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From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes a hilarious travel guide to the afterlife, exploring to die for destinations from literature, mythology, and pop culture.

Ever wonder which circles of Dante’s Inferno have the nicest accommodations? Where’s the best place to grab a bite to eat in the ancient Egyptian underworld? How does one dress like a local in the heavenly palace of Hinduism’s Lord Vishnu, or avoid the flesh-eating river serpents in the Klingon afterlife? What hidden treasures can be found off the beaten path in Hades, Valhalla, or TV’s The Good Place? Find answers to all those questions and more about the world(s) to come in this eternally entertaining book from Ken Jennings.

Written in the style of iconic bestselling travel guides, Jennings wryly outlines journeys through the afterlife, as dreamed up over 5,000 years of human history by our greatest prophets, poets, mystics, artists, and TV showrunners. This comprehensive index of 100 different afterlife destinations was meticulously researched from sources ranging from the Epic of Gilgamesh to modern-day pop songs, video games, and Simpsons episodes. Get ready for whatever post-mortal destiny awaits you, whether it’s an astral plane, a Hieronymus Bosch hellscape, or the baseball diamond from Field of Dreams.

Fascinating, funny, and irreverent, this “gung-ho travel guide to Heaven, Hell, and beyond” (The New Yorker) will help you create your very own bucket list—for after you’ve kicked the bucket.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner (June 13, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501131583
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501131585
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Reviewer: Joseph J. Truncale
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An interesting and entertaining book you may want to check out.
Review: As someone who is well into their senior years, I have been a voracious and curious reader for more than 7 decades. I am always seeking interesting books from the scientific to the esoteric. This is why when I saw this 291-page hardcover book while browsing on Amazon (100 Places to visit after you die: A travel guide to the afterlife by Ken Jennings, who is the Jeopardy Host) I decided to purchase it.I found this book to be a fantastic read. It was interesting, very funny at times, and highly informative about numerous things with an afterlife theme. This amusing book covers “Mythology, religion, books, movies television, music and theater” and other areas you may want to visit when you pass on from this world.This book also explores how various religious and cultural groups celebrate going to an afterlife place, some good and some not so good. In any case, if you are seeking an unusual and intriguing book on things to do in the afterlife you might want to check pout this entertaining book.Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Season of the warrior: A poetic tribute to warriors).

Reviewer: Charles W.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Travel Guide to the Afterlife!
Review: Such an intriguing title! A travel guide to the Afterlife…I was intrigued by the title. Just in case you are confused, the book describes many different visions of the Afterlife. So if you are religious, this book is bound to offend you since you are probably “certain” of your religion’s version of the afterlife and it will likely offend you to see alternative visions of the afterlife treated with the same degree of apparent sincerity. There is a joke mentioned in the book where within heaven there is a area with very high walls where the adherents of some particular religious sect goes - The punchline is “they think they are the only ones here.”I think that Ken Jennings has done a good job at treating the whole idea of an afterlife like it was a travel guide - Like a bucket list, but for after you kick the bucket! He doesn’t necessarily make value or religious judgements, he just tells you what this particular idea of heaven or hell or whatever is like and suggests things to see and things to avoid in your stay there.There are two other undercurrents to the book that may not be obvious from the beginning. The first and most obvious is that in one small book he has compiled a brief description of multiple religions, general cultural beliefs, fiction and even songs express about an afterlife. That makes it an interesting and good starting point to further check out if something described in the book intrigues you since you will be briefly exposed to many visions of an afterlife. For example, you don’t have to have read Dante’s Inferno to find out something about that vision, but it might intrigue you enough afterwards to read Dante (do be sure to read a modern translation that is more readable in today’s vocabulary.)The other undercurrent I detected in the book is that there is very little in common with culturally unrelated visions of an afterlife except that humans do seem to want to imagine that their life essence goes on in some fashion - That death is not the end. And many seem to want to see that the books are balanced - That people who were good in life are rewarded and especially bad people are punished. But the rules are quite different between cultures and religions as to exactly what makes one worthy of reward or worthy of punishment. I suspect that Mr Jennings is showing us the commonality of the very human desire for an afterlife and some kind of balancing the books of justice in the end. Or perhaps Mr Jennings is showing us the absurdity of believing that your culture, your religion, or you have an exclusive on “the real truth” about the afterlife or religion in the face of so many simultaneously compelling and absurdly specific visions which mostly contradict each other.I think the book is entertaining if you take just the surface viewpoint of a fictional traveler’s guide. It is enlightening if you want a nonjudgmental listing of the major religious and cultural visions of an afterlife to enable you to later learn more about the ones that are interesting to you. And at the deepest level it challenges you to reconsider what your own assumptions are about an afterlife.

Reviewer: LovelyStrife
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A fun and informative book
Review: I really enjoyed listening to this book. As usual, Ken has written something that is fun and informative. If you've liked any of his previous books, then you'll like this one, too.I've usually gotten my books at the library, but I bought this one at launch because my father recently died and I thought this would be a good book to read. It does help with the process of greif, I think, as you ponder all the different ways that cultures around the world approach death.Thank you, Ken Jennings. I'm so happy you won at Jeopardy and was able to write books instead of being stuck writing code.

Reviewer: Ed N.
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting premise
Review: A very interesting premise but disappointing read.

Reviewer: Cassandra Taylor
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting and print quality good
Review: Not much more to say than that

Reviewer: Caroline Begley
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book for the history buff
Review: If you are, or are gifting to, a history buff this book is for you! A great examination of our understanding of the afterlife. Highly recommend

Reviewer: Jerry Lael a great human being
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very interesting reading
Review: This is a book of 100 short glimpses into history. Fascinating if you are a history/trivia buff.

Reviewer: Darlene Brickman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Really interesting read
Review: This book is like nothing you've read before.

Reviewer: Musil
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: there is no reason why the chapter Nirvana is missing.