Adoption Books - Fiction - Mysteries - Classics - Children's Stories
Classic books for young readers, and a selection of mysteries with adoption themes I love to read, and my bookshelves are packed with books about adoption. Most of them are non-fiction: books that guide us through the adoption process, search and reunion, or provide historic references to and psychological explorations of adoption and child welfare through the centuries. I also have dozens of personal accounts written by birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive parents. But the books that show the most wear, the books that have been read over and over again, are in my collection of fiction - fiction with adoption-related themes including adoption, foster care, and orphan care.
From classics for young readers to mysteries, adoption-related themes provide hours of fascinating reading for generations of readers, young and old alike. Authors like Mark Twain ("Tom Sawyer") and Charles Dickens ("Oliver Twist") wrote classics that appeal to children with their action-packed stories, and to adults as social commentaries on the times (most of the classics listed are also great reading for adults). Mystery writers, like Patricia MacDonald ("Mother's Day"), use adoption-related themes to create the high tension and suspense of a great whodunit.
Taken from the titles on my bookshelves, here are some of my favorites:
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