SUGGESTED READING FOR BEREAVED PARENTS

  • After the Darkest Hour, the Sun Will Shine Again, Elizabeth Mehren, 1997
  • After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss Through the Years, Ann Finkbeiner, 1996
  • After Normal: One Teen’s Journey Following Her Brother’s Death, Diane Aggen, 2008
  • The Andrew Poems, Shelly Wagner, 1994
  • Angel Catcher: A Journal of Loss and Remembrance, Kathy and Amy Eldon, 2008
  • The Bereaved Parent, Harriet Schiff, 1977
  • Beyond Endurance: When a Child Dies, Ronald Knopp, 1986
  • Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child, Ellen Mitchell et al, 2004
  • A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies, Anne McCracken and Mary Semel, 1998
  • A Child’s View of Grief, Alan Wolfelt, 1991
  • Children of the Dome, Rosemary Smith, 1999
  • Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, Ann Hood, 2008
  • Creating a New Normal, Sandy Fox, 2010
  • Dear Parents: Letters to Bereaved Parents, Centering Corporation, 1989
  • The Death of a Child, Elaine Stillwell, 2004
  • The Empty Room: Understanding Sibling Loss, Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, 2004
  • Facing the Ultimate Loss: Coping with the Death of a Child, Robert Marx and Susan Davidson, 2003
  • Final Gifts, Maggie Callahan and Patricia Kelley, 1992
  • Finding Your Way After Your Child Dies, Phyllis and Kenneth Vos Wezeman, 2001
  • Gone But Not Lost: Grieving the Death of a Child, David Wiersbe, 1992
  • Good Grief, Granger Westberg, 1971
  • A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis, 1961
  • A Grief Unveiled, Gregory Floyd, 1999
  • The Grieving Garden: Living with the Death of a Child, Suzanne Redfern and Susan Gilbert, 2008
  • Hannah’s Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived, Maria Housden, 2002
  • Healing a Parent’s Grieving Heart, Alan Wolfelt, 2002
  • Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief, Martha Whitmore Hickman, 1994
  • How to Survive the Loss of a Child: Filling the Emptiness and Rebuilding Your Life, Catherine Sanders, 1998
  • Lament for a Son, Nicholas Wolterstorff, 1987
  • Life After the Death of My Son, Dennis Apple, 2008
  • Living Through Mourning, Harriet Schiff, 1986
  • Living When a Loved One Has Died, Earl Grollman, 1977
  • Longing for My Child, Christine O’Keefe Lafser, 2002
  • One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, Ann Voskamp, 2011
  • Only Spring: On Mourning the Death of My Son, Gordon Livingston, 1995
  • Packing for the Big Trip, Charlie Walton, 1997
  • A Parents’ Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family After the Death of a Loved One, Phyllis Silverman and Madelyn Kelly, 2009
  • The Poems, Sascha Wagner, 2008
  • Stars in the Deepest Night, Genesse Gentry, 1999
  • Waiting with Gabriel: A Story Cherishing a Baby’s Brief Life, Amy Kuebelbeck, 2008
  • When a Child Dies, Carol Pregent, 1992
  • When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Rabbi Harold Kushner, 1983
  • When Grief Breaks Your Heart, James Moore, 1995
  • When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter, Judith Bernstein, 1997
  • When There Are No Words, Charlie Walton, 1996
  • When Your Child is Gone, Francine Todar, 1986
  • The Worst Loss: How Families Heal from the Death of a Child, Barbara Davenport Rosof, 1994