9 best-selling adult books like God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother by Amy Seek

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God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

By: Amy Seek

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

A searching, eloquent memoir about the joys and hardships of open adoption God and Jetfireis a moth…

If you liked the adult plot in God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother by Amy Seek , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

By: Regina Calcaterra

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early … read more

Similar categories in Regina Calcaterra's Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"I've just stepped into the kitchen when Rosie's glass fall and shatters on the living room floor, inches from Cookie's ear. (page 54)"

-Regina Calcaterra, Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

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2. Americanah

By: None , Jashar Awan

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, … read more

Similar categories in None's Americanah book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

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3. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

By: Various , Joe Layden , Rob Reiner , Cary Elwes

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-p… read more

Similar categories in Various's As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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4. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By: Bryan Stevenson

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search

By: Martin Sixsmith

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoma… read more

Similar categories in Martin Sixsmith's The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adoption
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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6. All You Can Ever Know

By: Nicole Chung

3.77

Format: 300 pages,

All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Chung's All You Can Ever Know book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adoption
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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7. God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

By: Amy Seek

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

A searching, eloquent memoir about the joys and hardships of open adoption God and Jetfireis a moth… read more

Similar categories in Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adoption
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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8. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

Similar categories in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

9. The Hypnotist's Love Story

By: Liane Moriarty

4.50

Format: 158 pages,

For fans of Emily Giffin, another wonderful book from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselle… read more

Similar categories in Liane Moriarty's The Hypnotist's Love Story book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

10. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

By: Cea Sunrise Person

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castleand Wild,Cea Sunrise Person's compel… read more

Similar categories in Cea Sunrise Person's North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

11. The Language of Flowers

By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weave… read more

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12. A House in the Sky

By: Sara Corbett , Amanda Lindhout

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most beautiful… read more

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13. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more

Similar categories in Lisa See's Lady Tan’s Circle of Women book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • adult
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14. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad Is Untrue book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • biography memoir
"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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15. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption

By: Gabrielle Glaser

4.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, th… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Glaser's American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adoption
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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17. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

By: Clint Smith

4.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more

Similar categories in Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • nonfiction
"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"

-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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18. No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

By: Kate Bowler

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do … read more

Similar categories in Kate Bowler's No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"We live and we are loved and we are gone."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"Nothing will exempt me from the pain of being human."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"People say carpe diem. I mean, yes, unless you need a nap."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

"I feel a spark of horror each time I remember it: we come undone."

-Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

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19. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

By: Kate Moore

4.30

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and moth… read more

Similar categories in Kate Moore's The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Insane asylum - a place where insanity is made."

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

"In the end, this is a book about power. Who wields it. Who owns it. And the methods they use. And above all, it's about fighting back."

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

"As Elizabeth put it, “I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not…"

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

"It's a book that is set over 160 year ago. A lot has changed. A lot hasn't. We are only just beginning to appreciate exactly how a person's powerlessness may lead to struggles with their mental healt…"

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

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20. Any Other Family

By: Eleanor Brown

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • adult
  • adoption
"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

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21. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Sisson's Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • parenting
  • adoption
Cover of Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex) by Nadia Bolz-Weber

22. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

By: Nadia Bolz-Weber

4.21

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more

Similar categories in Nadia Bolz-Weber's Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex) book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • nonfiction
"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

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23. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's You Better Be Lightning book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • adult
  • nonfiction
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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24. You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

By: Alexis Coe

3.74

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

In a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first—and finds he's not qu… read more

Similar categories in Alexis Coe's You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • biography memoir
  • adult
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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25. American Daughter

By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Thornton Plymale's American Daughter book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito

26. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

By: Susan Kiyo Ito

4.61

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt… read more

Similar categories in Susan Kiyo Ito's I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir book and Amy Seek's God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adoption

9 must-read adult books like God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother by Amy Seek

Transform Your Habits

Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

Regina Calcaterra

4.31

Transform Your Habits

God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

Amy Seek

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

Lisa See

4.36

Transform Your Habits

American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption

Gabrielle Glaser

4.34

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19 must-read audiobook books like What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

Transform Your Habits

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lindsay C. Gibson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Catherine Gildiner

4.46

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

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