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• Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie

• Ascher, Barbara Lazear. Landscape Without Gravity (about her brother's death from AIDS).

• Beauvoir, Simone de. A Very Easy Death (about the death of her mother)

• 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

• Brodkey, Harold. This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death (the story of his confrontation with AIDS)

• Broyard, Anatole. Intoxicated by My Illness (critical illness, in his case from cancer, as a spiritual journey)

• 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

• DeVita, Elizabeth. The Empty Room: Surviving the loss of a brother or sister at any age (partly a memoir of surviving the loss of her brother Teddy to aplastic anemia)

• 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

• Funderburg, Lise. Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home (a compelling and beautifully written memoir by a grown daughter—a white-looking mixed-race girl raised in an integrated Philadelphia neighborhood—who gets to know her dying father in a string of pilgrimages to his boyhood hometown in rural Georgia)

• Gilbert, Sandra. Wrongful Death: A Medical Tragedy (about the death of her husband after entering the hospital for routine prostate surgery)

• 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)

• Hammer, Signe. By Her Own Hand: Memoirs of a Suicide's Daughter

• 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

• Hill, Susan. Family (about the death of a premature child)

• Johnson, Fenton. Geography of the Heart (about the death of a gay partner)

• Kamenentz, Rodger. Terra Infirma (a searing recollection of his mother's life and her death from cancer, his mother "yo-yoing between smothering affection and a fierce anger")

• Kincaid, Jamaica. My Brother (account of her younger brother's death from AIDS)

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

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

• Latus, Janine. If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation

• 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

• Morrison, Blake. When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss

• 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

• Taylor, Nick. A Necessary End (about death of parents)

• Vincent, Eleanor. Swimming with Maya: A Mother's Story (how the daughter's fall from a horse ended in organ donations--transforming a mother's grief)

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

• Waxman, Robert and Linda. Losing Jonathan (losing a beloved child to drugs)

• Wiesel, Elie. Night (powerful account of surviving the nightmare world of the Nazi death camps)

• Williams, Marjorie. The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate (the last third is about her losing battle with cancer, saying goodbye to her family)