Books like Between Life and Death by Jaclyn Kot

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

Mitch Albom’s memoir follows his weekly visits to former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz as Schwartz confronts terminal ALS, exploring life, death, and personal growth through their poignant teacher‑student bond.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

When Libby Day’s family is brutally murdered, she blames her older brother Ben, who is imprisoned for life. Twenty‑four years later, a coaxing group suggests Ben’s innocence and forces Libby to revisit the night’s trauma and unravel the truth.

C.S. Lewis’s personal journal of grief following his wife’s death, offering reflective meditations on loss, faith, and the quest for meaning.

A woman born on a snowy night in 1910 dies and is reborn repeatedly, each life giving her the chance to alter history as the world heads toward another global conflict.

When a mysterious psychic arrives in 1969 Lower East Side, New York, four siblings learn the day they will die, setting off a life‑long quest that tests fate, choice, family and the search for meaning.

When Samantha Kingston suddenly dies, she wakes to the uncanny ability to relive her final day seven times over. Each repetition reveals new twists that force her to re‑evaluate friendships, love, and the choices she prized most.

Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history's most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness. From the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such twentieth-century writers as John Berryman, Hecht recasts the narrative of our "secular age" in new terms. She shows how religious prohibitions against self-killing were replaced by the Enlightenment's insistence on the rights of the individual, even when those rights had troubling applications. This transition, she movingly argues, resulted in a profound cultural and moral loss: the loss of shared, secular, logical arguments against suicide. By examining how people in other times have found powerful reasons to stay alive when suicide seems a tempting choice, she makes a persuasive intellectual and moral case against suicide.

Violet, a high‑school junior, finds the body of a teen murdered by the notorious ‘girlfriend collector’ and vows to solve the case, even as the killer eyes her next victim.

A son, a daughter, and a ranch in Wyoming collide when a wounded veteran, his estranged son‑in‑law, and a young mother seek redemption and an unlikely family‑bond amid the quiet aftermath of the Korean War.

Sabine lives two alternate realities, switching each day between identical selves in vastly different worlds. She stages risky experiments to unify her lives, confronting who she truly is and the cost of that ambition.

In the third Charlie Parker thriller, a private detective disappears and the wry investigator is hired to find him while an FBI agent with secret motives follows a trail of killings linked to hauntings, leading to a deadly supernatural conspiracy.