Deathreads

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When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
5,636 members
313 reviews
4.2
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
10,315 members
291 reviews
3.8
3
A Grief Observed
by C. S. Lewis
8,539 members
95 reviews
4.2
4
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy
5,428 members
153 reviews
4
6
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
by William Styron
3,032 members
82 reviews
3.9
7
The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson
2,994 members
132 reviews
4.1
8
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
by Roland Barthes
2,548 members
19 reviews
4
9
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
by Sogyal Rinpoche
2,503 members
27 reviews
4.2
10
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,368 members
30 reviews
½ 3.5
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How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
by Sherwin B. Nuland
2,164 members
28 reviews
4.1
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The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
2,091 members
27 reviews
4
14
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir
by Roz Chast
1,648 members
119 reviews
½ 4.3
15
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by Michel Foucault
1,267 members
7 reviews
3.9
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
by Julian Barnes
1,259 members
44 reviews
3.8
17
Holy the Firm
by Annie Dillard
1,178 members
19 reviews
4.1
18
Moments of Being
by Virginia Woolf
1,112 members
13 reviews
4.2
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Patrimonio. Una historia verdadera
by Philip Roth
1,073 members
29 reviews
4
20
Levels of Life
by Julian Barnes
1,062 members
71 reviews
3.9
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
by Thomas Lynch
1,007 members
20 reviews
3.8
22
Death: The Final Stage of Growth
by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
992 members
6 reviews
3.8
23
The Crack-Up
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
917 members
10 reviews
3.9
24
The Solace of Open Spaces
by Gretel Ehrlich
866 members
21 reviews
4.1
25
A General Theory of Love
by Thomas Lewis
814 members
6 reviews
4.1
26
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
by Adrienne Rich
789 members
6 reviews
4
27
The Hour of Our Death
by Philippe Ariès
736 members
3 reviews
4.2
28
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
by Hope Edelman
675 members
8 reviews
4.2
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They Came like Swallows
by William Maxwell
608 members
21 reviews
4.1
31
Nox
by Anne Carson
565 members
18 reviews
4.2
32
The Age of Grief
by Jane Smiley
551 members
12 reviews
3.8
33
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
by Vivian Gornick
527 members
12 reviews
3.9
34
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
by Philippe Ariès
465 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
35
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
by Jerome Groopman
412 members
7 reviews
4
36
Kaddish
by Leon Wieseltier
407 members
4 reviews
4.1
38
Final Payments
by Mary Gordon
343 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
39
The Oxford Book of Death
by D. J. Enright
322 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
40
The mourning diary
by Roland Barthes
303 members
4 reviews
4
41
Living Out Loud
by Anna Quindlen
300 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
42
The Long Goodbye: A memoir
by Meghan O'Rourke
297 members
36 reviews
3.9
43
Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir
by Kay Redfield Jamison
274 members
5 reviews
3.8
44
How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies
by Therese A. Rando
232 members
4 reviews
4.1
45
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
by Sarah Manguso
208 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
46
There Is No Good Card for This
by Kelsey Crowe
206 members
6 reviews
3.9
47
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir
by David Rieff
206 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
48
The Art of Losing
by Kevin Young
203 members
20 reviews
4.1
49
Loss: Sadness and Depression
by John Bowlby
200 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
50
Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation
by Rimpoche Nawang Gehlek
195 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
51
Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life
by Colin Murray Parkes
191 members
4 reviews
3
52
Circling My Mother: A Memoir
by Mary Gordon
174 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
53
She Is Me
by Cathleen Schine
174 members
5 reviews
2.8
54
The Rules of Inheritance
by Claire Bidwell Smith
162 members
9 reviews
3.9
56
Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death
by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
135 members
6 reviews
3.8
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Intoxicated by my illness
by Anatole Broyard
134 members
2 reviews
4.2
58
The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks
by Robin Romm
129 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
59
Letters from Motherless Daughters: Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing
by Hope Edelman
123 members
2 reviews
3.9
60
The Dominion of the Dead
by Robert Pogue Harrison
118 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
61
The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression
by Darian Leader
117 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
62
Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve: A Cultural Study
by Sandra M. Gilbert
110 members
1 review
½ 3.5
63
Have You Seen Marie?
by Sandra Cisneros
92 members
9 reviews
3.8
64
Exquisite Pain
by Sophie Calle
87 members
4.2
65
Poems of Mourning (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Peter Washington
80 members
½ 3.7
66
Quest: The Life and Death of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
by Derek Gill
53 members
1 review
4
67
The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
by David Shields
50 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
69
Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
by Sandra M. Gilbert
42 members
1 review
½ 2.7
71
Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died: Coping with Loss Every Day
by Ty Alexander
26 members
4.2
72
Death, grief, and mourning
by Geoffrey Gorer
20 members
5
73
Love And Loss: The Roots Of Grief and Its Complications
by Colin Murray Parkes
18 members
4
74
I Can't Stop Crying: Grief and Recovery, A Compassionate Guide
by John D. Martin
13 members
1 review
½ 3.5
75
Returning Home: Reconnecting with Our Childhoods
by Jerry M. Burger
10 members
½ 4.3
76
All Set for Black, Thanks.: A New Look at Mourning
by Miriam Weinstein
8 members
1 review
4
77
As My Parents Age: Reflections on Life, Love, and Change
by Cynthia Ruchti
7 members
1 review
5