📚 Near-Death Experiences

The clinical close call: the common reported core of the deathbed experience, and its medical and spiritual readings.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject near-death experiences in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Life After Life	Raymond A. Moody	1975	65
	Saved by the light	Dannion Brinkley	1994	16
	Spook	Mary Roach	2005	14
	Closer to the light	Melvin Morse	1990	10
	Secrets of the light	Dannion Brinkley	2008	10
	Otherworld journeys	Carol Zaleski	1983	9
	Dying to Be Me	Anita Moorjani	2012	9
	The Near-Death Experience	Lee W. Bailey	1996	8
	90 minutes in heaven	Don Piper	2004	8
	The light beyond	Raymond A. Moody	1988	7
	Embraced by the Light	Betty J. Eadie	1992	7
	Beyond and back	Ralph Wilkerson	1977	6
	Transformed by the light	Melvin Morse	1992	6
	Saved by Angels	Bruce Van Natta	2008	6
	Religion, Spirituality and the near-Death Experience	Mark Fox	2003	5
	Heaven is for Real	Todd Burpo	2010	5
	The Toltec Art of Life and Death	Don Miguel Ruiz	2015	5
	Heading Toward Omega	Kenneth Ring	1984	4
	Embraced by the light	Betty J. Eadie	1994	4
	On the other side of life	Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino	1997	4
	My descent into death	Howard Storm	2000	4
	Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations	Gregory Shushan	2009	4
	Proof of heaven	Eben Alexander	2012	4
	Opening heaven's door	Patricia Pearson	2014	4
	Dying to wake up	Rajiv Parti	2016	4
	Imagine the God of Heaven	John Burke	2023	4
	Life beyond death	Unknown author	1992	3
	The Soul After Death	Seraphim Rose	1993	3
	Beyond the light	P. M. H. Atwater	1994	3
	The truth in the light	Peter Fenwick	1995	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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