Adoptee Books

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All You Can Ever Know All You Can Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as adoptee)
avg rating 3.85 — 26,449 ratings — published 2018
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First Love Language First Love Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adoptee)
avg rating 3.83 — 565 ratings — published 2025
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The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as adoptee)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,801 ratings — published 1993
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American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adoptee)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,101 ratings — published 2021
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My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adoptee)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,364 ratings — published 2013
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My Name Is Why My Name Is Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,205 ratings — published 2019
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Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.23 — 209 ratings — published 2006
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Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.93 — 84 ratings — published 2009
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A Gesture Life A Gesture Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,732 ratings — published 1999
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This Book Might Be About Zinnia This Book Might Be About Zinnia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.64 — 104 ratings — published
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Little Fires Everywhere Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,311,133 ratings — published 2017
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For Black Girls Like Me For Black Girls Like Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,661 ratings — published 2019
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I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.44 — 137 ratings — published 1999
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Face It Face It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.62 — 9,349 ratings — published 2019
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The Hundred-Year Flood The Hundred-Year Flood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.17 — 1,366 ratings — published 2015
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Our Island of Epidemics Our Island of Epidemics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.44 — 32 ratings — published 2010
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Adoption Reunion in the Social Media Age, An Anthology Adoption Reunion in the Social Media Age, An Anthology (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.44 — 34 ratings — published 2014
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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,343 ratings — published 2024
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A Living Remedy: A Memoir – A Daughter's Narrative of Adoption, Class Inequality, and Grief in America A Living Remedy: A Memoir – A Daughter's Narrative of Adoption, Class Inequality, and Grief in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,020 ratings — published 2023
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Not Nothing Not Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,672 ratings — published
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Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,221 ratings — published 2025
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Log Off Log Off (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.43 — 123 ratings — published
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Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.37 — 193 ratings — published 2023
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Famous Adopted People Famous Adopted People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.45 — 355 ratings — published 2018
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Hour of the Ox (Pitt Poetry Series) Hour of the Ox (Pitt Poetry Series)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.57 — 58 ratings — published 2016
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I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.57 — 486 ratings — published 2023
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The Search for Us The Search for Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.12 — 309 ratings — published 2023
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Izzy's Tail of Trouble (Izzy, #2) Izzy's Tail of Trouble (Izzy, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.64 — 25 ratings — published
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"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,210 ratings — published 2023
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The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.87 — 717 ratings — published 2023
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Adoption Reunions: A Book for Adoptees, Birth Parents and Adoptive Families Adoption Reunions: A Book for Adoptees, Birth Parents and Adoptive Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.67 — 15 ratings — published 1993
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The Search for Mother Missing: A Peek Inside International Adoption (Adoption Books for Adults) The Search for Mother Missing: A Peek Inside International Adoption (Adoption Books for Adults)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.48 — 958 ratings — published
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Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,279 ratings — published 2022
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Given Away: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories Given Away: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.33 — 461 ratings — published 2020
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What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.19 — 287 ratings — published 2021
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Marilyn Marilyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.32 — 25 ratings — published 2015
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In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.94 — 286 ratings — published 2000
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Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.23 — 308 ratings — published 1994
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Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.16 — 181 ratings — published 1979
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The Dead and the Dark The Dead and the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,572 ratings — published 2021
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Edge of Eighteen Edge of Eighteen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.22 — 50 ratings — published 2020
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Inconvenient Daughter Inconvenient Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,082 ratings — published 2020
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I Can Make This Promise I Can Make This Promise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,180 ratings — published 2019
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Palimpsest Palimpsest (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,064 ratings — published 2016
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Starworld Starworld (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,153 ratings — published 2019
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“I've been waiting a long time for this. Hi ... I'm your Aunt Cassie.”
Craig Harris, Memoirs of an Adoptee: One person's DNA discoveries, reflections and insights

Diamond Mike Watson
“The life of an adoptee is like an ancient voyager who searches for the unknown. The stars guided their destiny. They had their sights on the wonders that lay ahead of them. An adoptee travels in the opposite direction.”
Michael C. Watson, Adopted Like Me- Chosen to Search for a Birthmother

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