16 best-selling nonfiction books like The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss by Hope Edelman

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The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss

By: Hope Edelman

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A validating new approach to the long-term grieving process that explains why we feel "stuck," why …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss by Hope Edelman , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner

4.40

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more

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  • unfinished
  • psychology
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"

-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

2. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

By: Nina Riggs

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An exquisite memoir about how to live--and love--every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina… read more

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3. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • death
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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4. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Levee

By: William Kent Krueger

3.51

Format: 4 pages, Audio CD

An audio original novella from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land, The L… read more

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6. Invisible

By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For fans of Twins and Allergic, a must-have graphic novel about five very different students who ar… read more

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7. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

By: Ramani Durvasula

4.58

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

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8. Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

By: Joanne Cacciatore

4.42

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

If you love, you will grieve—and nothing is more mysteriously central to becoming fully human. Dr.… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • death
"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"

-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

"Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning …"

-Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

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9. Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

By: Marisa Renee Lee

4.17

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Author Marisa Renee Lee reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved one heali… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • death
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10. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

By: Mary-Frances O'Connor

4.19

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • death
"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

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11. healing for no one but me

By: Jennae Cecelia

3.95

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

Best-selling poet of The Sun Will Rise and Will We, Jennae Cecelia brings you her tenth poetry book… read more

Similar categories in Jennae Cecelia's healing for no one but me book and Hope Edelman's The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss

  • nonfiction
  • self help
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12. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • death
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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13. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. book and Hope Edelman's The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss

  • nonfiction
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

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14. Lost & Found: A Memoir

By: Kathryn Schulz

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & F… read more

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  • nonfiction
"For now, at least, the world is ours to notice and to change, and that seems to me sufficient. It is true that loss will ultimately part us from it, but it is also true, as I said earlier, that we ha…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"One consequence of losing a parent—obvious enough, although it hadn't occurred to me beforehand—is that it reconfigures the rest of your family. All my life, it had been the four of us; to the extent…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

"What an astonishing thing it is to find someone. Loss may alter our sense of scale, reminding us that the world is overwhelmingly large while we are incredibly tiny. But finding does the same; the on…"

-Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

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15. Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose

By: Colin Campbell

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful account of one father’s journey through unimaginable grief, offering readers a new visio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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16. I've Seen the End of You: A Neurosurgeon's Look at Faith, Doubt, and the Things We Think We Know

By: W. Lee Warren

4.47

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This gripping inspirational memoir grapples with the tension between faith and science--and between… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss by Claire Bidwell Smith

17. Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss

By: Claire Bidwell Smith

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

With this groundbreaking book, discover the critical connections between anxiety and grief—and lear… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • death
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18. When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

By: Alice Hoffman

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Alice Hoffman delivers a stunning novel about one of contemporary history's most… read more

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19. Grief in the Fourth Dimension: A Novel

By: Jennifer Yu

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving and unique speculative YA novel about the afterlife and the unexpected connections that ca… read more

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  • death
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20. The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss

By: Hope Edelman

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A validating new approach to the long-term grieving process that explains why we feel "stuck," why … read more

Similar categories in Hope Edelman's The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss book and Hope Edelman's The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss

  • unfinished
  • psychology
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • self help

11 best-selling self help books like The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss by Hope Edelman

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

Francis Weller , Michael Lerner

4.40

None

Megan Devine

None

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

Ramani Durvasula

4.58

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21 best-selling poetry books like healing for no one but me by Jennae Cecelia

Transform Your Habits

She Was The Storm

Cherie Avritt

3.48

Transform Your Habits

Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers

Melody Godfred

4.14

Transform Your Habits

2am thoughts

Makenzie Campbell

3.75

Transform Your Habits

To Be Honest

Nelle Starling

4.16

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