The above linked article talks about books about adoption written by adoptees. Each person has a different story about how they came to be adopted. Some of them are fascinating. I’ll add some to my TBR list.
2010
MEMOIR
A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All
by Sarah Culberson and Tracy Trivas
MEMOIR
Red Dust Road
by Jackie Kay
MEMOIR
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
by Jillian Lauren
BIOGRAPHY
Finding Our Place: 100 Memorable Adoptees, Fostered Persons, and Orphanage Alumni
by Nikki McCaslin with Richard Uhrlaub and Marilyn Grotsky
MEMOIR
The Mysteries of Eva Miller Revealed
by Eva D. Miller
2011
MEMOIR
Songs of My Families: A Thirty-Seven-Year Odyssey from Korea to America and Back
by Kelly Fern with Brad Fern
MEMOIR
Problem Child
by Caradoc King
MEMOIR
Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
by Catherine E. McKinley
MEMOIR
Becoming Patrick: A Memoir
by Patrick McMahon
FICTION
Hunting Shadows: An Adoptee’s Journey
by Dan Sandifer
2012
JUVENILE
GreenBean: True Blue Family
by Elizabeth Blake
ESSAY
Island of Bones: Essays
by Joy Castro
FICTION
Stay Awake: Stories
by Dan Chaon
ANTHOLOGY
Parenting As Adoptees
Edited by Adam Chau and Kevin Ost-Vollmers
MEMOIR
Too Afraid To Cry
by Ali Cobby Eckermann
MEMOIR
Cricket: Secret Child of a Sixties Supermodel
by Susan Fedorko
MEMOIR
If I Should Die Before I Wake
By Eileen Munro
NONFICTION/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Harris Narratives: An Introspective Study of a Transracial Adoptee
by Susan Harris O’Connor
NONFICTION/MEMOIR
Reunited: An Investigative Genealogist Unlocks Some of Life’s Greatest Family Mysteries
by Pamela Slaton (with Samantha Marshall)
MEMOIR
A Legitimate Life: A Forbidden Journey of Self-Discovery
by Melinda A. Warshaw
2013
RESEARCH
A Law of Blood-ties: The “Right” to Access Genetic Ancestry
by Alice Diver
MIDDLE GRADE FICTION
Unstoppable
by Tim Green
MEMOIR
The Fifth and Final Name: Memoir of an American Churchill
by Rhonda Noonan
MEMOIR
Searching for the Castle: Backtrail of an Adoption
by Barbara Leigh Ohrstrom
MEMOIR/SELF-HELP
Toxic Mom Toolkit: Discovering a Happy Life Despite Toxic Parenting
by Rayne Wolfe
2014
MEMOIR
The Tangled Red Thread
by Elle Cuardaigh
YOUNG ADULT/MEMOIR
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
by Michaela DePrince with Elaine DePrince
MEMOIR
Family Medical History: Unknown/Adopted
by Nancy Kacirek Feldman and Rebecca Crofoot
POETRY/FICTION
We Take Me Apart
by Molly Gaudry
MEMOIR
Prison Baby: A Memoir
by Deborah Jiang-Stein
POETRY/ESSAY
The Translation of Han
by Hei Kyong Kim
JUVENILE
Jack & Emma’s Adoptee Journey
by Pam Kroskie
ESSAY
The Last Invisible Continent: Essays on Adoption and Identity
by Michael Allen Potter
ANTHOLOGY
Lost Daughters: Writing Adoption from a Place of Empowerment & Peace
Edited by Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston, Julie Stromberg, Karen Pickell, and Jennifer Anastasi
MEMOIR
Worthy To Be Found
by Deanna Doss Shrodes
2015
FICTION
Waving Backwards
by V.L. Brunskill
ANTHOLOGY
Flip the Script: Adult Adoptee Anthology
Edited by Diane René Christian, Amanda H.L. Transue-Woolston, and Rosita González
NONFICTION/SELF-HELP
20 Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make
by Sherrie Eldridge
MEMOIR
The Boy from Nowhere
by Gregor Fisher with Melanie Reid
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
See No Color
by Shannon Gibney
MEMOIR
The Son with Two Moms
Tony Hynes
ANTHOLOGY
The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now
Edited by Janine Myung Ja, Jenette Moon Ja, and Katherine Kim
MEMOIR
Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe
by Lori Jakiela
FICTION
The Mothers
by Rod Jones
MEMOIR
Bastards: A Memoir
by Mary Anna King
MEMOIR
Two Peas In A Separated Pod: A True Story of Adoption
by Jeannie Lachman and Carole Sanguedolce
FICTION
The Hundred-Year Flood
by Matthew Salesses
MEMOIR
A Family Apart: Sleuthing the Mysteries of Abandonment, Adoption and DNA
by Craig A. Steffen
MEMOIR
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past
by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair (translated by Carolin Sommer)
ANTHOLOGY
Vietnamese.Adopted: A Collection of Voices
by Indigo Willing, Anh Đào Kolbe, Dominic Golding, Tim Holtan, Cara Wolfgang, Kev Minh Allen, Adam Chau, Landa Sharp, Michael Nhat
