Death 136 books by Spiritomb

#0 in L'homme devant la mort

The Hour of Our Death

ByPhilippe Ariès

1977 • 9 Readers • 651 pages

The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History

Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present

ByPhilippe Ariès

1974 • 1 Reader • 134 pages

Death's Acre

ByWilliam M. Bass,Jon Jefferson

2003 • 52 Readers • 320 pages • 4

The Denial of Death

ByErnest Becker

1973 • 187 Readers • 239 pages • 3.5

Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation

ByPaul Binski

1996 • 1 Reader • 244 pages

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

ByKate Bowler

2018 • 127 Readers • 178 pages • 3.6

Engaging with the Dead: Exploring Changing Human Beliefs about Death, Mortality and the Human Body

ByJennie Bradbury(Editor),Chris Scarre(Editor)

1 Reader

Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure

ByArthur T. Bradley

2019 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

#10

Going Bovine

ByLibba Bray

2009 • 71 Readers • 480 pages • 3.8

#11

Unremembered

ByJessica Brody

2013 • 19 Readers • 320 pages • 3.3

#12

The Phantom Twin

ByLisa Brown

2020 • 16 Readers • 205 pages • 3.2

#13

To Stay Alive

BySkila Brown

2016 • 1 Reader • 305 pages • 4

#14

Fox song

ByJoseph Bruchac

#15

All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work

ByHayley Campbell

2022 • 125 Readers • 288 pages • 4.2

#16

Dying to Eat

ByCandi K. Cann

2018 • 208 pages

#17

Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial

ByPenny Colman

1997 • 6 Readers • 308 pages

#18

Stealing Lincoln's Body

ByThomas J. Craughwell

2007 • 1 Reader • 250 pages

#19

How to Stop Living and Start Worrying: Conversations with Carl Cederstrm

BySimon Critchley,Carl Cederström

2010 • 1 Reader

#20

The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom

ByLydia S. Dugdale

2020 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

#21

Dead Mountain

ByDonnie Eichar

2013 • 44 Readers • 288 pages • 3.6

#22

Gory Details

ByErika Engelhaupt

2021 • 60 Readers • 304 pages • 4.2

#23

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

ByDrew Gilpin Faust

2008 • 29 Readers • 346 pages • 3.8

#24

The Mothers

ByVardis Fisher

1943 • 1 Reader • 287 pages

#25

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

ByAtul Gawande

2014 • 403 Readers • 282 pages • 4.5

#26

Playing Dead

ByElizabeth Greenwood

2016 • 23 Readers • 272 pages • 3.5

#27

At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die

ByLee Gutkind(editor),Francine Prose(Foreword)

2012 • 3 Readers • 303 pages • 4

#28

Queer Necropolitics

ByJin Haritaworn(editor),Adi Kuntsman(Editor)

2012 • 2 Readers

#29

Mortuary Confidential:: Undertakers Spill the Dirt

ByTodd Harra,Ken McKenzie

2010 • 1 Reader • 257 pages

#30

Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial

ByMark Harris

2007 • 3 Readers • 209 pages

#31

Ordinary Terrible Things

Death Is Stupid

ByAnastasia Higginbotham

2016 • 1 Reader • 64 pages • 5

#32

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

ByAnthony Ray Hinton,Lara Love Hardin

2018 • 143 Readers • 272 pages • 4.5

#33

A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830-1920

ByMark Honigsbaum

2013 • 1 Reader

#34

Death

ByShelly Kagan

2012 • 3 Readers • 376 pages • 3.2

#35

When Breath Becomes Air

ByPaul Kalanithi

2016 • 946 Readers • 256 pages • 4.4

#36

Death, Society, and Human Experience

ByRobert J. Kastenbaum,Christopher M. Moreman

1977 • 1 Reader • 1,041 pages

#37

Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses

ByPaul Koudounaris

3 Readers

#38

Memento Mori

ByPaul Koudounaris

2022 • 5 Readers

#39

Into the Wild

ByJon Krakauer,Philip Franklin

1996 • 814 Readers • 3.9

#40

Work of the Dead

ByThomas W. Laqueur

2015 • 8 Readers • 736 pages

#41

The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death

ByJill Lepore

2012 • 4 Readers

#42

#1 of 1 in Gracekeepers

The Gracekeepers

ByKirsty Logan

2015 • 60 Readers • 306 pages • 3.2

#43

Rest in Pieces

ByBess Lovejoy

2013 • 3 Readers • 329 pages

#44

The Undertaking

ByThomas Lynch

1997 • 3 Readers • 224 pages • 3

#45

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

ByKathryn Mannix

2017 • 26 Readers • 342 pages • 4.3

#46

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

ByJudy Melinek,T.J. Mitchell

2014 • 65 Readers • 258 pages • 4

#47

The American Way of Death Revisited

ByJessica Mitford

1963 • 17 Readers • 296 pages • 3.7

#48

The Lady and Her Monsters

ByRoseanne Montillo

2013 • 8 Readers • 336 pages • 3.5

#49

Into the Gray Zone

ByAdrian Owen

2017 • 6 Readers • 320 pages • 4.5

#50

Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America

ByStephen R. Prothero

2001 • 1 Reader • 297 pages

#51

The Lady of Sing Sing: An American Countess, an Italian Immigrant, and Their Epic Battle for Justice in New York's Gilded Age

