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