Memoirs and anthologies from an adoptee’s perspective
A Single Square Picture by Katy Robinson
Becoming Patrick by Patrick McMahon
Beneath a Tall Tree Jean A. S. Strauss
Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib by Jaiya John
Blending In: Crisscrossing the Lines of Race, Religion, Family, and Adoption by Barbara Ann Gowan
Bravo Your Life! by Mi Soon Burzlaff
Daughter of the Ganges: A Memoir by Asha Miro
Dust of the Streets: The Journey of a Biracial Orphan of the Korean War by Thomas Park Clement
Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison – Deborah Jiang Stein
Finding Fish: A Memoir by Antwone Q. Fisher
From Morning Calm to Midnight Sun by Sunny Jo
Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea by Jane Jeong Trenka
Ghost of Sangju: A Memoir of Reconciliation by Soojung Jo [My review here]
Here: A Visual History of Adopted Koreans in Minnesota by Kim Jackson and Heewon Lee
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited by Elyse Shein and Paula Bernstein
In Search of Belonging edited by Perlita Harris
Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses – a Memoir by Paula McLain
Lost Daughters: Writing Adoption From a Place of Empowerment edited by Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston
Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood
My Fathers’ Daughter by Hannah Pool
Oceans Apart: A Voyage of International Adoption by Mary Mustard Reed
One Small Sacrifice by Trace A. DeMeyer
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption
Parenting As Adoptees, Edited by Adam Chau and Kevin Vollmers
Pieces of Me: Who do I Want to Be edited by Bert Ballard
Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey by Jackie Kay
Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away by June Cross
Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology By Korean Adoptees
Songs of My Families: A Thirty-Seven-Year Odyssey from Korea to America and Back by Kelly Fern
Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim
The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts by Catherine E. McKinley
The Declassified Adoptee Essays of an Adoption Activist by Amanda H.L Transue-Woolston
The Language of Blood by Jane Jeong Trenka
The Mistress’s Daughter by A. M. Homes
The Translation of Han by Hei Kyong Kim
The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir by Victoria Rowell
Three Little Words: A Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home by Kim Sunee
Twins Found in a Box: Adapting to Adoption by Jeannine Vance