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All You Can Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.85 — 27,014 ratings — published 2018
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.44 — 6,270 ratings — published 2007
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.40 — 767,567 ratings — published 2017
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 476,557 ratings — published 2013
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,905 ratings — published 1993
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,666 ratings — published 1999
Far from the Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 50,712 ratings — published 2017
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,361,024 ratings — published 2017
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 160 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,932 ratings — published 2006
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,304 ratings — published 1996
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,275 ratings — published 2009
Secret Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 78,735 ratings — published 2010
A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)
by (shelved 121 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,081 ratings — published 1992
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.04 — 381,583 ratings — published 2014
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.15 — 740 ratings — published 2002
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 101 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,164,664 ratings — published 1908
Counting by 7s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.13 — 90,173 ratings — published 2013
Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,587 ratings — published 2014
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.10 — 237,531 ratings — published 2011
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 93 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.29 — 135,819 ratings — published 2017
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 288 ratings — published 2000
Instant Mom (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,823 ratings — published 2013
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.60 — 24,046 ratings — published 2006
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,870 ratings — published 2017
A Long Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 69,921 ratings — published 2013
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.83 — 504 ratings — published 1997
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,384 ratings — published 2023
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,232 ratings — published 2021
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.25 — 211 ratings — published 2006
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,536 ratings — published 2011
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor Book)
by (shelved 73 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 325 ratings — published 1992
My New Mom & Me (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.26 — 738 ratings — published 2016
We Belong Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.11 — 569 ratings — published 2007
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,973 ratings — published 2008
Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 636 ratings — published 2002
The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,476 ratings — published 2000
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,423 ratings — published 2006
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,170 ratings — published 2013
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life of a Cactus #1)
by (shelved 63 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.27 — 39,859 ratings — published 2017
Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.74 — 355 ratings — published 1986
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.02 — 182,894 ratings — published 1988
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,861 ratings — published 2011
Lucky Girl: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,302 ratings — published 2009
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.41 — 997,116 ratings — published 2025
Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.17 — 355 ratings — published 1997
Family Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,288 ratings — published 2024
Wolfie the Bunny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,803 ratings — published 2015
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.87 — 336 ratings — published 1997
Where We Belong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.90 — 103,155 ratings — published 2004
Look Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.90 — 52,888 ratings — published 2009
“I knew, deep down, that I was different from my family. I knew just by looking in the mirror.”
― A View From The Mountain
― A View From The Mountain
“I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.”
― Where We Belong
― Where We Belong
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