Death: A Life

10 best books like Death: A Life (George Pendle): Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava, Gil's All Fright Diner, A Dirty Job, Bloodsucking Fiends, Ark, The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion, Divine Misfortune, Soldier Dogs, The Last Conversation

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Author	Christopher Moore
ISBN	0380813815

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely...

From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava

Author	Jay Kopelman
ISBN	1592289800

When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire.

What they find during the U.S -led attack on the "most dangerous city on Earth," however, is not an insurgent bent on revenge, but...

Gil's All Fright Diner

Author	A. Lee Martinez
ISBN	0765350017

Bloodier than Fried Green Tomatoes!
Funnier than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!

Welcome to Gil's All Night Diner, where zombie attacks are a regular occurrence and you never know what might be lurking in the freezer. . . .

Duke and Earl are just passing through Rockwood county...

A Dirty Job

Author	Christopher Moore
ISBN	0060590270

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers...

Bloodsucking Fiends

Author	Christopher Moore
ISBN	0060735414

There is an alternate cover edition here.

Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her.

Making the...

Ark

Author

Veronica Roth

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy.

It’s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already...

The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion

Author	Gerard Way
ISBN	1506711421

With a new Netflix series, the best-selling graphic novels return--with the original creators!

Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance, Doom Patrol) and Gabriel Bá (Two Brothers, Casanova) have earned awards and accolades on their separate projects, and finally return to their breakout 2007...

Divine Misfortune

Author	A. Lee Martinez
ISBN	0316041270

Divine was the perfect little quickie, a fast irreverent read at a time when I couldn't give a book quality attention. You know how it is--some books deserve contemplation (Claire DeWitt, I'm talking to you), some require intellectual engagement (China is notorious for this), some insist you immerse...

Soldier Dogs

Author	Maria Goodavage
ISBN	0525952780

A leading dog-blogger offers a tour of military working dogs' extraordinary training, heroic accomplishments, and the lasting impacts they have on those who work with them.
People all over the world have been riveted by the story of Cairo, the Belgian Malinois who was a part of the Navy SEAL team...

The Last Conversation

Author

Paul Tremblay

What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness.

Imagine you’ve woken up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of who you are, how you got there, or where...

You Have Arrived at Your Destination

Author

Amor Towles

Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow.

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next...