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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 242,896 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.21 avg rating — 110,070 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,065,783 ratings
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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4.30 avg rating — 47,276 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.04 avg rating — 1,252,060 ratings
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,471,328 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,377,959 ratings
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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3.93 avg rating — 308,011 ratings
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The Virgin Suicides
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3.78 avg rating — 421,901 ratings
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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4.21 avg rating — 1,223,368 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.91 avg rating — 1,933,075 ratings
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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4.01 avg rating — 813,688 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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4.49 avg rating — 220,843 ratings
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Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
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3.96 avg rating — 1,176 ratings
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How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
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4.07 avg rating — 9,375 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,237,310 ratings
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
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4.14 avg rating — 233,073 ratings
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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
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4.16 avg rating — 27,704 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 395,738 ratings
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Looking for Alaska
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3.96 avg rating — 1,761,193 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.57 avg rating — 621,799 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,470,245 ratings
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Spoiler Alert: You're Gonna Die
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3.84 avg rating — 277 ratings
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When Breath Becomes Air
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4.41 avg rating — 822,173 ratings
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead
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3.91 avg rating — 6,263 ratings
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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3.60 avg rating — 40,989 ratings
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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4.07 avg rating — 204,436 ratings
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
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4.21 avg rating — 32,850 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,776,504 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 189,252 ratings
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Death of a Salesman
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3.59 avg rating — 261,614 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,912,882 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,053,691 ratings
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Memento Mori
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3.61 avg rating — 7,527 ratings
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Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die – 3,000 Bizarre and Common Causes Alphabetically Cataloged from Actual Accounts
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3.95 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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Veronika Decides to Die
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3.74 avg rating — 244,924 ratings
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A Long Way Down
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3.44 avg rating — 91,975 ratings
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Mortality
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4.12 avg rating — 29,719 ratings
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The American Way of Death Revisited
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3.97 avg rating — 2,645 ratings
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Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 275,009 ratings
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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3.75 avg rating — 1,863 ratings
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A Grief Observed
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4.22 avg rating — 98,142 ratings
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Hiroshima
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4.05 avg rating — 90,777 ratings
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Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
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4.14 avg rating — 697 ratings
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Ordinary People
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3.94 avg rating — 23,328 ratings
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
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4.07 avg rating — 262,931 ratings
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Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs
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4.54 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
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3.81 avg rating — 4,924 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,150,163 ratings
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The Graveyard Book
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4.15 avg rating — 567,880 ratings
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
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4.12 avg rating — 48,417 ratings
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 83,996 ratings
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What Dreams May Come
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3.96 avg rating — 15,179 ratings
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
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3.86 avg rating — 3,222 ratings
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Her Fearful Symmetry
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3.27 avg rating — 96,355 ratings
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Johnny Got His Gun
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4.21 avg rating — 49,352 ratings
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Death Be Not Proud
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3.86 avg rating — 12,959 ratings
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Necropolis: London and Its Dead
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3.78 avg rating — 2,235 ratings
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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
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3.57 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
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4.41 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us
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4.55 avg rating — 453 ratings
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The Dying Game: A Curious History of Death
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4.06 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
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3.97 avg rating — 2,102 ratings
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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
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4.10 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,498,840 ratings
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Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
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4.37 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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3.83 avg rating — 675,681 ratings
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Saying Goodbye: to the people, places, and things in our lives
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4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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3.92 avg rating — 10,074 ratings
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Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death
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3.97 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
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Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
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3.53 avg rating — 508 ratings
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The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge
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3.78 avg rating — 360 ratings
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The Mütter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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4.28 avg rating — 404 ratings
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All the Living and the Dead
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4.25 avg rating — 12,823 ratings
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The Big Book of Death
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4.19 avg rating — 288 ratings
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian epic poem and other texts in Akkadian and Sumerian
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3.76 avg rating — 120,691 ratings
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A Man Called Ove
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4.38 avg rating — 1,235,707 ratings
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Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
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3.76 avg rating — 225 ratings
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'night, Mother
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3.91 avg rating — 12,711 ratings
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Suddenly Last Summer
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3.95 avg rating — 7,834 ratings
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The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
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4.02 avg rating — 3,045 ratings
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Death and Bereavement Across Cultures
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3.71 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
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3.89 avg rating — 2,553 ratings
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
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4.02 avg rating — 150,148 ratings
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
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4.12 avg rating — 46,535 ratings
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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3.84 avg rating — 1,028,911 ratings
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Driving with Dead People
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3.86 avg rating — 5,972 ratings
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Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences
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4.11 avg rating — 175 ratings
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After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses
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3.55 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Coroner's Journal: Stalking Death in Louisiana
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3.99 avg rating — 1,307 ratings
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Good Mourning
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3.61 avg rating — 1,396 ratings
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 386,279 ratings
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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
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3.42 avg rating — 33,940 ratings
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No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life
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4.22 avg rating — 6,392 ratings
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The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages
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4.31 avg rating — 1,871 ratings
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
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3.92 avg rating — 16,225 ratings
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Nox
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4.37 avg rating — 4,081 ratings
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Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
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4.56 avg rating — 522 ratings
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A Modest Proposal
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4.02 avg rating — 49,640 ratings
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The Blackwater Lightship
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3.96 avg rating — 8,957 ratings
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