The most popular adoption books of 2025

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 2025.

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Aging Out
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Aging Out

Miranda Mosier-Puentes, Marcelo Diversi

Published 2025

Drop the Mitts
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Drop the Mitts

Cynthia Gunderson

Published 2025

276 pages

Abandoned
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Abandoned

Gloria Jean Miller

Published 2025

153 pages

Marked by Adoption
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Marked by Adoption

Wilson Munsterman, Shannon Bingham

Published 2025

120 pages