End-of-Life Reading List

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Back Cover

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

A practicing surgeon addresses his profession’s ultimate limitation

When Breath Becomes Air Hardcover

When Breath Becomes Air

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life…

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying Hardcover

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

An exquisite memoir about how to live–and love–every day…

On Living Hardcover

On Living

As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan didn’t offer sermons or prayers, unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about God, at least not overtly. Instead, she discovered she’d been granted an invaluable chance to…

A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death Paperback

A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

“There is nothing wrong with you for dying,” hospice physician B.J. Miller and journalist and caregiver Shoshana Berger write…

The Art of Dying Well

The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and…

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved

Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a…

No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

Kate Bowler believed that life was a series of unlimited choices, until she discovered…

The Private Worlds of Dying Children

The Private Worlds of Dying Children

The death of a child, writes Myra Bluebond-Langner, poignantly underlines the impact of social and cultural factors on the way that…

Tuesday’s With Morrie

Tuesday’s With Morrie

The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where…

The Book of Two Ways

The Book of Two Ways

Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on a plane when the flight…

Between Two Kingdoms

Between Two Kingdoms

It started with an itch – first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible…

In Love

In Love

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love leads them to find a courageous…

The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

“Julie Yip-Williams lived a life defined by effort and…

Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

Extreme Measures charts Zitter’s journey from wanting to be one kind of hero to becoming…

A Heart that Works

A Heart that Works

A Heart That Works is Delaney’s intimate, unflinching, and fiercely funny exploration of what happened – from the harrowing illness to the vivid, bodily impact of grief and the blind, furious rage that followed through to the forceful, unstoppable love that…

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew…

Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living

Personal Effects is an unsparing, up-close look at the difficult work Jensen does behind the yellow tape and the lessons he learned…