AF PICKS: Best Memoirs

* The Waiting Child, by Cindy Champnella
* I Wish for You a Beautiful Life, Sara Dorow, ed.
* Borrowed Finery, by Paula Fox
* ITHAKA: A Daughter’s Memoir of Being Found, by Sarah Saffian
* The Kid, by Dan Savage
* In Their Own Voices, by Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda
* An Empty Lap, by Jill Smolowe
* Love in the Driest Season, by Neely Tucker
* The Adoption Reader, Susan Wadia-Ells, ed.
* Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother, by Jana Wolff

AF PICKS: Best Adoption Storybooks

* Sam’s Sister, by Juliet C. Bond; illustrated by Dawn Majewski
* How I Was Adopted, by Joanna Cole; illustrated by Maxie Chambliss
* Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, by Jamie Lee Curtis; illustrated by Laura Cornell
* You’re Not My Real Mother!, by Molly Friedrich; illustrated by Christy Hale
* We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo, by Linda Walvoord Girard; illustrated by Linda Shute
* A Mother for Choco, by Keiko Kasza
* Over the Moon, by Karen Katz
* The Day We Met You, by Phoebe Koehler
* I Love You Like Crazy Cakes, by Rose Lewis; illustrated by Jane Dyer
* Families Are Different, by Nina Pellegrini