Books about grief
Books about losing someone and learning to carry it. Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls follows a boy whose mother is dying, Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air is a doctor's memoir written as he faced his own death, and The Book Thief lets Death himself tell the story. Fredrik Backman's Anxious People and Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died show that grief can come with humour too.
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- 1I'm Glad My Mom Died
8.98.9 / 10 - 2The Hate U Give
8.88.8 / 10 - 3When Breath Becomes Air
8.68.6 / 10 - 4The Book Thief
8.68.6 / 10 - 5A Monster Calls
8.68.6 / 10 - 6Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
8.58.5 / 10 - 7The Great Believers
8.48.4 / 10 - 8Anxious People
8.48.4 / 10 - 9The Raven
8.48.4 / 10 - 10Legendborn
8.48.4 / 10 - 11House of Earth and Blood
8.48.4 / 10 - 12Crying in H Mart
8.38.3 / 10 - 13Twelve Months
8.38.3 / 10 - 14From Here to Eternity
8.38.3 / 10 - 15Lost in the Moment and Found
8.38.3 / 10 - 16The Shepherd's Crown
8.38.3 / 10 - 17Remarkably Bright Creatures
8.38.3 / 10 - 18Harrow the Ninth
8.38.3 / 10 - 19A Grief Observed
8.38.3 / 10 - 20The Road to Tender Hearts
8.28.2 / 10 - 21Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
8.28.2 / 10 - 22All My Rage
8.28.2 / 10 - 23The Crossover
8.28.2 / 10 - 24The Burning Maze
8.28.2 / 10 - 25The Things They Carried
8.28.2 / 10 - 26Look to Windward
8.28.2 / 10 - 27A Mother's Reckoning
8.28.2 / 10 - 28A Little Life
8.18.1 / 10 - 29The Goldfinch
8.18.1 / 10 - 30Me Before You
8.08.0 / 10