ByIdanna Pucci

1996 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#52

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

BySunita Puri

2019 • 5 Readers

#53

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

ByMary Roach

2005 • 4 Readers • 4.3

#54

Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician

ByMatthew Franklin Sias

2012 • 2 Readers

#55

The Removalist: On the Front Line of Death Care

ByMatthew Franklin Sias

1 Reader

#56

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

ByJoe Simpson

1988 • 74 Readers • 228 pages • 4.2

#57

Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death

ByJoshua Slocum,Lisa Carlson

2011 • 1 Reader

#58

The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life

BySheldon Solomon,Jeff Greenberg,+1 more

2015 • 2 Readers

#59

Dying

ByCory Taylor

2016 • 9 Readers • 160 pages • 2.5

#60

Casket Chronicles: Living and Working in a Funeral Home is not What You Might Think

ByT.A. Walters

1 Reader • 177 pages

#61

Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician

ByMichelle Williams

2010 • 7 Readers • 192 pages • 4

#62

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

ByIrvin D. Yalom

2008 • 2 Readers • 320 pages

#63

Life's Edge

ByCarl Zimmer

2021 • 16 Readers • 368 pages • 4.7

#64

The Book Thief

ByMarkus Zusak

2005 • 2,407 Readers • 552 pages • 4.3

#65

Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England

ByP. King

2017 • 1 Reader • 221 pages

#66

Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

ByFloris Tomasini

2017 • 103 pages

#67

Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials

ByAlice Roberts

2021 • 17 Readers • 400 pages • 4.5

#68

Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving

ByMo Rocca

2019 • 7 Readers • 12 pages • 4.4

#69

Playing with Fire

ByApril Henry

2021 • 4 Readers • 173 pages

#70

The body in the woods

ByApril Henry

5 Readers • 2.6

#71

Buried

ByAlice Roberts(contributor)

2022 • 9 Readers • 4.3

#72

American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century

ByShannon Lee Dawdy

2021 • 1 Reader • 272 pages • 3

#73

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

ByNick Lane

2022 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

#74

#1 of 5 in Catharine Arnold's London

Necropolis

ByCatharine Arnold

2006 • 6 Readers • 328 pages • 3

#75

The land of open graves

ByJason De León

2015 • 8 Readers • 384 pages • 5

#76

The Knife Man

ByWendy Moore

2005 • 12 Readers • 342 pages • 5

#77

Shocked

ByDavid Casarett

2014 • 2 Readers • 272 pages • 3

#78

When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

ByJoshua D. Mezrich

2019 • 12 Readers • 339 pages • 3

#79

Corpse

ByJessica Snyder Sachs

2001 • 7 Readers • 286 pages • 2.5

#80

How We Die

BySherwin B. Nuland

1994 • 47 Readers • 278 pages • 4.2

#81

Refuge

ByTerry Tempest Williams

1991 • 14 Readers • 314 pages • 3.7

#82

Dark Archives

ByMegan Rosenbloom

2020 • 90 Readers • 288 pages • 3.7

#83

Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death

ByBernd Heinrich

2012 • 9 Readers • 236 pages • 4

#84

Forever People

ByAlison Lyke

2019 • 2 Readers • 215 pages

#85

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

ByNicole Chung

2023 • 56 Readers • 194 pages • 4.4

#86

Don't Drop the Coffin

ByBarry Albin-Dyer,Greg Watts

2002 • 1 Reader • 280 pages

#87

Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience

ByMatthew Ratcliffe

2023 • 1 Reader • 297 pages

#88

Over My Dead Body

ByGreg Melville

2022 • 20 Readers • 3.5

#89

Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life

ByHaider Warraich

2017 • 1 Reader

#90

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

BySusan Cain

2022 • 122 Readers • 296 pages • 3.6

#91

American Zombie Gothic

ByKyle William Bishop

#92

Dead men do tell tales

ByWilliam R. Maples,Michael Browning

1994 • 26 Readers • 304 pages • 3.6

#93

Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection

ByHelen MacDonald

2005 • 1 Reader • 220 pages

#94

In Case You Get Hit by a Bus: How to Organize Your Life Now for When You're Not Around Later

ByAbby Schneiderman,Adam Seifer,+1 more

2020 • 3 Readers • 256 pages

#95

Let's Talk about Death

ByMichael Hebb

2018 • 4 Readers • 256 pages

#96

Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

BySallie Tisdale

2018 • 14 Readers • 256 pages • 4.5

#97

The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors

ByCarla Valentine

2017 • 1 Reader

#98

Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials

ByMichael Kammen

2010 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

#99

Under the Whispering Door

ByTJ Klune

2021 • 989 Readers • 400 pages • 4.1

#100

The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss

ByGeorge A. Bonanno

2009 • 1 Reader • 266 pages

#101

Cranioklepty

ByColin Dickey

2009 • 3 Readers • 320 pages

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