Including More Than 450 Adoptee-Recommended Titles!

Category: 2015a

  • Puzzles, Pieces and Choices: A memoir of my struggle for understanding and closure

    Puzzles, Pieces and Choices: A memoir of my struggle for understanding and closure

    by R. J. Redmond

    Every family has secrets, but I never dreamed my position within ours was the subject of the biggest secret of all. As with any truth untold, there were clues along the way but none obvious. Honesty was a primary value in our home, so I…

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  • Baby’s On Fire: Stories

    Baby’s On Fire: Stories

    by Liz Prato

    A collection of short stories. Adoptee Author: Liz Prato Publication Year: 2015 Critical Reviews Adoptee Reviews:  Other Reviews:  All Bookshop and Amazon links on this site are affiliate links. We earn a small commission to help keep Adoptee Reading running whenever items are purchased via these links,…

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  • Unwanted Truths

    Unwanted Truths

    by Tricia Haddon

    Family secrets – we all have them. But some are more devastating than others…Jenny Porter knows the name of every capital city in the world, but that doesn’t mean she has all the answers. When she discovers she is adopted, she has nobody to turn…

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  • Three More Words

    Three More Words

    by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

    Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent a harrowing nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes. Her memoir, Three Little Words, captivated audiences everywhere and went on to become a New York Times bestseller. Now Ashley reveals the nuances of life after foster care: College and…

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  • Saving Grace: A Story of Adoption

    Saving Grace: A Story of Adoption

    by L.B. Johnson

    It started with a piece of paper–a birth certificate, sent to the author’s parents long after her birth. There is much history in that piece of paper. For she was born to an unwed mother in the generation prior to Roe v. Wade, on a…

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  • Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

    Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

    by Jillian Lauren

    In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei’s harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, Some Girls. In her thirties, Jillian’s most radical act was learning the steadying power of…

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  • I Knew You by Name: The Search for My Lost Mother

    I Knew You by Name: The Search for My Lost Mother

    by Peggy Barnes

    Peggy Barnes’ recently unsealed birth certificate arrived just after she buried the woman who raised her. She discovered her entire life had been a lie. She was born at The Salvation Army Home for Unwed Mothers to a young woman from the back hills of…

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  • The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now

    The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now

    Edited by Janine Myung Ja, Jenette Moon Ja, and Katherine Kim

    This collection serves as a tribute to transracially adopted people sent all over the world. If you were adopted, you are not alone. This book validates the experiences of anyone who has been ridiculed or outright abused, but have found the will to survive, thrive…

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  • The Mothers

    The Mothers

    by Rod Jones

    In 1917, while the world is at war, Alma and her children are living in a sleep-out at the back of Mrs Lovett’s house in working-class Footscray. When Alma falls pregnant, her daughter Molly is born in secret. As Molly grows up, there is a…

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  • To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption

    To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption

    by Arissa H. Oh

    To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice in the United States, we know very little about how or why it began, or how or why it developed…

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  • Vietnamese.Adopted: A Collection of Voices

    Vietnamese.Adopted: A Collection of Voices

    by Indigo Willing, Anh Đào Kolbe, Dominic Golding, Tim Holtan, Cara Wolfgang, Kev Minh Allen, Adam Chau, Landa Sharp, Michael Nhat

    Vietnamese.Adopted: A Collection of Voices is a group of writings each in their own form and style, un-censored in content or subject matter, allowing each person to speak on what being a Vietnamese Adoptee, Adopted Vietnamese, or Vietnamese War Orphan is to them, as well…

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  • Two Peas In A Separated Pod: A True Story of Adoption

    Two Peas In A Separated Pod: A True Story of Adoption

    by Jeannie Lachman and Carole Sanguedolce

    Take a journey with two women on the road to discoveries and realizations. Jeannie and Carole write about their lives growing up. Each is unaware of the other. Jeannie is raised in the Bronx, New York. She grows up knowing that she is adopted and…

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  • 20 Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make

    20 Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make

    by Sherrie Eldridge

    As an adoptee, do you have mixed feelings about your adoption? If you do, you are not alone – adoptees often experience complex feelings of grief, anger, and questions about their identity. Sherrie Eldridge is an adoptee and adoption expert, and in this book she…

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  • Requitements

    Requitements

    by Rosemary Starace

    Poems and an essay. Adoptee Author: Rosemary Starace Publication Year: 2015 (revised edition; originally published 2010) Critical Reviews Adoptee Reviews:  Other Reviews:  All Bookshop and Amazon links on this site are affiliate links. We earn a small commission to help keep Adoptee Reading running whenever items are…

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  • My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past

    My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past

    by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair (translated by Carolin Sommer)

    This is the extraordinary and moving memoir of a woman who learns that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List. When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happened to pluck a library book from the shelf, she had no idea…

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  • Mum’s the Word!

    Mum’s the Word!

    by Lorna Little

    What happens when you receive a piece of information that changes your life? Mum’s the Word is not just one way to react, but also a 40,000-word memoir that takes you through how the author handled such news. Suspense builds as a story of family…

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  • Bastards: A Memoir

    Bastards: A Memoir

    by Mary Anna King

    In the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with her older brother Jacob and parents who, in her words, were “great at making babies, but not so great at holding on to them.” After her…

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  • She Named You Donna

    She Named You Donna

    by Julie Kerton

    It’s a January morning in 1976; Julie rips the hospital bracelet from her wrist and throws it across the room. As it lands, she doesn’t know that the sound will echo through the years. But the story doesn’t begin here. In a suburb north of…

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  • The Hundred-Year Flood

    The Hundred-Year Flood

    by Matthew Salesses

    In the shadow of a looming flood that comes every one hundred years, Tee tries to convince himself that living in a new place will mean a new identity and a chance to shed the parallels between him and his adopted father. This beautiful and…

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  • Ghost of Sangju: A Memoir of Reconciliation

    Ghost of Sangju: A Memoir of Reconciliation

    by Soojung Jo

    Ghost of Sangju takes readers through Soojung’s childhood in Kentucky filled with joy, family, friendship—and the loneliness of being marked as an outsider even in her own home. Alternating between humor and heartbreak, she offers a glimpse into a life foreign to most: that of…

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  • Braverman (previously titled I Almost Fell Off the Top of the Empire State Building: A True Story of Trauma and Survival

    Braverman (previously titled I Almost Fell Off the Top of the Empire State Building: A True Story of Trauma and Survival

    by Joe Soll with Susan Hawvermale

    From lying on a New Jersey highway with cars speeding by his head in both directions, to being shot in the head by a manic sniper and almost falling to his death from the top of the Empire State Building, Joe Soll’s autobiography details these…

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  • The Wall of Secrets: Memoir of The Almost Daughter

    The Wall of Secrets: Memoir of The Almost Daughter

    by Claire Hitchon (with Janice Harper)

    Do you feel you belong; that you fit-in in this world? Have you experienced abuse, adoption, loss, and grief? The Wall of Secrets was how I survived those feelings of not belonging, not fitting-in; not being wanted or loved. Each drawer holds one of my…

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  • The Adoptee Survival Guide: Adoptees Share Their Wisdom and Tools

    The Adoptee Survival Guide: Adoptees Share Their Wisdom and Tools

    Edited by Lynn Grubb

    Thirty adoptee authors provide support, encouragement, and understanding to other adoptees in facing the complexities of being adopted, embarking on search and reunion, fighting for equal access to identifying information, navigating complex family relationships with the latest technology, and surviving it all with a sense…

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  • The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream

    The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream

    by Katharine Norbury

    Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine sets out – accompanied by her…

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