🏷️ Grief
25 entries tagged with this trope
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell · 2020
The story of Shakespeare's son Hamnet's death and its impact on his family. O'Farrell imagines the grief behind the creation of Hamlet with stunning prose.
The Fisherman
John Langan · 2016
Two widowers bond over fishing until they discover a cursed reservoir. What lies beneath the water connects to cosmic horror beyond human comprehension. Modern Lovecraftian masterpiece.
The Fisherman
John Langan · 2016
Two widowed men find comfort in fishing together until they hear about a cursed creek. What starts as a quiet grief story becomes eldritch horror of the highest order.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt · 2022
A grieving widow befriends an octopus at the aquarium where she works night shifts. The octopus knows a secret about her missing son. Yes, you will cry.
Horrid
Katrina Leno · 2020
After her father dies, Jane and her mom move into an old family house in Maine. A house full of books. Books that weren't there before. Books that seem to multiply. YA gothic at its creepiest.
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell · 2020
The story of Shakespeare's son Hamnet, who died at 11 and inspired Hamlet. But this isn't Shakespeare's story — it's Agnes's, his wife. A meditation on grief and art that is achingly precise.
Just Last Night
Mhairi McFarlane · 2021
Eve's world shatters when tragedy strikes their tight-knit friend group. In the aftermath, buried feelings and secrets surface that change everything she thought she knew.
The Dead Romantics
Ashley Poston · 2022
Florence can see ghosts. Her new book editor shows up dead — as a ghost. Now she has to help him figure out how he died while also finishing her romance novel. It's funnier than it sounds.
Horrid
Katrina Leno · 2020
After her father's death, Jane moves into her mother's childhood home. The locked room upstairs is full of books. And something is reading them at night.
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell · 2020
Shakespeare's son Hamnet dies at eleven. His wife Agnes feels it before the news arrives. A novel about grief, marriage, and how art is born from loss. Devastatingly gorgeous prose.
The Fisherman
John Langan · 2016
Two widowers hear a story about a creek that fishes for more than fish.
The Heart Principle
Helen Hoang · 2021
A burnt-out violinist and a tattooed motorcycle hookup who becomes something more. Autistic rep done right.
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney · 2024
Two brothers, Peter and Ivan, grieve their father while navigating complicated love lives. Rooney at her most mature and expansive.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt · 2022
A widow takes a night job at an aquarium. A giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus knows a secret about her missing son. Yes, the octopus narrates.
Reminders of Him
Colleen Hoover · 2022
Kenna gets out of prison and wants to reconnect with her daughter. The guardian standing between them is Ledger — and they shouldn't feel anything for each other.
Bag of Bones
Stephen King · 1998
Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan loses his wife and retreats to their Maine lakehouse. It's haunted. It wants something from him. King's most literary horror novel.
Orbital
Samantha Harvey · 2023
Six astronauts orbit Earth for one day. That's the whole book. The prose is extraordinary. Booker Prize winner that reads like a meditation on being human.
The Women Could Fly
Megan Giddings · 2022
In a world where witches are real and surveillance is mandatory, Josephine searches for her missing mother. Grief and feminist rage dressed as speculative fiction.
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner · 2021
Michelle Zauner loses her Korean mother and processes grief through food. As the frontwoman of Japanese Breakfast, she writes prose as beautiful as her music.
Drop Your Weapons
proulxes · 2021
Post-war Diagon Alley. Draco is trying to rebuild. Hermione keeps appearing. Neither of them knows how to reach the other across all that history.
This Bitter Earth
Salazarfalcon · 2010
Modern AU. Sirius and Remus find each other again after years apart. Grief and longing and the slow courage of reaching back toward someone you lost.
Promise Me the Stars
laiqualaurelote · 2018
A fix-it where Sirius escapes Azkaban sooner. Remus doesn't know how to let himself hope. The reunion is everything we deserved.
The Space Between
diasterisms · 2017
Ben comes back as a Force ghost. Rey learns to live with him on the periphery of her existence. A meditation on grief and presence.
Seventy Years
nimmieamee · 2014
Seventy years is a long time to wait. Steve on what it means to find Bucky again when the man you knew is buried under everything Hydra made him.
Sea Glass
Litvak · 2015
After the war. Katara comes to teach waterbending in the Fire Nation. The collision of their worlds, post-peace, is stunning and achingly romantic.