Big Fish

“And that’s when I discovered that my father hadn’t been dying after all. He was just changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward in.”

author, Daniel Wallace (1998)

What Dreams May Come

“That which you believe becomes your world.”

author, Richard Matheson (1978)

Non Fiction

Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife by Leslie Kean (2017)

Cloud Atlas

“I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening.”

author, David Mitchell (2004)

Lincoln in the Bardo

“These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and in this way, brought them forth.”

author, George Saunders (2017)

The Graveyard Book

“If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.” 

author, Neil Gaiman (2008)

Selected books from fellow project contributors:

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (novel)

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

Grief by Andrew Holleran (novel)

Borrowed Time by Paul Monette (memoir)

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (novel)

The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket by John Weir (novel)

The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas W. Laqueur