I received a link to the "Readers' guide to Adoption-Related Literature" from the adoption group that I belong to. It's a huge list of different adoption titles for adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, etc...

Link: Literature List

Some of the categories are:

Adoptees (Non-Fiction)
Birth Parents
Searching
Adoptive Parents

Example: Adopting in America: How to Adopt Within One Year. Randall B Hicks. 1993. WordSlinger. (Second Edition. 1999. 344p. SCB Distributors; Fourth Revised Edition. 2004. 352p. Wordslinger.) Filled with unique strategies for creating a family, this book shatters the negative myths of the adoption process and tells couples everything they need to know to adopt successfully within a year.

Transracial Adoption

Example: Adopting Maternity: White Women Who Adopt Transracially or Transnationally. Nora Rose Moosnick. 2004. 192p. Praeger Publishers. Discusses the issues related to race, class, and gender involved in adoption based on in-depth interviews with 22 adoptive mothers. This text compares and contrasts the experiences of white women who adopted Asian, black, or biracial children. The bulk of the book is dedicated to presenting the women’s words as they talk about their perceptions of fertility treatments, birth mothers, other mothers, adoption processes, and outsiders’ reactions, among other matters. Feminist discourse is used to examine the applicability of these theories to women’s self-characterizations.

Special-Needs & Handicapped
Single Parents
International Adoption: General

Example: Beyond Good Intentions: A Mother Reflects on Raising Internationally Adopted Children. Cheri Register. 2005. 183p. Yeong & Yeong Book Co. Cheri Register does not cushion her advice for the comfort of international adoptive parents—instead, she focuses on what we need to know to help our children grow strong. Some of her advice and insights are not easy to accept nor pleasant to hear, but I am grateful for her help in arming me to help our two internationally adopted children. They may not now have, and may never have, the reactions and feelings that she describes, but if they do at least I will have some sense of where they are coming from—which is a place I know nothing about from my own life history. All too many of us cannot see beyond our adoration of our children to their unique needs, and Ms. Register’s book strives to help us over that huge blind spot. This book is one of a handful that people thinking about adopting transracially/internationally or who have already done so should have on their shelves to consult again and again. — Susan Johnston

The person who sent this to us commented that she thought her library was large (until she saw this list). All I can say is that someone spent a lot of time compiling this list and it was obviously meant for people to use it.