Dying


The Fault in Our Stars
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
When Breath Becomes Air
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
My Sister's Keeper
The End of Your Life Book Club
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Book Thief
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead
Tinkers
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Benediction (Plainsong, #3)
How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live by Joffre McClungWalk On by Stephen PanusThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan DidionA Grief Observed by C.S. LewisA Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Best Books About Grief
406 books — 389 voters
Embraced by the Light by Betty J. EadieA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiThe Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIVJust Be by Suresh RamaswamyHello from Heaven by Bill Guggenheim
Books to read as I lay dying
28 books — 18 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingWhat Moves the Dead by T. KingfisherDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherDeath's Acre by William M. BassThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Dead Titles
784 books — 25 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin DoughtyFrom Here to Eternity by Caitlin DoughtyHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Thanatopsis: Death, Dying, and Mortality
594 books — 268 voters

Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. MaasWinter by Marissa MeyerEmpire of Storms by Sarah J. MaasA Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasLady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
DYING TO READ
967 books — 1,215 voters
Memoir of a Debulked Woman by Susan GubarStardust to Stardust by Erik Olin WrightIllness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan SontagEverything Happens for a Reason by Kate BowlerI Live a Life Like Yours by Jan Grue
Disease Memoirs by Scholars
6 books — 1 voter

Osamu Dazai
I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.
Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

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