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All awards · Topic: Death, Memory & Commemoration · Sorted by score · 303 books · filtered
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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After CommunismTina Rosenberg199524 pts3 wins3 listsRandom HousePolitics & GovernmentCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution,Tania Branigan202324 pts1 wins5 listsW. W. NortonHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal RemainsThomas W. Laqueur201622 pts4 wins4 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryArchives, Museums & Historical Method+2
Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet EmpireDavid Remnick199322 pts3 wins4 listsRandom HouseHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic MemoirTessa Hulls202422 pts2 wins5 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
Munich: The Price of PeaceTelford Taylor197918 pts1 wins3 listsVintage BooksHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+1
Minor Feelings: An Asian American ReckoningCathy Park Hong202016 pts1 wins3 listsOne WorldMemoir & AutobiographyAsia & the Pacific+2
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor WarThomas G. Andrews201014 pts2 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
God's Architect: Pugin & the Building of Romantic BritainRosemary Hill200714 pts2 wins2 listsAllen LaneBiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among GhostsMaxine Hong Kingston197614 pts2 wins2 listsKnopfMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
Mother Mary Comes to MeArundhati Roy202514 pts1 wins2 listsScribnerMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the TsarsDaniel Beer201714 pts1 wins2 listsBasic BooksHistoryEurope & Russia+2
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of ToleranceIan Buruma200614 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressTrue Crime & JusticeLiterature & Writers+2
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th CenturyBarbara W. Tuchman197814 pts1 wins2 listsBallantine BooksHistoryEurope & Russia+3
The Memory PalaceMira Bartók201112 pts1 wins2 listsFree PressMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant ConnectionMichael Harris201410 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand CreekAri Kelman201310 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryIndigenous History+3
Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's ForestSusan Brigden201210 pts1 wins1 listsFaber & FaberBiographyCourts & Trials+3
Age of FractureDaniel T. Rodgers201110 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity & Memory in Early Modern Britain & IrelandAlexandra Walsham201110 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressReligionReligion & Religious Movements+1
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman TownMary Beard201010 pts1 wins1 listsProfile BooksHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided FranceRuth Harris201010 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneHistoryCourts & Trials+3
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American IdentityJill Lepore199810 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Making of MemorySteven Rose199210 pts1 wins1 listsTransworldScienceDeath, Memory & Commemoration+1
In the Sleep RoomAnne Collins198810 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death Among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-century FranceJohn McManners198110 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryMental Health & Psychology+3
Death in Paris, 1795-1801Richard Cobb197810 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryRegional & Local History+1
The Last Cowboy: Europeans and The Politics of MemoryJane Kramer197710 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyEurope & Russia+2
Lincoln, the President: Last Full MeasureJ. G. Randall, Richard N. Current195510 pts1 wins1 listsDodd, Mead & CompanyBiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910Richard Evans198910 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryAmerican Politics+1
Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian ArmyChristie Blatchford200810 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800Christopher Wickham200610 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Mapping the DeepRobert Kunzig200110 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+3
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain SurgeryHenry Marsh201410 pts1 wins4 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonMedicine & Public HealthDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small TownNick Reding20098 pts2 wins2 listsBloomsburySociety & CultureClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Poetry and the Fate of the SensesSusan Stewart20028 pts2 wins2 listsUniversity of Chicago PressArts & CriticismDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid EpidemicEric Eyre20208 pts2 wins2 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
God: An AnatomyFrancesca Stavrakopoulou20218 pts1 wins2 listsMacmillanReligionFood, Agriculture & Land+3
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s MemoirNatasha Trethewey20218 pts1 wins2 listsEccoMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short LivesGary Younge20168 pts1 wins3 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930sMalcolm Cowley19808 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintHistoryMemoir & Personal History+2
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever ChemicalsMariah Blake20258 pts0 wins3 listsCrownMedicine & Public HealthScience & Discovery+3
The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front 1915–1919Mark Thompson20096 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+1
An American Summer: Love and Death in ChicagoAlex Kotlowitz20196 pts1 wins2 listsNan A. TaleseSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about OurselvesFrans de Waal20196 pts1 wins2 listsW. W. NortonScienceScience & Discovery+3
Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic SocietyLeor Halevi20076 pts1 wins2 listsColumbia University PressHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
A Truce That Is Not PeaceMiriam Toews20256 pts0 wins2 listsKnopf CanadaMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+3
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep StateKerry Howley20236 pts0 wins2 listsKnopfPolitics & GovernmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing PersonsLaura Cumming20196 pts0 wins2 listsChatto & WindusMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A MemorialViet Thanh Nguyen20236 pts0 wins2 listsGrove PressMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie ColvinLindsey Hilsum20186 pts0 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Looking at Women, Looking at WarVictoria Amelina20254 pts1 wins1 listsSt. Martin's PressWar & MilitaryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic PoetryMichael B. Cosmopoulos20254 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryEssays & Cultural Criticism+1
