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
9114 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
9123 Beyond Black Hilary Mantel 2005 British English
9184 Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch 1969 British English
9184 Selected Poems Vasko Popa 1969 Serbian Serbian
9240 Soul Music Terry Pratchett 1994 British English
9244 The Red Tree Caitlín R. Kiernan 2009 American English
9261 The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers 2012 American English
9287 Cemetery Boys Aiden Thomas 2020 American English
9292 Casualties John Pepper Clark 1970 Nigerian English
9303 The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida Shehan Karunatilaka 2022 Sri Lankan English
9356 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian
9356 Selected Poems Jean Garrigue 1971 American English
9364 A Dark Night's Passing Naoya Shiga 1937 Japanese Japanese
9365 Rosario Tijeras Jorge Franco 1999 Colombian Spanish
9374 Stolen Spring Hans Scherfig 1940 Danish Danish
9375 Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1893 American English
9375 Ghost And Horror Stories Of Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce 1904 American English
9375 In The Midst Of Life Ambrose Bierce 1891 American English
9375 Here And Beyond Edith Wharton 1926 American English
9375 Lenore Gottfried Burger 1773 German German
9375 The Haunted Hour Margaret Widdemer 1920 American English
9548 The Libera Me Domine Robert Pinget 1972 French Unknown
9548 Peppercanister Poems Thomas Kinsella 1972 Irish English
9548 Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 1972 Swedish Swedish
9548 Selected Poems Jacob Glatstein 1972 Polish Yiddish
9548 Straw For The Fire Theodore Roethke 1972 American English
9604 Meteor In The Madhouse Leon Forrest 2001 American English
9603 Hogfather Terry Pratchett 1996 British English
9645 Selected Poems Osip Mandelstam 1973 Russian Russian
9657 The King Of The Rattling Spirits Miha Mazzini 2021 Slovenian Slovenian
9678 Ordesa Manuel Vilas 2018 Spanish Spanish
9695 I Heard The Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven 1967 Canadian English
9720 The Terminal Experiment Robert J. Sawyer 1995 Canadian English
9741 View Of Dawn In The Tropics Guillermo Cabrera Infante 1974 Cuban Spanish
9741 Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You Alice Munro 1974 Canadian English
9770 In A Strange Room Damon Galgut 2010 South African English
9779 Autumn In Peking Boris Vian 1947 French French
9831 Barney's Version Mordecai Richler 1997 Canadian English
9833 Poems Of Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini 1975 Italian Italian
9833 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
9833 Poems Of John Montague John Montague 1975 Irish English
9833 Fountain And Tomb Naguib Mahfouz 1975 Egyptian Arabic
9833 Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall 1975 American English
9883 The Wall Jean Paul Sartre 1939 French French
9927 Poems Of Umberto Saba Umberto Saba 1976 Italian Italian
9927 The Complete Plays Joe Orton 1976 British English
9927 Collected Poems Richard Eberhart 1976 American English
9961 Winner Of The National Book Award Jincy Willett 2003 American English
9967 The Silence Of The Sea Yrsa Sigurdardottir 2012 Icelandic Icelandic
9999 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil 2012 Indian English
10007 The Song Of The World Jean Giono 1934 French French
10037 Poems Of Eugénio De Andrade Eugénio de Andrade 1977 Portuguese Portuguese
10037 A Part Of Speech Joseph Brodsky 1977 American Russian
10048 A Shropshire Lad A. E. Housman 1896 British English
10068 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
10092 Twenty Years And A Day Jorge Semprún 2003 Spanish Spanish
10117 Through The Woods Emily Carroll 2014 Canadian English
10136 Selected Poetry Andrea Zanzotto 1978 Italian Italian
10136 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
10136 Poems Of Gavin Ewart Gavin Ewart 1978 British English
10158 On The Way To My Father’s Funeral Jonathan Baumbach 2004 American English
10236 In Love With The World Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Helen Tworkov 2019 Unknown English
10260 Forever Pete Hamill 2002 American English
10260 Selected Poems Miguel Hernández 1979 Spanish Spanish
10260 Poems Of F. T. Prince F. T. Prince 1979 British English
10260 The Ether Dome And Other Poems Allen Grossman 1979 American English
10294 April Fool's Day Josip Novakovich 2004 Croatian English
10305 Dear Departed Marguerite Yourcenar 1974 French French
10305 The Summer Of The Great Grandmother Madeleine L'Engle 1974 American English
10305 Chinook Texts Franz Boas 1894 American English
10360 Far Tortuga Peter Matthiessen 1975 American English
10379 Memories Of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel García Márquez 2004 Colombian Spanish
10397 The Bog People P. V. Glob 1965 Danish Danish
10432 Finishing Touches Thomas Tessier 1978 American English
10439 Dora, Doralina Rachel de Queiroz 1975 Brazilian Portuguese
10450 Calypso David Sedaris 2018 American English
10502 Signs Preceding the End of the World Yuri Herrera 2009 Mexican Spanish
10555 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
10555 Seven Plays Sam Shepard 1981 American English
10591 Varieties of Disturbance Lydia Davis 2007 American English
10636 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom 2003 American English
10743 A Dog's Purpose W. Bruce Cameron 2010 American English
10747 From The First Nine James Merrill 1982 American Unknown
10747 The Changing Light At Sandover James Merrill 1982 American English
10747 Selected Poems Galway Kinnell 1982 American English
10793 Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin 2005 American English
10820 Scythe Neal Shusterman 2016 American English
10845 Homo Necans Walter Burkert 1972 German German
10851 The Albany Cycle William Kennedy 1983 American English
10865 Mr. Splitfoot Samantha Hunt 2016 American English
10895 After Many A Summer Dies The Swan Aldous Huxley 1939 British English
10907 Grief Andrew Holleran 2022 American English
10910 Gaspard De La Nuit Aloysius Bertrand 1842 French French
10912 La Casa Del Padre Justo Navarro 2015 Spanish Spanish
10944 Travelling In The Family Carlos Drummond de Andrade 1984 Brazilian Portuguese
10959 Gideon The Ninth Tamsyn Muir 2019 New Zealand English
10961 Rotters Daniel Kraus 2011 American English
10964 The Hair of Harold Roux Thomas Williams 1974 American English
10966 The Hunger Alma Katsu 2018 American English
11016 The Story Of San Michele Axel Munthe 1929 Swedish English
11019 Follow Your Heart Susanna Tamaro 1994 Italian Italian
11024 Four Novels Marguerite Duras 1985 French French
11024 The Good Apprentice Iris Murdoch 1985 British English
11029 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11072 The Lost Man Jane Harper 2018 Australian English
11108 The Falling Woman Pat Murphy 1986 American English
11163 Travels Yehuda Amichai 1986 Israeli Hebrew
11220 Malpertuis Jean Ray 1943 Belgian French
11243 Another Roadside Attraction Tom Robbins 1971 American English
11252 Distant View Of A Minaret Alifa Rifaat 1983 Egyptian Arabic
11252 Sister Age M. F. K. Fisher 1983 American English
11291 This Life Karel Schoeman 1993 South African Afrikaans
11389 His Daughter Yoram Kaniuk 1988 Israeli Hebrew
11389 The One Day Donald Hall 1988 American English
11402 A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson 2015 British English
11422 Me And Earl And The Dying Girl Jesse Andrews 2012 American English
11425 Gods Of Jade And Shadow Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2019 Mexican English
11438 Il Colombre Dino Buzzati 1966 Italian Italian
11451 Lamb in His Bosom Caroline Miller 1933 American English
11451 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler 1992 American English