History
The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years – Philippe Ariès
The Corpse: A History – Christine Quigley
Death in England: An Illustrated History – Edited by Peter C Jupp & Clare Gittings
Death, Religion and the Family in England, 1480—1750 – Ralph Houlbrooke
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War – Drew Gilpin Faust
The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883 – Gary Laderman
Science & Medicine
After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver – Norman L. Cantor
Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? – Kenneth V. Iserson
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
The Rethinking Mortality series at the New York Academy of Sciences, 2013-2014.
Letting Go: What Should Medicine Do When It Can’t Save Your Life? (The New Yorker)
Sociology & Anthropology
Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader – Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual – Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington
Funeral Festivals in America – Jacqueline S. Thursby
The Funeral Industry
The American Way of Death – Jessica Mitford
Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America – Gary Laderman
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade – Thomas Lynch
Facing Your Mortality
The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death – Irvin D. Yalom
Talking about Death – Virginia Morris
Thinking about Death Can Make You Value Life More – Nathan Heflick
Ask a Mortician / Order of the Good Death Youtube Channel
Green Death
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial – Mark Harris
The Natural Death Handbook – Natural Death Centre
Grave Danger: The Emergence of the Sustainable Death Movement (GOOD Magazine)
The Greenest Things to Do With Your Body After You Die (The Atlantic)
DIY Death: Natural, At-Home Funerals And Their Boomer Appeal (WBUR)
Death & Youth
Carry On & A Fashionable Death (Rookie Mag) – Esme B.
Thinking About Dying Will Change Your Life (Rookie Mag) – Danielle
Children’s Books about Death (A list from National Association for the Education of Young Children)
Books to Help You Explain Death to Children (A list from Aha! Parenting)
Death in General
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead – David Shields
Speaking of Death: America’s New Sense of Mortality – Michael K. Bartalos
Thinking Clearly About Death – Jay F. Rosenberg
Whole Death Catalog – Harold Schechter
Handbook of Death and Dying – Edited by Clifton D. Bryant
Encyclopedia of Death: Myth, History, Philosophy, Science—The Many Aspects of Death and Dying – Beatrice Kastenbaum and Robert Kastenbaum
The Death Class: A True Story About Life – Erika Hayasaki
Photography
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880-1930 – John Warner
Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America (and Sleeping Beauty II and III) – The Burns Archive
Books and Articles by Order of the Good Death Members
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius & Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith – Colin Dickey
The Morbid Anatomy Anthology – Edited by Colin Dickey and Joanna Ebenstein
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory – Caitlin Doughty
The Mummies of Mexico City (Atlas Obscura) – Elizabeth Harper
The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses & Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs – Paul Koudounaris
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses & Fond Farewells: A Reconsideration of the American Way of Death (Lapham’s Quarterly) – Bess Lovejoy
Stayin’ Alive (Lapham’s Quarterly) & Let’s Talk About Death, Says Medical Librarian Donating Her Corpse to Science (WHYY’s The Pulse) – Megan Rosenbloom