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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7216 Poems Of Pierre Jean Jouve Pierre-Jean Jouve 1925 French French
7216 Eurydice Jean Anouilh 1941 French French
7216 Coup De Grace Marguerite Yourcenar 1939 French French
7216 Wolf Solent John Cowper Powys 1929 British English
7216 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
7216 Poems Of D. H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence 1913 British English
7216 Poems And Verse Plays Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7216 Poems Of Georg Trakl Georg Trakl 1913 Austrian German
7216 Selected Tales Leonid Andreyev 1900 Russian Russian
7216 Selected Poems Angelos Sikelianos 1900 Greek Greek
7216 Shirot Bialik Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1901 Israeli Hebrew
7216 Poems Of Rubén Dário Rubén Dário 1896 Nicaraguan Spanish
7216 Poems Of Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897 American English
7216 Poems Of Vachel Lindsay Vachel Lindsay 1913 American English
7216 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
7216 Last Poems Elinor Wylie 1943 American English
7216 Poems Of John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom 1923 American English
7216 Lazarus Laughed Eugene O'Neill 1927 American English
7216 Poems Of Allen Tate Allen Tate 1930 American English
7216 Selected Poems Robert Penn Warren 1944 American English
7565 Selected Poems Frank O'Hara 1974 American English
7569 All Fires The Fire Julio Cortazar 1966 Argentinian Spanish
7580 Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 1986 American English
7604 Sin Remedio Antonio Caballero 1984 Colombian Spanish
7605 Mourir M'enrhume Eric Chevillard 1993 French French
7612 Selected Poetry And Prose Stéphane Mallarmé 1945 French French
7651 Angels In America Tony Kushner 1991 American English
7654 Tropical Night Falling Manuel Puig 1988 Argentinian Spanish
7656 Poems Of Robert Lowell Robert Lowell 1946 American English
7698 The Ruins Scott Smith 2006 American English
7716 Shroud For A Nightingale P. D. James 1971 British English
7717 Collected Poems Herman Melville 1947 American English
7717 Three Tragedies Federico García Lorca 1947 Spanish Spanish
7737 The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Amy Hempel 2006 American English
7772 Collected Poems Robert Graves 1948 British English
7795 The Rebel Angels Robertson Davies 1981 Canadian English
7802 Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson 2016 American English
7812 The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery 2006 French French
7820 Transparence Of The World Jean Follain 1949 French French
7820 Five Novels Ronald Firbank 1949 British English
7837 The Midnight Library Matt Haig 2020 British English
7887 Six Centuries Of Verse Seamus Heaney 1984 Multiple Unknown
7895 The Bone Clocks David Mitchell 2014 British English
7911 Poems Of Keith Douglas Keith Douglas 1951 British English
7928 Autobiographie De Mon Pere Pierre Pachet 1997 French French
7941 The Book Of Ebenezer Le Page G. B. Edwards 1981 British English
7954 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
7959 La Casa De La Fuerza Angélica Liddell 2009 Spanish Spanish
7967 Poems Of W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin 1952 American English
8007 The Eye Of The Storm Patrick White 1973 Australian English
8009 Poems Of Philippe Jacottet Philippe Jacottet 1953 French French
8009 Poems Of Elizabeth Jennings Elizabeth Jennings 1953 British English
8009 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English
8023 Ancient Evenings Norman Mailer 1983 American English
8032 I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth The Trip John Donovan 1969 American English
8076 Amédée Eugène Ionesco 1954 French French
8076 Selected Poems Ferenc Juhasz 1954 Hungarian Hungarian
8076 Poems Of Léonie Adams Léonie Adams 1954 American English
8076 The Blackwater Lightship Colm Toibin 1999 Irish English
8098 The Hotel New Hampshire John Irving 1981 American English
8107 The Amber Gods And Other Stories Harriet Prescott Spofford 1863 American English
8107 New Islands And Other Stories María Luisa Bombal 1939 Chilean Spanish
8143 Mort Terry Pratchett 1987 British English
8166 Child Of God Cormac McCarthy 1973 American English
8177 Cuando Ya No Importe Juan Carlos Onetti 1993 Uruguayan Spanish
8178 Poems Of A. D. Hope A. D. Hope 1955 Australian English
8186 One Step Behind Henning Mankell 1997 Swedish Swedish
8191 The Fisherman John Langan 2016 American English
8195 Ghosts César Aira 1990 Argentinian Spanish
8215 Stories In An Almost Classical Mode Harold Brodkey 1989 American English
8231 Frankenstein In Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi 2013 Iraqi Arabic
8240 How The Dead Live Will Self 2000 British English
8253 The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841 British English
8259 Christine Stephen King 1983 American English
8280 The Wind Claude Simon 1957 French French
8280 Opus Posthumous Wallace Stevens 1957 American English
8280 Selected Poems Hilda Doolittle 1957 American English
8289 Night They Missed The Horror Show Joe R. Lansdale 1988 American English
8306 When Death Comes Stealing Valerie Wilson Wesley 1994 American English
8315 Last Seen In Massilia Steven Saylor 2000 American English
8323 Dream Of Ding Village Yan Lianke 2006 Chinese Chinese
8336 The Grass Claude Simon 1958 French French
8356 Chanda's Secrets Allan Stratton 2004 Canadian English
8389 Poems Of Edmond Jabès Edmond Jabès 1959 French French
8394 Eventide Kent Haruf 2004 American English
8439 The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi 2020 Nigerian English
8473 Selected Writings Salvatore Quasimodo 1960 Italian Italian
8473 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
8473 Poems Of Anne Hébert Anne Hébert 1960 Canadian French
8473 Collected Poems Weldon Kees 1960 American English
8473 Ceremony In Lone Tree Wright Morris 1960 American English
8494 Paula Isabel Allende 1994 Chilean Spanish
8503 Collected Poems Jane Kenyon 2005 American English
8592 The Promise Damon Galgut 2021 South African English
8608 Poems Of Roy Fuller Roy Fuller 1962 British English
8632 Vanishing Point David Markson 2004 American English
8633 We All Want Impossible Things Catherine Newman 2022 American English
8661 Krabat Otfried Preußler 1971 German German
8676 Collected Poems Wilfred Owen 1963 British English
8676 Selected Plays And Libretti Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1963 Austrian German
8690 The One Before Juan José Saer 2015 Argentinian Spanish
8699 Cry, Heart, But Never Break Glenn Ringtved 2001 Danish Danish
8706 The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley Hector Viel Temperley
 2011 Argentinian Spanish
8729 The Living End Stanley Elkin 1979 American English
8740 Poems Of Sophia De Mello Breyner Sophia de Mello Breyner 1964 Portuguese Portuguese
8740 Second Skin John Hawkes 1964 American English
8740 Poems Of Alvin Feinman Alvin Feinman 1964 American English
8751 Reaper Man Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
8828 The Baphomet Pierre Klossowski 1965 French French
8991 Tinkers Paul Harding 2009 American English
9023 Dark Back Of Time Javier Marias 1998 Spanish Spanish
9036 The Thibaults Roger Martin du Gard 1922 French French
9048 Death as a Side Effect Ana María Shua 1997 Argentinian Spanish
9075 Autumn Ali Smith 2016 British English
9094 The Cunning Man Robertson Davies 1994 Canadian English
9099 Rock, Paper, Scissors And Other Stories Maxim Osipov 2019 Russian Russian
9114 Cruddy Lynda Barry 1999 American English
9117 The Heron Giorgio Bassani 1968 Italian Italian
9117 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
9117 Poems Of Daryl Hine Daryl Hine 1968 Canadian English