The best books on adoption are the ones that make you see things a completely different way. These are the books on adoption that I think must be read, should be on your personal book case. These are my favorite books that I have gone to again and again. The adoption books that are earmarked, stained and have so many notes in the margins, that I reference again and again.

These are the books about adoption that I recommend over and over to someone preparing for a reunion, or wanting to understand a birthmother, or a person who needs to understand themselves better or just to be able to understand the adoption industry overall. I do not call them the best books on adoption for nothing.

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

by Ann Fessler;  The number one MUST HAVE for any adoptee born in this time frame wanting to search or in reunion , any other birthmother who needs to know she was not alone. And for anyone who would like to understand the foundation or adoption and life as a birthmother.

The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption by  Barbara Bisantz Raymond

For almost three decades, renowned baby-seller Georgia Tann stole and sold babies. Part social history, part detective story, part expose, The Baby Thief is a riveting investigative into the heart and corrupt foundation of the adoption industry and sealed adoption records.