Recs if you like Grief is the Thing with Feathers...

For when your PB friends share the same name(s) as a book character! (See pinned comment for master list! Please feel free to chime in if you want to be added and/or if you want a different book assigned to you; I didn’t want to step on toes and add people I haven’t really talked to without their permission ❤️ also my brain is smooth and I forget book character names all the time lol)

i love when animals get the chance to yap and/or narrate their own stories :)

recommendations welcome!

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

Books about death, dying, grief and what remains.

Grief as one of the main topics

books with birds as main characters, books about the habits of birds and books on birding

fiction and non fiction

Short books that you can read in a sitting, to help you achieve your yearly reading goal 🤭🥳 Feel free to mention anything else from the list, I'm so glad to add & check them out 😁

quick reads under 150 pages that are a little unconventional and not too dense, but will still fire up your brain!! to ward off a reading slump and refresh your palate.

Books where grief is personified, given a body, a voice, or a shape, to explore how loss lives alongside us.

A crowd-sourced list of books by authors who have been outspoken in support of human rights

Dua Lipa’s book clip picks

Works of literary fiction that blur the line between poetry and prose.

Whether you know what the book is about or not, some titles hit like a punch to the gut.

themes of grief and loss but also horror

These books have all been quoted in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows. Although some poems quoted in The Comfort of Crows are not included in this list.

Here's a list of every book I studied, read, or was reccomended to read as part of my Writing and Literature BA - for eager academics, fellow writers & nostagic graduates💕 Let's milk my education💪

Grief and its many forms of manifestations (across genres)

I see a few lists on here with this theme, but they were short themselves - and I was looking for a more diverse selection. So, thought I'd make my own list and share it! Nice for reading goals, but mostly, I like breaking up the rhythm if I'm reading something exceptionally long.

for when you’re craving an emotional hangover.

Service95 Book Club Monthly Reads + more and more books from their lists :)