📚 Funeral Rites and Ceremonies

Books with funeral rites and ceremonies on their catalogue record, first published between 1510 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject funeral rites and ceremonies in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,309 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
	The Primer (The Book of Common Prayer)	Church of England	1510	173
	Have a little faith	Mitch Albom	1960	32
	The mummy	E. A. Wallis Budge	1893	31
	The American way of death	Jessica Mitford	1901	27
	The belief in immortality and the worship of the dead	James George Frazer	1913	27
	The Book of the Dead According to the Theban Recension	E. A. Wallis Budge	1898	25
	Bar do thos grol	Karma Lingpa	1957	21
	Secrets of the mummies	Harriet Griffey	1998	21
	The Tibetan Book of the Dead	W. Y. Evans-Wentz	1936	11
	Mummies of ancient Egypt	Brianna Hall	2012	11
	Excavations at Olynthus	Johns Hopkins University.	1929	10
	Tutankhamun; the last journey	William MacQuitty	1972	9
	From Here to Eternity	Caitlin Doughty	2017	9
	Funeral customs	Bertram S. Puckle	1926	7
	The Tibetan Book of the Dead	Chögyam Trungpa	1975	7
	Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China	Williams, Paul	2012	7
	The Undertaking	Thomas Lynch	1997	6
	Death, mourning, and burial	Antonius C. G. M. Robben	2004	6
	Curtains	Tom Jokinen	2010	6
	Spiritism and the cult of the dead in antiquity	Lewis Bayles Paton	1921	5
	Malira Ndi Myambo Ya Achewa	A J Makumbi	1965	5
	Egyptian mummies	Carol Andrews	1984	5
	The Tibetan book of the dead	Padma Sambhava	1994	5
	A history of mourning	Richard Davey	1889	4
	The American funeral	LeRoy Bowman	1959	4
	Death, grief, and mourning	Geoffrey Gorer	1967	4
	Funeral customs	Bertram S. Puckle	1968	4
	Os Nàgô e a morte	Juana Elbein dos Santos	1976	4
	Deeply Regretted By..	Maeve Binchy	1979	4
	Corpses, coffins, and crypts	Penny Colman	1997	4

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

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