Recommended Reading on Grief and Loss

Adults

•  Widow to Widow     Ginsburg
• When God Doesn’t Make Sense    Dobson
• When A Loved One Dies     Williams
• Our Greatest Gift     Nouwen
• A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance     Metzgar
• Living Through Mourning    Sarnoff-Schiff
• When Your Spouse Dies    Cathleen L. Curry
• Where is God When it Hurts    Yancey
• The Grieving Child    Fitzgerald
• How to Survive the Loss of a Love    Colgrove
• Up from Grief    Kries
• Good Grief    Westburg
• Understand Mourning    Davidson
• A Grief Observed    Lewis
• Transcending Loss    Prend
• Healing After Suicide of a Loved One    Smolin/Guinan
• The Worst Loss:
• How Families Heal from Death of a Child    Rosof
• When Parents Die: A Guide for Adults    Myers

Children

• The Next Place    Hanson
• What’s Heaven    Shriver
• When Someone Dies    Greenlee
• Someone I Love Died    Tangvald
• It Must Hurt a Lot    Sanford
• How It Feels When a Parent Dies    Krementz
• Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to
• Explain Death to Children    Mellonie/Ingpen

The West Suburban Grief Coalition has a library of books on loss for adults and children. Contact Alva Benson/763-545-1108