Adoption

These are novels in which adoption plays an important part of the plot. These stories are told from varied perspectives. Titles were selected by librarians, readers and professional reviewers.

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Alberts, Laurie - Lost Daughters
Alexie, Sherman - Indian Killer
Allen, Charlotte Vale - Parting Gifts
Allende, Isabel - Daughter of Fortune
Alvarex, Julia - Finding Miracles
Ball, David - China Run
Bauer, Cat - Harley Like a Person
Bishop, Sheila - A Speaking Likeness
Blacker, Terence - Angel Factory
Blake, Philippa - Heat of the Moment
Bockoven, Georgia - A Marriage of Convenience
Brinkerhoff, Shirley - Second Choices
Brown, Sandra - Charade
Carlson, P. M. - Bad Blood
Cameron, Stella - Finding Ian
Chamberlain, Diane - Kiss River
Christiansen, C. B. - I See the Moon
Christopher, Nicholas - A Trip to the Stars
Clark, Mary Higgins - Nighttime is My Time
Clauser, Suzanne - A Girl Named Sooner
Coel, Margaret - Lost Bird
Cooney, Caroline B. - The Ransom of Mercy Carter
Corcoran, Barbara - Family Secrets
Crutcher, Chris - Whale Talk
Culbertson, Judi - The Nursery
D'Amato, Barbara - White Male Infant
Dart, Iris - The Stork Club
Donleavy, J. P. - Wrong Information is Being Given out at Princeton
Esstman, Barbara - The Other Anna
Feldman, Ellen - God Bless the Child
Ford, Darnella - Rising
Gabriel, Marius - House of Many Rooms
Goldsmith, Olivia - Fashionably Late
Goudge, Eileen - Taste of Honey
Harrar, George - Parents Wanted
Harris, Marilyn - Lost and Found
Hatcher, Robin - Firstborn
Henry, April - Square in the Face
Hicks, Barbara Jean - China Doll
Hite, Sid - King of Slippery Falls
Hood, Ann - Ruby
Hrdlitschka, Shelley - Dancing Naked
Irving, John - Cider House Rules
Jacobs, Jonnie - Witness for the Defense
James, P. D. - Innocent Blood
Johnson, Angela - Heaven
Jones, Kaylie - A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Kagan, Elaine - Somebody's Baby
Karon, Jan - A New Song
Kawabata, Yasunari - The Old Capital
Kelmal, Yashar - Salman the Solitary
Kelman, Judith - Fly away Home
Kijewski, Karen - Katapult
Kingsbury, Karen - Reunion
Kirk, Margaret P. - Gypsy
Koontz, Dean - The Mask
Lantz, Francess Lin - Someone to Love
Lachnit, Carroll - Akin to Death
Leavitt, Carolyn - Girls in Trouble
Lee, Chang-Rae - A Gesture Life
Lewis, Beverly - The Shunning
Maguire, Gregory - Missing Sisters
McAuley, Roisin - Singing Bird
MacDonald, Patricia - Mother's Day
McKay, Hilary - Saffy's Angel
Marshall, Tom - Adele at the End of the Day
Maupin, Armistead - The Night Listener
Merz, Jon F. - Danger - Close
Mishima, Yukio - The Decay of the Angel
Mitchard, Jacquelyn - A Theory of Relativity
Mortman, Doris - True Colors
Muller, Marcia - Listen to the Silence
Neufeld, John - Edgar Allan
Oke, Janette - Another Homecoming
O'Connell, Carol - Mallory's Oracle
Okimoto, Jean Davies - Molly by any Other Name
Paretsky, Sara - Total Recall
Parker, T. Jefferson - Silent Joe
Pearson, Ridley - The Pied Piper
Peart, Jane - April and May
Peck, Robert Newton - Extra Innings
Pennebaker, Ruth - Don't Think Twice
Plain, Belva - Blessings
Peterson, Tracie - The Long Awaited Child
Porcelli, Joe - The Photograph
Robards, Karen - Midnight Hour
Roberts, Gillian - Whatever Doesn't Kill You
Ross, JoAnn - Blue Bayou
Rushford, Patricia H. - Abandoned
Saul, John - Darkness
Scott, Joanna C. - The Lucky Gourd Shop
Skinner, Jeff - In the Eyes of Terror
Sleator, William - Rewind
Stevens, Brooke - Tattoo Girl
Tomey, Ingrid - The Queen of Dreamland
Vogel, Jane - Fast Forward to Normal
Wall, Judith Henry - My Mother's Daughter
Wartski, Maureen Crane - The Face in My Mirror
Weinfeld, Chaya Baila - New Beginnings
Wheat, Carolyn - Fresh Kills
Whitney, Phyllis - The Golden Unicorn
Whitson, Stephanie Grace - Walks the Fire
Wiggs, Susan - Home before Dark
Yanksy, Brian - My Road Trip to the Pretty Girl Capital of the World
Yolen, Jane - The One-Armed Queen