New Books To Help Guide You Through Your Grief
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Expanding Your Grief Book Toolbox
So many new books about grief have been released in the last few years that we will never be lacking for various perspectives, suggestions, personal tales, and coping tools to help grievers try to endure the difficult experience that is grief.
Book Suggestions on the Topic of Grief:
Here are a few to consider:
Surviving: Finding Hope After Suicide Loss by Lisa Sugarman
Lisa Sugarman is a certified crisis counselor, who lends her expertise in this authentic resource for those trying to understand and heal from the loss of a loved one to suicide. She speaks directly to those left behind, validating the loss and reassuring that every feeling felt by a griever is real. She acknowledges the uniqueness of this kind of death and gives readers a chance to grieve at their own pace with her loving reflections and practical thoughts.
Dispatches Through Grief: A Mother’s Journey Through the Unthinkable by Danielle Crittenden
On a February morning, Danielle Crittenden’s world split into two parts: the life before her daughter Miranda was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment, and the life after. In her memoir of this time, she maps the territory of profound loss with a real honesty and gracefulness. She writes about the child’s death as well as what she calls “the strange afterlife of grief itself.”
Different after You: Rediscovering Yourself and Healing after Grief and Trauma by Michele Neff Hernandez
Nobody who lives and loves will ever be immune to grief and trauma. While this suffering is universal, living through a devastating event often leaves people feeling alone and even alienated. The author experienced this when her thirty-nine-year-old husband died after being hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Her most transformative realization was that “grief changes us. There is no going back or bucking up. Life is now different.”
The book is based on her work with thousands of widowed people and her grief support programs. It’s a roadmap for anyone who has experienced life-altering trauma -- grieving what they’ve lost, identifying what they’ve gained, and learning to embrace the person they’ve become.
Growing Through Grief: A Compassionate Guide to Finding Meaning and Purpose After Life-Altering Loss by Alex Mammadyarov LMHC
This is a guide to growing, changing, and discovering meaning around loss. She doesn’t use cliches like “time heals all wounds,” and instead, acknowledges the truth that you may never “fully” heal from the death of a love one, and that is okay too. She helps the reader move from the overwhelm of grief to validation, hope, and personal growth.
Coming Soon…
I Didn't Know How to Widow: Walking Through Grief Fog by Phyllis S. Beal
(Publication Date July 2026)
This is a raw and genuine account of the author's first months of widowhood after the sudden loss of her husband, Cee. Blending journal, memoir, and storytelling, she captures the shock, disorientation, and quiet daily struggles of early grief. At the same time, she finds moments of resilience through memory, faith, family, and dark humor. Honest and unflinching, this is a deeply human story of love, loss, and the slow, uncertain path toward healing.
More Grief Resources
For more resources, check out my free grief guide for adults and my children’s grief guide.
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