📚 Death

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with death on their catalogue record, first published between 1689 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject death in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 43,799 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The grave	Robert Blair	1743	94
Night thoughts	Edward Young	1742	73
Life After Life	Raymond A. Moody	1975	65
A practical discourse concerning death	William Sherlock	1689	50
Our town	Thornton Wilder	1938	37
Being Mortal	Atul Gawande	2014	31
The Denial of Death	Ernest Becker	1973	21
The Last Lecture	Randy Pausch	2008	18
The last dance	Lynne Ann DeSpelder	1983	16
Saved by the light	Dannion Brinkley	1994	16
The Tibetan book of living and dying	Sogyal Rinpoche	1992	15
On death and dying	Elisabeth Kübler-Ross	1969	12
How We Die	Sherwin B. Nuland	1994	12
Death, society, and human experience	Robert Kastenbaum	1977	11
Between Death and Life	Dolores Cannon	1993	9
I wasn't ready to say goodbye	Brook Noel	2000	9
Death	Todd May	2009	9
From Here to Eternity	Caitlin Doughty	2017	9
The psychology of death	Robert Kastenbaum	1972	8
Staring at the Sun	Irvin D. Yalom	2008	8
On death and dying	Elisabeth Kübler-Ross	1970	6
Final gifts	Maggie Callanan	1992	6
Gratitude	Oliver Sacks	2001	6
All My Friends Are Dead	Avery Monsen	2010	6
Uzumaki	Junji Itō	2013	5
Heading Toward Omega	Kenneth Ring	1984	4
Embraced by the light	Betty J. Eadie	1994	4
All my friends are still dead	Avery Monsen	2012	4
Gone from my sight	Barbara Karnes	1986	3
Journey Of Souls	Michael Newton	1997	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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