National Grief Awareness Day is on August 30th. It helps to raise the awareness of the grieving process to those who are experiencing loss. It also sheds lights on how to help people who are going through the grieving process. Here are some books and media that shwo the grieving process. 

Nonfiction

Teh Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

It’s Okay that you’re not okay by Megan Divine

A Sheepdog Named Oscar by Dara Waldron

A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

Karen by Kelsey Grammar

H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald

Everything is F*cked by Mark Manson

On Grief and Grieving by David Kessler and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

 

Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Carcciatore

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

Nothing to Fear by Julie McFadden

Blue Nights by Joan Didion

From Scratch by Tembi Locke

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Fiction

Lily and the octopus by Steven Rowley

Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín

My Grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry by Fredrik Backman

What we Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

LaRose by Louise Erdrich

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrel

The Fault in our Stars by John Green

Dear Edward by Anne Napolitano

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Movies

Inside Out

A Good Person

Still Walking

Don’t Look Now

Ordinary People

The Sweet Hereafter

Hereditary

Three Colours: Blue

Manchester by the Sea

Fanny & Alexander

Tokyo Story

The Descendants

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Aftersun

Rabbit Hole

P.S. I Love You

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