Recommended Reading ...For Those Who Are Grieving
Click on the type of grief category below to find a list of appropriate recommended books:
General Adult Grief (in addition to general adult grief this book list
includes gender grief, friend loss, parent loss, grief during the holidays)
~ The Tao of Grieving by Doug Smith
~ Eight Critical Questions for Mourners by Alan Wolfelt
~ Waking Up To This Day by Paula D'Arcy
~ Letting Go with Love: The Grieving Process by Nancy O’Connor
~ Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones by Alan Wolfelt
~ Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief by Martha
Whitmore Hickman
~ Living When A Loved One Has Died by Earl Grollman
~ Grieving the Death of a Mother by Harold Ivan Smith
~ Healing Your Grieving Soul: 100 Spiritual Practices for Mourners
by Alan Wolfelt
~ When Bad Things Happen To Good People by Harold Kushner
~ Life After Loss by Bob Deits
~ The Healing Journey of Grief by Phil Rich
~ Eight Critical Questions For Mourners… by Alan Wolfelt
~ The Other Side Of Grief by Darcie Sims
~ Footsteps Through Grief by Darcie Sims
~ Hope For The Bereaved: Understanding, Coping and Growing Through Grief by Schoeneck
~ Swallowed By A Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing by Thomas Golden
~ Tear Soup: A Recipe For Healing After Loss (for adults and children) by Pat Schwiebert & Chuck DeKlyen
~ The Next Place (for adults and children) by Warren Hanson
~ A Journey Through Grief: Gentle and Specific Help To Get You Through… by Bozarth
~ How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Has Died by Rando
~ Handling the Holidays by Darcie Sims
~ Healing and Growing Through Grief by O’Toole
~ A Ray of Hope (holidays) by Paul Alexander
~ When A Man Faces Grief by Thomas Golden
~ A Women’s Book of Grieving by Nessa Rapoprt
~ Men Don’t Cry…Women Do (gender grief) by Terry Martin
~ Women In Mourning by Jean Clayton
~ Grieving the Death of a Friend by Harold Ivan Smith
~ Healing A Friends Grieving Heart by Alan Wolfelt
~ Friend Grief: An Absence Called Presence by Harold Ivan Smith
~ Longing For Dad – Father Loss and its Impact by Beth Erickson
~ Losing A Parent – Practical Help by Fiona Marshall
~ On Grieving the Death of a Father by Harold Ivan Smith
~ Living With Grief by Kenneth Doka
~ Guidelines for Life Beyond Loss by Kenneth Doka
~ Don’t Take My Grief Away by Doug Manning
~ Why Are the Casseroles Always Tuna by Darcie Sims
~ Healing The Adult Child’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Parent Dies by Alan Wolfelt
~ A Time To Grieve: Meditations for Healing… by Staudacher
~ How Will I get Through The Holidays: 12 Ideas… by Miller
~ Remembering With Love: Messages of Hope for the First Year… by Levang and Ilse
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Widow, Widower, Partner Grief
 ~ Healing a Spouse’s Grieving Heart:
100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies by Alan Wolfelt
~ It Must Have Been Moonglow by Greene
~ A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
~ A Handbook for Widowers by Ed Ames
~ Gay Widowers by Michael Shernoff
~ Widowed by Dr. Joyce Brothers
~ Getting to the Other Side of Grief by Susan Zonnebelt
~ In Sickness and In Health by Gail Lynch
~ Widow’s Walk by Anne Hosansky
~ Common Threads by Diane Kaimann
~ Doors Close, Doors Open by Morton Liebermen
~ The Death of a Wife: Reflections for a Grieving Wife by Vogt
~ Coping With Life After Your Mate Dies by Cushenbery
~ After He's Gone: A Guide for Widowed & Divorced Women by Jowell & Schwisow
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Children and Teen Grief
~ Healing A Teen’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers by Alan Wolfelt
~ Healing Your Grieving Heart For Teens by Alan Wolfelt
~ Zach and His Dog (story book for ages 4-9) by David Meagher
~ Where Dinosaurs Go To Die (story book for young children) by Brown
~ When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death (ages 3-6) by Brown
