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On Grief

We've compiled a list of books on grief and bereavement. Whether you're the one grieving or you're supporting a grieving loved one, we hope these titles will provide some guidance, solace, and support.

Clap When You Land

By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo & Melania-Luisa Marte
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

“Beautiful novel in verse about loss and grief, told from perspective of two half sisters who learn of each other upon their father's death. Excellent on audio! Read more

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Grief Works

Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving

A Practical Guide to Grief and Loss

By: Julia Samuel
Narrated by: Julia Samuel
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

“An honest, practical, as well as emotional guide to working through the processing of mourning” (Vogue), Grief Works is a lifeline for all of us dealing with loss and a handbook to help others—from the “expected” death of a parent to the sudden and unexpected death of a child or spouse.

Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our... Read more

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The Astonishing Color of After

By: Emily X.R. Pan
Narrated by: Stephanie Hsu
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

A stunning, heartbreaking debut novel about grief, love, and family, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng.

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird.

Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time.... Read more

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The Other Side of Sadness

What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss

By: George A. Bonanno
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

In this thoroughly revised and updated classic, a renowned psychologist shows that mourning is far from predictable, and all of us share a surprising ability to be resilient
The conventional view of grieving--encapsulated by the famous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance--is defined by a mourning process... Read more

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Being Mortal

Medicine and What Matters in the End

By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

#1 New York Times Bestseller

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending


Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable... Read more

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Traveling with Ghosts

A Memoir

By: Shannon Leone Fowler
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler, a twenty-eight-year-old marine biologist, was backpacking with her fiancé and love of her life, Sean. Sean was a tall, blue-eyed, warmhearted Australian, and he and Shannon planned to return to Australia after their excursion to Koh Pha Ngan, Thailand. Their plans, however, were devastatingly derailed... Read more

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Grieving While Black

An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow

By: Breeshia Wade
Narrated by: Michele Lyman
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

A groundbreaking exploration of grief and racial trauma through the eyes of a Black end-of-life caregiver.

Most of us understand grief as sorrow experienced after a loss--the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or a change in life circumstance. Breeshia Wade approaches grief as something that is bigger than what's already happened to... Read more

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Everything Happens for a Reason

And Other Lies I've Loved

By: Kate Bowler
Narrated by: Kate Bowler
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi

“Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande’s Being... Read more

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A Monster Calls

Inspired by an Idea from Siobhan Dowd

By: Patrick Ness
Narrated by: Jason Isaacs
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting-- he’s been expecting the one... Read more

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