Recommended Reading for Adult Sibling Grief

Following are lists of recommended reading on the topic of adult sibling grief, curated by Chilliwack Hospice Society volunteer, Earla Legault. Some titles are available in the Chilliwack Hospice Society Resource Lending Library. Others can be found at the Fraser Valley Regional Library or anywhere books are sold.

Information Books

  • Adult Sibling Loss: Stories, Reflections and Ripples. Marshall, Brenda J. (2013) Routledge Publishing Inc.

  • Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling (2020) Michelle Linn-Gust Chellehead Works; 3rd edition

  • The Empty Room: Understanding Sibling Loss. Devita-Raeburn, E. (2007) New York: Scribner

  • The Forgotten Mourners: Sibling Survivors of Suicide. DeSousa, Magdaline (2011) Outskirts Press

  • A Guide for the Bereaved Survivor. Baugher, Bob (2013) Caring People Press

  • Healing the Adult Siblings Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Brother or Sister Dies. Wolfelt, Alan D. (2008) Companion Press

  • Making Lemonade: Choosing a Positive Pathway After Losing Your Sibling. Sprague, Z. (2008) Paradisco Press

  • Sibling Grief. Gill White, P. (2006). New York, NY: iUniverse, Inc.

  • Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan: Research, Practice, and Personal Stories. Marshall, Brenda J. (2016) Routledge

  • Surviving Sibling Loss: The Invisible Thread that Connects Us Through Life and Death. DiRaimondo, Dawn (2020) Outskirts Press

Biographies and Memoirs

  • Better Off Bald; A Life in 147 Days. Woods, Andrea Wilson (2019) Build Your BLISSS

  • Celebration of Sisters; It’s Never to Late to Grief. Lipton, Judy (2021) WRiteLife Publishing

  • Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss. Wittels Wachs, Stephanie (2018) Sourcebooks

  • Four Corners: A Practical Memoir About Siblings, Grief, And Learning How To Carry On Without Letting Go. Nigh, Erin Leigh (2021) Erin Leigh Nigh

  • I Had a Brother Once. Mansbach, Adam (2020) One World Press

  • In the Slender Margin. Joseph, Eve (2014) Harper Collins Canada

  • Rock On: Mining for Joy in the Deep River of Sibling Grief. Casey, S.E. (2020) Library Tales Publishing

  • Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go. Thompson, Kelly S. (2023) McClelland & Stewart

  • Theres a Hole in My Bucket: A Tale of Two Brothers (2021) Tolkien, Royd Little A Publisher

  • Hermans Sister. Dhoot, Ramendeep (2022) Clink Street Publishing

  • The Last Time I Saw You; Sibling Anthology; Death of a Sibling. Zwissler, Danielle Lee (2018). Firefly and Wisp

  • Wildflower Kisses from Heaven: a Story of Loss, Grief and Growth. Shudruk, Natalia (2020) Accent Graphics Communication

Fiction

  • The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud. Sherwood, Ben (2004) Random House

  • The Great Believers. Makkai, Rebecca (2018) Penguin Books

  • The Immortalists. Benjamin, Chloe (2018) G.P. Putman’s Sons

  • Little Women. Alcott, Louisa May Original 1886 (Illustrated version 2020) Penguin Books

  • Notes of Your Sudden Disappearance. Espach, Alison (2022) Henry, Holt and Company

  • Saint X. Schaitkin, Alexis (2020) Celadon Books

  • Sing, Unburied, Sing. Ward, Jesmyn (2017) Scribner

  • Summer Bird Blue. Bowman, Akemi Dawn (2018) Simon Pluse

  • The Unpassing. Lin, Chia-Chia (2019) Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • At Home at the End of the World. Cunningham, Michael (2004) Picador

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