Book List | Grief & Loss |
Back to Book List grief & Loss: general
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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The Five Ways We Grieve |
Berger, Susan |
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Making Peace With Your Parents |
Bloomfield, Harold |
At any stage of life/death,, conflictual or not |
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Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss |
Boss, Pauline |
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The Year of Magical Thinking |
Didion, Joan |
Good book for either a widow or a widower |
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Grief Is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss |
Doka, Kenneth J. |
Other titles by author recommended |
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Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice |
Doka, Kenneth J. |
Other titles by author recommended; geared toward clinicians |
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Hard Choices for Loving People |
Dunn, Hank |
Other titles by author recommended |
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Mars and Venus Starting Over: A Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a Painful Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of a Loved One |
Gray, John |
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The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses |
James, John & Friedman, Russell |
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Nothing was the Same |
Jamison, Kay Redfield |
Beautifully written and very powerful |
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Gone from My Sight |
Karnes, Barbara |
Other titles by author recommended |
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Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss |
Kumar, Sameet |
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Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart |
Levine, Stephen |
Addresses unresolved grief |
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Healing Into Life and Death |
Levine, Stephen |
All Stephen Levine’s work on grief is recommended |
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Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart |
Levine, Stephen |
Addresses unresolved grief |
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Who Dies |
Levine, Stephen & Levine, Ondine |
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A Grief Observed |
Lewis, C.S. |
Christian perspective |
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I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One |
Noel, Brook & Blair, Pamela |
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Writing To Heal |
Pennebaker, James |
Research actually focuses more on using writing to heal from trauma. |
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Grief, Dying, and Death: Clinical Interventions for Caregivers |
Rando, Therese |
Other titles by author recommended geared toward clinicians |
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How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies |
Rando,Therese |
Other titles by author recommended; geared toward clinicians |
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The Healing Journey Through Grief: Your Journal for Reflection and Recovery |
Rich, Phil |
Workbook |
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Death Benefits |
Safer, Jeanne |
Tackles the still taboo idea that for some the death of a family member.... a “loved one" or not, can be a powerful catalyst for change |
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The Lovely Bones |
Sebold, Alice |
Novel form |
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Living Through Personal Crisis and Coming Back: Rebuilding Lives after Crisis and Loss |
Stearns, Anne Kaiser |
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Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow |
Viorst, Judith |
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The Tenth Good Thing About Barney |
Viorst, Judith & Blegavd, Erik |
Children’s book |
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Odd Velvet |
Whitcomb, Mary & Calahan King, Tara |
Children’s book; helps kids who feel isolated or different from others, ages 3-8; not specifically about death/grief |
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The Grief Work Companion |
Zamore,Fran & Leutenberg, Ester |
Filled with information and exercises |
children & Parenting
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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The Grieving Child |
Fitzgerald, Helen |
Helps parents deal with their children's grief |
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A Complete Book about Death for Kids |
Grollman, Earl |
Review general understanding of death for children of different ages; other titles by author recommended |
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For the Grieving Child: An Activities Manual |
Jaffe, Suzan |
Has tools for parents to share with child, for elementary age |
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After A Parent's Suicide: Helping Children Heal |
Requarth, Margo |
children's books
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death |
Brown, Laurie Krasny & Brown, Marc |
Not a story, directly answers children’s questions about death |
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Talking About Death |
Grollman, Earl A. |
other titles by author recommended |
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The Invisible String |
Karst, Patrice |
helps young children conceptualize the love that binds families near, far, and even deceased together |
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Peach and Blue |
Kilborne, Sarah & Johnson, Steve |
More of an allegory than explicit story about death- children under 10 may not make the connections |
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Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children |
Mellonie, Bryan & Ingpen, Robert |
Beautiful book on death of humans and flora and fauna, the lifecycle, and living in-between for children of all ages, especially young children- gentle picture book with text |
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Sad Isn't Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing with Loss |
Mundy, Michaelene |
Ages 4-8 |
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Dog Heaven |
Rylant, Cynthia |
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Tear Soup |
Schweibert, Pat |
Picture book, but good for adults and children |
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About Dying: An Open Family Book for Parents and Children Together |
Stein, Sarah |
Good book with photos |
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I Miss You: A First Look At Death |
Thomas, Pat & Harker, Leslie |
Ages 4-8 |
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A Quilt for Elizabeth |
Tiffault, Bomaha |
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The Tenth Good Thing About Barney |
Viorst, Judith |
Especially applicable to kids not raised in a religion that has a lot to say about afterlife |
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Odd Velvet |
Whitcomb, Mary & Calahan King, Tara |
Children’s book; helps kids who feel isolated or different from others, ages 3-8; not specifically about death/grief |
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Something Very Sad Happened |
Zucker, Bonnie |
Addresses the emotions of sadness and anger around loss, and emphasizes the love that endures. There is a guide for therapists who work with children, as well as for parents. It suggests ways to respond to children’s' questions about death |
loss of a child
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One |
Noel, Brook & Blair, Pamela |
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The Worst Loss: How Families Heal from the Death of a Child |
Rosof, Barbara |
loss of a pet
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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Dog Heaven |
Rylant, Cynthia |
Children’s book |
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PAL Hotline: 202- 966-2171 |
PAL, the Pet Therapy program in the DC,MD,VA area maintains a Pet Loss Hotline with trained counselors who talk with anyone anticipating or grieving the loss of a pet |
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The Endless Path: A Memoir |
Duperier, Laurie |
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Peach and Blue |
Kilborne, Sarah & Johnson, Steve |
More of an allegory than explicit story about death- children under 10 may not make the connections |
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Grieving the Loss of a Pet |
Smith, Collin |
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The Tenth Good Thing About Barney |
Viorst, Judith |
Especially applicable to kids not raised in a religion that has a lot to say about afterlife |
loss of a sibling
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age |
DeVita-Raeburn, Elizabeth |
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Recovering from the Loss of a Sibling |
Donnelly, Katherine |
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Letters to Sara: The Agony of Adult Sibling Loss |
McCurry, Anne |
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I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One |
Noel, Brook & Blair, Pamela |
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Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies |
Wray, TJ |
suicide
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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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Suicide.org |
Has one page of good, succinct guidance and support for the surviving parent |
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Living When a Young Friend Commits Suicide (Or Even Starts Talking about It) |
Grollman, Earl |
Other titles by author recommended |
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I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One |
Noel, Brook & Blair, Pamela |
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After A Parent's Suicide: Helping Children Heal |
Requarth, Margo |
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Take the Dimness of My Soul Away: Healing After a Loved One’s Suicide |
Ritter, William |
Collection of 5 sermons written by this minister over 6 years following the suicide of his young adult son |
| Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide | Jamison, Kay Redfield |