- Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss ~ Hope Edelman
- A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
- Making Toast – Roger Rosenblatt
- Falling Man – Don DeLillo
- The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
- Blue Nights – Joan Didion
- Home Safe – Elizabeth Berg
- Nothing Was the Same – Kay Redfield Jamison
- A Widow’s Story – Joyce Carol Oates
- In the Springtime of the Year – Susan Hill
- Let’s Take the Long Way Home – Gail Caldwell
- The Sea – John Banville
- The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty