41 books
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40 voters
Adoption Books
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All You Can Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 254 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.85 — 26,333 ratings — published 2018
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.44 — 6,003 ratings — published 2007
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.40 — 712,522 ratings — published 2017
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 461,175 ratings — published 2013
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,784 ratings — published 1993
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,589 ratings — published 1999
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,297,972 ratings — published 2017
Far from the Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 48,897 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 156 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,924 ratings — published 2006
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,289 ratings — published 1996
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,184 ratings — published 2009
A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)
by (shelved 120 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,037 ratings — published 1992
Secret Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 77,420 ratings — published 2010
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.04 — 352,550 ratings — published 2014
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.16 — 732 ratings — published 2002
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,096,632 ratings — published 1908
Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.01 — 27,477 ratings — published 2014
Counting by 7s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.14 — 86,686 ratings — published 2013
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.09 — 231,616 ratings — published 2011
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 90 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.29 — 123,823 ratings — published 2017
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.94 — 284 ratings — published 2000
Instant Mom (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,786 ratings — published 2013
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.59 — 23,389 ratings — published 2006
A Long Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 67,713 ratings — published 2013
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.83 — 500 ratings — published 1997
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,422 ratings — published 2017
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.23 — 209 ratings — published 2006
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,074 ratings — published 2021
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,523 ratings — published 2011
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor Book)
by (shelved 72 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 315 ratings — published 1992
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,164 ratings — published 2023
My New Mom & Me (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.25 — 708 ratings — published 2016
Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 630 ratings — published 2002
We Belong Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.13 — 558 ratings — published 2007
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,408 ratings — published 2006
Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.72 — 347 ratings — published 1986
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,377 ratings — published 2008
The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,454 ratings — published 2000
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,146 ratings — published 2013
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.01 — 172,408 ratings — published 1988
Lucky Girl: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,283 ratings — published 2009
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.28 — 36,378 ratings — published 2017
Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.18 — 354 ratings — published 1997
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.01 — 46,071 ratings — published 2011
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.87 — 334 ratings — published 1997
Where We Belong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.90 — 101,290 ratings — published 2004
Wolfie the Bunny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,739 ratings — published 2015
Adoption Nation How The Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.62 — 199 ratings — published 2000
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.15 — 699 ratings — published 2000
Before and After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.98 — 22,912 ratings — published 2019
“There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?”
― The Magician's Elephant
― The Magician's Elephant
“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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