Ten Favorite Novels Set in the Afterlife

(alphabetically by author, and chosen so as not to overlap with my “Ten Favorite Novels About Ghosts”)

1. Studies in the Hereafter by Sean Bernard

2. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

3. Ubik by Philip K. Dick

4. Piano by Jean Echenoz

5. To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

6. The World of the End by Ofir Touché Gafla

7. The Silent Land by Graham Joyce

8. The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien

9. The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell by Carlos Rojas

10. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

— September 30, 2020

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