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Death & mortality in nonfiction

These insightful books explore stories of loss and look at how humans have handled death and grief throughout history.

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Cover image for Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave
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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (trans.)

$34.99
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Honey from the Ground

Soren Tae Smith

$29.99
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Memorial Days

Geraldine Brooks

$32.99
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Death of an Ordinary Man

Sarah Perry

$36.99
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Dead and Alive

Zadie Smith

$36.99
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The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

$24.99
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Cover image for Things in Nature Merely Grow
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Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li

$32.99
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I’m Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

$34.99
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The Power of Choice

Julian Kingma

$49.99
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Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

$19.99
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Cover image for Love, Death & Other Scenes
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Love, Death & Other Scenes

Nova Weetman

$34.99
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Graveyards

Roger Luckhurst

$65.99
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Cover image for Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

Jessica Rawson

$36.99
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A Season of Death

Mark Raphael Baker

$29.99
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My Brother Jaz

Gideon Haigh

$24.99
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Cover image for What to Expect When You're Dead
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What to Expect When You’re Dead

Robert Garland

$49.99
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The Trauma Cleaner

Sarah Krasnostein

$24.99
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Cover image for I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death

Maggie O'Farrell

$24.99
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Cover image for History's Strangest Deaths
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History’s Strangest Deaths

Riley Knight

$29.99
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Vessel

Dani Netherclift

$29.99
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Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

$24.99
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The Secret Life of a Cemetery

Benot Gallot

$34.99
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