125 books
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78 voters
Adoption Books
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All You Can Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.85 — 26,587 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 — 6,132 ratings — published 2007
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.40 — 736,762 ratings — published 2017
Orphan Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 466,600 ratings — published 2013
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,830 ratings — published 1993
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,623 ratings — published 1999
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,325,095 ratings — published 2017
Far from the Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 49,677 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 — 11,357 ratings — published 2006
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,298 ratings — published 1996
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families & Churches (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,213 ratings — published 2009
A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)
by (shelved 121 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,052 ratings — published 1992
Secret Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 77,940 ratings — published 2010
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.04 — 363,898 ratings — published 2014
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.16 — 733 ratings — published 2002
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,125,691 ratings — published 1908
Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,539 ratings — published 2014
Counting by 7s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.14 — 88,019 ratings — published 2013
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.10 — 234,057 ratings — published 2011
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.29 — 128,514 ratings — published 2017
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 287 ratings — published 2000
Instant Mom (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,797 ratings — published 2013
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.59 — 23,641 ratings — published 2006
A Long Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,485 ratings — published 2013
The Leavers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,987 ratings — published 2017
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.82 — 501 ratings — published 1997
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.24 — 209 ratings — published 2006
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,130 ratings — published 2021
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,529 ratings — published 2011
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,270 ratings — published 2023
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (Anchor Book)
by (shelved 72 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.95 — 320 ratings — published 1992
My New Mom & Me (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.25 — 713 ratings — published 2016
We Belong Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 561 ratings — published 2007
Parenting the Hurt Child : Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.12 — 635 ratings — published 2002
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,638 ratings — published 2008
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 — 2,459 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 — 3,416 ratings — published 2006
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,153 ratings — published 2013
Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adoptive Parent (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.72 — 351 ratings — published 1986
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life of a Cactus #1)
by (shelved 61 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.28 — 37,861 ratings — published 2017
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.02 — 176,584 ratings — published 1988
Lucky Girl: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,290 ratings — published 2009
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,038 ratings — published 2011
Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.18 — 353 ratings — published 1997
Wolfie the Bunny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,768 ratings — published 2015
Where We Belong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.90 — 102,015 ratings — published 2004
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.87 — 335 ratings — published 1997
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as adoption)
avg rating 4.15 — 705 ratings — published 2000
Family Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.96 — 25,015 ratings — published 2024
Before and After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as adoption)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,704 ratings — published 2019
“If we adopted Jack," I quip, "we'd have to give him combat pay for an allowance”
― Vampire Syndrome
― Vampire Syndrome
“It’s okay to call the pet you adopted a “rescue.” The kid you adopted… not so much.”
― Table 21
― Table 21
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