Deathreads

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When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
6,856 members
339 reviews
4.2
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
12,168 members
330 reviews
3.9
3
A Grief Observed
by C. S. Lewis
10,093 members
110 reviews
4.2
4
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy
4,605 members
163 reviews
4
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The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson
3,801 members
157 reviews
4.1
7
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
by William Styron
3,352 members
87 reviews
3.9
8
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
by Roland Barthes
2,942 members
22 reviews
4
9
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
by Sogyal Rinpoche
2,767 members
29 reviews
4.1
10
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,576 members
33 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
2,531 members
33 reviews
4
12
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
by Sherwin B. Nuland
2,383 members
30 reviews
4.1
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust
2,106 members
54 reviews
4
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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? A Memoir
by Roz Chast
1,881 members
132 reviews
½ 4.3
15
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by Michel Foucault
1,462 members
11 reviews
3.9
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
by Julian Barnes
1,369 members
46 reviews
3.8
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Holy the Firm
by Annie Dillard
1,290 members
24 reviews
4.1
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Moments of Being
by Virginia Woolf
1,255 members
13 reviews
4.2
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Levels of Life
by Julian Barnes
1,206 members
78 reviews
3.9
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Patrimony: A True Story
by Philip Roth
1,182 members
30 reviews
4.1
21
Death: The Final Stage of Growth
by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
1,096 members
7 reviews
3.9
22
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
by Thomas Lynch
1,079 members
21 reviews
3.8
23
The Solace of Open Spaces
by Gretel Ehrlich
1,011 members
23 reviews
4.1
24
The Crack-Up
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1,011 members
11 reviews
3.9
25
A General Theory of Love
by Thomas Lewis
910 members
8 reviews
4.1
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
by Adrienne Rich
890 members
8 reviews
4
27
The Hour of Our Death
by Philippe Ariès
829 members
5 reviews
4.2
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Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
by Hope Edelman
763 members
9 reviews
4.2
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Nox
by Anne Carson
690 members
20 reviews
4.2
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They Came Like Swallows
by William Maxwell
688 members
29 reviews
4
32
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
by Megan Devine
678 members
12 reviews
½ 4.3
33
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
by Vivian Gornick
664 members
15 reviews
3.9
34
The Age of Grief
by Jane Smiley
602 members
12 reviews
3.8
35
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
by Philippe Ariès
544 members
4 reviews
3.8
36
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
by Jerome Groopman
451 members
7 reviews
4
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Kaddish
by Leon Wieseltier
449 members
4 reviews
4.1
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Final Payments
by Mary Gordon
373 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
39
The mourning diary
by Roland Barthes
368 members
7 reviews
3.9
40
The Oxford Book of Death
by D. J. Enright
355 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
41
The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
by Meghan O'Rourke
334 members
40 reviews
3.9
42
Living Out Loud
by Anna Quindlen
319 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
43
Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir
by Kay Redfield Jamison
317 members
7 reviews
3.8
44
How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies
by Therese A. Rando
268 members
4 reviews
4.1
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There Is No Good Card for This
by Kelsey Crowe
248 members
5 reviews
3.9
46
The Art of Losing
by Kevin Young
238 members
22 reviews
4.1
47
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
by Sarah Manguso
238 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
48
Loss: Sadness and Depression
by John Bowlby
230 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
49
Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir
by David Rieff
222 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
50
Good Life, Good Death: Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation
by Rimpoche Nawang Gehlek
219 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
51
Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life
by Colin Murray Parkes
214 members
4 reviews
3
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She Is Me
by Cathleen Schine
183 members
5 reviews
½ 2.7
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Circling My Mother: A Memoir
by Mary Gordon
178 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Rules of Inheritance
by Claire Bidwell Smith
170 members
9 reviews
3.9
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Intoxicated by my illness
by Anatole Broyard
151 members
3 reviews
4
57
The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression
by Darian Leader
143 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
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Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death
by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
141 members
6 reviews
3.8
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The Dominion of the Dead
by Robert Pogue Harrison
139 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
60
The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks
by Robin Romm
133 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
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Letters from Motherless Daughters: Words of Courage, Grief, and Healing
by Hope Edelman
130 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve: A Cultural Study
by Sandra M. Gilbert
120 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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Have You Seen Marie?
by Sandra Cisneros
105 members
10 reviews
3.8
64
Exquisite Pain
by Sophie Calle
94 members
4.2
65
Poems of Mourning (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Peter Washington
90 members
½ 3.7
67
Quest: The Life and Death of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
by Derek Gill
60 members
1 review
4
68
The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
by David Shields
54 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
69
Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
by Sandra M. Gilbert
45 members
1 review
½ 2.7
71
Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died: Coping with Loss Every Day
by Ty Alexander
33 members
4.2
72
Death, grief, and mourning
by Geoffrey Gorer
23 members
5
73
I Can't Stop Crying: Grief and Recovery, A Compassionate Guide
by John D. Martin
19 members
1 review
½ 3.5
74
Love and Loss: The Roots of Grief and its Complications
by Colin Murray Parkes
18 members
4
75
As My Parents Age: Reflections on Life, Love, and Change
by Cynthia Ruchti
12 members
1 review
5
76
Returning Home: Reconnecting with Our Childhoods
by Jerry M. Burger
10 members
½ 4.3
77
All Set for Black, Thanks.: A New Look at Mourning
by Miriam Weinstein
8 members
1 review
4