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Mortuary Science Books
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 113,939 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,747 ratings — published 2003
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 48,863 ratings — published 2017
Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 106 ratings — published 1982
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,907 ratings — published 2003
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 29,498 ratings — published 2014
The American Way of Death Revisited (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,705 ratings — published 1963
Pathology And Microbiology For Mortuary Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 38 ratings — published 2005
Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,488 ratings — published 2018
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 701 ratings — published 2007
History of Embalming, and of Preparations in Anatomy, Pathology, and Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.62 — 13 ratings — published 2007
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,750 ratings — published 2022
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,634 ratings — published 2017
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,954 ratings — published 2019
Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,597 ratings — published 2010
Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,076 ratings — published 2010
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,266 ratings — published 1997
Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 640 ratings — published 2001
Thanatochemistry: A Survey Of General, Organic, And Biochemistry For Funeral Service Professionals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.36 — 11 ratings — published 1997
Preserving the Dead: The Art and Science of Embalming (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,168 ratings — published 2018
Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.55 — 910 ratings — published 2014
Considering a Career in Mortuary Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1995
The American Way of Death (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 602 ratings — published 1963
The Art and Science of Embalming: Descriptive and Operative (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.83 — 6 ratings — published 2010
Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,714 ratings — published 2024
Microbiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 450 ratings — published 1958
Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,308 ratings — published 2023
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,871 ratings — published 2022
Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice, Sixth Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 20 ratings — published
Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 92 ratings — published 2002
A Graveyard Preservation Primer (American Association for State and Local History)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 68 ratings — published 1988
Restorative art and science (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 23 ratings — published 2002
To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 21 ratings — published 2010
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,981 ratings — published 2020
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,011 ratings — published 2025
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,032 ratings — published 2021
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,407 ratings — published 2010
Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,155 ratings — published 2019
Good Mourning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,420 ratings — published 2015
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.49 — 228,610 ratings — published 2014
Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.43 — 2,735 ratings — published 2024
Technologies of the Human Corpse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.62 — 118 ratings — published
Now Departing: A Small-Town Mortician on Death, Life, and the Moments in Between (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 666 ratings — published 2025
The Resurrectionist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,125 ratings — published 2024
Choosing a Career in Mortuary Science and the Funeral Industry (World of Work)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.18 — 11 ratings — published 2001
Mortuary Science: A Sourcebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published 1993
Morgue: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,121 ratings — published 2016
The Principles and Practice of Embalming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1967
Tales from the Morgue: Forensic Answers to Nine Famous Cases Including The Scott Peterson & Chandra Levy Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 445 ratings — published 2005