Maggie O'Farrell: Hamnet

Anatole Broyard: Intoxicated by My Illness

Robert Pogue Harrison: The Dominion of the Dead

Calvin Trillin: About Alice

Albert Camus: The Stranger

Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Goodbye

B. S. Johnson: The Unfortunates

Ayad Akhtar: The Invisible Hand

David Almond: Skellig

Roland Barthes: Mourning Diary

Joan Didion: Blue Nights

Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking

C. S. Lewis: A Grief Observed

Denise Riley: Time Lived, Without its Flow

Max Porter: Grief is the Thing with Feathers

Annie Ernaux: I Remain in Darkness

John Bayley: Iris; A Memoir of Iris Murdoch

George A. Bonanno: The Other Side of Sadness

Allie Brush: Solutions and Other Problems

Iris Murdoch: The Sea, The Sea

Harriet McBryde Johnson: Too Late to Die Young

Susan Gubar: Memoir of a Debulked Woman

Anne Boyer: Garments Against Women

Anne Boyer: The Undying

Alphonse Daudet: In the Land of Pain

Eliot Weinberger: An Elemental Thing