​Books on Grief, Loss & End of Life

(lots of them!)

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• A Beginner's Guide to the End - BJ Miller & Shoshana Berger

• A Grief Observed - CS Lewis

• A Path With Heart - Jack Kornfield

• A Year to Live - Stephen Levine

• Anxiety - the missing stage of grief - Claire Bidwell Smith

• Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief - Joanne Cacciatore

• Being Mortal - Atul Gawande

• Blue Nights - Joan Didion

• Carpooling With Death - How Living With Death Will Make You Stronger, Wiser & Fearless

• Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies - William Worden

• Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul - Steven Jenkinson

• From Age-ing to Sage-ing - Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

• Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying (Wisdom of the World) - Ram Dass

• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Michael Pollan

• How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter - Sherwin Nuland

• How We Grieve - Relearning the World - Thomas Attig

• Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us How to Live - Marie de Hennezel

• It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand - Megan Devine

• Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome. - Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birker

• My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die - Kevin Toolis

• On Death and Dying - Elizabeth Kubler Ross

• On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss - Elizabeth Kubler Ross & David Kessler

• That Good Night - Sunita Puri

• The Art of Dying: Facing Your Own Death - Patricia Weenolsen

• The Dead Moms Club - Kate Spencer

• The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy

• The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

• The Five Invitations - Frank Ostasteski

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief - Francis Weller

• The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness - Pema Chôdrôn

• The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

• The Top Five Regrets of the Dying - Bronnie Ware

• Walking Each Other Home - Ram Dass

• When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advise for Difficult Times - Pema Chodron

• Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying - Steven Levine

• With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial - Kathryn Mannix