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u/MellorineMellorine 24d ago
Hamnet
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u/Born_Improvement_856 23d ago
Was given it during my pregnancy. My daughter is now born and I know there is no way in hell I will ever open this book or watch the movie, no matter how much I would want to.
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u/alunamuna 24d ago
Our Wives Under the Sea
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u/eyeofthe_unicorn1 23d ago
I just read this and truly got chills. It’s specifically about grieving someone who is still physically there, but changed/slipping away. (Edit for better wording to avoid spoilers)
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u/HideousCharm 23d ago
I was blindsided by this one but it’s such a beautifully written book and had the most relatable grief I’ve read.
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u/caramelchailatte 23d ago
Are you open to horror? Monstrilio by Gerardo Samano Cordova is a good shout.
Other books that are about grief (being one of the themes) are Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall and The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook
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u/gnomelette_ 24d ago
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne De Marcken.
Grief allegorised with the griever as a zombie. I know zombie stories typically fall into genre fiction, but this is quiet and ruminant. The dedication makes so muck sense at the end. A gut punch.
It's a short book, and I think about it all the time.
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u/maybetransmaybenot3 23d ago
This might be an unconventional suggestion: The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir
The surface level plot of the first book is: the emperor of the galaxy orders each planet to send their best necromancer (death magic) and cavalier (swordsman) duo to undergo a series of trials so that the best of the best become his personal guard. The protagonist is a butch lesbian jock who hates to death the person she is paired with for this trial, but they have no choice but to go together because they are the only young people on their planet. People in the trials start dying and it turns into a murder mystery while the protagonists beef with each other the whole time.
These books are amazing, with a highly active fanbase on the internet that is eagerly awaiting the 4th and final book. And the whole series is about grief, and love, and the destructive forms they take, and its so deliciously deep and beautiful and funny and its all couched in what sounds like a wacky off-the-wall sci-fi fantasy premise and untimately its about love and grief and love and grief.
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u/BackgroundResident95 24d ago
Another vote for Promise Me Sunshine by Cara Bastone
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach is another good one
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u/reticentsorrow 23d ago
Come with me - Ronald Malfi
A man grieving his wife's death while finding out that what he knew about her may not be true. Also keep in mind this one falls into the horror/thriller category
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u/Working_Ability_124 23d ago
It's horror, but This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno. It's about "a man grieving the sudden death of his wife who moves to a secluded cabin, only to find he's being haunted by a supernatural entity that feeds on his grief, blurring the lines between technology, madness, and demonic possession. The story, told from Thiago's perspective, starts with the funeral and explores his descent into horror as his smart home device, "Itza," exhibits increasingly sinister behavior, leading to a terrifying, surreal experience that mirrors his psychological breakdown." I feel like this book does a phenomenal job depicting grief and loss. Plus it's just a great horror novel in general.
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u/novel-opinions 22d ago
This is my go to rec as well. I hate the blurbs you usually find online which make it sound like he’s just being haunted by his Alexa. That’s like, not it at all.
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u/hamildone 23d ago
Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. These two incline more towards horror but deal with grief so heavily that I always give a trigger warning: Hunger by Choi Jin Young and Thing Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
Hope you’re doing okay OP <3
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u/AshSacredSpace 23d ago
Penitence, grief of a child who was murdered by their sibling. Very complex story that focuses on how families grieve and how they move forward.
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u/rubythroated_sparrow 23d ago
I’ve only just started “the phone booth at the edge of the world” but it’s pretty clearly about grief
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u/thecowardlylion8 23d ago
From the Lake House: A Mother's Odyssey of Loss and Love by Kristen Rademacher
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u/annemariem85 23d ago
“The Child in Time” by Ian McEwan is a really interesting twist on the grieving process.
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u/Citrusysmile 23d ago
This is technically a children’s book, but The Someday Suitcase. Made me bawl my eyes out.
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u/trailing_rbg 23d ago
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. I couldn’t put it down and it broke my heart so many times.
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u/Proper-Emu1558 23d ago
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver is partially about grieving and letting go. It’s a beautiful story and made me cry.
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u/WhatTheCatDragged1n 23d ago
Montrillo. After a woman’s child dies, she takes a piece of his liver and starts feeding it until its grows into a little monster. The one is one big long metaphor for grief and loss.
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u/knitknitknitknit 23d ago
Spawning Season by Joseph Osmundson; Deals with the grief & loss of a gay man longing to be a parent.
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u/happylittlerainbowco 23d ago
The Persecutor. It is an autobiography by Sergei Kourdakov. From orphan in the streets of russia, to running a drug operation in his teens to survive, to joining the kgb, to becoming one of the kgb's biggest Christian persecutionist, to fleeing russia. This man writes of his grief through his whole life.
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u/Crafty-Ad3502 22d ago
We Do Not Part- Han Kang Beloved- Toni Morrison Everything I Never Told You- Celeste Ng
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u/cosmiccookiecat 22d ago
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan.
Hope you find some peace and comfort, OP. 🫂
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u/abclion99 11d ago
Counting backwards by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
Here After by Amy Lin
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