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