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Ten+ Books About the Afterlife

Rank Title Author Added

1

by Yasutaka Tsutsui

93 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bluepiano

2

by Connie Willis

2,410 members

84 reviews

3.8

Member: bluepiano

3

My Work is Not Yet Done

by Thomas Ligotti

397 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: bluepiano
Explanations: bluepiano: Dead low-rank executive takes revenge on his fellows. Pap, but an enjoyable enough book to pick up after another lousy day at the office.

4

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

35,956 members

939 reviews

½ 3.7

5

by Dante Alighieri

23,978 members

213 reviews

4.1

6

The Great Divorce

11,825 members

116 reviews

4.2

7

Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

by George Saunders

5,808 members

337 reviews

3.9

8

The Brief History of the Dead

by Kevin Brockmeier

2,560 members

176 reviews

½ 3.6

9

by Iain M. Banks

2,554 members

91 reviews

4

10

What Dreams May Come

by Richard Matheson

1,535 members

38 reviews

3.8

11

by Robert Olen Butler

275 members

17 reviews

½ 3.4

12

by Gabriel Squailia

94 members

2 reviews

3.2

13

Chariot of Fire

20 members

2

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Started: sturlington
June 2017
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