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The Power of Now by Eckhart TolleFrom Darkness Into Light by A. HelwaSecrets of Divine Love by A. HelwaThe Four Agreements by Miguel RuizEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Healing & Spirituality
951 books — 1,266 voters
Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. MaasWinter by Marissa MeyerEmpire of Storms by Sarah J. MaasA Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasLady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
DYING TO READ
964 books — 1,215 voters

The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldIf I Stay by Gayle FormanElsewhere by Gabrielle ZevinBefore I Fall by Lauren OliverA Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
YA Post-Death Novels
191 books — 388 voters
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionA Grief Observed by C.S. LewisA Monster Calls by Patrick NessThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Best Books About Grief
351 books — 266 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyHamlet by William ShakespeareFrom Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtyThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
582 books — 264 voters
Lost and Found by Jennifer Bryan YarbroughThe Living Memories Project by Meryl AinCome As You Are by G. Scott GrahamThe Cost of Hope by Amanda BennettDon't Cry, Pappa by Gunnar E. Skollingsberg
Recovering from Grief and Loss
158 books — 174 voters

The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakStiff by Mary RoachCome As You Are by G. Scott Graham
Death - Fiction and Non-Fiction
229 books — 91 voters
Oliver Twist by Charles DickensA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsRebecca by Daphne du MaurierGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Death of a Parent in Fiction
412 books — 60 voters

Year of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksDoomsday Book by Connie WillisWorld Without End by Ken FollettForever Amber by Kathleen WinsorThe Plague by Albert Camus
Bubonic Plague
96 books — 58 voters
The Parrot's Tale by Miller CaldwellGoodbye, Rebel Blue by Shelley CoriellBetter by Carey HeywoodThe F-It List by Julie HalpernSince You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
The Bucket List
45 books — 49 voters

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenA Monster Calls by Patrick NessNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Fiction Books About Grief, Death and Loss
244 books — 42 voters
If I Stay by Gayle FormanThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherThe Beginning of After by Jennifer CastleLovely, Dark and Deep by Amy McNamaraAmy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
YA with Car Accidents
154 books — 39 voters

2003 - Thanks for the Vodka by HarpieA Rather Unusual Romance by Stevie TurnerThe Orphan Conspiracies by James MorcanThe Right To The Truth by I.C. PapachristosYou Can't Drive Your Car to Your Own Funeral by Ann Marie Hancock
Medical Humanities
155 books — 33 voters
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy1984 by George OrwellAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
I Won't Die Before I Read These:
82 books — 30 voters

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonThe Thing About Jellyfish by Ali BenjaminOlive's Ocean by Kevin HenkesA Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan SmithMick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park
Death of a Child in Middle Grade Fiction
117 books — 28 voters
And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieOne by One by Ruth WareThe Guest List by Lucy FoleyMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieFive Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
Group in Isolation But There is a Killer Among Them
32 books — 28 voters

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldHer Fearful Symmetry by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Secrets We Keep by Trisha LeaverHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingOne by Sarah Crossan
Twin Loss Fiction
99 books — 22 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingWhat Moves the Dead by T. KingfisherDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherDeath's Acre by William M. BassDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Dead Titles
763 books — 22 voters

Future Widow by Jenny LiskOwn Your Care by Jeanne LeeWhen Evening Comes by Christine AndreaeSort of Forever by Sally WarnerOn Living by Kerry Egan
Hospice
19 books — 18 voters
Embraced by the Light by Betty J. EadieA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiThe Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIVJust Be by Suresh RamaswamyHello from Heaven by Bill Guggenheim
Books to read as I lay dying
27 books — 17 voters

Charlie and Chocolate's Furry Forgiveness by J. Suthern HicksCharlie and Chocolate's Purrfect Prayer by J. Suthern HicksSomething Very Sad Happened by Bonnie ZuckerThe End of Something Wonderful by Stephanie V.W. LucianovicDog Heaven by Cynthia Rylant
Grief and Death for Young Kids
39 books — 14 voters
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinA Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. SchwabChildren of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Magic is Dying/Fading/Disappearing
21 books — 8 voters

Breathing Room by Marsha HaylesRiver Runs Deep by Jennifer BradburyThe Secret Horses of Briar Hill by Megan ShepherdQueen of Hearts by Martha BrooksThe Year of My Indian Prince by Ella Thorp Ellis
Tuberculosis in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
21 books — 6 voters
Circe by Madeline MillerFrom Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtyWho Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curi... by Jacob M. AppelYou'll Leave This World With Your Butt Sewn Shut by Robyn GrimmMiracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado
Books for When You've Seen Too Many Corpses
23 books — 4 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Work of the Dead by Thomas W. LaqueurYou'll Leave This World With Your Butt Sewn Shut by Robyn GrimmPassed On by Karla F.C. HollowaySevered by Frances Larson
The Order of the Good Death Reading List
96 books — 4 voters
Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaolaMy Grandson Lew by Charlotte ZolotowSadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor CoerrBadger's Parting Gifts by Susan VarleyThe Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst
Youth Services Recommendations: Books About Death and Dying for Younger Kids
37 books — 3 voters

Foundation by Isaac AsimovThe Long Night by Poul AndersonImperial Sunset by Eric ThomsonDawn by Yoshiki TanakaImperial Twilight by Eric Thomson
Decaying Galactic empires
15 books — 2 voters
If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki KawamuraCloser to the Light by Melvin MorseInto the Gray Zone by Adrian OwenThe Afterlife of Billy Fingers by Annie KaganThe Undead by Dick Teresi
Death
6 books — 1 voter

Should We Go Extinct? by Todd MayWill My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead B... by Caitlin DoughtyDeath Nesting by Anne-Marie KeppelDeath Interrupted by Blair BighamThis Is Assisted Dying by Stefanie Green
Death Cafe Picks
10 books — 1 voter
H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionGrief Is for People by Sloane CrosleyCrying in H Mart by Michelle ZaunerIt's Okay to Laugh by Nora McInerny Purmort
Books about Grief and Death
23 books — 1 voter

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