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#2
The Hour of Our Death
The Hour of Our Death
  • Philippe Ariès
42 reads
#3
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
  • Philippe Ariès
00 reads
#4
Death's Acre
Death's Acre
  • William M. Bass
  • Jon Jefferson
417 reads
#5
The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death
  • Ernest Becker
3.3629 reads
#6
Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation
Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation
  • Paul Binski
00 reads
#7
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
  • Kate Bowler
3.6448 reads
#8
Cover 2

Engaging with the Dead

Engaging with the Dead: Exploring Changing Human Beliefs about Death, Mortality and the Human Body
    00 reads
    #9
    Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
    Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
    • Arthur T. Bradley
    00 reads
    #10
    Going Bovine
    Going Bovine
    • Libba Bray
    3.841 reads
    #11
    Unremembered
    Unremembered
    • Jessica Brody
    3.756 reads
    #12
    The Phantom Twin
    The Phantom Twin
    • Lisa Brown
    3.4112 reads
    #13
    To Stay Alive
    To Stay Alive
    • Skila Brown
    41 read
    #14
    Fox song
    Fox song
    • Joseph Bruchac
    00 reads
    #15
    All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
    All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
    • Hayley Campbell
    4.332 reads
    #16
    Dying to Eat
    Dying to Eat
    • Candi K. Cann
    00 reads
    #17
    Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial
    Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial
    • Penny Colman
    31 read
    #18
    Stealing Lincoln's Body
    Stealing Lincoln's Body
    • Thomas J. Craughwell
    00 reads
    #19
    How to Stop Living and Start Worrying: Conversations with Carl Cederstrm
    How to Stop Living and Start Worrying: Conversations with Carl Cederstrm
    • Simon Critchley
    • Carl Cederström
    00 reads
    #20
    The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom
    The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom
    • Lydia S. Dugdale
    00 reads
    #21
    Dead Mountain
    Dead Mountain
    • Donnie Eichar
    3.7439 reads
    #22
    Gory Details
    Gory Details
    • Erika Engelhaupt
    4.2312 reads
    #23
    This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
    This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
    • Drew Gilpin Faust
    3.818 reads
    #24
    The Mothers
    The Mothers
    • Vardis Fisher
    00 reads
    #25
    Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
    Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
    • Atul Gawande
    4.48194 reads
    #26
    Playing Dead
    Playing Dead
    • Elizabeth Greenwood
    3.5512 reads
    #27
    At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die
    At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die
      41 read
      #28
      Queer Necropolitics
      Queer Necropolitics
        00 reads
        #29
        Cover 3

        Mortuary Confidential

        Mortuary Confidential:: Undertakers Spill the Dirt
        • Todd Harra
        • Ken McKenzie
        00 reads
        #30
        Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
        Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
        • Mark Harris
        00 reads
        #31
        Death Is Stupid
        Death Is Stupid
        • Anastasia Higginbotham
        54 reads
        #32
        The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
        The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
        • Anthony Ray Hinton
        • Lara Love Hardin
        4.5153 reads
        #33
        Cover 5

        A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics

        A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830-1920
        • Mark Honigsbaum
        00 reads
        #34
        Death
        Death
        • Shelly Kagan
        3.173 reads
        #35
        When Breath Becomes Air
        When Breath Becomes Air
        • Paul Kalanithi
        4.37551 reads
        #36
        Death, Society, and Human Experience
        Death, Society, and Human Experience
        • Robert J. Kastenbaum
        • Christopher M. Moreman
        00 reads
        #37
        Cover 1

        Empire of Death

        Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
        • Paul Koudounaris
        51 read
        #38
        Memento Mori
        Memento Mori
        • Paul Koudounaris
        52 reads
        #39
        Into the Wild
        Into the Wild
        • Jon Krakauer
        • Christopher Johnson McCandless
        3.83661 reads
        #40
        Work of the Dead
        Work of the Dead
        • Thomas W. Laqueur
        00 reads
        #41
        The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
        The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
        • Jill Lepore
        00 reads
        #42
        The Gracekeepers
        The Gracekeepers
        • Kirsty Logan
        3.0314 reads
        #43
        Rest in Pieces
        Rest in Pieces
        • Bess Lovejoy
        01 read
        #44
        The Undertaking
        The Undertaking
        • Thomas Lynch
        31 read
        #45
        With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
        With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
        • Kathryn Mannix
        4.4413 reads
        #46
        Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
        Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
        • Judy Melinek
        • T.J. Mitchell
        3.9343 reads
        #47
        The American Way of Death Revisited
        The American Way of Death Revisited
        • Jessica Mitford
        3.673 reads
        #48
        The Lady and Her Monsters
        The Lady and Her Monsters
        • Roseanne Montillo
        2.754 reads
        #49
        Into the Gray Zone
        Into the Gray Zone
        • Adrian Owen
        4.252 reads
        #50
        Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America
        Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America
        • Stephen R. Prothero
        00 reads
        #51
        The Lady of Sing Sing: An American Countess, an Italian Immigrant, and Their Epic Battle for Justice in New York's Gilded Age
        The Lady of Sing Sing: An American Countess, an Italian Immigrant, and Their Epic Battle for Justice in New York's Gilded Age
        • Idanna Pucci
        00 reads
        #52
        That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
        That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
        • Sunita Puri
        41 read
        #53
        Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
        Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
        • Mary Roach
        3.5266 reads
        #54
        Cover 3

        Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician

        Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician
        • Matthew Franklin Sias
        00 reads
        #55
        Cover 8

        The Removalist

        The Removalist: On the Front Line of Death Care
        • Matthew Franklin Sias
        00 reads
        #56
        Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
        Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
        • Joe Simpson
        4.0349 reads
        #57
        Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death
        Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death
        • Joshua Slocum
        • Lisa Carlson
        00 reads
        #58
        Cover 8

        The Worm at the Core

        The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
        • Sheldon Solomon
        • Jeff Greenberg
        • Tom Pyszczynski
        01 read
        #59
        Dying
        Dying
        • Cory Taylor
        3.579 reads
        #60
        Cover 1

        Casket Chronicles

        Casket Chronicles: Living and Working in a Funeral Home is not What You Might Think
        • T.A. Walters
        00 reads
        #61
        Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
        Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
        • Michelle Williams
        4.25 reads
        #62
        Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
        Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
        • Irvin D. Yalom
        01 read
        #63
        Life's Edge
        Life's Edge
        • Carl Zimmer
        4.56 reads
        #64
        The Book Thief
        The Book Thief
        • Markus Zusak
        4.321,544 reads
        #65
        Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England
        Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England
        • P. King
        00 reads
        #66
        Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
        Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
        • Floris Tomasini
        00 reads
        #67
        Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
        Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
        • Alice Roberts
        4.2910 reads
        #68
        Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
        Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
        • Mo Rocca
        4.45 reads
        #69
        Playing with Fire
        Playing with Fire
        • April Henry
        00 reads
        #70
        The body in the woods
        The body in the woods
        • April Henry
        2.586 reads
        #71
        Buried
        Buried
          4.254 reads
          #72
          American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
          American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
          • Shannon Lee Dawdy
          31 read
          #73
          Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
          Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
          • Nick Lane
          00 reads
          #74
          Necropolis
          Necropolis
          • Catharine Arnold
          31 read
          #75
          The land of open graves
          The land of open graves
          • Jason De León
          54 reads
          #76
          The Knife Man
          The Knife Man
          • Wendy Moore
          4.54 reads
          #77
          Shocked
          Shocked
          • David Casarett
          3.754 reads
          #78
          When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
          When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
          • Joshua D. Mezrich
          33 reads
          #79
          Corpse
          Corpse
          • Jessica Snyder Sachs
          2.672 reads
          #80
          How We Die
          How We Die
          • Sherwin B. Nuland
          410 reads
          #81
          Refuge
          Refuge
          • Terry Tempest Williams
          3.676 reads
          #82
          Dark Archives
          Dark Archives
          • Megan Rosenbloom
          3.8121 reads
          #83
          Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
          Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
          • Bernd Heinrich
          44 reads
          #84
          Forever People
          Forever People
          • Alison Lyke
          00 reads
          #85
          A Living Remedy: A Memoir
          A Living Remedy: A Memoir
          • Nicole Chung
          4.49 reads
          #86
          Don't Drop the Coffin
          Don't Drop the Coffin
          • Barry Albin-Dyer
          • Greg Watts
          00 reads
          #87
          Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience
          Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience
          • Matthew Ratcliffe
          00 reads
          #88
          Over My Dead Body
          Over My Dead Body
          • Greg Melville
          3.56 reads
          #89
          Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
          Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
          • Haider Warraich
          4.52 reads
          #90
          Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
          Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
          • Susan Cain
          3.6438 reads
          #91
          American Zombie Gothic
          American Zombie Gothic
          • Kyle William Bishop
          00 reads
          #92
          Dead men do tell tales
          Dead men do tell tales
          • William R. Maples
          • Michael Browning
          3.58 reads
          #93
          Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection
          Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection
          • Helen MacDonald
          00 reads
          #94
          In Case You Get Hit by a Bus: How to Organize Your Life Now for When You're Not Around Later
          In Case You Get Hit by a Bus: How to Organize Your Life Now for When You're Not Around Later
          • Abby Schneiderman
          • Adam Seifer
          • Gene Newman
          02 reads
          #95
          Let's Talk about Death
          Let's Talk about Death
          • Michael Hebb
          00 reads
          #96
          Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
          Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
          • Sallie Tisdale
          45 reads
          #97
          The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
          The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
          • Carla Valentine
          00 reads
          #98
          Cover 3

          Digging Up the Dead

          Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials
          • Michael Kammen
          00 reads
          #99
          Under the Whispering Door
          Under the Whispering Door
          • TJ Klune
          4.09485 reads
          #100
          The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss
          The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss
          • George A. Bonanno
          00 reads
          #101
          Cranioklepty
          Cranioklepty
          • Colin Dickey
          00 reads