Lists of Bests: FrancisFrownsalot's "Books About Death" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/58613 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:09:20 GMT en-us 0 50 62 50 0 How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18869 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18869"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679742441.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43057143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwin B. Nuland</div> The Good Husband (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1060434 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1060434"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345396456.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113649130_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gail Godwin</div> Tender Mercies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/805722 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/805722"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385333323.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rosellen Brown</div> The Butcher Boy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10055 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10055"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385312377.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick McCabe</div> A Private View (Vintage Contemporaries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/728667 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/728667"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679754431.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anita Brookner</div> Death : The Trip of a Lifetime http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2075695 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greg Palmer</div> A Map of the World (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10525 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10525"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385720106.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Hamilton</div> Patrimony : A True Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177882 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/177882"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679752935.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Fatigue Artist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1260643 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1260643"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/068482468X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124157553_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynne Sharon Schwartz</div> Summer of Rescue http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5254528 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5254528"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oM99RUF8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Nelson</div> Dying Young http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1811175 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marti Leimbach</div> Mr. Ives' Christmas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66865 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66865"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060927542.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Hijuelos</div> When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3433428 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3433428"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/1111rLXcqhL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Blake Morrison</div> THE HANGMAN'S TALE. Memoirs of a Public Executioner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5287155 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Syd with NEWMAN, David. DERNLEY</div> Martin and John: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972354 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972354"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530300.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64036471_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dale Peck</div> Sleep Thieves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/256951 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/256951"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684831848.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465516_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley Coren</div> Geography of the Heart: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2005424 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2005424"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671009834.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fenton Johnson</div> First Comes Love (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/887104 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/887104"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679765557.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marion Winik</div> Treasure Box http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1744 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1744"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006109398X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1099629153_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Orson Scott Card</div> Disappearance: A Map: A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3952 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3952"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156004984.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sheila Nickerson</div> Live Girls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4773359 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4773359"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EMQKG0JFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Beth Nugent</div> After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss through the Years http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1956676 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1956676"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/080185914X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann K. Finkbeiner</div> Middle Son http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1631346 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1631346"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565121198.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Deborah Iida</div> Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69706 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69706"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452278236.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George McGovern</div> Journal of Antonio Montoya http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4490685 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4490685"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21SVVXTTQ4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rick Collignon</div> In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5381870 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5381870"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51snKbUEalL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathryn Black</div> Wrongful Death: A Memoir (Norton Paperback) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/517747 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/517747"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393315169.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439854_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sandra M. Gilbert</div> Being Brett http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1422833 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1422833"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0805071180.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Hobbie</div> Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5381946 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5381946"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21B22ERKFJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christina Middlebrook</div> Sweet Hereafter Movie Tie-In: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1216 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1216"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060923245.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414476_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Banks</div> Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127120 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/127120"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140247602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fergal Keane</div> Swimming the Channel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4737359 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4737359"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NDA7Q2MGL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sally Friedman</div> My Dark Places http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19019 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19019"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679762051.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V41156276_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Ellroy</div> It's Always Something http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58091 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58091"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/038081322X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gilda Radner</div> Killing Me Softly: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/193870 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/193870"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061056111.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414674_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gardner R. Dozois</div> This Wild Darkness: The Story of my Death http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442098 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/442098"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805055118.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold Brodkey</div> Moon Tiger http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65396 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65396"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802135331.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Penelope Lively</div> Epigraph: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1026437 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1026437"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1568580762.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gordon Lish</div> Dying Well http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31235 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31235"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573226572.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138687975_.jpg" /></a></div> Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33706 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33706"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1883620228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenneth V. Iserson</div> The Trick Is to Keep Breathing: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30308 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/30308"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1564780813.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1084600321_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janice Galloway</div> Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients and Assisted Suicide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5944501 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5944501"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71DN7P573BL._SL75_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herbert Hendin</div> Ava http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/406117 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/406117"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1564780740.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carole Maso</div> Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495313 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/495313"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0738210269.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hope Edelman</div> My Sergei: A Love Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/338242 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/338242"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/044652087X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057190937_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ekaterina Gordeeva</div> Famine http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3845338 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3845338"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31RDFKZJ8RL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Todd Komarnicki</div> My Drowning http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/398807 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/398807"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684841231.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Grimsley</div> Water Dancer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6008941 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennifer LEVIN</div> Necessary Madness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45408 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45408"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446606065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134637151_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jenn Crowell</div> ...Or Not to Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1010989 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1010989"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1573225800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marc Etkind</div>