After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of ZumbiMarc A. Hertzman20244 pts1 wins1 listsDuke University PressRace & EthnicityDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from Leonardo da Vinci to NowStéphane Douady, Jacques Dumais, Christophe Golé,, Nancy Pick20244 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+1
Squanto: A Native OdysseyAndrew Lipman20244 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressBiographyIndigenous History+3
The Presidents and the Planet: Climate Change Science and Politics from Eisenhower to BushJay Hakes20244 pts1 wins1 listsLSU PressPolitics & GovernmentScience & Discovery+3
Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron CurtainSonja K. Pieck20234 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressNature & EnvironmentImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-AndalusEric Calderwood20234 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old FossilsDale Greenwalt20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living WorldLixing Sun20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented RhythmDan Charnas20224 pts1 wins1 listsSwift PressBiographyArt, Music & Performance+3
Rules: A Short History of What We Live ByLorraine Daston20224 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
A Constitution for the Living: Imagining How Five Generations of Americans Would Rewrite the Nation’s Fundamental LawBeau Breslin20214 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Fox & I: An Uncommon FriendshipCatherine Raven20214 pts1 wins1 listsSpiegel & GrauMemoir & AutobiographyPrisons & Incarceration+3
Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0Diana Fosha20214 pts1 wins1 listsAmerican Psychological AssociationScienceDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic MythMagda Teter20204 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Had I Known: Collected EssaysBarbara Ehrenreich20204 pts1 wins1 listsTwelveSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Louder I Will SingLee Lawrence20204 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Mystery of Charles DickensA. N. Wilson20204 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsBiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Leonardo da Vinci RediscoveredCarmen C. Bambach20194 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressArts & CriticismEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of ReadingLeah Price20194 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Against MemoirMichelle Tea20184 pts1 wins1 listsFeminist PressMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+3
Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in UlsterGuy Beiner20184 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryRegional & Local History+1
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western CultureEleonory Gilburd20184 pts1 wins1 listsBelknap PressJournalism & ReportageArt, Music & Performance+3
Unearthing childhood: Young lives in prehistoryRobin Derricourt20184 pts1 wins1 listsManchester University PressHistoryMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted TerritoryKeggie Carew20164 pts1 wins1 listsChatto & WindusMemoir & AutobiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban LifeJonathan F.P. Rose20164 pts1 wins1 listsHarper WavePolitics & GovernmentScience & Discovery+3
Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan CommunityMax Bergholz20164 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Other People's Countries: A Journey into MemoryPatrick McGuinness20154 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseMemoir & AutobiographyImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Stalin: New Biography of a DictatorOleg V. Khlevniuk20154 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressBiographyCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval EuropeE.M. Rose20154 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryCourts & Trials+3
Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since DarwinTim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie20144 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The True American: Murder and Mercy in TexasAnand Giridharadas20144 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonRace & EthnicityDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
China Mission: A Personal History from the Last Imperial Dynasty to the People's RepublicAudrey Ronning Topping20134 pts1 wins1 listsLSU PressMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War NorthPeter John Brownlee, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene,, Scott Manning Stevens20134 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie ParkerStanley Crouch20134 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsBiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your BehaviorLeonard Mlodinow20134 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksScienceCourts & Trials+3
The Body in History: Europe from the Paleolithic to the FutureJohn Robb, Oliver J.T. Harris20134 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the ReformationRobert Bartlett20134 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressReligionArt, Music & Performance+3
Modernist Mysteries: PersephoneTamara Levitz20124 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward ThomasMatthew Hollis20114 pts1 wins1 listsFaber & FaberBiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Essays from the Nick of TimeMark Slouka20104 pts1 wins1 listsGraywolf PressSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Footnotes in GazaJoe Sacco20104 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanJournalism & ReportageCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its LegacySusan M. Reverby20094 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressMedicine & Public HealthDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its MeaningPeter Trachtenberg20084 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Treasure of the San Jose: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish SuccessionCarla Rahn Phillips20074 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Pictures of NothingKirk Varnedoe20064 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressArts & CriticismDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
A Past in Hiding: Memory and Survival in Nazi GermanyMark Roseman20004 pts1 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksBiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2
Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America, 1866-1994FotoFest, Edited by: Wendy Watriss, Lois Parkinson Zamora19984 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Texas PressArts & CriticismDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
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All awards · Topic: Death, Memory & Commemoration · Sorted by score · 303 books · filtered