Books related to death and dead bodies. Mostly nonfiction, but some fiction has slipped its way in.
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last updated July, 2026
The History of Death
Michael Kerrigan
Jumped, Fell, or Pushed: How Forensics Solved 50 "Perfect" Murders
Stephen A. Koehler
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
Noah Whiteman
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
Erika Engelhaupt
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Kate Summerscale
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
Emma Southon
The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
Lucy Worsley
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
Lydia Kang
Anatomy: A Love Story
Dana Schwartz
What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher
Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
John Blair
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
Greg Melville
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
Neil Bradbury
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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