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Books with a central theme that involves dealing with loss/grieving.

Dealing with Loss

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Bring the House Down

A Novel

by Charlotte Runcie

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Jul 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A theater critic at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe writes a vicious one-star review of a struggling actress he has a one-night stand with in this sharply funny, feminist tinderbox.

My Friends

A Novel

by Fredrik Backman

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Jul 2026

Critics' Consensus:

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger's life twenty-five years later.

UnWorld

A Novel

by Jayson Greene

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of Once More We Saw Stars comes a gripping novel about four intertwined lives that collide in the wake of a mysterious tragedy. Set in a near-future world where the boundaries between human and AI blur, the story challenges our ...

As If

A Novel

by Isabel Waidner

Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Two men meet in an apartment in London. They are strangers to one another, and yet they look remarkably alike.

Earth 7

A Novel

by Deb Olin Unferth

Hardcover: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An end-of-the-world love story, an epic full of pathos and humor, asking what can be saved of our planet.

Baby in a Box

Stories

by Sarah Braunstein

Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Prescient and idiosyncratic stories about the cost and joys of caretaking from a "sharp-witted, ravishing" (New York Times) writer.

Meet Me at the Crossroads

A Novel

by Megan Giddings

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood and The Women Could Fly, a dazzling novel about two brilliant sisters and what happens to their undeniable bond when a mysterious and possibly perilous new world beckons.

The River Is Waiting

A Novel

by Wally Lamb

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the ...

This Is Your Mother

A Memoir

by Erika J. Simpson

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From "a writer who's absolutely going places" (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illness, exploring how we forge identity in the face of imminent loss.

The Hill

A Novel

by Harriet Clark

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

After her mother is sentenced to life in a hilltop prison, Suzanna vows to return to the hill forever. An unexpectedly funny and deeply moving novel about the many ways we punish and return to each other.

Homebound

A Novel

by Portia Elan

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Five interlocking lives. One beloved story. A dazzling adventure across centuries and continents in search of the things that hold us together.

Memorial Days

A Memoir

by Geraldine Brooks

Hardcover: Feb 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.

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