A Selection of Adoption Related Books

The following books are highly recommend reading while you are in the search process. 
You may order these books from your local book store, or check them out from your 
local library, or, if your local library does not have them, have your librarian get them 
through an inter-library loan. This is just a small list of adoption related books.

  “Adoption Reunions”, Michelle McComm, A positive and practical guide from the 
search decision through post reunion.
  “Adoption Searches Made Easier”, Joseph Culligan, A search manual.
  “Adoption Story”, Marguerite Ryan, A son is given, about a semi  open adoption.
  “The Adoption Triangle”, Arthur Sorosky, MD, Annette Baran, M.S.W., Ruben 
Pannor, M.S.W., Sealed or open records.
  “Adoptee Trauma”, Heather Carlini, A discussion of adoptees seven grieving stages.
  “Being Adopted”, Brodzinsky, Schechter, and Henig, The life long search for self.
  “Birthbond”, Judith S. Gediman and Linda P. Brown,  Reunions between 
birthparents and adoptees.
  “Birthmothers”, Merry B. Jones, Women who have relinquished babies for adoption 
tell their stories.
  “Birth Mother Trauma”, Heather Carlini, A book that addresses the trauma that 
remains from the relinquishment of a child.
  “Birthright”, Jean A. Strauss, The guide to search and reunion.
  “Confessions of a Lost Mother”, Elisa Barton
  “Courageous Blessing”, Carol Demuth, A guide to support adoptive parents through 
the search process.
  “Family Secrets”, David Leitch, A writers search for his parents and his past.
  “Finding Family”, Rick Ouston, A bittersweet reunion by TV news reporter.
  “Half a Million Women”, D. Howe, P. Sawbridge, D. Hinings, Women who lose 
their children by adoption.
  “I Would Have Searched Forever”, Sandra K. Musser
  “Journey of the Adopted Self”, Betty Jean Lifton, A quest for wholeness.
  “Letters to My Birthmother”, Amy Dean, Autobiography.
  “Lifeline”, Virgil L. Klunder, The action guide to adoption search.
  “Lost and Found”, Betty Jean Lifton, P.H.D., The adoption experience.
  “The Other Mother”, Carol Schaefer
  “Out of the Shadows”, Mary Martin Mason, Birthfathers stories.
  “Primal Wound”, Nancy Newton Verrier
  “Search”, Jayne Askin with Molly Davis
  “Searching for A Past”, Jayne Schooler
  “Sibling Reunions”, Randolph W. Severson
  “Stories of Adoption” by Eric Blau, Loss and reunion.
  “The Stranger Who Bore Me”, Karen March, Adoptee / Birthmother relationships.
  “Synchronicity and Reunion”, Lavonne Harper Stiffler, D. Phil, The genetic 
connection of adoptees and birthparents.
  “Torn from the Heart”, Louise Jergens, A true story of a birthmothers search.
  “Waiting to Forget”, Margaret Moorman, A mothers search for her secret son.