Adoptee


All You Can Ever Know
When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology – An Emotion-Filled Collection for Teens Exploring Growing Up Adopted
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
First Love Language
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
How to Be Remy Cameron
The Correspondent
Adopting Grace
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Coming home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor Book)
Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter
Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey by Kelly DiBenedettoWhen We Become Ours by Shannon GibneyVoices Unheard by Lisa Coppola LMHCDelly Duck by Holly MarlowThe Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier
Essential Adoption Reading
49 books — 33 voters

The Primal Wound by Nancy VerrierAll You Can Ever Know by Nicole ChungYou Don't Look Adopted by Anne HeffronThe Racism of People Who Love You by Samira MehtaAdoption Fantasies by Kimberly D. McKee
Adoptee Books
16 books — 1 voter

Uprooted by Peter J. BoniThe Stranger in My Genes by Bill GriffethNPE* A story guide for unexpected DNA discoveries by Leeanne R. HayInheritance by Dani ShapiroThe Milkman's Son by Randy Lindsay
NPE, Adoptee & DNA Discoveries
12 books — 3 voters

Diamond Mike Watson
The wrinkled pages of the Bible crackled as Mom leafed back to the beginning of Matthew. I had always felt I was conceived from the powers of the universe. Maybe I was chosen to fulfill a divine mission.
Michael C. Watson, Adopted Like Me- Chosen to Search for a Birthmother

Natalie Brenner
I must acknowledge that though his adoption embodies graciousness, it is also a reminder this world is not as it should be. Brokenness permeates our world. Sure, beauty is born from ashes, but the ashes don't just magically disappear. Suffering and all that is wrong in this world still exists. This side of heaven, tragedy remains and the moments of her son becoming ours is a representation of joy and suffering deeply intertwined. Our son, the living proof and blessing that love is what makes a f ...more
Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life

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