I'm interested in finding books that have cool representation(s) of death and/or the afterlife. I read The Book Thief when I was in junior high, and I often think about how much I loved that Death was a character with a personality and emotions. I also love Dante's Divine Comedy, and I've been into the video game Spiritfarer lately.
I know I'm not being all that specific. It could be anything, I just want differing representations of death and the afterlife, limbo, purgatory, reward and punishment, reincarnation, etc.. I suppose the genre would have to be horror/suspense, but if there's suggestions outside those genres, I'm totally open to them.
Thanks!
by 39Volunteer
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Good Old Neon
Try the Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. It won the Booker prize a couple of years ago and is fantastic- really, really different.
There’s also Lincoln in the Bardo, another Booker prize winner.
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
The DEATH subseries of the *Discworld Series*, by Terry Pratchett: *Mort*, *Reaper Man*, *Soul Music*, *Hogfather*, *Thief of Time*.
A different vibe, but several of the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett have Death as a main character. ‘Mort’ is probably the most popular.
{{A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore}}