The most popular adoption books of 2023

Books about adoption tell stories of families made in more than one way. Adopted children, birth parents and adoptive parents each have their own account, and the search for origins runs through many of them. Novels and memoirs here deal with belonging, identity and what makes a family. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.

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Vee in Between
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Vee in Between

Valerie Kaiyang Wood

Published 2023

32 pages

North Wind Man
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North Wind Man

Clarence Cachagee, Seth Ratzlaff

Published 2023

268 pages

Beyond Our Control
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Beyond Our Control

Lauren Green McAfee, Michael McAfee

2023 · 2024 edition

240 pages

Child of the Beast
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Child of the Beast

Jack Meggitt-Phillips, Isabelle Follath

Published 2023

288 pages

Unchained
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Unchained

Mike Nunnally

Published 2023

283 pages

Duck Goes Meow
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Duck Goes Meow

Juliette MacIver

2023 · 2024 edition

24 pages

Shattered
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Shattered

Jenell M. M. Jones M.Ed. M.Ed.

Published 2023

192 pages