family + grief

10 books tagged both “family” and “grief”.

After You

Jojo Moyes · 2015

Lou grieves Will, falls from a roof, joins a group, and meets Sam and a surprise from Will's past.

2,031-word summary · 9 min read

Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano · 2023

Four sisters in Chicago love, lose, and find each other again across thirty years.

2,144-word summary · 10 min read

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner · 2021

Japanese Breakfast singer Michelle Zauner remembers her Korean mother through food, grief, and growing up in Oregon.

2,337-word summary · 10 min read

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer · 2005

Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11.

2,999-word summary · 13 min read

Just for the Summer

Abby Jimenez · 2024

Emma and Justin date to break a matching curse, then face sudden guardianship and illness on Lake Minnetonka.

3,090-word summary · 14 min read

All Your Perfects

Colleen Hoover · 2018

Quinn and Graham's perfect love frays under infertility, and they must decide what perfect means now.

2,072-word summary · 9 min read

Pet Sematary

Stephen King · 1983

Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.

2,158-word summary · 10 min read

Regretting You

Colleen Hoover · 2019

A mother and daughter grieve the same men differently after a crash, and secrets about paternity test them both.

2,182-word summary · 10 min read

If I Stay

Gayle Forman · 2009

Mia Hall watches her body after a crash and must decide whether to live for Adam and cello.

3,907-word summary · 17 min read

Reminders of Him

Colleen Hoover · 2022

Kenna returns after prison to meet the daughter she lost, facing the family that blames her.

2,168-word summary · 10 min read