A Place in My Heart by Mary Grossnickle

Coco & Olive by Michelle Madrid-Branch

Dear Wonderful You: Letters To Adopted and Fostered Youth by various adult adoptees and former foster youth (intended for teens)

Discovering Me: A Journey Book About Adoption by Betsy Trainor

Every Year On Your Birthday by Rose Lewis

Families Change: A Book for Children Experiencing Termination of Parental Rights by Julie Nelson

Frankie and Friends Talk Adoption by Pam Kroskie and Marcie Keithley

Growing Grace by Erin Mason

Heart Picked: Elizabeth's Adoption Tale by Sara Crutcher

I'm Yours: An Adoption Story From a Mother's Heart by Ashley Cameron

Just Right Family: An Adoption Story by Sylvia Lopez

Kids Need to Be Safe: A Book for Children in Foster Care by Julie Nelson

Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care by Jennifer Wilgocki and Marcia Kahn Wright

Motherbridge of Love by an anonymous adoptive mother

Star of The Week: A Story of Love, Adoption, and Brownies with Sprinkles by Darlene Friedman

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

Ten Days and Nine Nights by Yumi Heo

The Mulberry Bird by Anne Braff Brodsinsky, PhD

We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo by Linda Walvoord Girard

​​All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

Attaching In Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents by Deborah D. Gray

Before You Adopt by Christa Jordan (workbook for prospective adoptive families)

Beyond Two Worlds: A Taiwanese-American Adoptee's Memoir & Search for Identity by Marijane Huang

Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

In On It: What Adoptive Parents Would Like You To Know About Adoption by Elisabeth O'Toole

Inconvenient Daughter by Lauren J. Sharkey

Lion by Saroo Briarly

Lionheart: The Real Life Guide For Adoptive Families by Jodie Hampshire, Selina Smyth & Tammie Flinos, with Robert Harris

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

The Connected Child: Bring Hope And Healing To Your Adoptive Family by Karen B. Purvis, Ph.D, David R. Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine

The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment by Karen B. Purvis, Ph.D & Lisa Qualls

The Family of Adoption by Joyce Maguire Pavao

The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole by Lori Holden

The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson

Through Adopted Eyes by Elena S Hall

Through Adopted Hearts by Elena S Hall

Umbilicus by Paula Gruben

@adoption.books (Instagram)

• Reviews of adoption related books

@blackbabybooks (Instagram)

@booksfordiversity (Instagram)

@mydiversebookshelf (Instagram)

Adoptee Reading

• "Adoptee Reading aims to be the go-to site for books of interest to adopted people. First and foremost, we feature books written by adoptees themselves."

Adoptees On 

• List of books recommended by adoptees from the podcast Adoptees On

Harlow's Monkey

Hey Tra's All Black Everything Book List by Hannah Matthews

WAM! Book Bundle