📚 Death and Burial

Books with death and burial on their catalogue record, first published between 1800 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject death and burial in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,800 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Εὐθύφρων / Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους	Plato	1871	126
	The life of Washington	Mason Locke Weems	1800	100
	The Last Days of Hitler	H. R. Trevor-Roper	1947	49
	Historical memorials of Canterbury	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	1855	23
	Secrets of the mummies	Harriet Griffey	1998	21
	The Lost City of Z	David Grann	2000	17
	Where Are They Buried? How Did They Die?	Tod Benoit	2003	17
	The Civil War	Shelby Foote	1958	16
	The murder of King Tut	James Patterson	2009	16
	A Coffin for King Charles	Veronica Wedgwood	1964	15
	Marie Stuart, son procès et son exécution	R. de Chantelauze	1876	9
	People Who Eat Darkness	Richard Lloyd Parry	2011	9
	The assassination of Abraham Lincoln	Osborn H. Oldroyd	1901	8
	The murder of Tutankhamen	Bob Brier	1998	8
	Elvis	Albert Harry Goldman	1981	7
	Son of a grifter	Kent Walker	2001	7
	Murder in the Vatican	Lucien Gregoire	2005	7
	Blonde Ambition	Rita Cosby	2007	7
	The death of Anton Webern	Hans Moldenhauer	1961	6
	Hitlers Ende	Anton Joachimsthaler	1995	6
	After the Prophet	Lesley Hazleton	2009	6
	The afterlife of Billy Fingers	Annie Kagan	2013	6
	Eight Days in May	Volker Ullrich	2021	6
	Mort du général de Gaulle	Jean Mauriac	1972	5
	The dreams of Ada	Mayer, Robert	1987	5
	Killing Patton	Bill O'Reilly	2014	5
	The tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen	Carter, Howard	1923	4
	The Death of a President	William Manchester	1977	4
	The Elvis Files	Gail Brewer-Giorgio	1990	4
	Blood Against the Snows	Jonathan Gregson	2002	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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