Grief Books

 

Recommended Books For Grief

Child Grief Books:

LOSS OF A PARENT

  • Ida, Always — Caron Levis

  • I’ll Always Love You — Hans Wilhelm

  • Not the End: A Child’s Journey Through Grief — Mari Dombkowski

  • Saying Goodbye to Daddy — Judith Vigna

  • The Goodbye Book — Todd Parr

  • The Memory Box: A Book About Grief — Joanna Rowland

  • Water Bugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children — Doris Stickney

ANY TYPE OF LOSS

  • A Terrible Thing Happened — Margaret M. Holmes

  • Badger’s Parting Gifts — Susan Varley

  • Not the End: A Child’s Journey Through Grief — Mari Dombkowski

  • The Fall of Freddie the Leaf — Leo Buscaglia

  • The Invisible String — Patrice Karst

  • Until We Meet Again — Susan Jones

  • When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death — Laurie Krasny Brown & Marc Brown

 

LOSS OF A SIBLING

  • Always My Brother — Jean Reagan

  • My Brother and Me: A Story of Loss and Grief — Donna Ashworth

  • Someone Came Before You — Pat Schwiebert & Taylor Bill

  • Someone I Love Died — Christine Harder Tangvald

  • We Were Gonna Have a Baby, But We Had an Angel Instead — Pat Schwiebert & Taylor Bill

LOSS OF A GRANDPARENT

  • Grandpa’s Stories: A Children’s Book About the Loss of a Grandparent — Joseph Coelho

  • Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs — Tomie dePaola

  • The Memory Box: A Book About Grief — Joanna Rowland

  • The Remember Balloons — Jessie Oliveros

  • When Your Grandparent Dies — Victoria Ryan

Books for grief
 

Teen Grief Books

LOSS OF A PARENT

  • Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas — Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD

  • It Won’t Ever Be the Same: A Teen’s Guide to Grief and Grieving — Korie Leigh, PhD

  • Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love — Earl A. Grollman

  • The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends — Helen Fitzgerald

  • You Are Not Alone: Teens Talk About Life After the Loss of a Parent — Lynne B. Hughes

LOSS OF FRIEND OR PEER

  • About Grieving & Healing — Marilyn E. Gootman

  • Death Is Stupid — Anastasia Higginbotham

  • Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas — Alan D. Wolfelt

  • Help for the Hard Times: Getting Through Loss — Earl Hipp

  • Helping Teens Cope with Death — The Dougy Center

  • I Will Remember You: What to Do When Someone You Love Dies – A Guidebook Through Grief for Teens — Laura Dower

  • The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends — Helen Fitzgerald

  • When a Friend Dies: A Book for Teens About Grieving & Healing — Marilyn E. Gootman

 

LOSS OF A SIBLING

  • Common Threads of Teenage Grief — Janet Tyson and Teens Who Know

  • Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas — Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD

  • It Won’t Ever Be the Same: A Teen’s Guide to Grief and Grieving — Korie Leigh, PhD

  • The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends — Helen Fitzgerald

  • Weird Is Normal When Teenagers Grieve — Jenny Lee Wheeler

ANY TYPE OF LOSS

  • Common Threads of Teenage Grief — Janet Tyson and Teens Who Know

  • Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas — Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD

  • Help for the Hard Times: Getting Through Loss — Earl Hipp

  • Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love — Earl A. Grollman

  • The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends — Helen Fitzgerald

  • Weird Is Normal When Teenagers Grieve — Jenny Lee Wheeler

Adult Grief Books

LOSS OF A SPOUSE OR PARTNER

  • A Widow’s Guide to Healing: Gentle Support and Advice for the First 5 Years — Kristin Meekhoff & James Windell

  • Lemons on Friday: Trusting God Through My Greatest Heartbreak — Mattie Jackson Selecman

  • The Tender Scar: Life After the Death of a Spouse — Richard L. Mabry

  • The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion

LOSS OF A CHILD

  • After the Darkest Hour the Sun Will Shine Again: A Parent’s Guide to Coping with the Loss of a Child — Elizabeth Mehren

  • Bearing the Unbearable — Joanne Cacciatore, PhD

  • Empty Cradle, Broken Heart — Deborah L. Davis, PhD

LOSS OF A SIBLING

  • Healing the Adult Siblings Grieving Heart — Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD

  • Memories of My Sister / Dealing With Sudden Death — Linda Rener, MPH, MSN, RN

  • Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies — T.J. Wray

  • The Empty Room: Understanding Sibling Loss — Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn

 

LOSS OF A PARENT

  • Death of a Parent: Transition to a New Adult Identity — Debra Umberson

  • The Orphaned Adult — Alexander Levy

ANY TYPE OF LOSS

  • A Time to Grieve — Carol Staudacher

  • A Time to Grieve — Carol Staudacher

  • Healing Your Grieving Heart — Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD

  • I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye — Pamela Blair, PhD & Brook Noel

  • It’s OK That You’re Not OK — Megan Devine

  • Living With Loss, One Day at a Time — Rachel Kodanaz

  • The Other Side of Sadness — George A. Bonanno

FAITH-BASED

  • A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss — Jerry Sittser

  • From Grief to Glory — James R. White

  • Grieving the Child I Never Knew — Kathe Wunnenberg

  • Holding on to Hope — Nancy Guthrie

  • Hope for the Brokenhearted — June Hunt

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