Books that centre grief, funerals, deathcare, or embalming. Always appreciate recs — especially for fiction and funeral home settings.
created by cecil
last updated April, 2026
Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief
Cindy Barukh Milstein
Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief & Bereavement Across Cultures
Naomi Westerman
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel
The Funeral Party
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu
My Dead Book
Nate Lippens
The Restorative Artist
Cecil Fenn
All the Living and the Dead: An Exploration of the People Who Make Death Their Life's Work
Hayley Campbell
The Embalmer
Anne-Renée Caillé
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
Thomas W. Laqueur
Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty
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