Cockroach
Rawi Hage
2008 · 2009 edition
305 pages
The most popular suicide books
These books deal with suicide and the people it leaves behind. Novels and memoirs explore the despair that leads there, and the grief, guilt and unanswered questions of family and friends. They are written with care and honesty, and many are about finding reasons to stay.
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Wasteland
Francesca Lia Block
2003 · 2004 edition
160 pages
Glimpse
Carol Lynch Williams
Published 2010
496 pages
All the Little Live Things
Wallace Stegner
1979 · 2013 edition
352 pages
City People
City People
Elizabeth Topp
Published 2023
Shooter
Walter Dean Myers
2004 · 2005 edition
223 pages
Suicide Club
Rachel Heng
2018 · 2019 edition
384 pages
An Arrow to the Moon
Emily X.R. Pan
Published 2022
400 pages
Depths
Henning Mankell
2004 · 2010 edition
528 pages
Nice Try, Jane Sinner
Lianne Oelke
Published 2018
420 pages
Road to Nowhere
Christopher Pike
1993 · 2011 edition
256 pages
Building a Life Worth Living A Memoir
Marsha Linehan
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages
Seductive Poison A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
Deborah Layton
1998 · 1999 edition
309 pages
Hush
Eishes Chayil
Published 2010
359 pages
Miss Me Not
Tiffany King
Published 2012
316 pages
Suicide A Study In Sociology
Emile Durkheim, John A. Spaulding
1970 · 2025 edition
348 pages
All the Things We Never Said
Yasmin Rahman
2019 · 2023 edition
440 pages
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me
Anna Mehler Paperny
2019 · 2020 edition
352 pages
Bang
Barry Lyga
Published 2017
304 pages
Breathless
Lurlene McDaniel
2009 · 2010 edition
176 pages
Not After Everything
Michelle Levy
Published 2015
336 pages
A Life Too Short
Ronald Reng
Published 2011
400 pages
Maggie
Stephen Crane, Larzer Ziff, Theo Davis
Published 2000
272 pages
Try Not to Breathe
Jennifer Hubbard
2012 · 2013 edition
256 pages