2025-2026 Must-Reads: Six Adoption Books That Crack Open Family Secrets and Tell Our Truths, Plus a Bonus Book

Every year, I seek out books that speak our truth loud and proud. I am happy to report that 2025-2026 is delivering five remarkable books jammed full of adoption and DNA surprise truth-telling: Connected: Finding My Truth by Diana Kayla Hochberg, Adopting Privilege: A Memoir of Reinventing my Adoptee Narrative by Dr. Abigail K. Hasberry, Sidework by Sasha Hom, The Adoption Paradox by Jean Kelly Widner, and No Finer Place: A Memoir of DNA, Deception, and Duality by L Michelle Tullier. Plus a bonus book at the end.