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Memento Mori Books
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.22 — 106,120 ratings — published 2014
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.30 — 45,705 ratings — published 2017
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.06 — 236,300 ratings — published 2003
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.41 — 779,415 ratings — published 2016
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.56 — 446 ratings — published 2015
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,001 ratings — published 2022
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,841 ratings — published 2019
Death: A Graveside Companion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.49 — 359 ratings — published 2017
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.14 — 211,063 ratings — published 1886
Emperor of Havoc (Memento Mori, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,748 ratings — published 2025
Emperor of Lust (Memento Mori, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,948 ratings — published 2024
Emperor of Rage (Memento Mori, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,358 ratings — published 2024
Sutil persuasión (Memento Mori nº 2) (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.82 — 302 ratings — published
Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.54 — 835 ratings — published 2013
Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.56 — 510 ratings — published 2011
Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.14 — 823 ratings — published 2004
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,095 ratings — published 2013
Emperor of Wrath (Memento Mori, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,245 ratings — published 2024
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,438 ratings — published 1973
Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.12 — 29,218 ratings — published 2012
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,559 ratings — published 2020
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.49 — 213,243 ratings — published 2014
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,110 ratings — published 2018
Placeres violentos (Memento mori, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.66 — 607 ratings — published
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.95 — 169 ratings — published 2015
Spoiler Alert: You're Gonna Die (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.86 — 271 ratings — published
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,217 ratings — published 1994
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.26 — 27,034 ratings — published 2014
Necropolis: London and Its Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,224 ratings — published 2006
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,321 ratings — published 2005
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.14 — 690 ratings — published 2007
Kokoro (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,447 ratings — published 1914
Kiss of the Necromancer (Memento Mori, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.00 — 766 ratings — published 2021
Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,510 ratings — published 2024
Meditations on Death: Preparing for Eternity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.57 — 180 ratings — published
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.12 — 309,478 ratings — published 2021
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,400 ratings — published 2023
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,356,844 ratings — published 1985
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.16 — 974,844 ratings — published 1992
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.31 — 21,933 ratings — published 2017
Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas (Comics)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.16 — 79,011 ratings — published 1995
Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.35 — 972 ratings — published
Underworld (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.42 — 19 ratings — published
Skulls: Portraits of the Dead and the Stories They Tell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.13 — 71 ratings — published
Dulce pecado (Memento Mori nº 3) (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.96 — 211 ratings — published
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.81 — 49,882 ratings — published 2015
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,770 ratings — published 2017
A Very Easy Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,620 ratings — published 1964
If Cats Disappeared from the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.79 — 119,874 ratings — published 2012
A Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as memento-mori)
avg rating 3.44 — 90,944 ratings — published 2005
“Incidentally, do you ever think of your own death?
For a while now it’s been a daily companion of mine.
Why is that?
I’m over seventy years old and the thread of life I have left on the reel isn’t long. I’m not going to live another seventy, and I’m starting to consider the fact that I have to leave everything behind. But I take it as something that’s normal. I’m not sad. It makes me want to be fair with everyone always, to sign the final flourish. Mind you, it’s never occurred to me to make a will. But death is in my thoughts every day.”
― Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words
For a while now it’s been a daily companion of mine.
Why is that?
I’m over seventy years old and the thread of life I have left on the reel isn’t long. I’m not going to live another seventy, and I’m starting to consider the fact that I have to leave everything behind. But I take it as something that’s normal. I’m not sad. It makes me want to be fair with everyone always, to sign the final flourish. Mind you, it’s never occurred to me to make a will. But death is in my thoughts every day.”
― Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words
“I am never able to forget the possibility of block. Paradoxically, it drives my writing—compelling me to put aside everything else because of the possibility that today may be the last day I will ever be able to write. It’s another way writer’s block is sometimes not the opposite of hypergraphia but the cause. Perhaps writers could reclaim the concept of block as Saint Jerome in his study used a memento mori (a skull, or an hourglass with the sands of time slipping away) to drive his work, in those lovely Renaissance paintings”
― The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
― The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
