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Funeral Books
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Bleachers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 46,622 ratings — published 2003
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 46,660 ratings — published 2017
Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide To Hosting the Perfect Funeral (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 2,497 ratings — published 2005
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 240,323 ratings — published 2003
This is Where I Leave You (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 148,704 ratings — published 2003
Good Mourning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 1,387 ratings — published 2015
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 697 ratings — published 2007
Bellman & Black (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.18 — 20,046 ratings — published 2013
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 935 ratings — published 2013
The Optimist's Daughter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 15,522 ratings — published 1972
Make Me a Monster (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 1,673 ratings — published 2025
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,911 ratings — published 2010
After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #33)
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avg rating 3.92 — 49,522 ratings — published 1953
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,600 ratings — published 2017
The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 99,889 ratings — published 2017
Downfall (Joanna Brady, #17)
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avg rating 4.21 — 8,613 ratings — published 2016
Conduct Gospel-Centered Funerals: Applying the Gospel at the Unique Challenges of Death (Practical Shepherding Series)
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avg rating 4.40 — 239 ratings — published 2011
Top Secret Twenty-One (Stephanie Plum, #21)
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avg rating 3.92 — 67,021 ratings — published 2014
The American Way of Death (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 583 ratings — published 1963
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 128,481 ratings — published 2012
Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 113 ratings — published 2003
Inheritance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.47 — 593 ratings — published 2010
Working Stiff (Revivalist, #1)
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avg rating 3.67 — 4,855 ratings — published 2011
Funeral Planning Basics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 11 ratings — published 2011
Breathing Lessons (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 33,333 ratings — published 1988
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 56,830 ratings — published 2024
Grace & Henry's Holiday Movie Marathon (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 22,086 ratings — published 2025
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
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avg rating 4.44 — 62 ratings — published 2026
If Tomorrow Starts Without Me (Poem)
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avg rating 4.74 — 348 ratings — published
The First Wives Club (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 20,874 ratings — published 1992
His Stolen Princess (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,530 ratings — published 2020
Disconnected from Death: The Evolution of Funerary Customs and the Unmasking of Death in America (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 153 ratings — published
Winter Witness (Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery Book #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 131 ratings — published 2020
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 320,203 ratings — published 2021
The Death of Bunny Munro (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 17,569 ratings — published 2009
Reaper (Boston Underworld, #2)
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avg rating 4.09 — 24,427 ratings — published 2016
Not You Again (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.37 — 564 ratings — published 2025
Car Crash: A Memoir of the Aftermath (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,759 ratings — published
The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)
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avg rating 4.23 — 52,553 ratings — published 2025
Fractured Souls (Perfectly Imperfect, #6)
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avg rating 4.07 — 46,622 ratings — published 2023
Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 1,069 ratings — published 2010
Hope to Die (Alex Cross, #22)
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avg rating 4.22 — 32,911 ratings — published 2014
Fresh Water for Flowers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 123,841 ratings — published 2018
Sounder (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 31,468 ratings — published 1969
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.56 — 449 ratings — published 2015
The Girl from Devil's Lake (Joanna Brady Mysteries)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,367 ratings — published
Darkest Sins (Perfectly Imperfect, #9)
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avg rating 4.12 — 33,536 ratings — published 2024
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 284,936 ratings — published 2007
An Enemy in the Village (Bruno, Chief of Police #18)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,180 ratings — published 2025
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
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“Here's the other thing I think about. It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you are no longer around to reap the joys or benefits of that control. People who make elaborate requests concerning disposition of their bodies are probably people who have trouble with the concept of not existing. [...] I imagine it is a symptom of the fear, the dread, of being gone, of the refusal to accept that you no longer control, or even participate in, anything that happens on earth. I spoke about this with funeral director Kevin McCabe, who believes that decisions concerning the disposition of a body should be mad by the survivors, not the dead. "It's non of their business what happens to them whey the die," he said to me. While I wouldn't go that far, I do understand what he was getting at: that the survivors shouldn't have to do something they're uncomfortable with or ethically opposed to. Mourning and moving on are hard enough. Why add to the burden? If someone wants to arrange a balloon launch of the deceased's ashes into inner space, that's fine. But if it is burdensome or troubling for any reason, then perhaps they shouldn't have to.”
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
