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Books Recommended by the Order of the Good Death

A list of books about death, and topics surrounding it, recommended by The Order of the Good Death, an organization dedicated to educating the public on death and the funeral industry.
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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Thomas W. Laquer)
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
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Thomas W. Laquer
Passed On: African American Mourning Stories (Karla FC Holloway)
Passed On: African American Mourning Stories
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Karla FC Holloway
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Found (Frances Larson)
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Found
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Frances Larson
Death and the Idea of Mexico (Claudio Lomnitz)
Death and the Idea of Mexico
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Claudio Lomnitz
The Politics of Mourning (Micki McElya)
The Politics of Mourning
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Micki McElya
The Eye of the Beholder: Julia Pastrana's Long Journey Home (Laura Anderson Barbata)
The Eye of the Beholder: Julia Pastrana's Long Journey Home
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Laura Anderson Barbata
Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Dr. Andrew Chesnut)
Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint
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Dr. Andrew Chesnut
Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends (Michiko Iwasaka)
Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends
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Michiko Iwasaka
Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera (Various Authors)
Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera
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Various Authors
Over Her Dead Body: Femininity, Death and the Aesthetic (Elizabeth Bronfen)
Over Her Dead Body: Femininity, Death and the Aesthetic
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Elizabeth Bronfen
Death and the American South (Lorri Glover (Editor))
Death and the American South
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Lorri Glover (Editor)
The Potent Dead (Henri Chambert-Loir)
The Potent Dead
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Henri Chambert-Loir
The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange With the Dead in Thailand (Alan Kilma)
The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange With the Dead in Thailand
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Alan Kilma
Dying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries Into Indigenous Deaths in Custody (Sherene H. Razack)
Dying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries Into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
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Sherene H. Razack
Blood of Emmett Till (Tyson)
Blood of Emmett Till
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Tyson
Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America (Stephen Prothero)
Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America
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Stephen Prothero
Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Right's Century (Jason Morgan Ward)
Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Right's Century
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Jason Morgan Ward
Death, Dissection and the Destitute (Ruth Richardson)
Death, Dissection and the Destitute
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Ruth Richardson
A Social History of Dying (Allen Kellehear)
A Social History of Dying
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Allen Kellehear
African American Historic Burial Grounds and Gravesites of New England (Glenn Knoblock)
African American Historic Burial Grounds and Gravesites of New England
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Glenn Knoblock
The Corpse: A History (Christine Quigley)
The Corpse: A History
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Christine Quigley
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Jason De Leon)
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
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Jason De Leon
Death in England: An Illustrated History (Edited by Peter C Jupp & Clare Gittings)
Death in England: An Illustrated History
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Edited by Peter C Jupp & Clare Gittings
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Drew Gilpin Faust)
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
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Drew Gilpin Faust
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Dorothy Roberts)
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
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Dorothy Roberts
The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883 (Gary Laderman)
The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883
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Gary Laderman
Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader (Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben)
Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader
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Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Dying of Whiteness (Jonathan M. Metzl)
Dying of Whiteness
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Jonathan M. Metzl
Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual (Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington)
Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual
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Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington
Funeral Festivals in America (Jacqueline S. Thursby)
Funeral Festivals in America
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Jacqueline S. Thursby
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (Barbara Ransby)
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
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Barbara Ransby
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession (Alice Bolin)
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
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Alice Bolin
The American Way of Death
The American Way of Death
33
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home (Sheri Booker)
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home
34
Sheri Booker
The Law of Human Remains (Tanya Marsh)
The Law of Human Remains
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Tanya Marsh
To Serve the Living : Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death (Suzanne E. Smith)
To Serve the Living : Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
36
Suzanne E. Smith
Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth Century America (Gary Laderman)
Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth Century America
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Gary Laderman
Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States (Tanya Marsh)
Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States
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Tanya Marsh
The Denial of Death (Ernest Becker)
The Denial of Death
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Ernest Becker
The Worm at the Core (Sheldon Solomon)
The Worm at the Core
40
Sheldon Solomon
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