Please note that the books on this list are not cancer specific.

• Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, 2017, 248 pages

• The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift by Steve Leder, 2021, 240 pages

• The End Is Just the Beginning: Lessons in Grieving for African Americans by Arlene H. Churn, PhD, 2003, 256 pages

• The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss by Mary-Frances O’Connor, 2022, 236 pages

• Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief by Martha Whitmore Hickman, 1994, 384 pages

• Heartbroken: Healing from the Loss of a Spouse by Gary Roe, 2015, 200 pages

• The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief by Nora McInerny, 2019, 112 pages

• How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies by Therese A. Rando, 1991, 338 pages

• It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine, 2017, 282 pages

• Lead Me Home: An African-American's Guide Through The Grief Journey by Carleen Brice, 1999, 192 pages

• Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome by Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner, 2018, 384 pages

• The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactive Guide to Moving Through Grief and Building Your Resilience by Rebecca Soffer, 2022, 240 pages

• Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2021, 80 pages

• The Orphaned Adult: Understanding And Coping With Grief And Change After The Death Of Our Parents by Alexander Levy, 2000, 208 pages

• The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss by George Bonanno, 2009, 231 pages

• Surviving the Holidays Without You: Navigating Grief During Special Seasons by Gary Roe, 2013, 48 pages

• The Truth About Grief: The Myth of Its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss by Ruth Davis Konigsberg, 2011, 272 pages

• Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart by Stephen Levine, 2006, 225 pages

• Understanding Your Grief: 10 Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, 2004, 176 pages

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller, 2015, 224 pages

Memoirs

• AfterImage: A Brokenhearted Memoir of a Charmed Life by Carla Malden, 2012, 320 pages

• Blue Nights by Joan Didion, 2011, 208 pages

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, 2021, 242 pages

• Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice by Jenny Lisk, 2021

• A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, 2015, 76 pages

• H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, 2014, 300 pages

• It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too) by Nora McInerny, 2016, 288 pages

• The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander, 2015, 209 pages

• The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke, 2011, 306 pages

• No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny, 2019, 288 pages

• Running Home by Katie Arnold, 2019, 400 pages

• Splitting the Difference: A Heart-Shaped Memoir by Tre Miller Rodriguez, 2013, 293 pages

• This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir by Cecily Strong, 2021, 272 pages

• Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir by Shannon Leone Fowler, 2017, 304 pages

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, 2007, 227 pages

Parenting Books on Grief

• Parenting Through Crisis: Helping Kids in Times of Grief, Loss, and Change by Barbara Coloroso, 2001, 272 pages

• Talking about Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child by Earl Grollman, 1991, 128 pages

• Healing a Teen’s Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends, and Caregivers by Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD, 2001, 128 pages

• A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One by Phyllis R. Silverman and Madelyn Kelly, 2009, 272 pages

Books for Grieving Children

• A Kids Book About Grief by Brennan C. Wood, 2022

• The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages by Leo F. Buscaglia, 1982, 32 pages

• When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown, 1996, 32 pages

• The Invisible String by Patrice Karst, 2000, 36 pages

• The Memory Box: A Book About Grief by Joanna Rowland, 2017, 32 pages

• Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children by Bryan Mellonie, 2009, 42 pages

Books for Grieving Teens

• Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love by Earl A. Grollman, 1993, 160 pages