The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

White Noise

Don DeLillo

Death, Dissection and the Destitute

Ruth Richardson

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

Denis Johnson

Brains: The Mind as Matter

Marius Kwint

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

Richard Shepherd

Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag

POPism: The Warhol Sixties

Andy Warhol

Edie: An American Biography

Jean Stein

Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death

Mark Essig

Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France

Paul Friedland

The White Album

Joan Didion

Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays

Albert Camus

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

The American Way of Death Revisited

Jessica Mitford

The Rules Do Not Apply

Ariel Levy

Mortality

Christopher Hitchens

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

David Simon

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Bessel van der Kolk

The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Al Álvarez

The Hour of Our Death (Oxford Paperbacks)

Philippe Ariès

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

The Natural Death Handbook

The Natural Death Centre

Notes on Suicide

Simon Critchley

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande

Modern Nature

Derek Jarman