19 must-read nonfiction books like The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Richard Coles

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The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Richard Coles

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife with parishioners or …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Richard Coles , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving by Julia Samuel

1. Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

By: Julia Samuel

4.00

Format: 199 pages,

Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly … read more

Similar categories in Julia Samuel's Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • death
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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2. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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3. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

By: Nina Stibbe

3.66

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more

Similar categories in Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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4. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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5. 73 Dove Street

By: Julie Owen Moylan

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The page-turning and evocative new novel set in 1950s London from the author of That Green Eyed Gir… read more

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6. A Pocketful of Happiness

By: Richard E. Grant

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more

Similar categories in Richard E. Grant's A Pocketful of Happiness book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By: Richard Coles

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Whether it is pastoral care for the bereaved, discussions about the afterlife with parishioners or … read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • psychology
  • death
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. I Wish I Knew: Poems to Soothe Your Soul & Strengthen Your Spirit

By: Donna Ashworth

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this fast-paced world, I Wish I Knew is a collection of poems to guide us through the wilderness… read more

Similar categories in Donna Ashworth's I Wish I Knew: Poems to Soothe Your Soul & Strengthen Your Spirit book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • nonfiction
Cover of Coles to Jerusalem: A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with Reverend Richard Coles (Kindle Single) by Kevin Jackson

9. Coles to Jerusalem: A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with Reverend Richard Coles (Kindle Single)

By: Kevin Jackson

4.04

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Last Easter, Britain’s best-loved vicar, the Rev. Richard Coles, led a pilgrimage to all the major … read more

Similar categories in Kevin Jackson's Coles to Jerusalem: A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with Reverend Richard Coles (Kindle Single) book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • nonfiction
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10. This Is Not A Pity Memoir

By: Abi Morgan

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What happens when your partner of twenty years suddenly believes you’re nothing but a stranger?  Wh… read more

Similar categories in Abi Morgan's This Is Not A Pity Memoir book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. You Are Not Alone

By: Cariad Lloyd

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by her award-winning podcast, Griefcast, You Are Not Alone is Cariad Lloyd's frank, funny … read more

Similar categories in Cariad Lloyd's You Are Not Alone book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • death
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it by Michael Rosen

12. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

By: Michael Rosen

4.00

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more

Similar categories in Michael Rosen's Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Have A Little Faith: Life Lessons on Love, Death and How Lasagne Always Helps by Kate Bottley

13. Have A Little Faith: Life Lessons on Love, Death and How Lasagne Always Helps

By: Kate Bottley

4.24

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

'Thank God for Kate and this book' Dawn French 'Kate's natural warmth, wit and wisdom shines thro… read more

Similar categories in Kate Bottley's Have A Little Faith: Life Lessons on Love, Death and How Lasagne Always Helps book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • religion
  • nonfiction
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14. Old Rage

By: Sheila Hancock

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sheila Hancock looked like she was managing old age. She had weathered and even thrived in widowhoo… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Hancock's Old Rage book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Hungry

By: Grace Dent

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yea… read more

Similar categories in Grace Dent's Hungry book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Are you hungry?' I say, slightly mischievously. 'Very, he says, unfurling his napkin. This is a shame, because we're sitting down for a tasting menu that will not be a meal, but more a random collect…"

-Grace Dent, Hungry

Cover of The Lady in the Bay Window: A true story of a haunted Sheffield home by William C. Grave

16. The Lady in the Bay Window: A true story of a haunted Sheffield home

By: William C. Grave

4.42

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of paranormal activity in a residential home. In 'The Lady in the Bay Window,'… read more

Similar categories in William C. Grave's The Lady in the Bay Window: A true story of a haunted Sheffield home book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • nonfiction
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17. Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC

By: Rory Cellan-Jones

4.32

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ruskin Park is so much more than a memoir. It is tribute to an individual woman and a whole genera… read more

Similar categories in Rory Cellan-Jones's Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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18. Will You Read This, Please?

By: Joanna Cannon

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

12 impactful stories by bestselling writers, based on the real lived experience of people who have … read more

Similar categories in Joanna Cannon's Will You Read This, Please? book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • psychology
Cover of Appetite: A Memoir in Recipes of Family and Food by Ed Balls

19. Appetite: A Memoir in Recipes of Family and Food

By: Ed Balls

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

THE  SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Charming' – The Sunday Times ‘Delicious’ – Daily Mail 'Wonderful' – … read more

Similar categories in Ed Balls's Appetite: A Memoir in Recipes of Family and Food book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature by Ben Goldsmith

20. God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature

By: Ben Goldsmith

4.09

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

'Intensely readable, poetic, truthful, wise and wonderful.' STEPHEN FRY'An extraordinary book.' SUN… read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldsmith's God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
Cover of An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of Caring, Ageing and Everyday Acts of Love by Kate Mosse

21. An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of Caring, Ageing and Everyday Acts of Love

By: Kate Mosse

4.18

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

As our population ages, more and more of us find ourselves caring for parents and loved ones - some… read more

Similar categories in Kate Mosse's An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of Caring, Ageing and Everyday Acts of Love book and Richard Coles's The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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