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24 titles for readers of Unwanted by Knox Tolbert, selected for shared themes: Alternative Family, Parenting, Personal Memoirs, and Family & Relationships.

Alternative Family Parenting Personal Memoirs Family & Relationships Biography & Autobiography

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Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Unwanted.

Not Like Other Dads — Sean Szeps

Not Like Other Dads

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Personal Memoirs

No Happy Endings A Memoir — Nora McInerny

No Happy Endings A Memoir

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Personal Memoirs

Unsafe Damian Longs for Home, But One Man Stands in His Way — Cathy Glass

Unsafe Damian Longs for Home, But One Man Stands in His Way

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Personal Memoirs

This Lovely Life A Memoir of Premature Motherhood — Vicki Forman

This Lovely Life A Memoir of Premature Motherhood

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Personal Memoirs

Take This Man A Memoir — Brando Skyhorse

Take This Man A Memoir

Brando Skyhorse

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Personal Memoirs

Tales from the Dad Side Misadventures in Fatherhood — Steve Doocy

Tales from the Dad Side Misadventures in Fatherhood

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Personal Memoirs

A Father’s Angels — John Steven Waldron

A Father’s Angels

John Steven Waldron

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Personal Memoirs

Confessions of a Recovering Slut And Other Love Stories — Hollis Gillespie

Confessions of a Recovering Slut And Other Love Stories

Hollis Gillespie

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Personal Memoirs

In Search of Emma How We Created Our Family — Armando Lucas Correa

In Search of Emma How We Created Our Family

Armando Lucas Correa

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Personal Memoirs

Helpless Are Riley and His Two Little Siblings in Danger? — Cathy Glass

Helpless Are Riley and His Two Little Siblings in Danger?

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Personal Memoirs

Unconditional A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child — Telaina Eriksen

Unconditional A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child

Telaina Eriksen

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Family & Relationships

They Cage the Animals at Night — Jennings Michael Burch

They Cage the Animals at Night

Jennings Michael Burch

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Family & Relationships

The Boy Who Played with Fusion Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star — Tom Clynes

The Boy Who Played with Fusion Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Family & Relationships

Real Belonging Give Siblings Their Right to Reunite: Camp to Belong 25th Anniversary Edition — Lynn S. Price

Real Belonging Give Siblings Their Right to Reunite: Camp to Belong 25th Anniversary Edition

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Family & Relationships

The Daddy Diaries The Year I Grew Up — Andy Cohen

The Daddy Diaries The Year I Grew Up

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Family & Relationships

Raised by Unicorns Stories from People with LGBTQ+ Parents — Frank Lowe

Raised by Unicorns Stories from People with LGBTQ+ Parents

Themes: Alternative Family • Parenting • Family & Relationships

Group Living and Other Recipes A Memoir — Lola Milholland

Group Living and Other Recipes A Memoir

Lola Milholland

Themes: Alternative Family • Personal Memoirs • Family & Relationships

Family Romance A Love Story — John Lanchester

Family Romance A Love Story

John Lanchester

Themes: Alternative Family • Personal Memoirs • Family & Relationships

Becoming Sister Wives The Story of an Unconventional Marriage — Kody Brown

Becoming Sister Wives The Story of an Unconventional Marriage

Themes: Alternative Family • Personal Memoirs • Family & Relationships

Housewife Home-remaking in a Transgender Marriage — Kristin K. Collier

Housewife Home-remaking in a Transgender Marriage

Kristin K. Collier

Themes: Alternative Family • Personal Memoirs • Family & Relationships

How Stella Learned to Talk The Groundbreaking Story of the World’s First Talking Dog — Christina Hunger

How Stella Learned to Talk The Groundbreaking Story of the World’s First Talking Dog

Christina Hunger

Themes: Alternative Family • Personal Memoirs • Family & Relationships

Carry On A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family — Lisa Fenn

Carry On A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family

Themes: Alternative Family • Personal Memoirs • Family & Relationships

The Tender Bar A Memoir — J. R. Moehringer

The Tender Bar A Memoir — J. R. Moehringer

J.R. Moehringer

Themes: Alternative Family • Personal Memoirs • Family & Relationships

My Two Moms Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family — Zach Wahls

My Two Moms Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family

Themes: Alternative Family • Personal Memoirs • Family & Relationships

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Alternative Family, Parenting, Personal Memoirs — the same threads that run through Unwanted by Knox Tolbert. Among the authors featured: Sean Szeps, Nora McInerny, Cathy Glass, Vicki Forman, and others.

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