This is an ongoing database of books that discuss and depict grief, listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name. If there’s a book you loved that you don’t see on this list, please submit to the database here.
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön
A Living Remedy by Nicole Chung
Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley
It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Grief Is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss by Kenneth J. Doka
End of the Hour: A Therapist’s Memoir by Meghan Riordan Jarvis
On Grief & Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler
The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents by Alexander Levy
I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One by Brook Noel & Pamela Blair
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving by Julia Samuel
Other People's Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End by Lissa Soep
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
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