The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-Time

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Unabridged.
Narrated by Jeff Woodman.
Despite his overhwleming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

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Autism submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on July 30, 2013, 4:01pm "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" is a mystery in which 15-year-old Christopher, who has autism, solves the murder of his neighbor's dog. Like me, Christopher loves animals, especially dogs. So the dog's death is especially upsetting.

Author Mark Haddon wrote on his blog in 2009 that "curious incident is not a book about Asperger’s....if anything it’s a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder." (Quote via Wikipedia).

While Haddon know some people who have autism, he himself does not, and so readers should take the portrayal with a grain of salt. The book won numerous awards, including the "Guardian" Children's Fiction Prize.

I really enjoyed the book and recommend it to others. Even with the above caveats, I feel that it better helped me understand people with autism spectrum disorder.