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Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 93 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,270 ratings — published
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.49 — 228,307 ratings — published 2014
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.41 — 860,022 ratings — published 2016
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.14 — 267,724 ratings — published 1886
Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 30,258 ratings — published 2012
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.55 — 35,420 ratings — published 2017
Postcolonial Love Poem (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,306 ratings — published 2020
A Thousand Mornings: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.20 — 34,052 ratings — published 2012
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.21 — 113,788 ratings — published 2014
Bright Dead Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.19 — 16,075 ratings — published 2015
The Carrying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,538 ratings — published 2018
Time Is a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.90 — 39,921 ratings — published 2022
The Wild Iris (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.18 — 16,931 ratings — published 1992
Dearly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.76 — 17,410 ratings — published 2020
Life on Mars: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.09 — 11,131 ratings — published 2011
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.29 — 48,792 ratings — published 2017
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.93 — 325,893 ratings — published 2005
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.23 — 340,893 ratings — published 1923
Instructions for Traveling West: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,578 ratings — published
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,124 ratings — published 1973
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.11 — 120,155 ratings — published 1855
The Essential Rumi (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.39 — 52,109 ratings — published 1273
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,537 ratings — published 1994
Poems & Prayers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,604 ratings — published
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,287,908 ratings — published 1997
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.26 — 369,826 ratings — published 2008
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,905,938 ratings — published 2012
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 143,222 ratings — published 2021
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,913 ratings — published 2017
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,942 ratings — published 1969
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,709,339 ratings — published 2020
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.36 — 948,104 ratings — published 1946
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,292,416 ratings — published 2012
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,430 ratings — published 2003
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.85 — 922,698 ratings — published 2005
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.36 — 428,418 ratings — published 2019
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.23 — 17,587 ratings — published 2008
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,900 ratings — published 2014
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.22 — 653,952 ratings — published 2021
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,888 ratings — published 2019
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.80 — 55,126 ratings — published 2018
Dying: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,861 ratings — published 2016
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.31 — 449,401 ratings — published 2016
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,943 ratings — published 49
A Grief Observed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.22 — 103,175 ratings — published 1961
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,547,674 ratings — published 1942
The Measure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.96 — 426,642 ratings — published 2022
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,289 ratings — published 2019
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.42 — 36,653 ratings — published 2017
Gratitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,452 ratings — published 2015
“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”
― Anansi Boys
― Anansi Boys
