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Mortality Books
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.49 — 220,812 ratings — published 2014
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.41 — 822,056 ratings — published 2016
Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 29,717 ratings — published 2012
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.14 — 232,983 ratings — published 1886
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.21 — 110,058 ratings — published 2014
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.93 — 307,934 ratings — published 2005
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.30 — 47,273 ratings — published 2017
The Denial of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,246 ratings — published 1973
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,374 ratings — published 1994
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,776,142 ratings — published 2012
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.26 — 365,428 ratings — published 2008
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 — 1,223,196 ratings — published 1997
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.17 — 131,555 ratings — published 2021
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.37 — 897,767 ratings — published 1946
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.30 — 19,471 ratings — published 2017
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.85 — 873,436 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 — 411,460 ratings — published 2019
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,526,971 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 — 48,414 ratings — published 2019
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,702 ratings — published 1969
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,351 ratings — published 2014
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,235,506 ratings — published 2012
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.06 — 242,879 ratings — published 2003
Dying: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,753 ratings — published 2016
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.23 — 16,484 ratings — published 2008
The Measure (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.96 — 389,292 ratings — published 2022
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.23 — 615,208 ratings — published 2021
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 — 11,665 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 — 53,736 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 — 46,834 ratings — published 49
Gratitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.17 — 24,710 ratings — published 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,919,094 ratings — published 1890
A Grief Observed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.22 — 98,119 ratings — published 1961
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,439,686 ratings — published 1942
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.34 — 115,626 ratings — published 2010
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.01 — 813,607 ratings — published 2003
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 — 8,146 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 — 7,679 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,912,599 ratings — published 2005
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.32 — 423,062 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 — 127,652 ratings — published 2015
If Cats Disappeared from the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.79 — 142,157 ratings — published 2012
The End of Your Life Book Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.81 — 56,075 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Be Frightened Of (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,923 ratings — published 2008
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.27 — 954,681 ratings — published 2015
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,410 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 — 1,946 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 — 882,875 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 4.15 — 2,344 ratings — published 2018
The Immortalists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mortality)
avg rating 3.71 — 221,672 ratings — published 2018
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
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“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia”
― Ptolemy's Almagest
― Ptolemy's Almagest
