Aging


Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Water for Elephants
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Autophagy: Simple Techniques to Activate Your Bodies’ Hidden Health Mechanism to Promote Longevity, Optimal Cellular Renewal, Detox, and Strength for a Happy Life
The Correspondent
A Man Called Ove
Our Souls at Night
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
Still Alice
Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott FitzgeraldCharlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald DahlElsewhere by Gabrielle ZevinThe Thief Lord by Cornelia FunkeThe Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Aging Backwards
34 books — 19 voters

The Legendary Wolf by Ammar HabibLike a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo ManyikaWater for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayOlive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Protagonists Over 60
360 books — 175 voters
Dog Shaming by Pascale LemireWilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem FoxColors by Deborah DrapacFlowers by Matthew SchneiderThrough the Seasons by Cynthia R. Green
picture books for those with dementia
94 books — 16 voters

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNo Sex Please, I'm Menopausal! by Stevie TurnerThe Hot Flash Club by Nancy ThayerWoman of a Certain Rage by Georgie Hall
Menopause in Fiction
74 books — 30 voters
Secrets To Natural Testosterone After 40 by Lance MillsRunaway Train by Sandra L. Kearse-StocktonMasculinity Repair Kit in 4 Weeks, Testosterone and more by N. SakrLongevity for the Lazy by Richard MalishAbout Prostate Troubles by Benedict Lust
Top Men's Health Books
9 books — 5 voters

Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs. With my immense treasure of experience and wisdom, it seems a pity not to let everybody partake of it. But thou knowest, Lord, that in the end I wi ...more
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Audrey Hepburn
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!
Audrey Hepburn

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