nonfiction books where the author loses and grieves for a family member
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last updated September, 2026
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
Mark Doty
Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala
Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-Comic Memoir
Adam Cayton-Holland
All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir
Erin Lee Carr
I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, A Memoir
Adam Mansbach
The Invention of Solitude
Paul Auster
Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother
Helen Humphreys
The Hero of This Book
Elizabeth McCracken
The Heart and Other Monsters
Rose Andersen
Blue Nights
Joan Didion
The Long Goodbye
Meghan O'Rourke
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Jesmyn Ward
The Year of Magical Thinking
A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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