53 books
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15 voters
Mortality Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,820
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.49 — 217,883 ratings — published 2014
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.41 — 807,089 ratings — published 2016
Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 29,528 ratings — published 2012
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.22 — 108,586 ratings — published 2014
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.14 — 223,904 ratings — published 1886
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.30 — 46,670 ratings — published 2017
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.93 — 300,951 ratings — published 2005
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.05 — 15,944 ratings — published 1973
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,726,036 ratings — published 2012
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.26 — 363,684 ratings — published 2008
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,309 ratings — published 1994
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,201,664 ratings — published 1997
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.17 — 126,843 ratings — published 2021
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.37 — 878,262 ratings — published 1946
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,284 ratings — published 2017
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.85 — 854,791 ratings — published 2005
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.37 — 404,540 ratings — published 2019
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,459,606 ratings — published 2020
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 47,854 ratings — published 2019
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,213,676 ratings — published 2012
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.06 — 240,358 ratings — published 2003
Dying: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,720 ratings — published 2016
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,590 ratings — published 1969
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,152 ratings — published 2014
A Grief Observed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.22 — 96,159 ratings — published 1961
The Measure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.97 — 372,841 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 4.10 — 11,365 ratings — published 2019
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.80 — 53,254 ratings — published 2018
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 45,583 ratings — published 49
Gratitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.17 — 24,434 ratings — published 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,880,117 ratings — published 1890
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,110 ratings — published 2008
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,402,322 ratings — published 1942
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.34 — 114,386 ratings — published 2010
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.01 — 803,827 ratings — published 2003
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.23 — 598,752 ratings — published 2021
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.57 — 7,931 ratings — published 2017
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.26 — 7,631 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,880,145 ratings — published 2005
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.32 — 413,341 ratings — published 2016
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.33 — 123,238 ratings — published 2015
If Cats Disappeared from the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.79 — 133,073 ratings — published 2012
The End of Your Life Book Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.81 — 55,896 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Be Frightened Of (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,882 ratings — published 2008
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.28 — 928,076 ratings — published 2015
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,673 ratings — published 2021
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,913 ratings — published
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.75 — 870,274 ratings — published 2017
Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,301 ratings — published 2018
The Immortalists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.71 — 220,214 ratings — published 2018
“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory












