- Aberration of the Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War Era by Diane Sommerville
- Burning the Devil in Guatemala by Kate Newman (National Geographic, December 4, 2012)
- Cemeteries & Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture by Richard Meyer (editor)
- Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors by Sue Chung and Priscilla Wegars
- “Chinese Graves and Gravemarkers in Hong Kong” by Chun-shing Chow and Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather (Markers, 1998)
- “Composantos: Sacred Places of the Southwest” by Laura Sanborn (Markers, 1989)
- Dance of Life to Honor Death by Joan Chatfield-Taylor (New York Times, February 22, 2004)
- Death and the Afterlife in African Culture by Kwasi Wiredu (within Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies I edited by Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye)
- Death and the American South by Craig Thompson and Lorri Glover (editors)
- Death Becomes Her: Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth Century America by Sheri Weinstein and Elizabeth Dill
- Death and Dying in New Mexico by Martina Will de Chaparro
- Death and Dying: Views from Many Cultures by Richard Kalish (editor)
- Death and the Idea of Mexico by Claudio Lomnitz
- Death & the Maiden
- Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 by Erik Seeman
- Departures (2008)
- Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity by Adam Rosenblatt
- Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife by Candi Cann
- End Game (2018)
- Ethnicity and the American Cemetery by Richard Meyer (editor)
- Extremis (2016)
- “Falling Seeds Take Root: Ritualizing Chinese American Identity Through Funerals” by Juwen Zhang (dissertation)
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- “Life’s Quiet Companion” by Greg Lehman (within The Penguin Book of Death edited by Gabrielle Carey and Rosemary Sorenson)
- Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America by Donald Joralemon
- Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies by Zygmundt Bauman
- My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die by Kevin Toolis
- “Nine Night” by Natasha Gordon (stage play)
- “Myths Laid to Rest: Death, Burial, and Memory in the American South” by Kristen Burton (dissertation)
- “Negotiations of Individual and Community Identity: A Study of Chinese-Canadian Mortuary Material Culture in Vancouver and Victoria, 1900-1960” by Ani Chenier (thesis)
- Race & the Funeral Profession: What Jessica Mitford Missed by Kami Fletcher
- Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America by Ann Braude
- “Real Business: Maryland’s First Black Cemetery Journey’s Into the Enterprise of Death, 1870-1920” by Kami Fletcher (Thanatological Studies, 2014)
- Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
- Taking Care of Business: Canadian Community Mausoleums and the Commercialization of Death, 1912-1936” by Dorothy Smith (Markers, 2015)
- Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda Manigault-Bryan
- The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat
- The Aztec Women Who Became Goddesses After Dying During Childbirth by Alejandro López
- The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosina, Croatia and Kosovo by Clea Koff
- The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
- “The Changing Perceptions of Death and Burial: A Look at the Nigerian Obituaries” by Stella Ogbuagu (Anthropologica, 1989)
- The Famished Road by Ben Okri
- The Impossibility of Religious Freedom by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
- The Long Goodbye: Why Funerals are Big Deals in Ghana by Paula Newton, CNN (March 11, 2014)
- We Regret to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
- “What Lies Beneath: Reading the Cultural Landscape of Graveyard and Burial Grounds in African-American History and Literature” by Deborah Lafayette Henderson (dissertation)
The Collective for Radical Death Studies
