Here are some of the many, many books I read that I can recommend:
• Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser
• A Lamp in the Darkness by Jack Kornfield
• A Path Through Loss by Nancy Reeves
• The Light Inside the Dark by John Tarrant
• The Grief Recovery Handbook by John James and Russell Friedman
• Dark Nights of the Soul by Thomas Moore
• The Wilderness of Grief – Finding Your Way by Alan Wolfelt
• Spontaneous Happiness by Andrew Weil
• Nobody’s Child: How Older Women Say Goodbye to Their Mothers by Diane Sher Lutovich
• Letters from Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman
• Entering the Healing Ground by Francis Weller
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• The Truth about Grief by Ruth Davis Konisberg
• Grieving the Death of a Mother by Harold Ivan Smith
• Heartbroken Open by Kristine Carlson
• Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron
• Healing into Life and Death by Stephen Levine
• Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss
• Tunnel and the Light by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
While not specific to grief, here are a few other favorite books that inspired or helped me:
• To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue
• The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
• After This and Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith
• Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches by Anne Lamott
• Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
• The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo