Recommended Reading

BOOKS ON GRIEF

• The After Grief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss by Hope Edelman
• The Circle of Life: The Heart’s Journey Through the Seasons by Joyce Rupp & Macrina Wiederkehr
• The Cure for Sorrow by Jan Richardson
• Embracing Life After Loss by Allen Klein
• Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler
• Grief is Love by Marisa Renee Lee
• A Grief Observed by CS Lewis
• Grief One Day at a Time by Dr. Alan Wolfelt
• The Grieving Brain by Mary by Francis O’Connor
• Healing Your Grieving Heart by Dr. Alan Wolfelt
• A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief and Healing by Amanda Held Opelt
• How to Carry What Can’t be Fixed by Megan Devine
• I Look to the Mourning Sky: A Book of Poems and Writing Prompts for the Grieving Heart by Liz Newmann
• I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye by Brook Noel and Pamela Blair
• It’s OK that You’re Not Okay by by Megan Devine
• Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman
• Mourning & Mitzvah by Anne Brener
• The Museum of Ordinary People by Mike Gayle
• My Soul Feels Lean: Poems of Loss and Restoration by Joyce Rupp
• Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngoni Adichie
• Permission to Mourn and Becoming Radiant by Tom Zuba
• Turn My Mourning into Dancing: Finding Hope in Hard Times by Henri Nouwen
• Understanding Your Grief by Dr. Alan Wolfelt
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss by Shelby Forsythia
• Your Sorrow is My Sorrow by Joyce Rupp

BOOKS ON HEALING

• To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donahue
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
• Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections of our Yearning to Belong by John O’Donahue
• The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other by Charlotte Donlon
• The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey through Anguish to Freedom by Henri Nouwen
• It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn
• Rising Strong by Brene Brown
• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence by Judith Herman
• Try Softer by Aundi Kolber
• Walking the Tiger by Peter Levine

GRIEF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

• Am I Like My Daddy? by Marcy Blesy
• Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Death is Stupid by Anastasia Higgenbotham  
• Draw It Out by Art With Heart 
• Edna by Susan Paradis
• The Fall of Freddie the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia
• The Goodbye Book by Todd Parr
• Grief is a Mess by Jackie Schuld
• The Invisible String by Patrice Karst
• The Memory Box: A Book About Grief by Joanna Rowland 
• Memory Jars by Vera Brosgol
• The Memory Tree by Britta Teckentrup
• Someone I Love Died by Christine Harder Tangvald
• Tear Soup by Pat Schwiebert
• The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst
• A Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret Holmes
• When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief by Marge Heegaard
• Why Do I Feel So Sad?: A Grief Book for Children by Tracy Lambert 
• You’ll Find Me by Amanda Rawson Hill