Recs if you like The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains...
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.
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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
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Morbid & Mourning
Books that centre grief, funerals, deathcare, or embalming. Always appreciate recs — especially for fiction and funeral home settings.
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“All the Living and the Dead” book recs
Books cited in Hayley Campbell’s “All the Living and the Dead.” Incomplete as of 6/12/26.
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Cundill History Prize Winners
The Cundill History Prize is an annual Canadian literary award for history writing in English. The prize is awarded to an author whose book, published in the past year, demonstrates "historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal".
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