at school.
Book 2 of 4
Reading age: 7 to 9 years
Cally & Jimmy: Twins in Trouble by Zoe Antoniades
Join Cally and Jimmy in four hilarious stories, perfect for newly confident readers. They get into scrapes together, bake some poisonous cakes, almost ruin their school assembly and finally have a twintastic birthday party.
Book 1 of 4
Reading age: 7 to 9 years
Keedie by Elle McNicoll (2024)
As Keedie and her twin Nina approach their fourteenth birthday, they seem to only be growing further apart. Keedie instead feels drawn to, and fiercely protective of, their quiet younger sister Addie – who on the surface is the opposite of loud and fiery Keedie, but in fact they have more in common than anyone knows.
Precursor to the book A Kind of Spark (see below)
Reading age: 11-14
Unseelie Duology (Books 1 and 2) by Ivelisse Housman (2024)
Unseelie: Book 1 of 2
Iselia “Seelie” Graygrove looks just like her twin, Isolde…but as an autistic changeling left in the human world by the fae as an infant, she has always known she is different. Seelie’s unpredictable magic makes it hard for her to fit in—and draws her and Isolde into the hunt for a fabled treasure. In a heist gone wrong, the sisters make some unexpected allies and find themselves unraveling a mystery that has its roots in the history of humans and fae alike.
Reading age: 12-17
Unending: Book 2 of 2
Isolde Graygrove has always put her changeling twin sister first. But ever since Seelie returned from the faerie realms with a newfound confidence in her magic and secrets she’s keeping even from her twin, Isolde can’t help but wonder: who is she, if not her sister’s protector?
Seelie knows there are some problems even magic can’t solve. Like the distance between her and Isolde, the terror of her growing and unfamiliar emotions for Raze, or the fact that the world’s last firedrake has imprinted on her like a baby duckling. Still, she can’t help but try.
Reading age: 12-17
Stolen City by Elisa A. Bonnin (2023)
In stealing magical artifacts for the Resistance, bounding over rooftops to evade Imperial soldiers, and establishing herself as the darling thief of the underground, Arian lives a dangerous life. She’ll steal anything for the right price, and if she runs fast enough, she can almost escape the fact that her mother is dead, her father is missing, and her brother, Liam, is tamping down a wealth of power in a city that has outlawed magic.
But then the mysterious Cavar comes to town with a job for the twins: to steal an artifact capable of ripping the souls from the living―the same artifact that used to hang around the neck of Arian’s mother. Suddenly, her past is no longer buried but intimately tied to the mission at hand, and Arian must face her guilt and pain head-on in order to pull off the heist.
Reading age: 14 to 17
Swimming on the Moon by Brian Conaghan (2023)
Twelve-year-old Anna’s parents are going through a rough patch, but Anna can’t let them split up. Not when it might mean living apart from Anto, her twin brother. Anto might be a boy, and he might not speak (except using Lego bricks), and he might carry a coat hanger about like it’s his closest friend, but that doesn’t stop the two of them being like peas in a pod. It’s a twin thing, and nobody’s going to separate them.
So Anna hatches a plan: get the whole family on a plane to Italy. Her parents have always been happiest on holiday. How can they fail to fall back in love at a swanky hotel with an actual pool to swim in and everything!
Reading age: 9-11 years
Under Shifting Stars by Alexandra Latos (2023)
Audrey’s best friend was always her twin, Clare. But as they got older, they grew apart, and when their brother Adam died, Clare blamed Audrey for the accident. Now, Audrey’s attending an alternative school where she feels more isolated than ever. Tired of being seen as different from her neurotypical peers, Audrey’s determined to switch to the public high school, rebuild her friendship with Clare, and atone for Adam’s death . . . but she’ll need to convince her parents, and her therapist, first.
Reading age: 12 to 15
Are You Alone on Purpose? by Nancy Werlin (2021)
Though fourteen-year-old Alison Shandling is a brain, her twin brother, Adam, is autistic. All of her life, Alison’s parents have focused on Adam and what he needs, while Alison has always felt she had to be perfect.When the rabbi’s son, Harry Roth, begins taunting Alison about her brother, she does her best to stand up for herself. But when Harry is injured in a diving accident, Alison senses that he’s hiding something that he wants to share with someone. And she begins to think that— strangely—she’s just the someone he can share it with.
Reading age: 12-17
Tornado Brain by Cat Patrick (2021)
Things never seem to go as easily for thirteen-year-old Frankie as they do for her twin sister, Tess. Unlike Tess, Frankie is neurodivergent. In her case, that means she can’t stand to be touched, loud noises bother her, she’s easily distracted, she hates changes in her routine, and she has to go see a therapist while other kids get to hang out at the beach. It also means Frankie has trouble making friends. She did have one–Colette–but they’re not friends anymore. It’s complicated.
