Immediate Support

Navigating the Unknown: An Immediate Guide When Experiencing the Loss of Your Baby, Amie Lands
At a Loss, Donna Rothert, PhD
The Gift of Time, Amy Kuebelbeck and Deborah L. Davis
Loving and Letting Go: For Parents Who Decided to Turn Away from Aggressive Medical Intervention for Their Critically Ill Newborns, Deborah L. Davis, PhD
Stillbirth, Yet Still Born, Deborah L. Davis, PhD
Unexpected Goodbye: When Your Baby Dies, Angela Rodman
​Unexpecting: Real Talk on Pregnancy Loss, Rachel Lewis

General Grief 

Tending to Your Heart: After the Loss of a Loved One, Amie Lands
Tending to Your Holiday Heart: Learning to Breathe Through the Loss of a Loved One, Amie Lands
It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand, Megan Devine
The Grief Recovery Handbook, John W. James & Russell Friedman 
Option B, Sheryl Sandberg
Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart, Alan D. Wolfelt
When You Grieve from A to Z: Coloring Through Grief and the Alphabet, Ginny Limer 

Philosophy, Psychology, Spiritual, Inspirational

A Deep Breath of Life: Daily Inspiration for Heart Centered Living, Alan Cohen
A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
Brave Enough, Cheryl Strayed
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, Elizabeth Lesser
Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief, Martha Whitmore Hickman
Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear and Despair, Miriam Greenspan
Heaven is for Real, Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent
Life Prayers from Around the World, Elizabeth Roberts & Elias Amidon
Something Like Magic: On Remembering How to be Alive, Brian Andreas
The Power of a Broken-Open Heart: Life-Affirming Wisdom from the Dying, Julie Interrante, MA
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, Michael A. Singer
To Bless the Space Between Us, John O’Donohue
When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold S. Kushner
Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, Stephen and Ondrea Levine

​Written to Grieving Parents

Tending to Your Heart: After the Loss of Your Baby, Amie Lands
A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies, Anne McCracken
Dear Parents-Letters to Bereaved Parents, Centering Corporation
For Bereaved Grandparents, Margaret H. Gerner
Grief…Reminders for Healing, Gale Massey
Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple, Nathalie Himmelrich
Surviving My First Year of Child Loss: Personal Stories from Grieving Parents, Nathalie Himmelrich
Three Minus One: Stories of Parents’ Love & Loss, Sean Hanish & Brooke Warner

Journals

Family Lasts Forever: A Very Special Baby Book, Noelle K. Andrew & Sheila B. Frascht
Love Lasts Forever: A Journal of Memories, Noelle K. Andrew & Sheila B. Frascht
On Coming Alive: Journaling Through Grief, Lexi Behrnd

Memoirs

A Piece of My Heart, Molly Fumia
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Elizabeth McCracken
Brona: A Memoir, Mara Hill
Expecting Adam, Martha Beck
Holding Silvan, Monica Wesolowska
I Will Carry You, Angie Smith
Laughing in a Waterfall, Marianne Dietzel
Once More We Saw Stars, Jayson Greene
Silvie’s Life, Dr. Marianne Rogoff
Still Here: A Memoir of Loss, Love & Triumph After Stillbirth, Alishia Anderson
The Lessons of Love, Melody Beattie
What I Gave to the Fire, Kim Flowers Evans
Where Are You? Finding Myself in my Greatest Loss, MJ Flood

Specific to Moms

Carry You With Me, Alanna Knobben
Sunshine After the Storm, Alexa Bigwarfe
You Are Not Alone: Love Letters From Loss Mom to Loss Mom, Emily Long
You Are the Mother of All Mothers, Angela Miller
Invisible Mothers: When Love Doesn’t Die, Emily Long

Specific to Dads

A Guide for Fathers: When a Baby Dies, Tim Nelson
From Father to Father: Letters From Loss Dad to Loss Dad, Emily Long
Grieving Dads: To the Brink and Back, Kelly Farley and David DiCola
The Griefcase: A Man's Guide To Healing and Moving Forward In Grief, R. Glenn Kelly

Children's Books

Perfectly Imperfect Family, Amie Lands
Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids: 100 Practical Ideas, Alan D. Wolfelt
I Miss You: A First Look at Death, Pat Thomas
Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children, Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen
See Me In The Wonder, Written and Illustrated by Laurel Fraher
Someone Came Before You, Pat Schwiebert
Special Delivery, Melanie Tioleco-Cheng
The Invisible String, Patrice Karst and Geoff Stevenson
Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss, Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen
The Next Place, Warren Hanson
These Precious Little People, Frankie Brunker & Gillian Gamble
Turned Upside Down, by author Teana Tache  and illustrator Karen Keesler 
When Children Grieve from A to Z: Coloring Through Grief and the Alphabet, Ginny Limer 

Pregnancy After Loss

Celebrating Pregnancy Again, Franchesca Cox
Expecting Sunshine, Alexis Marie Chute
Joy at the End of the Rainbow: A Guide for Pregnancy After Loss, Amanda Ross-White 
Pregnancy After a Loss, Carol Cirulli Lanham

For Health Professionals

Our Only Time: Stories of Pregnancy/Infant Loss with Strategies for Health Professionals, Amie Lands
​Companioning at a Time of Perinatal Loss: A Guide for Nurses, Physicians,
Social Workers, Chaplains and Other Bedside Caregivers, Jane Huestis, RN
and Marcia Jenkins, RN
Grieving Beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Women Mourn,
Kenneth J. Doka and Terry L. Martin
Time to Care: How to Love Your Patients and Your Job, Robin Youngson
Relationship-Based Care: A Model for Transforming Practice, Mary
Koloroutis
Perinatal and Pediatric Bereavement in Nursing and Other Health Professions,
Beth Perry Black, Patricia Moyle Wright, and Rana Limbo

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