Reading after a suicide loss is different. You are not reading for pleasure. You are reading because you need to know you are not alone, because you need language for things that have no easy language. The books on these pages were chosen because survivors of suicide loss have found in them something real and useful, not because they are popular in a general sense.
You will find books organized by:
- relationship
- for parents
- for spouses
- for siblings
- for adult children who lost a parent
- purpose
- for those trying to understand the psychology of what happened
- for survivors whose grief is tangled up with their faith
- for parents supporting a grieving child or teenager
You don’t need to read all of them. Find the book that speaks to where you are right now, and give yourself permission to read a chapter at a time. Your concentration will come and go in this grief. That is completely normal. Start wherever your gut tells you to start.
Helping Children and Teens Cope With a Suicide
The right words for the hardest conversation: books to help you support a child or teenager who has lost someone to suicide.
Hope and Faith After Suicide
Books for survivors who are asking the hard questions about God, faith, and whether hope is even possible after a loss like this.
Lost a Brother or Sister to Suicide
For the forgotten mourners: books written by and for siblings who know what it is to grieve in the shadow of someone else’s loss.
Lost a Child to Suicide
Nothing prepares you for this. These books won’t either. But they will tell you, honestly, that others have survived it.
Adult Who Has Lost a Parent to Suicide
Whether you lost your parent last month or thirty years ago, these books see a grief that the world too often overlooks.
Lost a Partner / Spouse to Suicide
For widows and widowers carrying a loss that is as complicated as the life you shared: books that speak to your particular grief.
Understanding Suicide
For survivors who need to understand what was happening in their person’s mind, these are the most honest and careful books written on that question.
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