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A Mango-Shaped Space
by Wendy Mass
Mia Winchell seems to be a typical teenager, but she's keeping a huge secret from everyone who knows her. Mia has synesthesia, the mingling of perceptions whereby a person can see sounds, smell colors, or taste shapes. When trouble in school forces Mia to reveal her condition her friends and family can't relate to her and she must look to herself to develop an understanding and appreciation for her gift. Spiced... (more)
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The Secret Series: Book 1
The Name of This Book Is Secret
by Pseudonymous Bosch
This is the story about a secret....But it also contains a secret story. When adventurous detectives, Cass, an ever-vigilant survivalist, and Max-Ernest, a boy with two names that's driven by logic, discover the Symphony of Smells, a box filled with smelly vials of colorful ingredients, they accidentally stumble upon a mystery surrounding a dead magician's diary and the hunt for immortality. Filled with word... (more)
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Born on a Blue Day
A Memoir of Asperger's and an Extraordinary Mind
by Daniel Tammet
One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story---and explain how his incredible mind works.
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The Secret Series: Book 2
If You're Reading This, It's Too Late
by Pseudonymous Bosch
Beware! Dangerous secrets lie between the pages of this book. OK, I warned you. But if you think I'll give anything away, or tell you that this is the sequel to my first literary endeavor, The Name of This Book is Secret , you're wrong. I'm not going to remind you of how we last left our heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest, as they awaited initiation into the mysterious Terces Society, or the ongoing fight... (more)
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Ultraviolet
by R. J. Anderson
Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her. Sixteen-year-old Alison has been sectioned in a mental institute for teens, having murdered the most perfect and popular girl at school. But the case is a mystery: no body has been found, and Alison's condition is proving difficult to diagnose. Alison herself can't explain what happened: one... (more)
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Bitter in the Mouth
by Monique T. D. Truong
From Monique Truong, the bestselling and award-winning author of The Book of Salt , comes a brilliant, mesmerizing, beautifully written novel about a young woman’s search for identity and family, as she uncovers the secrets of her past and of history. Growing up in the small town of Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the 70’s and 80’s, Linda believes that she is profoundly different from everyone else,... (more)
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Wednesday Is Indigo Blue
Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
by Richard E. Cytowic, David Eagleman
A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter J as shimmering magenta or the number 5 as emerald green, hear and taste her husband's voice as buttery golden brown. Synesthetes rarely talk about their peculiar sensory gift—believing either that everyone else senses the world exactly as they do, or that no one else does. Yet synesthesia occurs in one in twenty people,... (more)
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The Memory Artists
by Jeffrey Moore
Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Novel Noel Burun has synesthesia and hypermnesia: he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and shapes, which collide and commingle to form a memory so bitingly perfect that he can remember everything, from the 1001 stories of The Arabian Nights to the color of his bib as a toddler. But for all his mnemonic abilities, he is confronted every day... (more)
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The Beautiful Miscellaneous
by Dominic Smith
NATHAN NELSON IS THE AVERAGE SON OF A GENIUS. His father, a physicist of small renown, has prodded him toward greatness from an early age -- enrolling him in whiz kid summer camps, taking him to the icy tundra of Canada to track a solar eclipse, and teaching him college algebra. But despite Samuel Nelson's efforts, Nathan remains ordinary. Then, in the summer of 1987, everything changes. While visiting his... (more)
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Astonishing Splashes of Colour
by Clare Morrall
Taking its title from a description of Peter Pan's Neverland, Astonishing Splashes of Colour follows the life of Kitty, a woman who, in a sense, has never grown up. As her moods swing dramatically from high to low, they are illuminated by an unusual ability to interpret people and emotions through colour. Kitty struggles to come to terms with her life, including the loss of her mother, a miscarriage, and an... (more)
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Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling tales of people... (more)
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The Fallen
by T. Jefferson Parker
A good cop, Robbie Brownlaw was thrown from a sixth-floor window of a downtown hotel and miraculously survived. The traumatic incident left Robbie with a fast-track career in the San Diego P.D.'s Homicide division . . . and a rare neurological condition that enables him to see people's emotional words as colored shapes—green trapezoids of envy, red squares of deception . . . Another good man lies dead in a... (more)
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The Man Who Tasted Shapes (Bradford Books)
by Richard E. Cytowic
Richard Cytowic's dinner host apologized, "There aren't enough points on the chicken!" He felt flavor also as a physical shape in his hands, and the chicken had come out "too round." This offbeat comment in 1980 launched Cytowic's exploration into the oddity called synesthesia. He is one of the few world authorities on the subject. Sharing a root with anesthesia ("no sensation"), synesthesia means "joined... (more)
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Mondays Are Red (Signature)
by Nicola Morgan
Waking from a coma, Luke discovers his mind has altered. His senses are behaving strangely and a sinister creature inhabits his head. This is a chilling modern take on the Faust story by a stunning new literary talent.
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The Humming of Numbers
by Joni Sensel
Aidan is poised to take his monastic vows—until a girl enters the abbey, one who hums of the number eleven. Aidan has the ability to hear the humming of numbers, a buzzing energy given off by living things. He is captivated and tormented by the mysterious girl, Lana, who has some unusual abilities of her own. How can he become a monk when his mind is filled with impure thoughts? Before he can begin to sort his... (more)
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The Frog Who Croaked Blue
Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses
by Jamie Ward
As little Edgar Curtis lay on his porch, he remarked to his mother how the noise of the rifle range was black, the chirp of the cricket was red, and the croak of the frog was bluish. Edgar, like many other people, has synesthesia - a fascinating condition in which music can have color, words can have taste, and time and numbers float through space. Everyone will be closely acquainted with at least 6 or 7 people... (more)
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Unforgettable
by Loretta Ellsworth
Baxter Green isn’t like everyone else. While most people would forget about the little details of everyday life, Baxter never forgets—not pain, not hurt, not embarrassment. In fact, Baxter never forgets anything—not even a string of account numbers, flashed before his eyes by his mother’s criminal boyfriend, Dink, for use in a credit card scam. Years after his testimony has locked Dink away, Baxter and his mother... (more)
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Tasting the Universe: People Who See Colors in Words and Rainbows in Symphonies
by Maureen Seaberg
What happens when a journalist turns her lens on a mystery happening in her own life? Maureen Seaberg did just that and lived for a year exploring her synesthesia. The wondrous brain trait is often described as blended senses, but in Maureen's quest, becomes much more: a window to creativity and the divine. Join her as she visits top neuroscientists, rock stars, violinists, other synesthetes, philosophers,... (more)
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Shades of Grey: Book 1
Shades of Grey
The Road to High Saffron
by Jasper Fforde
From the bestselling author of Thursday Next—a brilliant new novel about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors you can see Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. In a society where the ability to see the higher end of the color spectrum denotes a better social standing, Eddie Russet belongs to the... (more)
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Synesthesia: Art and the Mind
by Greta Berman, Carol Steen, Daphne Maurer
Four essayists explore the impact of synesthesia, or the involuntary joining of the senses, on the work of artists who are or who are suspected to have been synesthestic. They include David Hockney, Joan Mitchell, Tom Thomson, and Vincent van Gogh.

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