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.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
5996 The Green Road Anne Enright 2015 Irish English
6080 John Keats Robert Gittings 1968 British English
6128 Selected Poems, 1965-1975 Margaret Atwood 1976 Canadian English
6189 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami 2006 Japanese Japanese
6202 The Elegies Of Oxopetra Odysseas Elytis 1991 Greek Greek
6205 The Earth Émile Zola 1887 French French
6230 Idu Flora Nwapa 1970 Nigerian English
6243 The Chaneysville Incident David Bradley 1981 American English
6257 Omensetter's Luck William H. Gass 1966 American English
6262 At The Existentialist Café Sarah Bakewell 2016 British English
6275 Owls Do Cry Janet Frame 1957 New Zealand English
6277 The Narrow Road To The Deep North Richard Flanagan 2013 Australian English
6281 Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Alvin Schwartz 1981 American English
6312 Dance, Dance, Dance Haruki Murakami 1988 Japanese Japanese
6333 Devotions Mary Oliver 2017 American English
6343 Another Country Karel Schoeman 1984 South African Afrikaans
6358 At Twilight They Return Zyranna Zateli 1993 Greek Greek
6358 Heroes' Shrine For Sale or The Elegant Toilet Marios Hakkas 1993 Greek Greek
6366 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively 1987 British English
6363 Master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge 1998 British English
6373 The Body Stephen King 1982 American English
6400 La Grande Juan José Saer 2012 Argentinian Spanish
6403 The Chairs Eugène Ionesco 1952 French French
6422 The Laws Connie Palmen 1991 Dutch Dutch
6480 The Stoic Theodore Dreiser 1947 American English
6491 Neither The Sea Nor The Sand Gordon Honeycombe 1969 British English
6503 The End Of The Road John Barth 1958 American English
6541 Hold Still Sally Mann 2015 American English
6547 The Boarded Window Ambrose Bierce 1891 American English
6646 Exquisite Corpse Poppy Z. Brite 1996 American English
6651 Tratado das Paixões da Alma António Lobo Antunes 1990 Portuguese Portuguese
6654 Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin 1994 Mexican Spanish
6668 Strange Pilgrims Gabriel García Márquez 1992 Colombian Spanish
6676 Three Apples Fell From The Sky Narine Abgaryan 2015 Armenian Russian
6679 The Imago Sequence And Other Stories Laird Barron 2007 American English
6695 The Times Are Never So Bad Andre Dubus 1983 American English
6695 The Stories Of Breece D'j Pancake Breece D'J Pancake 1983 American English
6711 Ooga-Booga Frederick Seidel 2006 American English
6731 The Afterlife Donald Antrim 2006 American English
6764 The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke 1966 American English
6767 New England Primer Unknown 1687 American English
6789 The Investigation Stanislaw Lem 1959 Polish Polish
6800 Getting Into Death Thomas M. Disch 1973 American English
6893 Régimódi Történet Szabó, Magda 1977 Hungarian Hungarian
6903 Selected Poems II Margaret Atwood 1987 Canadian English
6923 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs 1902 British English
6928 The Repairer Of Reputations Robert W. Chambers 1895 American English
6931 Duck, Death And The Tulip Wolf Erlbruch 2007 German German
6933 The Tell Tale Heart And Other Writings Edgar Allan Poe 1843 American English
6939 Shipwrecks Akira Yoshimura 1982 Japanese Japanese
6944 Elizabeth Ken Greenhall 1976 American English
6954 We All Love Glenda So Much And Other Tales Julio Cortazar 1980 Argentinian Spanish
6962 The Stress of Her Regard Tim Powers 1989 American English
6984 Sleeping It Off in Rapid City August Kleinzahler 2008 American English
6984 Fine Just the Way It Is Annie Proulx 2008 American English
7021 Crito Plato -389 Greek Ancient greek
7067 O Testamento Do Sr. Napumoceno Da Silva Araújo Germano Almeida 1989 Cape Verdean Portuguese
7085 Nothing Like the Sun Anthony Burgess 1964 British English
7086 There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby Ludmila Petrushevskaya 2009 Russian Russian
7096 Guide Dennis Cooper 1994 American English
7108 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
7122 Margot en de engelen Kristien Hemmerechts 1997 Belgian Dutch
7130 Beauty Is A Wound Eka Kurniawan 2002 Indonesian Indonesian
7136 Chronicler Of The Winds Henning Mankell 1995 Swedish Swedish
7152 Gateway Frederik Pohl 1977 American English
7191 The Complete Plays Of Eugene O'neill Eugene O'Neill 1959 American English
7196 The Storm Tomás González 1985 Colombian Spanish
7216 Sonnets And Madrigals Michelangelo Buonarroti 1545 Italian Italian
7216 Visions Francisco de Quevedo 1627 Spanish Spanish
7216 The Knight Of Olmedo Lope de Vega 1620 Spanish Spanish
7216 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
7216 Poems Of Henry Howard Henry Howard 1557 British English
7216 The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd 1587 British English
7216 The Poetical Works Of Robert Herrick Robert Herrick 1648 British English
7216 The Revenger's Tragedy Cyril Tourneur 1607 British English
7216 The Poems Of William Collins William Collins 1746 British English
7216 Oraisons funèbres Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet 1689 French French
7216 On Sepulchres Ugo Foscolo 1809 Italian Italian
7216 Rhymes And Rhythms Giosué Carducci 1899 Italian Italian
7216 Little Novels Of Sicily Giovanni Verga 1883 Italian Italian
7216 Atala François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand 1801 French French
7216 Poetic Meditations Alphonse de Lamartine 1820 French French
7216 Poems Of Alfred De Vigny Alfred de Vigny 1837 French French
7216 The Chimeras Gerard de Nerval 1854 French French
7216 Aurelia Gerard de Nerval 1855 French French
7216 Enamels And Cameos Théophile Gautier 1852 French French
7216 Selected Writings Jules Laforgue 1901 French French
7216 The Dance Of Death August Strindberg 1900 Swedish Swedish
7216 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
7216 Death's Jest Book Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1850 British English
7216 Poems Of Thomas Lovell Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1851 British English
7216 Poems Of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 1826 British English
7216 The Poems And Plays Of Thomas Wade Thomas Wade 1800 British English
7216 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
7216 Poems Of Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh Clough 1862 British English
7216 Poems And Ballads Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866 British English
7216 Poems Of George Meredith George Meredith 1851 British English
7216 Poems Of Lionel Johnson Lionel Johnson 1895 British English
7216 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
7216 Ballads And Songs John Davidson 1894 British English
7216 The Poems Of William Morris William Morris 1868 British English
7216 Hymns To The Night Novalis 1800 German German
7216 Selected Poems Of Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike 1838 German German
7216 Poems Of Theodor Storm Theodor Storm 1852 German German
7216 Danton's Death Georg Buchner 1835 German German
7216 Poems Of Stefan George Stefan George 1897 German German
7216 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
7216 On The Eve Ivan Turgenev 1860 Russian Russian
7216 Specimen Days Walt Whitman 1882 American English
7216 Clarel Herman Melville 1876 American English
7216 Poems Of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman Frederick Goddard Tuckerman 1860 American English
7216 Poems Of Sidney Lanier Sidney Lanier 1884 American English
7216 Stories And Poems Of Stephen Crane Stephen Crane 1900 American English
7216 Poems Of Trumbull Stickney Trumbull Stickney 1905 American English
7216 Selected Poems Giuseppe Ungaretti 1942 Italian Italian
7216 The Buried Harbour Giuseppe Ungaretti 1916 Italian Italian
7216 Selected Poems Federico García Lorca 1928 Spanish Spanish
7216 Poems Of Carles Riba Carles Riba 1943 Spanish Catalan
7216 The Infernal Machine And Other Works Jean Cocteau 1934 French French
7216 Poems Of Max Jacob Max Jacob 1917 French French