Book choices from past years:

2022

• Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale

• Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death by Joan Halifax

• A Beginners Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death by BJ Miller, MD and Shoshana Berger

• Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying by Mirabai Bush and Ram Dass

• The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life by Katy Butler

• Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson

2023

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

• The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death by Annie Kagan and Dr. Raymond Moody MD PhD

• The Five Invitations: Discovering What Life Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: The Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller

• Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow by Breeshia Wade

• LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice by Kimberly D. Acquaviva

2024

• From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty

• Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi and Abraham Verghese

• Choosing to Die: A Personal Story by Phyllis Shacter

• Holding Space by Amy Wright Glenn

• Greening Death by Suzanne Kelly

2025

• Briefly, Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur

• Love and Fear: Stories From a Hospice Chaplain by Renshin Bunce

• Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

2026

• Bodies in Motion and at Rest by Thomas Lynch

• Death Interrupted by Blair Bigham

• Too Poor to Die by Amy Shea

• Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monsó