What to Read After The Hour of Our Death
Readers who loved The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Ariès keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Hour of Our Death is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Hour of Our Death
Necropolis
Leviathan and the Air-Pump - Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Death, Dissection, and the Destitute
Colossus
Buried Alive
The Oxford book of death
Death to Dust
Blood and Guts
The trial of Socrates
The Pleasures of the Imagination
The Age of the Cathedrals
The Lessons of History
The Denial of Death
Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts
History of Suicide
Stories in Stone
Inventing the Individual
Pax Britannica
Cute, quaint, hungry, and romantic
Love in the Western World
Medieval Cities
The Undertaking
Medieval Civilization, 400-1500
The Stripping of the Altars