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  • Alexandra Kathryn Mosca The best books by funeral directors and for funeral directors Book cover of The Greatest People I Never Knew Book cover of From 'Hear' to Forever Book cover of When My Baba Died Book cover of Undertakings of an Undertaker: True Stories of Being Laid to Rest Book cover of Mrs. Steffy: Our Mother, the Mortician
  • John Coleman Darnell and Colleen Darnell The best books about ancient Egyptian religion Book cover of Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many Book cover of The Search for God in Ancient Egypt Book cover of The Cannibal Hymn: A Cultural and Literary Study Book cover of Living with the Dead Book cover of The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times
  • Todd Harra The best books for aspiring funeral directors (or those with a morbid streak) Book cover of The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade Book cover of Confessions of a Funeral Director: How Death Saved My Life Book cover of Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, & Honor Our Military Fallen Book cover of Funeral Customs: Their Origin and Development Book cover of Good Mourning
  • Mallory McDuff The best books to change your relationship with death and heal the Earth Book cover of The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial Book cover of Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials Book cover of From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Book cover of Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying Book cover of Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis
  • Lisa Bailey The best books by women for readers who are fascinated with true crime and death professions Book cover of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Book cover of The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine Book cover of Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner Book cover of All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work Book cover of All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
  • Louis Picone The best books about the deaths of American presidents Book cover of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President Book cover of The Captain Departs: Ulysses S. Grant's Last Campaign Book cover of Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse Book cover of The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century Book cover of FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance
  • Karen Toothaker The best picture books for children dealing with death, grief, and healing from loss Book cover of Wherever You Are: My Love Will Find You Book cover of Thank You, Grandpa Book cover of The Rough Patch Book cover of The Dead Bird Book cover of Maybe Tomorrow? (A Story about Loss, Healing, and Friendship)
  • Robert Gwaltney The best books set in the gothic American South Book cover of Other Voices, Other Rooms Book cover of Swamplandia! Book cover of Twilight Book cover of Child of God Book cover of The Little Friend
  • Loren Rhoads The best books for the death curious Book cover of From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Book cover of A Tomb With a View: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards Book cover of Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin Book cover of This Party's Dead: Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World's Death Festivals Book cover of Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
  • Barbara Katz Rothman The best books on the ever-more-timely topic of death and dying Book cover of The American Way of Death Revisited Book cover of Passing on: The Social Organization of Dying Book cover of Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR Book cover of Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement ... and the Great Beyond Book cover of Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
  • Shannon Bontrager The best history books on the memory of the war dead Book cover of War Beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present Book cover of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Book cover of The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change Book cover of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization Book cover of Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars
  • Katherine Carté The best historical fiction about the nineteenth century (from a specialist on the American Revolution) Book cover of The Confessions of Frannie Langton Book cover of The Luminaries Book cover of Kindred Book cover of The Bedlam Stacks Book cover of Out of Darkness, Shining Light
  • Elizabeth Fournier The best books if you literally want to go green when you die Book cover of Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial Book cover of Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth Book cover of Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the People and Places We Love Book cover of Death and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons: Field Notes from The Death Dialogues Project Book cover of Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
  • Seth Mallios The best books that embrace the reality (and super-spooky creepiness) of cemeteries across America Book cover of Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries Book cover of Elysium: A Gathering of Souls: New Orleans Cemeteries Book cover of Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries Book cover of Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death Book cover of The Graveyard Book
  • Sylvia Barry The best books for grumpy/sunshine romance with a healthy side of yearning Book cover of Something Fabulous Book cover of The Charm Offensive Book cover of Peter Darling Book cover of Get a Life, Chloe Brown Book cover of Best of the Wrong Reasons
  • Heather Kassner The best magical middle grade novels woven with darkness and heart Book cover of Eden's Everdark Book cover of Foxheart Book cover of Coraline Book cover of Whichwood Book cover of The Night Gardener
  • Helen Frisby The best books on how to die well: past, present and future Book cover of This Mortal Coil Book cover of The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead Book cover of Death, Dissection and the Destitute Book cover of From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Book cover of All the Ghosts in the Machine: The Digital Afterlife of your Personal Data
  • Shane Joseph The best books about the writing life Book cover of Page Fright: Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers Book cover of A Writer's Notebook Book cover of Lost for Words Book cover of Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 Book cover of The Last Word
  • Jessica Vitalis The best middle grade books on grief/healing that are actually fun to read Book cover of Whichwood Book cover of The Canyon's Edge Book cover of The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise Book cover of Many Points of Me Book cover of The Shape of Thunder
  • Lee Rozelle The best contemporary Southern Gothic novels Book cover of Wise Blood Book cover of Sing, Unburied, Sing Book cover of Twilight Book cover of The New and Improved Romie Futch Book cover of Annihilation
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