Mortuary Reads

1.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,486 ratings
2.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 4.22 avg rating — 104,647 ratings
3.
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death 4.30 avg rating — 45,192 ratings
4.
The American Way of Death Revisited
The American Way of Death Revisited 3.97 avg rating — 2,582 ratings
5.
All That Remains: A Life in Death
All That Remains: A Life in Death
by: Sue Black
4.16 avg rating — 14,793 ratings
6.
The Green Reaper: Memoirs of an Eco-Mortician
The Green Reaper: Memoirs of an Eco-Mortician 4.05 avg rating — 374 ratings
7.
Driving with Dead People
Driving with Dead People 3.86 avg rating — 5,918 ratings
8.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory 4.22 avg rating — 104,647 ratings
9.
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death 4.13 avg rating — 46,337 ratings
10.
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade 3.87 avg rating — 3,140 ratings
11.
Six Feet Under or Up in Smoke: The Aussie Way of Death
Six Feet Under or Up in Smoke: The Aussie Way of Death
by: Jim Eames
3.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
11.
Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial
Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial 3.62 avg rating — 460 ratings
11.
After the Mourning (Francis Hancock #2)
After the Mourning (Francis Hancock #2) 3.48 avg rating — 159 ratings
11.
The Life of Death: The Bare Bones of Undertaking
The Life of Death: The Bare Bones of Undertaking 4.30 avg rating — 92 ratings
11.
Ain't She a Peach (Southern Eclectic, #2)
Ain't She a Peach (Southern Eclectic, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 4,078 ratings
11.
So, You Want to Work with the Ancient and Recent Dead?: Unearthing Careers from Paleontology to Forensic Science
So, You Want to Work with the Ancient and Recent Dead?: Unearthing Careers from Paleontology to Forensic Science 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
11.
The Secret Funeral of Slim Jim the Snake
The Secret Funeral of Slim Jim the Snake 3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
18.
Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death
Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death 4.12 avg rating — 104 ratings
18.
Good Mourning
Good Mourning 3.60 avg rating — 1,365 ratings
18.
Last Rights (Francis Hancock #1)
Last Rights (Francis Hancock #1) 3.62 avg rating — 226 ratings
18.
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life 3.75 avg rating — 2,520 ratings
22.
Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death
Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death 3.76 avg rating — 255 ratings
22.
The Undertakers' Mother
The Undertakers' Mother 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
22.
The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die
The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die 3.75 avg rating — 108 ratings
22.
Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide To Hosting the Perfect Funeral
Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide To Hosting the Perfect Funeral 3.85 avg rating — 2,456 ratings
26.
The Dead Do Talk
The Dead Do Talk 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
26.
My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die 3.93 avg rating — 558 ratings
26.
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial 4.14 avg rating — 687 ratings
29.
The Bone Garden
The Bone Garden 4.07 avg rating — 33,164 ratings
29.
The Dead I Know
The Dead I Know 3.82 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
29.
Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World
Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World 3.59 avg rating — 366 ratings
32.
Final Arrangements: A Novel
Final Arrangements: A Novel 3.98 avg rating — 125 ratings
32.
Do I Have to Wear Black to a Funeral?: 112 Etiquette Guidelines for the New Rules of Death
Do I Have to Wear Black to a Funeral?: 112 Etiquette Guidelines for the New Rules of Death 3.46 avg rating — 37 ratings
34.
Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual
Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual 3.69 avg rating — 114 ratings
35.
The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)
The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 15,047 ratings
35.
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality 4.08 avg rating — 771 ratings
37.
Somebody to Love
Somebody to Love 2.57 avg rating — 28 ratings
37.
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade 3.87 avg rating — 3,140 ratings
39.
The Coroner's Daughter
The Coroner's Daughter 3.76 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
39.
The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be
The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be 3.89 avg rating — 131 ratings
41.
The Thoughts & Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals
The Thoughts & Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals 3.53 avg rating — 1,669 ratings
41.
Whence and Whither: On Lives and Living
Whence and Whither: On Lives and Living 3.69 avg rating — 52 ratings
43.
The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock
The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock 3.75 avg rating — 13,783 ratings
43.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,164 ratings
45.
Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner
Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner 4.26 avg rating — 26,527 ratings
45.
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster 3.90 avg rating — 29,493 ratings
47.
The Cause of Death: True Stories of Death and Murder From a New Zealand Pathologist
The Cause of Death: True Stories of Death and Murder From a New Zealand Pathologist 4.22 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
48.
Is the Cemetery Dead?
Is the Cemetery Dead? 3.83 avg rating — 30 ratings
49.
CSI Told You Lies
CSI Told You Lies 3.81 avg rating — 750 ratings
50.
One Last Dance
One Last Dance 3.96 avg rating — 476 ratings
51.
Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt
Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt 3.73 avg rating — 3,370 ratings
52.
Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context
Transformation by Fire: The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context
by: Ian Kuijt
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
53.
The Realm of Osiris
The Realm of Osiris 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
54.
All That Remains: A Life in Death
All That Remains: A Life in Death
by: Sue Black
4.16 avg rating — 14,793 ratings
55.
Morgue: A Life in Death
Morgue: A Life in Death 3.85 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
56.
The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death 4.08 avg rating — 2,376 ratings
57.
The Artfulness of Death in Africa
The Artfulness of Death in Africa
by: John Mack
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
58.
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist 4.05 avg rating — 6,576 ratings
59.
The Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead
The Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead 3.74 avg rating — 86 ratings
60.
When Science Sheds Light on History: Forensic Science and Anthropology
When Science Sheds Light on History: Forensic Science and Anthropology 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
61.
Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death
Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death
by: Alan Ball
4.11 avg rating — 313 ratings
62.
Traditions of Death and Burial
Traditions of Death and Burial 3.67 avg rating — 78 ratings
63.
Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World: How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead
Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World: How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
64.
Burial
Burial 4.15 avg rating — 62 ratings