Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog

Adoptee Reading catalogs books written by adoptees along with other adoption-related books recommended by adoptees. Find our full list of more than 400 titles at AdopteeReading.com, which offers numerous search and filtering options along with links to published reviews. Your book purchase via our shop here on Bookshop.org helps support Adoptee Reading along with independent bookstores.

Do You Know Who I Am?
A Living Remedy: A Memoir
You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
Where the Fuck is My Mother?: A book for grown-up adoptees
Landlock X: Poems
The Sense of Wonder
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story
A Search for Me: A Story of Adoption
Out of the Fog: Poems of Nature, Nurture and Imagination
Jules Fae: A Story of Adoption and Reunion
Person, Perceived Girl
Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller
Where We Come from
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America Under My Bed and Other Essays Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees
Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog

Recent Adoption Books

What Is Your Story?: Let's talk about adoption and kinship
What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices
NoBODY Looks Like Me: An Adoptee Experience
Being Adopted
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
Adoption Healing... a Path to Recovery Articles, Etc.
Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance
The Adoptee Survival Guide: Adoptees Share Their Wisdom and Tools
Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees
Goodbye Hypervigilance: Healing Adoptee Worry
Living in the Know: The Adoptee's Quick-Start Guide to Finding Family with DNA Testing
Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness (Revised)
Dear Wonderful You, Letters to Adopted & Fostered Youth
Restored: Pursuing Wholeness When a Relationship is Broken
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry, Family Secrets, and Second Chances What's Your Name, Who's Your Daddy?: A One Woman Show About Growing up in Foster Care and Adoption Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog

Adoptee Memoirs

Lion: A Long Way Home Young Readers' Edition
Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller
When You Never Said Goodbye: An Adoptee's Search for Her Birth Mother: A Novel in Poems and Journal Entries
See No Color
An-Ya and Her Diary
Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel
The Jasmine Project
Umbilicus: An autobiographical novel
For Black Girls Like Me
Three Little Words (Reprint)
Unstoppable
Rose's Locket
The Girl and the Grove
Kimchi & Calamari
20 Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make, Second Edition To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption The Primal Wound
Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog

Adoption Must-Reads

Accidental Sisters: The Story of My 52-Year Wait to Meet My Biological Sibling No Returns Without Original Receipt Ripped at the Root
Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog

Adoption Search and Reunion

Under My Bed and Other Essays
Island of Bones: Essays
Litany for the Long Moment
An Adoptee Lexicon
Family Resemblance: Finding Yourself in Others
Out of the Fog: Poems of Nature, Nurture and Imagination Person, Perceived Girl The Wet Hex
Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog

Adoptee Poetry

Finding Ching Ha
Finding Faith: The Birth-Fathers' Club Series
Seoulmates
The Ones Who Misbehave
The Dime Box
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear
In My Heart: The Adoption Story Project
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
Among the Missing: Stories
We Take Me Apart
The Swan Garden
The Hundred-Year Flood
Everyone Was Falling
The English American
No Names to Be Given