There are some incredible books to share about the experience of grief and loss. I am happy to share them here and hope that you will find them supportive, insightful and helpful.
The Grieving Brain
Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor
It’s Ok That You’re Not Okay: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand
Megan Devine and Mark Nepo
Grief is Love: Living with Loss
Marisa Renee Lee
Real Self-Care
Pooja Lakshmin, MD
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Still Life
Dr. Jeff Sutherland
Caregiving with Strength: Raising Self-Care to New Heights by Acknowledging the Losses
Eleanor Silverberg, SW
Making it to Monday
Jennifer Nunes
Disenfranchised Grief in Contemporary Society Gabriela Casellato
A Grief Observed
C.S Lewis
Wild Edge of Sorrow
Frances Weller
Love Notes to Grievers
Angela E. Norris
Good Mourning: Honest conversations about grief and loss
Sally Douglas
The Grief Recovery Handbook
John W. James and Russell Friedman
Grief Map
Sarah Hahn Campbell (LGBTQ2+)
Grief Works: Stories of Love, Death & Surviving
Julia Samuel
A Widow’s Guide to Healing: Gentle Support & Advice for the First 5 Years
Kristin Meekof & Windell
Modern Loss
Gabrielle Birkner and Rebecca Soffer
A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief & Healing
Amanda Held Opelt
Attached
Amir Levine M.D and Rachel F.F Heller, M.A
Children's Books
Some children’s books that I highly recommend include (suggested ages 0-12):
When Dinosaurs Die
by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
ages 4-8
The Goodbye Book
by Todd Parr
ages 3-6
A Terrible Thing Happened
by Margaret M. Holmes
ages 4-8
Why Do Things Die? A life a flap book
by Katie Daynes
ages 4+
Ida Always
by Caron Levis and Charles Santoso
ages 4-8
The Memory Tree
by Britta Teckentrup
ages baby-5
The Purple Balloon
by Chris Raschka
ages 4-8
The Invisible String
by Patrice Karst
ages 3-7
The Invisible Leash (pet loss) by Patrice Karst
ages 4-8
The Memory Box
by Joanna Rowland
ages 4-8
Badgers Parting Gifts
by Susan Varley
ages 3-7
I have a question about: Death? A book for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Other Special Needs
by Arlen Grad Gaines and Meredith Englander Polsky
ages 5-11