Recs if you like From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death...

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.

Books that are part memoir part another genre: in a way that blends multiple mediums and/or themes in unique and engaging ways. Magical, explosive and memorable narratives expressed with creativity and depth. Books that inspire me to write more.

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.

Non-fiction about horror, those is the horror industry, horror-adjacent subjects, and down-right terrifying books.

Books about death, dying, grief and what remains.

What can I say? I love bones 🤷‍♀️💀 and def open to suggestions, any genre!

Books that tackle death and dying.

how we keep them, how they happen, how they taste, how we think about them, and everything else in-between

Nonfiction that makes me think of The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir.

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.

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.

Nonfiction books on the way we care for the dead and dying - always looking for recommendations!

and this list is not books about taxes.

non-fic about the end and after. taking any suggestions, as always!

Culture, biology, psychology, history. What makes us HUMAN?

Non-textbooks to help you see the world like an anthropologist and understand culture a little better

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

Morbidly unspeakable in certain circles? Maybe. Useful if not crucial because taxes aren't actually certain but death is? I reckon probably.

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