The most popular adoption books

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.

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Never Knowing
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Never Knowing

Chevy Stevens

Published 2011

416 pages

Number9dream
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Number9dream

David Mitchell

Published 2001

320 pages

The Mask
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The Mask

Dean Koontz

1981 · 1996 edition

320 pages

The Girls
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The Girls

Lori Lansens

2005 · 2006 edition

464 pages

Kaleidoscope
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Kaleidoscope

Danielle Steel

1987 · 2015 edition

389 pages

Finding Ashley
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Finding Ashley

Danielle Steel

2021 · 2022 edition

336 pages

Flight
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Flight

Published 2007

181 pages

Ruby Holler
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Ruby Holler

Sharon Creech

2002 · 2007 edition

310 pages

Reunion
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Reunion

Karen Kingsbury, Gary Smalley

2004 · 2009 edition

400 pages

Before and After
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Before and After

Judy Christie, Lisa Wingate

2019 · 2021 edition

320 pages

Etched in Sand
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Etched in Sand

Regina Calcaterra

2013 · 2017 edition

320 pages