Book library – adults
Books that may support you as you navigate grief
We understand the challenges associated with grief and have a community who provide peer support in various ways. While no book will resonate with everyone we have curated the following list based on those that our members have found helpful when navigating widowed grief.
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A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis
A Guide Through Grief
Edwina Shaw
Any Ordinary Day
Leigh Sales
Bearing the Unbearable
Joanne Cacciatore
Different After You
Michele Neff Hernandez
For Life
Ailsa Piper
From Wife to Widow
Suzanne Gomes
Gifts from Grief
Rachel Pope
Good Grief
Theresa Caputo
Good Mourning
Sally Douglas & Imogen Carn
Grief Works
Julia Samuel
Heartbroken Open
Kristine Carlson
Heart Strong
Ellidy Pullin
How to Heal a Grieving Heart
Doreen Virtue & James Van Praagh
It's OK That You're Not OK
Megan Devine
Just Who Does She Think She Is?
Julie Cross
Loving Life after Loss
Marie Alessi
My Steve
Terri Irwin
On Grief & Grieving
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross & David Kessler
Option B
Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
Resilient Grieving
Dr Lucy Hone
Second Firsts
Christina Rasmussen
Survival
Stuart Diver
The Grieving Brain
Mary-Frances O'Connor
The Hot Young Widows Club
Nora McInerny
The Irreverent Grief Guide
Elizabeth Kupferman
The Stupid Sh*t People Say to Grievers
John Polo & Carolyn Gower
The Wild Edge of Sorrow
Francis Weller
Welcome to the Grief Club
Janine Kwoh
When It Rains
Maggie MacKellar
Who Cares
Joan Wilson-Jones
Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
Virginia Lloyd
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