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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 — 4,470 ratings — published
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.49 — 226,562 ratings — published 2014
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.41 — 851,574 ratings — published 2016
Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 30,120 ratings — published 2012
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.55 — 34,443 ratings — published 2017
Postcolonial Love Poem (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,087 ratings — published 2020
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.14 — 257,906 ratings — published 1886
A Thousand Mornings: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.20 — 33,641 ratings — published 2012
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.21 — 112,867 ratings — published 2014
Bright Dead Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,631 ratings — published 2015
The Carrying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,265 ratings — published 2018
Time Is a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.90 — 39,420 ratings — published 2022
The Wild Iris (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,598 ratings — published 1992
Dearly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,130 ratings — published 2020
Life on Mars: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,941 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 — 48,464 ratings — published 2017
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.23 — 338,720 ratings — published 1923
Instructions for Traveling West: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,397 ratings — published
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.93 — 321,587 ratings — published 2005
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.11 — 119,426 ratings — published 1855
The Essential Rumi (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.39 — 51,751 ratings — published 1273
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,910 ratings — published 1973
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,496 ratings — published 1994
Poems & Prayers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.85 — 11,946 ratings — published
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.26 — 368,553 ratings — published 2008
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,877,778 ratings — published 2012
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,270,992 ratings — published 1997
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 140,444 ratings — published 2021
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,825 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 — 27,891 ratings — published 1969
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,667,496 ratings — published 2020
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.37 — 936,248 ratings — published 1946
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,278,576 ratings — published 2012
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.06 — 248,462 ratings — published 2003
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.85 — 911,514 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 4.36 — 424,565 ratings — published 2019
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,550 ratings — published 2019
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.23 — 17,341 ratings — published 2008
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,750 ratings — published 2014
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.22 — 645,646 ratings — published 2021
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.80 — 54,796 ratings — published 2018
Dying: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,838 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 — 49,244 ratings — published 49
A Grief Observed (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.22 — 101,797 ratings — published 1961
The Measure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.96 — 418,553 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 — 12,177 ratings — published 2019
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.32 — 443,209 ratings — published 2016
Gratitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,272 ratings — published 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,998,060 ratings — published 1890
If Cats Disappeared from the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.78 — 160,921 ratings — published 2012
“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”
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