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
9117 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
9126 Beyond Black Hilary Mantel 2005 British English
9186 Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch 1969 British English
9186 Selected Poems Vasko Popa 1969 Serbian Serbian
9242 Soul Music Terry Pratchett 1994 British English
9246 The Red Tree Caitlín R. Kiernan 2009 American English
9263 The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers 2012 American English
9290 Cemetery Boys Aiden Thomas 2020 American English
9295 Casualties John Pepper Clark 1970 Nigerian English
9306 The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka 2022 Sri Lankan English
9359 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian
9359 Selected Poems Jean Garrigue 1971 American English
9367 A Dark Night's Passing Naoya Shiga 1937 Japanese Japanese
9368 Rosario Tijeras Jorge Franco 1999 Colombian Spanish
9377 Stolen Spring Hans Scherfig 1940 Danish Danish
9378 Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1893 American English
9378 Ghost And Horror Stories Of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce 1904 American English
9378 In The Midst Of Life Ambrose Bierce 1891 American English
9378 Here And Beyond Edith Wharton 1926 American English
9378 Lenore Gottfried Burger 1773 German German
9378 The Haunted Hour Margaret Widdemer 1920 American English
9551 The Libera Me Domine Robert Pinget 1972 French Unknown
9551 Peppercanister Poems Thomas Kinsella 1972 Irish English
9551 Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 1972 Swedish Swedish
9551 Selected Poems Jacob Glatstein 1972 Polish Yiddish
9551 Straw For The Fire Theodore Roethke 1972 American English
9607 Meteor In The Madhouse Leon Forrest 2001 American English
9606 Hogfather Terry Pratchett 1996 British English
9649 Selected Poems Osip Mandelstam 1973 Russian Russian
9661 The King Of The Rattling Spirits Miha Mazzini 2021 Slovenian Slovenian
9682 Ordesa Manuel Vilas 2018 Spanish Spanish
9699 I Heard The Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven 1967 Canadian English
9724 The Terminal Experiment Robert J. Sawyer 1995 Canadian English
9745 View Of Dawn In The Tropics Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1974 Cuban Spanish
9745 Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You Alice Munro 1974 Canadian English
9774 In A Strange Room Damon Galgut 2010 South African English
9783 Autumn In Peking Boris Vian 1947 French French
9835 Barney's Version Mordecai Richler 1997 Canadian English
9837 Poems Of Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini 1975 Italian Italian
9837 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
9837 Poems Of John Montague John Montague 1975 Irish English
9837 Fountain And Tomb Naguib Mahfouz 1975 Egyptian Arabic
9837 Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall 1975 American English
9887 The Wall Jean Paul Sartre 1939 French French
9932 Poems Of Umberto Saba Umberto Saba 1976 Italian Italian
9932 The Complete Plays Joe Orton 1976 British English
9932 Collected Poems Richard Eberhart 1976 American English
9966 Winner Of The National Book Award Jincy Willett 2003 American English
9972 The Silence Of The Sea Yrsa Sigurdardottir 2012 Icelandic Icelandic
10004 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil 2012 Indian English
10012 The Song Of The World Jean Giono 1934 French French
10043 Poems Of Eugénio De Andrade Eugénio de Andrade 1977 Portuguese Portuguese
10043 A Part Of Speech Joseph Brodsky 1977 American Russian
10053 A Shropshire Lad A. E. Housman 1896 British English
10073 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
10097 Twenty Years And A Day Jorge Semprún 2003 Spanish Spanish
10121 Through The Woods Emily Carroll 2014 Canadian English
10140 Selected Poetry Andrea Zanzotto 1978 Italian Italian
10140 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
10140 Poems Of Gavin Ewart Gavin Ewart 1978 British English
10162 On The Way To My Father’s Funeral Jonathan Baumbach 2004 American English
10174 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler 1992 American English
10241 In Love With The World Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Helen Tworkov 2019 Unknown English
10264 Forever Pete Hamill 2002 American English
10264 Selected Poems Miguel Hernández 1979 Spanish Spanish
10264 Poems Of F. T. Prince F. T. Prince 1979 British English
10264 The Ether Dome And Other Poems Allen Grossman 1979 American English
10298 April Fool's Day Josip Novakovich 2004 Croatian English
10309 Dear Departed Marguerite Yourcenar 1974 French French
10309 The Summer Of The Great Grandmother Madeleine L'Engle 1974 American English
10309 Chinook Texts Franz Boas 1894 American English
10364 Far Tortuga Peter Matthiessen 1975 American English
10383 Memories Of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel García Márquez 2004 Colombian Spanish
10401 The Bog People P. V. Glob 1965 Danish Danish
10436 Finishing Touches Thomas Tessier 1978 American English
10443 Dora, Doralina Rachel de Queiroz 1975 Brazilian Portuguese
10454 Calypso David Sedaris 2018 American English
10506 Signs Preceding the End of the World Yuri Herrera 2009 Mexican Spanish
10559 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
10559 Seven Plays Sam Shepard 1981 American English
10595 Varieties of Disturbance Lydia Davis 2007 American English
10641 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom 2003 American English
10748 A Dog's Purpose W. Bruce Cameron 2010 American English
10752 From The First Nine James Merrill 1982 American Unknown
10752 The Changing Light At Sandover James Merrill 1982 American English
10752 Selected Poems Galway Kinnell 1982 American English
10798 Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin 2005 American English
10826 Scythe Neal Shusterman 2016 American English
10849 Homo Necans Walter Burkert 1972 German German
10856 The Albany Cycle William Kennedy 1983 American English
10870 Mr. Splitfoot Samantha Hunt 2016 American English
10900 After Many A Summer Dies The Swan Aldous Huxley 1939 British English
10912 Grief Andrew Holleran 2022 American English
10915 Gaspard De La Nuit Aloysius Bertrand 1842 French French
10917 La Casa Del Padre Justo Navarro 2015 Spanish Spanish
10949 Travelling In The Family Carlos Drummond de Andrade 1984 Brazilian Portuguese
10964 Gideon The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2019 New Zealand English
10966 Rotters Daniel Kraus 2011 American English
10969 The Hair of Harold Roux Thomas Williams 1974 American English
10971 The Hunger Alma Katsu 2018 American English
11021 The Story Of San Michele Axel Munthe 1929 Swedish English
11024 Follow Your Heart Susanna Tamaro 1994 Italian Italian
11029 Four Novels Marguerite Duras 1985 French French
11029 The Good Apprentice Iris Murdoch 1985 British English
11034 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11077 The Lost Man Jane Harper 2018 Australian English
11113 The Falling Woman Pat Murphy 1986 American English
11168 Travels Yehuda Amichai 1986 Israeli Hebrew
11225 Malpertuis Jean Ray 1943 Belgian French
11248 Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins 1971 American English
11257 Distant View Of A Minaret Alifa Rifaat 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11257 Sister Age M. F. K. Fisher 1983 American English
11296 This Life Karel Schoeman 1993 South African Afrikaans
11393 His Daughter Yoram Kaniuk 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11393 The One Day Donald Hall 1988 American English
11406 A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson 2015 British English
11426 Me And Earl And The Dying Girl Jesse Andrews 2012 American English
11429 Gods Of Jade And Shadow Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2019 Mexican English
11442 Il Colombre Dino Buzzati 1966 Italian Italian
11455 Lamb in His Bosom Caroline Miller 1933 American English