Recs if you like From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death...
Death Positivity
Death will unfailingly find every person to have ever lived, yet is treated as a taboo topic in some cultures, causing extreme, pervasive anxiety. This nonfiction list aims to broaden understanding of this inevitability, both to hopefully negate some of the anxiety as well as satisfy some of our more morbid curiosities. It also aims to show that death is another, still useful, stage in the life cycle, aiding those that remain by helping to advance medicine, solve crimes, or understand art.
Morbid Curiosity
Nonfiction books to explore your morbid curiosity. Topics include death, pathogens, the paranormal, and more.
Check out my list horror nonfiction for books about horror media.
Horror ๐ซฑ๐ฝโ๐ซฒ๐ฝ Non-Fiction
Non-fiction about horror, those is the horror industry, horror-adjacent subjects, and down-right terrifying books.
All that's left is bones: Books about ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ โ ๏ธ
Books about death, dying, grief and what remains.
Books w pretty skulls on the cover
What can I say? I love bones ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ and def open to suggestions, any genre!
none house, with left grief
Nonfiction that makes me think of The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir.
Morbidly Curious Book Club ๐ค๐
All books selected to read by the Morbidly Curious Book Club. This list will be updated when new reads are announced!
Death Culture and Dying
Books that tackle death and dying.
On Death and Dying โฐ๏ธ
This list will focus on death, dying, and grief in all aspects, as well as the value of human life. Concepts of death education, grief and coping. In addition, cultural and religious perspectives and traditions, plus accounts from moritians and death doulas.
so you want to know about dead bodies
how we keep them, how they happen, how they taste, how we think about them, and everything else in-between
Death Care: Nonfiction
Nonfiction books on the way we care for the dead and dying - always looking for recommendations!
Morbid & Macabre
Inspired by the Morbidly Curious Book Club, these are nonfiction books that tackle topics often treated as taboo or seen as too grim and grisly to discuss.
there are two certainties in life
and this list is not books about taxes.
non-fic about the end and after. taking any suggestions, as always!
non-fiction to talk about at parties
for those situations when you don't want to talk about your own life or the world around you...here are books that will provide trivia, interesting stories, or memorable quotes to regale your friends
What Makes Us Human? ๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐
Culture, biology, psychology, history. What makes us HUMAN?
see the world like an anthropologist
Non-textbooks to help you see the world like an anthropologist and understand culture a little better
Death positive non-fiction about death and dying
Death Studies and the Death Industry
Morbidly unspeakable in certain circles? Maybe. Useful if not crucial because taxes aren't actually certain but death is? I reckon probably.
The Midnight Gospel Reading List
for fans of Pendleton Ward & Duncan Trussell's animated Netflix series based on episodes of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast -- he interviewed folks about life, death, reality, magic, grief, faith, psychedelics, hallucinations, existential philosophy, and boundless love in the world. A bunch of those folks were authors! ~ I've added some supplemental reading for some of the faiths & fungi referenced
Books by Content Creator Authors
Books by authors who also have some followings on Youtube, Instagram, TikTok etc
