Top Ten: Books for Black-White Families (and some add-ons)

O.k., I've read many, many books on this subject (i.e. adoption; white parents adopting black kids; inter-racial adoption/bi-racial families). There are some good ones out there (and there are some not so good ones out there). Per your request, my dear readers, here is my List~~~

note: Please comment here to share your own favorite must-read adoption books (especially anything on black-white families!!!)

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Top Ten Favorite Books re: Adoption & Black-White Adoptive Families

1. Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents, by Deborah Gray (my favorite adoption book of all time, a must-read for any adoptive parent of any child regardless of race/class/gender)
2. Talking With Young Children About Adoption, by Mary Watkins & Susan Fisher (my 2nd favorite book on this topic of all time, again -- regardless of race, a must-read!)
3. Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, by Sherrie Eldridge
4. How It Feels to Be Adopted, by Jill Krementz
5. Jamaica and Me: The Story of an Unusual Friendship, by Linda Atkins
6. I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World, by Marguerite Wright
7. Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary America, by Sandra Patton
8. Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption, by Barbara Katz Rothman
9. Inside Transracial Adoption, by Gail Steinberg & Beth Hall
10. Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib, by Jaiya John

Also... unrelated to adoption...
Re: Haiti -- lots and lots of books out there, have read many, here are just two of my favorites:

• Anything by the power-house female Haitian author Edwidge Danticat, such as Breath, Eyes, Memory & The Farming of Bones & Krik? Krak!
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder

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Re: CMs (Career/Working Moms) -- a bunch of books out there, have read many (them all?), here are a couple of my favorites:

• When Mothers Work: Loving Our Children Without Sacrificing Our Selves, by Joan Peters
• This Is How We Do It: The Working Mothers' Manifesto, by Carol Evans
• And sorry, but I've got to add a third bullet here because as a professional sociologist it would be wrong for me to not at least mention the must-read books: The Second Shift by Arlie Hochschild & Anne Machung, and The Time Bind, by Arlie Hochschild

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Re: Twins -- lots and lots and lots of books out there, have read many, have yet to find one I actually like. LOL!