Best Novels About Death - April 2024

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven. Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely. For seve... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451695195
• ASIN: 1451695195
• ISBN: 1451695195
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
• ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
• Manufacturer: Harper

Fatal Starts: Two Gripping Jess Kimball Thrillers with Heart Pounding Suspense to Keep You Awake All Night (The Jess Kimball Thrillers Series Book 11)

Bestselling JESS KIMBALL SUSPENSE THRILLER SERIES Begins Here. Special Edition. Special Price. Limited time. From award-winning New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI in this special combined edition of the first novel and first novella in the highly addictive Jess Kimball Thrillers Series.Introducing Jess Kimball, the relentless heroine you'll really love. Jess is on a mission only she believes in, only she can complete. Her son was stolen. She wants him back. While she searches, she's on your side.Jess is a fiery woman, driven by her own past to fight for crime victims t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00A9JQIM6
• ASIN: B00A9JQIM6
• Manufacturer: AugustBooks

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: A Novel

• ASIN: 0062797158
• ASIN: 0062797158
• ISBN: 0062797158
• Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

Pilate's Key (John Pilate Mysteries Book 2)

A 2012 Kindle Book Review Awards semi-finalist for Best Mystery/Thriller! Named a "Page Turner" by Shelf Unbound Literary Magazine.Life's A Beach for John Pilate…Umbrella drink in hand and on the mend from a near-death experience, John Pilate is just starting to relax on the sun-soaked beaches of Key West when a dead man falls in his lap. Now he has blood on his hands, a mysterious poker chip in his pocket, shadows over his shoulder and a sexy cop in his bed. John Pilate is in trouble again--and the only way out is to hit the high seas and find the key…Pilate's Key. Scroll up to the upper ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B006XKH01S
• ASIN: B006XKH01S
• Manufacturer: Caroline Street Press

Educated: A Memoir

• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• ASIN: B072BLVM83
• Manufacturer: Random House

The Forgotten Ones: A Novel

A spellbinding novel about an unspeakable secret that could destroy a family, from the New York Times bestselling author of Finding Emma.Elle is a survivor. She’s managed to piece together a solid life from a childhood of broken memories and fairy tales her mom told her to explain away bad dreams. But weekly visits to her mother still fill Elle with a paralyzing fear she can’t explain. It’s just another of so many unanswered questions she grew up with in a family estranged by silence and secrets.Elle’s world turns upside down when she receives a deathbed request from her grandfather, a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B074QP3V2Z
• ASIN: B074QP3V2Z
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

• ASIN: 0787960756
• UPC: 723812391165
• ASIN: 0787960756
• ISBN: 0787960756
• Brand: Jossey-Bass
• Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass

The Color of a Memory (The Color of Heaven Series Book 5)

Find out why readers everywhere are clamoring for the next instalment of this thrilling, inspiring series.ER nurse Audrey Fitzgerald believed she was married to the perfect man - a heroic firefighter who saved lives, even beyond his own death. But a year after losing him she meets a mysterious woman who has some unexplained connection to her husband....Soon Audrey discovers that in the weeks leading up to her husband’s death, he was keeping secrets, and she wonders if she ever really knew him at all. Compelled to dig into his past and explore memories that define the essence of their relatio... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00JQOGUOQ
• ASIN: B00JQOGUOQ

The Book Thief

DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.  The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.  Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375842209
• ASIN: 0375842209
• ISBN: 9780375842207
• Brand: Alfred A. Knopf
• Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

The Great Gatsby

A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriousl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743273567
• ASIN: 0743273567
• ISBN: 9780743273565
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

Then She Was Gone: A Novel

A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist—Top 5 Best Mystery & Thriller * A Suspense Magazine “Best of 2018” Thriller/Suspense Pick “An acutely observed family drama with bone-chilling suspense.” —People “Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Her multilayered characters are sheer perfection, and even the most astute thriller reader won’t see where everything is going until the final threads are unknotted.” —Booklist, starred review “Sharply written with twists and turns, Jewell’s latest will please fans of Gon... [Read More]

• ASIN: B074MDD3H6
• ASIN: B074MDD3H6
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Red War (A Mitch Rapp Novel Book 15)

*Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller* The #1 New York Times bestselling series returns with Mitch Rapp racing to prevent Russia’s gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO. “Mills is the only writer capable of filling the enormous void left by Vince Flynn.”—The Real Book SpyWhen Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he’s determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious enough to require a more dramatic diversion—war wit... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07B3WJ9X7
• ASIN: B07B3WJ9X7
• Manufacturer: Atria/Emily Bestler Books

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   -  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable BookNamed a best book of the year by Amazon, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR, Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub, and SlateFrom the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history            In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world wer... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307742482
• ASIN: 0307742482
• ISBN: 0307742482
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

When Breath Becomes Air

• ASIN: 081298840X
• UPC: 642688054472
• ASIN: 081298840X
• ISBN: 081298840X
• Manufacturer: Random House

Connections in Death : An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death, Book 48) - Hardcover

9781250201577

• UPC: 301565783
• Rating: 4.714

Dark in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (in Death, Book 46)

Lieutenant Eve Dallas returns in the 46th In Death novel by the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling master of suspense, and takes on a case of death imitating art. Martin's

• UPC: 586998633
• Rating: 4.5

Leverage in Death : An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death, Book 47)

Lieutenant Eve Dallas puzzles over a bizarre suicide bombing in a Manhattan office building in the latest in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death

• UPC: 394842553
• Rating: 4.556

A Death in Live Oak : A Jack Swyteck Novel

From the 2017 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for legal fiction comes a powerful and timely story of race, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as today's headlines. When the body of

• UPC: 464482962
• Rating: 4.25

Secrets in Death : An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death, Book 45)

In Secrets in Death the #1 New York Times bestselling series by J.D. Robb continues: Lt. Eve Dallas must separate rumors from reality when a woman who traffics in other people's secrets is silenced.The chic

• UPC: 55698181
• Rating: 4.429

Death Doesn't Bargain : A Deadman's Cross Novel

Series order taken from author's

• UPC: 676235719
• Rating: 5.0

Death Doesn't Bargain : A Deadman's Cross Novel

9780765385734

• UPC: 519589416
• Rating: 5.0

I'm So Happy for You : A novel about best friends

Wendy's best friend, Daphne, has always been dependably prone to catastrophe. And Wendy has always been there to help. But when Daphne suddenly starts to surpass her in every way, Wendy is not so happy

• UPC: 10762203
• Rating: 3.857

The Death of Bunny Munro : A Novel

A tender portrait of the relationship between a boy and his father, with all the wit and enigma that fans will recognize as Nick Cave's singular

• UPC: 13984759
• Rating: 3.6

Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, Vol. 1 (light novel)

Programmer Ichirou Suzuki is transported to another world. In a foreign land, he finds that life is an adventure that's sometimes fun, sometimes serious, and full of

• UPC: 55202669