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Adoptee Books
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All You Can Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as adoptee)
avg rating 3.85 — 26,855 ratings — published 2018
When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology – An Emotion-Filled Collection for Teens Exploring Growing Up Adopted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adoptee)
avg rating 4.16 — 303 ratings — published 2023
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adoptee)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,714 ratings — published 2006
First Love Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adoptee)
avg rating 3.79 — 684 ratings — published 2025
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as adoptee)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,878 ratings — published 1993
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adoptee)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,338 ratings — published 2023
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adoptee)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,164 ratings — published 2021
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 — 6,518 ratings — published 2013
How to Be Remy Cameron (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,465 ratings — published 2019
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.45 — 752,758 ratings — published 2025
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,653 ratings — published 1999
Coming home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.21 — 190 ratings — published 2003
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor Book)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.95 — 323 ratings — published 1992
Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.92 — 78 ratings — published 1977
My Name Is Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,633 ratings — published 2019
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.25 — 211 ratings — published 2006
Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.90 — 86 ratings — published 2009
A Gesture Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,806 ratings — published 1999
This Book Might Be About Zinnia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.64 — 141 ratings — published 2025
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,344,126 ratings — published 2017
For Black Girls Like Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,669 ratings — published 2019
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 4.42 — 139 ratings — published 1999
Face It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.62 — 9,628 ratings — published 2019
The Hundred-Year Flood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.17 — 1,374 ratings — published 2015
Our Island of Epidemics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.44 — 32 ratings — published 2010
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
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,528 ratings — published 2024
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 — 6,153 ratings — published 2023
Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.55 — 38 ratings — published
Not Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,254 ratings — published 2024
Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,701 ratings — published 2025
Adult Adoptees and Writing to Heal: Migrating toward Wholeness (Arts, Creativities, and Learning Environments in Global Perspectives, 9)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.31 — 220 ratings — published 2023
Famous Adopted People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.43 — 365 ratings — published 2018
Hour of the Ox (Pitt Poetry Series)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.58 — 59 ratings — published 2016
I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.56 — 527 ratings — published 2023
The Search for Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.12 — 312 ratings — published 2023
Izzy's Tail of Trouble (Izzy, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.64 — 25 ratings — published
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.86 — 752 ratings — published 2023
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
The Search for Mother Missing: A Peek Inside International Adoption (Adoption Books for Adults)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,001 ratings — published
Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,316 ratings — published 2022
Given Away: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.32 — 469 ratings — published 2020
Babies Remember Birth and Other Extraordinary Scientific Discoveries About the Mind and Personality of Your Newborn (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.12 — 24 ratings — published 1988
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 — 309 ratings — published 2021
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.95 — 289 ratings — published 2000
Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.24 — 315 ratings — published 1994
“I've been waiting a long time for this. Hi ... I'm your Aunt Cassie.”
― Memoirs of an Adoptee: One person's DNA discoveries, reflections and insights
― Memoirs of an Adoptee: One person's DNA discoveries, reflections and insights
“Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.”
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