Then, just weeks before the end of seventh grade, Colette unexpectedly shows up at Frankie’s door. The next morning, Colette vanishes. Now, after losing Colette yet again, Frankie’s convinced that her former best friend left clues behind that only she can decipher, so she persuades her reluctant sister to help her unravel the mystery of Colette’s disappearance before it’s too late.
Reading age: 10 to 13
A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll (2020)
A Kind of Spark tells the story of 11-year-old Addie and her twin sisters, Keedie and Nina. Addie campaigns for a memorial in memory of the witch trials that took place in her Scottish hometown. Sheknows there’s more to the story of these ‘witches’, just like there is more to hers. Can Addie challenge how the people in her town see her, and her autism, and make her voice heard?
See precursor Keedie posted above.
Reading age: 9-12
Spirit of the Northwoods by Auria Jourdain (2019)
Since moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, junior Shannon Colfax and her autistic twin brother Shane have had a difficult time settling into their new school. When a feud erupts between Shannon and popular football jock Brent Duray after he bullies Shane, she finds an unlikely savior—and new love—in Brent’s friend, Cody Williams.
Reading age: 13-17
Rules of Rain by Leah Scheier (2018)
Rain has taken care of Ethan all of their lives. Before she even knew what autism meant, she was her twin brother’s connection to the world around him. Each day with Ethan is unvarying and predictable, and Rain takes comfort in being the one who holds their family together. It’s nice to be needed–to be the center of someone’s world. If only her longtime crush, Liam, would notice her too…
Then one night, her life is upended by a mistake she can’t undo. Suddenly Rain’s new romance begins to unravel along with her carefully constructed rules. Rain isn’t used to asking for help–and certainly not from Ethan. But the brother she’s always protected is the only one who can help her. And letting go of the past may be the only way for Rain to hold onto her relationships that matter most.
Reading age: 12 to 15
Twin Time by Olga & Christopher Werby (2016)
Alex and Sasha are twin sisters, physically identical down to their freckles. But the resemblance is only skin deep—Sasha is profoundly autistic, while Alex is not. Sasha can’t communicate and acts bizarrely, and the family revolves around her and her intense needs. Yet the aged, wealthy, and mysterious Aunt Nana seems to have a particular interest in both girls. Offering a helping hand, she encourages the family to move to San Francisco to be near her. And when the young twins discover a tunnel in Nana’s tool shed, it leads them on a journey across the world and back 100 years in time.
Reading Age: 12-17
Chime by Franny Billingsley (2012)
Briony knows she is a witch. She knows that she is guilty of hurting her beloved stepmother. She also knows that, now her stepmother is dead, she must look after her autistic twin sister, Rose. Then the energetic, electric, golden-haired Eldric arrives in her home town of Swampsea, and everything that Briony thinks she knows about herself and her life is turned magically, dizzyingly, upside down.
Reading age: 12 to 15
The Same Difference by Deborah Lynn Jacobs (2000)
Fourteen-year-old Casey has a twin sister, Chelsea. Chelsea is autistic, Casey is not, or at least that is what she has always been told by her parents. But from the first day that Casey begins ninth grade in public school, she knows that she is in trouble and begins to sense that her worst fears about herself may be true.
Reading age: 13 to 17
Fiction: Adult
The Designated Twin by Drew Taylor (2024)
Every day looks the same for me: wake up, go to work, and bring work home. Organized schedules are life-giving, and Donwell Family Law is my soulmate. But when my well-intentioned twin ships me off on a date with the prince of Korsa in her stead, my perfectly functioning life is derailed. Especially when he begins to show up in my safe places.
To make matters worse, when I’m with him, I feel… something. He encourages the real me instead of the masked façade of my twin.
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan (2024)
Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who’s never met a party she couldn’t host or a charge she couldn’t lead. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion.
But then an unlikely man with autistic twin sons enters the picture—the forbidden one, the one she shouldn’t want but can’t seem to resist. She’s lost it all before and refuses to repeat her mistakes. Can she trust him? Can she trust herself?
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth (2021)
Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be . . . dangerous.
When Rose discovers that she cannot fall pregnant, Fern sees her chance to pay her sister back for everything Rose has done for her. Fern can have a baby for Rose. She just needs to find a father. Simple.
Fern’s mission will shake the foundations of the life she has carefully built for herself and stir up dark secrets that she long thought were buried.
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