Death, Grief and Bereavement
- Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome, by Rebecca Soffer,
- Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved, by Kate Bowler
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying by Maggie Callahan
- Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us How to Live by
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
- In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying by Eve Joseph
- On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross & Ira Byock
- On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross & David Kessler
- A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
- Talking About Death by Virginia Morris
- I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye by Brook Noel & Pamela Blair
- How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
- Death’s Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Teaches Us About Life and Living by Brandy Schillace
- Grief is a Mess by Jackie Schuld
End-of-Life Care
- Extreme Measures Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, by Jessica Zitter
- Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between by Theresa Brown
- Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death by Katy Butler
- The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life by Ira Byock, MD
- Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life by Maggie Callahan
- Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Care and the Patient with a Life-Threatening Illness by Hank Dunn
- Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters Most in the End by Atul Gawande (Bonus: Being Mortal Discussion Guide)
- Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System by Stephen P. Kiernan
- The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America by Ann Neumann
- Hope for a Cool Pillow by Margaret Overton
- The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care by Angelo Volandes
Gerontology and Aging
- How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age by Jo Ann Jenkins
- From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald S. Miller
- When the Time Comes: Families with Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions by Paula Span
- Second Wind: Navigating the Passage into a Slower, Deeper, and More Connected Life by Dr. Bill Thomas
- Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
Memoirs
- It's OK to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too), by Nora McInerny
- Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lessonby Mitch Albom
- Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir by Roz Chast
- The Iceberg: A Memoir by Marion Coutts
- We Know How This Ends: Living While Dying by Bruce H. Kramer with Cathy Wurzer
- Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Until Further Notice, I Am Alive by Tom Lubbock
- Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir by David Rieff
- Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
Spirituality and Self-Help
- The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully, Frank Ostaseski
- The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living by Ira Byock, MD
- Being with the Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death by Joan Halifax
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naommi Remen
- Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living by Krista Tippett