Deathreads

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When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
6,809 members
338 reviews
4.2
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
12,106 members
329 reviews
3.9
3
A Grief Observed
by C. S. Lewis
10,003 members
108 reviews
4.2
4
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy
4,550 members
160 reviews
4
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The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson
3,723 members
155 reviews
4.1
7
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
by William Styron
3,342 members
86 reviews
3.9
8
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
by Roland Barthes
2,918 members
22 reviews
4
9
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
by Sogyal Rinpoche
2,761 members
29 reviews
4.1
10
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,566 members
33 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
2,514 members
33 reviews
4
12
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
by Sherwin B. Nuland
2,375 members
29 reviews
4.1
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust
2,096 members
54 reviews
4
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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? A Memoir
by Roz Chast
1,866 members
130 reviews
½ 4.3
15
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by Michel Foucault
1,442 members
11 reviews
3.9
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
by Julian Barnes
1,363 members
46 reviews
3.8
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Holy the Firm
by Annie Dillard
1,286 members
23 reviews
4.1
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Moments of Being
by Virginia Woolf
1,242 members
13 reviews
4.2
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Levels of Life
by Julian Barnes
1,204 members
78 reviews
3.9
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Patrimony: A True Story
by Philip Roth
1,180 members
30 reviews
4.1
21
Death: The Final Stage of Growth
by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
1,092 members
7 reviews
3.9
22
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
by Thomas Lynch
1,077 members
21 reviews
3.8
23
The Solace of Open Spaces
by Gretel Ehrlich
1,016 members
23 reviews
4.1
24
The Crack-Up
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1,007 members
11 reviews
3.9
25
A General Theory of Love
by Thomas Lewis
900 members
7 reviews
4.1
26
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
by Adrienne Rich
884 members
8 reviews
4
27
The Hour of Our Death
by Philippe Ariès
824 members
5 reviews
4.2
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Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
by Hope Edelman
755 members
9 reviews
4.2
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They Came Like Swallows
by William Maxwell
686 members
29 reviews
4
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Nox
by Anne Carson
682 members
20 reviews
4.2
32
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
by Megan Devine
662 members
11 reviews
½ 4.3
33
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
by Vivian Gornick
662 members
15 reviews
3.9
34
The Age of Grief
by Jane Smiley
598 members
12 reviews
3.8
35
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
by Philippe Ariès
543 members
4 reviews
3.8
36
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
by Jerome Groopman
450 members
7 reviews
4
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Kaddish
by Leon Wieseltier
449 members
4 reviews
4.1
38
Final Payments
by Mary Gordon
372 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
39
The mourning diary
by Roland Barthes
366 members
7 reviews
3.9
40
The Oxford Book of Death
by D. J. Enright
353 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
41
The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
by Meghan O'Rourke
333 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
313 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
45
There Is No Good Card for This
by Kelsey Crowe
245 members
5 reviews
3.9
46
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
by Sarah Manguso
238 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
47
The Art of Losing
by Kevin Young
237 members
22 reviews
4.1
48
Loss: Sadness and Depression
by John Bowlby
229 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
218 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
51
Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life
by Colin Murray Parkes
211 members
4 reviews
3
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She Is Me
by Cathleen Schine
182 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
55
The Rules of Inheritance
by Claire Bidwell Smith
169 members
9 reviews
3.9
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Intoxicated by my illness
by Anatole Broyard
150 members
3 reviews
4
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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 New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression
by Darian Leader
141 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Dominion of the Dead
by Robert Pogue Harrison
136 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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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
129 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
121 members
1 review
½ 3.5
63
Have You Seen Marie?
by Sandra Cisneros
102 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
91 members
½ 3.7
67
Quest: The Life and Death of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
by Derek Gill
58 members
1 review
4
68
The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death
by David Shields
53 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
69
Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
by Sandra M. Gilbert
44 members
1 review
½ 2.7
71
Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died: Coping with Loss Every Day
by Ty Alexander
32 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
78
All Set for Black, Thanks.: A New Look at Mourning
by Miriam Weinstein
8 members
1 review
4