~ T-Bear The Most Special Bear (story book for young children) by Sandy Hendricks
~ Tear Soup: A Recipe For Healing After Loss (for adults and children) by Pat Schwiebert & Chuck DeKlyen
~ The Next Place (for adults and children) by Warren Hanson
~ Waterbugs and Dragonflies (ages 3-6) by Stickney
~ I Miss You (ages 3-6) by Thomas
~ Promises (ages 3-6) by Wintrop
~ Ragtail Remembers (ages 6-9) by Duckworthy
~ Gentle Willow: A Story For Children About Dying (ages 6-9) by Mills
~ Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope (ages 6-9) by O’Toole
~ A Quilt For Elisabeth (ages 6-9) by Tiffault
~ Healing Your Grieving Heart For Kids: 100 Practical Ideas (9-12) by Alan Wolfelt
~ Tiger Eyes (ages 13+) by Blume
~ I Will Remember You (ages 13+) by Dower
~ The Grieving Teen (ages 13+) by Fitzgerald
~ When A Friend Dies: A Book for Teens about Grieving and Healing (ages 13+) by Gootman & Espeland
~ Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parents and Child by Earl Grollman
~ On Children and Death by Ross
~ Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers by Earl Grollman
~ The Fall of Freddie the Leaf (children) by Leo Buscaglia
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Parent Grief
 ~ Healing a Parent’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your
Child Dies by Alan Wolfelt
~ Unspeakable Losses (pregnancy loss) by Kluger-Bell
~ Empty Cradle, Broken Heart (infant loss) by Deborah Davis
~ Miscarriage (Women Sharing from the Heart) by Marie Allen
~ When Hello Means Goodbye (infant loss) by Pat Scwiebert
~ Children Die, Too by Joy and Dr. Johnson
~ Goodbye My Child by Sara Rich Wheeler
~ The Grief of Parents (When A Child Dies)
by Margaret Shandor Miles
~ Father’s Grieve Too by Johnson
~ The Death f an Adult Child by Jeanne Webster Blank
~ The Loss That Is Forever by Maxine Harris
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Sudden Death Grief
~ Healing Your Traumatized Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Someone You Love Dies A Sudden, Violent
Death by Alan Wolfelt
~ Living When A Young Friend Commits Suicide by Grollman & Malikow
~ A Teenagers Book About Suicide by Grollman & Johnson
~ I Wasn’t Ready To Say Goodbye by Brooke Noel
~ Living With Grief After A Sudden Loss by Kenneth Doka
~ A Message of Hope For Surviving the Tragedy of Suicide
by Patricia Harness-Overley
~ Suicide Survivors Handbook by Trudy Carlson
~ Understanding Your Suicide Grief by Alan Wolfelt
~ Who Lives Happily Ever After by Sharon Turbull
~ Your Grief: You’re Not Going Crazy by MADD Victim Services
~ No One Should See What I’ve Seen by Centering Corporation
~ When Someone Close To You Has Completed Suicide by Accord
~ Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide by Lukas
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Anticipatory Grief
~ Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying by Maggie
Callanan & Patricia Kelley
~ Praying Our Goodbyes by Joyce Rupp
~ Graceful Passages: A Companion For Living and Dying by Michael Stillwater and Gary Malkin
~ The Wheel of Life by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
~ Living With Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
~ Questions and Answers on Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
~ Death: the Final Stage of Growth by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
~ Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
~ Long Goodbye by William Colby
~ Living Fully In The Shadow of Death by Susan Zonnebelt-Smeenge
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Pet Loss Grief
 ~ When Only Love Remains by Emily Margaret Stuparyk
~ When Your Pet Dies – Guide to Mourning by Alan Wolfelt
~ For Every Dog An Angel by Christine Davis
~ Children and Pet Loss, A Guide For Helping by Marty Tousley
~ Remembering Rafferty by Joy Johnson
~ Coping With Sorrow on the Loss of Your Pet by Moria Anderson Allen
~ Saying Good Bye To The Pet You Love by Lorri Greene
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