The Primal Wound  – Understanding the Adopted Child by Nancy Verrier *

Healing Trauma by Dr. Peter A. Levine * 

Shame by John Bradshaw

A Place Called Home by David Ambroz 

Torn Apart by Dorothy Roberts  

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam

Solito by Javier Zamora

An Identity Erased: My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay

It Ends With US by Colleen Hoover

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring While Caring For Others By Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk

Far From The Tree By Robin Benway

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge

White Oleander by Janet Fitch 

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung 

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott *

Orphan Train by Christina Kline 

All You Could Ever Know by Nichole Chung

Courage to Soar : Simone Biles

Someone Has Led This Child to Believe by Regina Louise *

White Fragility by Robin D’Angelo *

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson *

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem *

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander *

Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman *

The Faraway Brothers by Lauren Markham *

Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc *

The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward *

Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo *

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk 

Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky  

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver 

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa *

Hidden Valley Road – Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

There, There – by Tommy Orange *

The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates *

Say my Name by Chanel Miller 

The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke-Harris

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu *

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Snyder 

Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter