Grief
17 books tagged with this warning.
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller · 2011 · Historical / Mythology / LGBTQ+
A retelling of the Trojan War through Patroclus's eyes, tracing his bond with Achilles and their fated path.
Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami · 1987 · Japanese Literature / Coming-of-age
In late-60s Tokyo, Toru drifts between two women and the shadow of his friend's death.
Beach Read
by Emily Henry · 2020 · Romance / Contemporary
Two rival authors with opposite styles spend a summer next door and swap genres — and slowly fall.
They Both Die at the End
by Adam Silvera · 2017 · YA / LGBTQ+
Two teens meet on the last day before their predicted deaths.
Circe
by Madeline Miller · 2018 · Mythology / Historical
The witch Circe across a thousand years of exile.
Marley & Me
by John Grogan · 2005 · Memoir / Pet
The Grogans adopt 'the world's worst dog', Marley.
Book Lovers
by Emily Henry · 2022 · Romance / Publishing
A sharp-edged literary agent keeps colliding with her editor-nemesis on a small-town vacation, and finds the softness behind both their armors.
Happy Place
by Emily Henry · 2023 · Romance / Fake Dating
A secretly broken-up couple fakes still-engaged through one last Maine vacation to spare their friend group.
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus · 2022 · Romance / Feminist / 1960s
A 1960s woman chemist pushed out of academia accidentally becomes a TV cooking-show host who teaches housewives via chemistry.
In Five Years
by Rebecca Serle · 2020 · Romance / Friendship / Magical Realism
On the night of her engagement Dannie has a vivid five-years-later dream — and her real life starts drifting off-script.
If I Stay
by Gayle Forman · 2009 · YA / Contemporary
After a car crash, 17-year-old cellist Mia hovers between life and death, replaying her family and first love.
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders · 2017 · Literary / Experimental
After Lincoln's son dies, he lingers in the bardo; the graveyard's ghosts narrate the father's grief.
A Dog's Purpose
by W. Bruce Cameron · 2010 · Contemporary / Pet
A dog searches for its purpose across multiple reincarnations, narrating its own story.
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes · 1966 · Science Fiction / Literary
Charlie, an intellectually disabled adult, undergoes an experimental intelligence procedure first tested on a lab mouse, Algernon.
A Dog Named Christmas
by Greg Kincaid · 2008 · Contemporary / Pet
A developmentally disabled young man fosters a shelter dog over the holidays.
My Dog Skip
by Willie Morris · 1995 · Memoir / Pet
A Southern American boy and his dog Skip — a coming-of-age memoir.
The Dog Stars
by Peter Heller · 2012 · Post-apocalyptic / Literary
After a pandemic collapses society, pilot Hig lives at a small airfield with his dog Jasper.
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