Non-Fiction Books About Death and Death Culture
100. 
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
by:
Helen Prejean
4.21 avg rating β 752 ratings 
104. 
Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
by:
Katy Butler
4.12 avg rating β 3,174 ratings 
106. 
Through the Dark Forest: Transforming Your Life in the Face of Death
by:
Carolyn Conger
3.91 avg rating β 11 ratings 
107. 
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
by:
Mark Harris
4.14 avg rating β 687 ratings 109. 
A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
by:
Evan Mandery
4.11 avg rating β 167 ratings 
112. 
Death and the Afterlife: A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection (Union Square & Co. Chronologies) 3.82 avg rating β 882 ratings
113. 
Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death
by:
Joshua Slocum
4.12 avg rating β 104 ratings 113. 
Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us
by:
Shane Claiborne
4.44 avg rating β 632 ratings 115. 
Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office
by:
Shiya Ribowsky
3.98 avg rating β 1,096 ratings 
119. 
Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
by:
Brenna Hassett
3.68 avg rating β 263 ratings 121. 
The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
by:
John Bateson
4.08 avg rating β 2,376 ratings 
123. 
Mummy Dearest: How Two Men in a Potato Chip Truck Changed the Way the Living See the Dead
by:
Ron Beckett
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings 123. 
Words at the Threshold: What We Say as We're Nearing Death
by:
Lisa Smartt
3.71 avg rating β 213 ratings 125. 
Bodysnatchers: Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men
by:
Suzie Lennox
3.71 avg rating β 116 ratings 
127. 
Dead Men Tell Tales: A survey of exhumations from earliest antiquity to the present day
by:
Richard Haestier
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
129. 
Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
by:
Haider Warraich
3.93 avg rating β 684 ratings 130. 
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
by:
Joan Halifax
4.36 avg rating β 1,043 ratings 131. 
Mindfully Facing Disease and Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts
by:
Bhikkhu AnΔlayo
4.51 avg rating β 53 ratings 132. 
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
by:
Caleb Wilde
3.75 avg rating β 2,519 ratings 
135. 
136. 
Talking About Death Won't Kill You: The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations 4.07 avg rating β 131 ratings
137. 
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster 3.90 avg rating β 29,487 ratings
141. 
The Book of Extraordinary Deaths: True Accounts of Ill-Fated Lives
by:
Cecilia Ruiz
3.88 avg rating β 523 ratings 
143. 
Victorian Death Art: Postmortem Death Photography and Hair Art (Interest & Intrigue Book 1)
by:
Emily Ann Bronte
3.34 avg rating β 35 ratings 144. 
Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death
by:
Richard Holloway
4.12 avg rating β 505 ratings 145. 
In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America
by:
Bruce Jackson
3.86 avg rating β 28 ratings 146. 
The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
by:
Vincent Brown
4.19 avg rating β 147 ratings 147. 
A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
by:
B.J. Miller
4.31 avg rating β 1,280 ratings 
149. 
Mortal Remains: The history and present state of the Victorian and Edwardian cemetery
by:
Chris Brooks
3.75 avg rating β 4 ratings 150. 
151. 
Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space: The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
by:
Grace Turner
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 152. 
Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement
by:
James R. Cothran
4.33 avg rating β 12 ratings 153. 
Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians
by:
Alan Jabbour
3.72 avg rating β 18 ratings 
155. 
The Mighty Thor, Vol. 5: The Death of the Mighty Thor
by:
Jason Aaron
4.40 avg rating β 1,789 ratings 156. 
When My Time Comes: Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End
by:
Diane Rehm
4.10 avg rating β 546 ratings 157. 
Present through the End: A Caring Companion's Guide for Accompanying the Dying
by:
Kirsten DeLeo
4.24 avg rating β 42 ratings 158. 
What Does It Feel Like to Die?: Inspiring New Insights into the Experience of Dying
by:
Jennie Dear
4.20 avg rating β 118 ratings 159. 
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
by:
Katy Butler
4.28 avg rating β 1,556 ratings 160. 
In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
by:
Yongey Mingyur
4.30 avg rating β 3,449 ratings 161. 
165. 
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Liberation Through Understanding the Between
by:
Padmasambhava
4.10 avg rating β 1,020 ratings 
168. 
Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
by:
Normandi Ellis
4.55 avg rating β 308 ratings 
170. 
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist 4.05 avg rating β 6,575 ratings
171. 
The Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead
by:
Donna M. Jackson
3.74 avg rating β 86 ratings 