Book recommendations

On grief, death, and loss

  • It’s Okay that you’re Not Okay, by Megan Devine

  • How to Carry what Can’t be Fixed: A Journal for Grief, by Megan Devine

  • Grief Ally, by Aly Bird

  • The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion

  • Notes on Grief, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala

  • Grieving While Black, by Breeshia Wade

  • Good Mourning: Honest Conversations about Grief and Loss, by Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn

  • The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss, by Hope Edelman

  • Welcome to the Grief Club: Because You Don't Have to Go Through It Alone, by Janine Kwoh

  • Love Notes to Grievers: Tending to Grief after Loss, by Angela E. Morris

  • What’s Your Grief? Lists to Help You Through Any Loss, by Eleanor Haley and Litsa Williams

  • The Other Side of Sadness, by George An. Bonanno

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

  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, by Caitlin Doughty

  • From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, by Caitlin Doughty

On friendship

  • First Love, by Lilly Dancyger

  • Text me When You Get Home, by Kayleen Schaefer

  • Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close, by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

  • Platonic: How the Science of Attachment can help you make – and keep – friends, by Dr. Marisa G. Franco

  • Truth & Beauty, by Ann Patchett

On friend-grief

  • Stay True, by Hua Hsu

  • Grief is for People, by Sloane Crosley

  • B.F.F., by Christie Tate

  • In the Pockets of Small Gods, by Anis Mojgani

  • one long listening, by Chenxing Han

  • Grieving the death of a Friend, by Harold Ivan Smith