Anon, Beowulf (10th -11th c)
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1848)
Emily Dickinson, Complete Poems (2016)
Susan Hill, The Woman in Black (1998)
Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla (1872)
C. S. Lewis, A grief observed (2015)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818).
Robert Louis Stevenson, The body snatcher (1884).
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Suicide Club (1878)
Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
Alfred Lord Tennyson, In memoriam (1850).
Claire Adam, Golden child
Julian Barnes, Levels of life
Anne Beecher, Here comes the miracle
Salena Godden, Mrs Death misses death
Matt Haig, The midnight library
Patricia Highsmith, The talented Mr Ripley
Cathy Hopkins, The kicking the bucket list
Andrew Michael Hurley, Starve Acre
Kis, Danilo, The encyclopaedia of the dead
Andrey Kurkov, Death and the penguin
Andrey Kurkov, Penguin lost
Clare Mackintosh, After the end
Hilary Mantel, The giant, O’Brien
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet
Sylvia Plath, Collected poems
Sylvia Plath, The bell jar
Max Porter, Grief is the thing with feathers
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Terry Pratchett, Mort
Terry Pratchett, Reaper man
Terry Pratchett, Soul music
Terry Pratchett, Thief of time
Sarah Rayner, One moment, one morning
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Muriel Spark, Memento mori
Markus Zusak, The book thief
Iain M. Banks, Surface detail
Kevin Brockmeier, The brief history of the dead
Philip K. Dick, A maze of death
Philip K. Dick, Ubik
William Gibson, Neuromancer
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never let me go
Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the sun
Marlon James, A brief history of seven killings
Ursula K. Le Guin, The books of Earthsea
Richard K. Morgan, Altered carbon
Tarjei Vesaas, The ice palace
Sue Black, All that remains: a life in death
Sue Black, Written in bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind
Rachel Clarke, Dear life: a doctor's story of love and loss
Caitlin Doughty, From here to eternity
Caitlin Doughty, Smoke gets in your eyes
Niamh Fitzpatrick, Tell me the truth about loss: a psychologist’s personal story of loss, grief and finding hope
Matt Haig, Reasons to stay alive
Thomas Lynch, The undertaking
Anna Lyons and Louise Winters, We all know how this ends
Helen Macdonald, H is for hawk
Kathryn Mannix, With the end in mind
Kenneth McKenzie and Todd Harra, Mortuary confidential
Seamus O’Mahony, The way we die now
Nina Praske, Love in the present tense: a bereaved mum's story
Denise Riley, Time lived, without its flow
Mary Roach, Stiff
Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted by grief
Cory Taylor, Dying: a memoir
Kavin Toolis, My father’s wake: how the Irish teach us to live, love and die
Carla Valentine, Past mortems: life and death behind mortuary doors