From the Adoptee Reading home page, you can access
- the Adoptee Reading book catalog,
- blog posts with news for adoptee readers,
- and lists of articles related to specific topics of interest to adopted people.
Accessing the Adoptee Reading book catalog
- Browse books highlighted on the home page
- The Adoptee Reading home page includes sections highlighting some of the books contained in the catalog — for example, recently added books, newly published books, recent memoirs, etc. Click on a book cover to access the details for that book. Use the controls at the bottom of each section to scroll through the list of highlighted books. Note that these sections do not show all the books available in the catalog for each category. To see more books, use the website’s main menu.
- Find specific types of books from the main menu
- Books in the Adoptee Reading catalog are categorized in multiple ways:
- by subject (adoptees, adoptive families, birth families, search/reunion, Baby Scoop Era, etc.)
- by type of adoption (domestic, transracial, intercountry, kinship, etc.)
- by genre (memoir, fiction, psychology, poetry, etc.)
- by author
- A book is listed in all the categories that apply to it, therefore you may discover the same book via different menu options. For example, if a book is a memoir in verse about a lesbian Korean adoptee meeting her birth mother for the first time, it will be listed on all of the following pages:
- Adoptees
- Female Adoptees
- Search/Reunion
- LGBTQIA
- Intercountry Adoptions
- Adoptions from Korea
- Memoir/Biography
- Poetry
- Authors
- You can also search for specific keywords using the search box located beside the menu. This will return book listings, blog posts, and any other website pages that contain those keywords.
- Books in the Adoptee Reading catalog are categorized in multiple ways:
- Suggest a book for the Adoptee Reading catalog
- Know of a great book you’d like to see added to the catalog? Use the menu option to suggest a book.
Accessing blog posts with news for adoptee readers
- The latest blog posts with news for adoptee readers are listed on the home page. Click on the image or on the link following the excerpt to read the whole post. Use the controls at the bottom of the section to scroll back through older posts. Use the search box located beside the main menu to find posts containing specific keywords (note that this will return book listings from the catalog as well).
Accessing lists of articles related to specific topics of interest to adopted people
- The item Brief Writings on the main menu contains links to lists of articles related to specific topics. Click on the topic of interest to access a list.
Report a bug/ask a question
- Have you found something on this website that seems to not work properly? Or do you have a question about how the site works? Let us know here.