Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre -- How We Dignify the Dead
10 best books like Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre -- How We Dignify the Dead (Sarah Murray): Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, Naked, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
| Author | Alison Bechdel |
| ISBN | 0618871713 |
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had...
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
| Author | David Sedaris |
| ISBN | 0965904830 |
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t...
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul!
Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking...
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
| Author | Mary Roach |
| ISBN | 0393329127 |
"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity...
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0307279464 |
The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America—majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll...
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
| Author | Mary Roach |
| ISBN | 0393348741 |
“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity...
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
| Author | Mary Roach |
| ISBN | 0393339912 |
Maybe she could have titled the book The Right Stiff.
I needed to have tissues handy while reading Mary Roach’s latest. No, it is not because it made me sad, but because I was laughing so hard my eyes were gushing. Mary Roach has had that effect on me before. I have read two of her books. Stiff and...
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
| Author | Caitlin Doughty |
| ISBN | 0393351904 |
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre—took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both...
| Author | David Sedaris |
| ISBN | 0316777730 |
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview—a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable....
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
| Author | Mary Roach |
| ISBN | 0393334791 |
In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach...
French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
| Author | Mireille Guiliano |
| ISBN | 0375435484 |
So, two winters ago when I started to put on a little weight, I didn't sweat it at first. I figured "hey, it's normal to put on a few pounds when it's cold out." But when one morning I had difficulty zipping up my pants, I decided to get serious and apply the ideas from this book.
Confession: in the past,...
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
| Author | Atul Gawande |
| ISBN | 0805091742 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies‚neither...
| Author | Brenda Fowler |
| ISBN | 0226258238 |
On September 19, 1991 a couple hiking along an Alpine ridge stumbled upon a frozen, intact corpse melting out of a glacier. He was dubbed "the Iceman," and his discovery—along with the realization that he was actually 5,000 years old—set off a whirlwind of political, scientific, and media activity...
Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo
| Author | Margot Mifflin |
| ISBN | 1576876667 |
Bodies of Subversion
was the first history of women's tattoo art when it was released in 1997, providing a fascinating excursion to a subculture that dates back to the nineteenth-century and including many never-before-seen photos of tattooed women from the last century. Newly revised and expanded,...
The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
| Author | Maude Julien |
| ISBN | 1925498115 |
Maude Julien’s childhood was defined by the iron grip of her father, who was convinced his daughter was destined for great deeds. His plan began when he adopted Maude’s mother and indoctrinated her with his esoteric ideals. Her mission was to give him a daughter as blonde as she was, and then to take...
| Author | Marjorie Hart |
| ISBN | 0061189529 |
Do you remember the best summer of your life?
New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find...
The Minimalist Home: A Room-By-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
| Author | Joshua Becker |
| ISBN | 1601427999 |
A popular minimalist blogger and author of
The More of Less
shows you how to methodically turn your home into a place of peace, contentment, and purposeful living.
One of today's most influential minimalist advocates takes us on a decluttering tour of our own houses and apartments,...