2016
MEMOIR
Everything Is Possible: Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams
by Jen Bricker with Sheryl Berk
MEMOIR
Searching for Enda
by Paul G. Denny
FICTION
Umbilicus
by Paula Gruben
MEMOIR
You Don’t Look Adopted
by Anne Heffron
MEMOIR
Ten Ways Not To Commit Suicide: A Memoir
by Darryl McDaniels with Darrell Dawsey
MEMOIR
Heartlines: The Year I Met My Other Mother
by Susannah McFarlane and Robin Leuba
RESEARCH
Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism
by Kim Park Nelson
ANTHOLOGY
Black Anthology: Adult Adoptees Claim Their Space
Edited by Susan Harris O’Connor, MSW; Diane René Christian; Mei-Mei Akwai Ellerman, PhD
MEMOIR
An Affair with My Mother: A Story of Adoption, Secrecy and Love
by Caitríona Palmer
POETRY
Unbearable Splendor
by Sun Yung Shin
2017
MEMOIR
Adopted: An Adoptee’s Memoir of Healing Love
by David C. Alves
MEMOIR
Swabbed & Found: An Adopted Man’s DNA Journey to Discover his Family Tree
by Frank Billingsley
MEMOIR
Found and Lost: An Adoption, An Agency and A Search for Self
by Suzette J. Brownstein
FICTION
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
by Patty Yumi Cottrell
JUVENILE
Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey
by Kelly DiBenedetto, Katie Gorczyca, and Jennifer Eckert
ANTHOLOGY
Decoding Our Origins: The Lived Experiences of Colombian Adoptees
Edited by Abby Forero-Hilty
MEMOIR
Goodbye, SaraJane: A Foster Child Writes Letters to Her Mother
by Sequoya Griffin
MEMOIR
Almost Home: A Memoir
by Hilary Harper
NONFICTION/MEMOIR
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
by Richard Hill
MEMOIR
Beyond Two Worlds: A Taiwanese-American Adoptee’s Memoir & Search for Identity
by Marijane Huang
YOUNG ADULT FICTION/POETRY
When You Never Said Goodbye: An Adoptee’s Search for Her Birth Mother: A Novel in Poems and Journal Entries
by Meg Kearney
MEMOIR
Killing Karoline
by Sara-Jayne King
RESEARCH
The Colour of Time: A Longitudinal Exploration of the Impact of Intercountry Adoption in Australia
Compiled by Lynelle Long for International Social Service (ISS) Australia
NONFICTION
Parenting in the Eye of the Storm: The Adoptive Parent’s Guide to Navigating the Teen Years
by Katie Naftzger
MEMOIR
After the Truth: A Memoir
by Paige Adams Strickland
2018
ESSAY
Litany for the Long Moment
by Mary-Kim Arnold
MEMOIR
Parallel Universes: The Story of Rebirth
by David B. Bohl
POETRY
Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory
by James Cagney
MEMOIR
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
by Nicole Chung
ANTHOLOGY
Through Adopted Eyes: A Collection of Memoirs From Adoptees
Edited by Elena S. Hall
MEMOIR
Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption
Susan Devan Harness
FICTION
Keurium
by J S Lee
POETRY/MEMOIR
Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems
by Julayne Lee
MEMOIR
You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are: An Adoptee’s Journey Through The American Adoption Experience
by Rudy Owens
ESSAY
An Adoptee Lexicon
by Karen Pickell
RESEARCH
The Adoption Machine: The Dark History of Ireland’s Mother & Baby Homes and the Inside Story of How “Tuam 800” Became a Global Scandal
by Paul Jude Redmond
MEMOIR
Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World
by Christina Rickardsson; translated by Tara F. Chace
POETRY
Blackbirds
by Greg Santos
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
The Girl and the Grove
by Eric Smith
FICTION
Famous Adopted People
by Alice Stephens
2019
MEMOIR
Who Am I Really: An Adoptee Memoir
by Damon Davis
MEMOIR
Fixing the Fates: An Adoptee’s Story of Truth and Lies
by Diane Dewey
MEMOIR
Searching for Mom: A Memoir
by Sara Easterly (with Linda Easterly)
MIDDLE GRADE FICTION
For Black Girls Like Me
by Mariama J. Lockington
RESEARCH
Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States
by Kimberly D. McKee
MEMOIR
The Lies That Bind: An Adoptee’s Journey Through Rejection, Redirection, DNA, and Discovery
by Laureen Pittman
POETRY
Arabilis
by Leah Silvieus
MEMOIR
My Name Is Why
by Lemn Sissay
GRAPHIC MEMOIR
Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption
by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
MEMOIR
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir
by Jenny Heijun Wills
