Recs if you like The Friend...

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

Grief as one of the main topics

In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)

Introspective books by people who observe a lot, ponder a lot, feel a lot, and write about it. Creative memoir, self-indulgent navel-gazing, or "wan little husks" (as Joyce Carol Oates once put it)... whatever you personally think about autofiction, including whether or not it really is a genre, this somewhat experimental form of writing most definitely gives both writers and readers a chance to engage in narratives in a different way.

A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review

according to the New York Times

canadian author emily r austin's recommended books, as taken from her website!

Ongoing. Fiction and non-fiction exploration of grief: anticipatory, grieving death of a loved one (including pets), loosing pregnancy, etc, and how to live with it.

Bite-sized books you can read in a single sitting.

The list of the 100 best books of the 21st century from the New York Times

Stories for processing all types of grief

thought provoking fictions are the best

emotionally resonant and impactful reads that will make you feel all of the feels (and, if you're like me, cry).

I've been addicted to watching Smosh all summer, here is a list of the casts and crew's favorite books from the Shayne Guesses video ;p I haven't read like... any of these.

A goal to read the 100 books rated in the 21st century (so far) as published by the New York times in 2024, list in order from 100-1 but you can find the original list on the NYT website.