Books like Death with interruptions by José Saramago

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.

Sixteen-year-old Maya, a teenage girl living on Vancouver Island, suspects there may be a connection between her birthmark, family life, and strange events occurring in her community.

David Smith must create wonders with his bare hands in the final 200 days of his life while discovering love in New York City.

A Getty‑hung painter haunted by war memories confronts the past as Japan’s post‑war cityscapes rise anew.

Lisbon circa 1935 comes to life in this story of a doctor who forsakes medicine to recite poetry in the streets, the women in his life, and the ghost who occasionally accompanies him.

A 16th‑century voyage through war‑torn Europe, guided by an elephant named Solomon and his keeper Subhro, as they accompany Archduke Maximilian and his new bride from Portugal to Vienna.

Sam tries to make new friend Buddy after his mother's sudden death in fifth grade, but fears it will tear him away from his best friend Alex.

On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders - if there's no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion - and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral directors are reduced to arranging funerals for dogs, cats, hamsters and parrots. Life insurance policies become meaningless. Amid the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration: flags are hung out on balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity - eternal life. But will death's disappearance benefit the human race, or will this sudden abeyance backfire? How long can families cope with malingering elderly relatives who scratch at death's door while the portal remains firmly shut? Then, seven months later, death returns, heralded by purple envelopes informing the recipients that their time is up. Death herself is not writing personal notes giving one week's notice. However, when an envelope is unexpectedly returned to her death begins to experience strange, almost human emotions.

An imaginative adventure as the Iberian Peninsula splits from Europe and drifts into the Atlantic, where a diverse group of strangers confront the challenges of a floating world.