The Best Books With Death in the Title

Updated November 18, 2017 350 votes 59 voters 7.6k views

It turns out that books with death in the title are way more common than you think. Here are 50+ good books with death in the title, including both fiction and non-fiction. It's safe to say that most of these titles are books that deal with deaths and dying, but the core commonality between these books is that they have the word death in the title.

Books with death in the title include Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy. If you have a favorite death book, vote it up below, or add it to the list if it's not already here. It doesn't matter if it's science fiction, fantasy, romance, or non-fiction - if the book has death in the name, it belongs on this list.

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Death at an Early Age
Jonathan Kozol
Subjects: Education, Schools, Massachusetts
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The Death of Kings
Conn Iggulden
First Published: 2004-01-05
Genres (Book): Alternate history, Historical fiction, Fiction, Historical novel
Original Language: English Language
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Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
First Published: 1912
Subjects: Literary, Homosexuality, Literature, Classics, Literary criticism
Genres (Book): Roman à clef, Fiction, Gay novel, Novella, Reference
Original Language: German Language
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Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
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Life and death
Andrea Dworkin
Subjects: Social science, Criminology, Gender studies, Women, Women's studies
Genres (Book): Sociology
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
First Published: 1927
Subjects: Literary, Literature, Clergy, New Mexico, Classics
Genres (Book): Historical fiction, Fiction, Novel
Original Language: English Language
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
First Published: 1886
Subjects: Terminal illness, Salvation, Fear of death, Saint Petersburg
Genres (Book): Philosophy, Fiction
Original Language: Russian Language

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The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
First Published: 1842-05
Subjects: Plague, Death
Genres (Book): Horror Film, Gothic fiction, Short story
Original Language: English Language
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Human personality and its survival of bodily death
Frederic William Henry Myers
Subjects: Philosophy, Immortality, Research, Parapsychology
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You Will Survive After Death
Sherwood Eddy
Subjects: Philosophy, New Age, Immortality, Parapsychology, Spiritualism
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Death Comes as the End
Agatha Christie
Subjects: Classics
Genres (Book): Crime Fiction, Suspense, Historical whodunnit, Mystery, Fiction
Original Language: English Language
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Appointment with Death
Agatha Christie
First Published: 1938
Subjects: England
Genres (Book): Crime Fiction, Suspense, Children's literature, Mystery, Fiction
Original Language: English Language
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Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Carl Sagan
First Published: 1997
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The black death and the transformation of the west
David Herlihy
Subjects: Europe, Internal medicine, Black Death, Medicine, Renaissance
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The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
Maurice Hewlett
Subjects: Literary
Genres (Book): Fiction
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The Death of Socrates
Emily Wilson
First Published: 2007-10
Subjects: Philosophy, Socrates, World, Ancient philosophy, Greece
Genres (Book): Biography
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Death By Water
Kerry Greenwood
Genres (Book): Suspense, Mystery, Fiction
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Death by chocolate
Marcel Desaulniers
Subjects: Technology, Home economics, Wine, Chocolate, Cooking
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The birth and death of the sun
George Gamow
Subjects: Evolution, Science, Astronomy, Sun
Genres (Book): Mathematics, Science
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Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
Subjects: Egypt, Radio, England
Genres (Book): Crime Fiction, Suspense, Mystery, Fiction
Original Language: English Language
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Death of a stranger
Anne Perry
Subjects: Medical, London, England
Genres (Book): Suspense, Historical fiction, Mystery, Fiction
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Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death
Ramsey Campbell
Genres (Book): Speculative fiction
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The death of Adam
Marilynne Robinson
Subjects: Civilization, Literature, Theology, Classics, United States of America
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Death ground
Daniel P. Bolger
Subjects: Military science, Security, US Marines, Army, Warfare
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Death by fame
Andrew Sinclair
Subjects: Austria, History, World history
Genres (Book): Biography