The Greatest Books of All Time on Death
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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17120 | Under Heaven | Guy Gavriel Kay | 2010 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | Prince Of Thorns | Mark Lawrence | 2011 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Silent Land | Graham Joyce | 2010 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Killing Moon | N. K. Jemisin | 2012 | American | English | |
| 16803 | Judas Iscariot | Leonid Andreyev | 1907 | Russian | Russian | |
| 17120 | The Middlesteins | Jami Attenberg | 2012 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Bark | Lorrie Moore | 2014 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Before I Fall | Lauren Oliver | 2010 | American | English | |
| 17120 | And So It Goes | Charles J. Shields | 2011 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Love Is The Plan The Plan Is Death | James Tiptree Jr. | 1973 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Islanders | Christopher Priest | 2011 | British | English | |
| 17120 | End Of The World Blues | Jon Courtenay Grimwood | 2006 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Death's Master | Tanith Lee | 1979 | British | English | |
| 17120 | To Wake The Dead | Ramsey Campbell | 1980 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Testament | John Grisham | 1999 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Bleachers | John Grisham | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17120 | What Does It All Mean? | Thomas Nagel | 1987 | American | English | |
| 16931 | Orpheus | Jean Cocteau | 1926 | French | French | |
| 17120 | The Work Of The Dead | Thomas W. Laqueur | 2015 | American | English | |
| 17120 | You Must Remember This | Joyce Carol Oates | 1987 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Spare Room | Helen Garner | 2008 | Australian | English | |
| 16768 | The Dead Of The House | Hannah Green | 1971 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Undertaking | Thomas Lynch | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17120 | A Wilderness Station | Alice Munro | 1996 | American | English | |
| 16768 | The First Day On The Somme | Martin Middlebrook | 1971 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Her Smoke Rose Up Forever | James Tiptree Jr. | 1990 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Kaddish | Leon Wieseltier | 1998 | Kaddish | English | |
| 17120 | Redburn | Herman Melville | 1849 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Reveries Of A Bachelor | Donald Grant Mitchell | 1850 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Moonglow | Michael Chabon | 2016 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Dig | A. S. King | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Fishermen | Chigozie Obioma | 2015 | Nigerian | English | |
| 17120 | The Last Crossing | Guy Vanderhaeghe | 2002 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | George Sprott | Seth | 2009 | Canadian | English | |
| 17120 | One Day | Gene Weingarten | 2019 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Seven Days Of Man | Abdel-Hakim Qasim | 1984 | Egyptian | Arabic | |
| 17120 | The Shadow And The Echo | Yusuf Habashi al-Ashqar | Lebanese | Unknown | ||
| 17120 | Clamor Of The Lake | Mohammed El-Bisatie | 1994 | Egyptian | Arabic | |
| 17120 | Fup | Jim Dodge | 1983 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Stick Out Your Tongue | Ma Jian | 1987 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 17120 | Happy Dreams | Jia Pingwa | 2007 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 17120 | Permafrost | Eva Baltasar | 2018 | Spanish | Catalan | |
| 17120 | Zinky Boys | Svetlana Alexievich | 1989 | Belarusian | Russian | |
| 17120 | Accabadora | Michela Murgia | 2009 | Italian | Italian | |
| 17120 | Look To Windward | Iain Banks | 2000 | British | English | |
| 17120 | They Both Die At The End | Adam Silvera | 2017 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Annual Banquet Of The Gravediggers' Guild | Mathias Enard | 2023 | French | French | |
| 17120 | Odd Thomas | Dean R. Koontz | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Negative Space | B.R. Yeager | 2020 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The A26 | Pascal Garnier | 1999 | French | French | |
| 17120 | My Soul To Keep | Tananarive Due | 1997 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Master Of Petersburg | J. M. Coetzee | 1994 | South African | English | |
| 17120 | The Casual Vacancy | J. K. Rowling | 2012 | British | English | |
| 17120 | Lullaby | Chuck Palahniuk | 2002 | American | English | |
| 17120 | American Primitive | Mary Oliver | 1983 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Black Tower | P. D. James | 1975 | British | English | |
| 17120 | The Immortalists | Chloe Benjamin | 2018 | American | English | |
| 17120 | Love's Executioner | Irvin D. Yalom | 1989 | American | English | |
| 17120 | The Morning Star | Karl Ove Knausgård | 2020 | Norwegian | Norwegian |