Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie

Bernstein, Judith R. When The Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter (Paperback)

Bolton, Iris. My Son...My Son: A Guide to Healing After Death, Loss, or Suicide

Boss, Pauline. Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief (about the sense of "frozen grief" that can occur when a loved one is perceived as physically absent but mentally present (because of desertion, divorce, or abduction, or because missing in actions) or physically present but mentally or psychologically absent (because of dementia, mental illness, or other forms of mental or emotional loss or injury).

Braestrup, Kate. Here If You Need Me: A True Story

Byock, Ira. Dying Well

Caine, Lynn. Being a Widow

Callanan, Maggie, and Patricia Kelley. Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

Davis, Deborah L. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby

Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking

Edelman, Hope. Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Evans, Dale and Roy Rogers. Angel Unaware: A Touching Story of Love and Loss

Fine, Carla. No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One

Grollman, Earl A. Living When A Loved One Has Died

Gunther, John J. Death Be Not Proud (a young son's death from brain cancer)

Harris, Mark. Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial (why eco-friendly burials make sense)

Hickman, Martha W. Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief

Kowalski, Gary. Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet

Kushner, Harold S. When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Levin, Mark R. Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish

Lewis, C.S. A Grief Observed

McNees, Pat, ed. Dying: A Book of Comfort. Gems of comfort, healing words on loss and grief.

McWilliams, Peter, Harold H. Bloomfield, and Melba Colgrove. How to Survive the Loss of a Love.

Mitchell, Ellen, Carol Barkin, Audrey Cohen, and Lorenza Colletti (nine mothers). Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child

Myers, Edward. When Parents Die: A Guide for Adults

Nuland, Sherwin B. How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (superb explanations of the actual physical process of dying and good on why and when to stop trying to rescue the terminally ill and to let them die peacefully and in less pain and discomfort)

Rando, Theresa A. How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies

Rinpoche, Sogyal. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Sittser, Jerry L. A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss (about the transformative grace that can come even in the face of catastrophic loss)

Staudacher, Carol. A Time to Grieve: Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Loved One

Viorst, Judith. Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow

Bibliography on Grief in a family context (bibliographer for clinicians and scholars), by Dr. Kathleen R. Gilbert, Indiana University)

Practical resources on grief, including links to useful information (scroll down for Dr. Gilbert's reading list)

Books and audio for spiritual journeys, recommended by the Brussats (Spirituality and Practice)