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March 8, 2022


top ten favorite books featuring found or adopted families
posted by soe 1:58 am

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share books with our favorite tropes. I thought I’d share ten books featuring adopted or found families:

  1. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
  2. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  4. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
  5. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  7. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
  8. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  9. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
  10. The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde

Do you have any books you read featuring adopted or found families?

Category: books. There is/are 5 Comments.



I love books about adoptees. My favorites are The How & The Why and Far from the Tree.

Comment by Deanna (A Novel Glimpse) 03.08.22 @ 11:25 am

I love this. I had never really thought of it as a trope but I can see that it is. Great list.

Comment by Cindy Davis 03.08.22 @ 2:03 pm

I did found families this week too and we shared a few of these!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/03/08/top-ten-tuesday-358/

Comment by Jo 03.08.22 @ 3:52 pm

This is one of my favorite tropes! I love Ove.

Comment by Aj @ Read All The Things! 03.09.22 @ 8:07 am

Anne of Green Gables is lovely! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!

Comment by Poinsettia 03.09.22 @ 1:47 pm