96 books
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4 voters
Mortality Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,820
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.49 — 217,905 ratings — published 2014
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.41 — 807,198 ratings — published 2016
Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 29,531 ratings — published 2012
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.22 — 108,600 ratings — published 2014
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.14 — 223,964 ratings — published 1886
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.30 — 46,674 ratings — published 2017
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.93 — 301,003 ratings — published 2005
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,946 ratings — published 1973
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,726,473 ratings — published 2012
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.26 — 363,697 ratings — published 2008
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,309 ratings — published 1994
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,201,820 ratings — published 1997
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.17 — 126,873 ratings — published 2021
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.37 — 878,386 ratings — published 1946
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,285 ratings — published 2017
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.85 — 854,881 ratings — published 2005
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.37 — 404,592 ratings — published 2019
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,460,066 ratings — published 2020
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 47,860 ratings — published 2019
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,213,833 ratings — published 2012
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.06 — 240,384 ratings — published 2003
Dying: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,721 ratings — published 2016
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,591 ratings — published 1969
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,152 ratings — published 2014
A Grief Observed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.22 — 96,172 ratings — published 1961
The Measure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.97 — 372,958 ratings — published 2022
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,367 ratings — published 2019
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.80 — 53,254 ratings — published 2018
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 45,588 ratings — published 49
Gratitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.17 — 24,437 ratings — published 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,880,357 ratings — published 1890
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,113 ratings — published 2008
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,402,582 ratings — published 1942
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,398 ratings — published 2010
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.01 — 803,898 ratings — published 2003
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.23 — 598,887 ratings — published 2021
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.57 — 7,933 ratings — published 2017
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.26 — 7,631 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,880,378 ratings — published 2005
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.32 — 413,408 ratings — published 2016
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.33 — 123,258 ratings — published 2015
If Cats Disappeared from the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.79 — 133,149 ratings — published 2012
The End of Your Life Book Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.81 — 55,899 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Be Frightened Of (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,882 ratings — published 2008
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.28 — 928,270 ratings — published 2015
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,680 ratings — published 2021
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,913 ratings — published
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.75 — 870,375 ratings — published 2017
Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,301 ratings — published 2018
The Immortalists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.71 — 220,223 ratings — published 2018
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club












