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Adoptee Books
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All You Can Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as adoptee)
avg rating 3.85 — 26,449 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 4.17 — 282 ratings — published 2023
First Love Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adoptee)
avg rating 3.83 — 565 ratings — published 2025
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as adoptee)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,801 ratings — published 1993
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 3 times as adoptee)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,158 ratings — published 2006
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as adoptee)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,101 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 — 6,364 ratings — published 2013
My Name Is Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,205 ratings — published 2019
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.23 — 209 ratings — published 2006
Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.93 — 84 ratings — published 2009
A Gesture Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,732 ratings — published 1999
This Book Might Be About Zinnia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.64 — 104 ratings — published
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,311,143 ratings — published 2017
For Black Girls Like Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,661 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 4.44 — 137 ratings — published 1999
Face It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.62 — 9,349 ratings — published 2019
The Hundred-Year Flood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.17 — 1,366 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 4.34 — 1,343 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 — 6,020 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 4.53 — 34 ratings — published
Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,222 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 4.37 — 193 ratings — published 2023
Famous Adopted People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.45 — 355 ratings — published 2018
Hour of the Ox (Pitt Poetry Series)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.57 — 58 ratings — published 2016
I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.57 — 486 ratings — published 2023
The Search for Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.12 — 309 ratings — published 2023
Izzy's Tail of Trouble (Izzy, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.64 — 25 ratings — published
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,210 ratings — published 2023
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.87 — 717 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 4.48 — 958 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 — 1,279 ratings — published 2022
Given Away: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.33 — 461 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 — 287 ratings — published 2021
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.94 — 286 ratings — published 2000
Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.23 — 308 ratings — published 1994
Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.16 — 181 ratings — published 1979
The Dead and the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,572 ratings — published 2021
Edge of Eighteen (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.22 — 50 ratings — published 2020
Inconvenient Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,082 ratings — published 2020
I Can Make This Promise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,180 ratings — published 2019
Palimpsest (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,064 ratings — published 2016
Starworld (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as adoptee)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,153 ratings — published 2019
“It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.”
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“You’re Korean, Hara. Even though you grew up in America. Even though you speak English and not Korean. Even though you feel like you’re different when you open your mouth. You are Korean where it counts. Here.” He draws a finger across the blue veins in my wrist. “The same blood that flows in me flows in you. My ancestors are your ancestors. Where you were raised and who you were raised by doesn’t change that. If anything, your experience makes you all the more Korean because what is a Korean but someone who has experienced loss and still survived?”
― Heart and Seoul
― Heart and Seoul
