Sign in with Facebook
62 books
—
41 voters
Ageing Books
Showing 1-50 of 965
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.49 — 217,459 ratings — published 2014
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You
by (shelved 8 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.57 — 7,362 ratings — published 2022
Time To Let Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.78 — 503 ratings — published 2014
The Summer Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.00 — 56,024 ratings — published 1972
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.33 — 95,861 ratings — published 2023
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.12 — 26,361 ratings — published 2019
Our Souls at Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.92 — 84,584 ratings — published 2015
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,048 ratings — published 2019
The Coming of Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.93 — 576 ratings — published 1970
I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.80 — 36,850 ratings — published 2010
Somewhere Towards the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,090 ratings — published 2008
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.86 — 771,723 ratings — published 2020
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,260 ratings — published 2016
Three Things About Elsie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.79 — 20,766 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Growing Old: Aging with Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.62 — 271 ratings — published 2008
The Sense of an Ending (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.74 — 192,136 ratings — published 2011
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,475 ratings — published 1971
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,121 ratings — published 2014
Exit Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.52 — 5,773 ratings — published 2007
Elizabeth Is Missing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,079 ratings — published 2014
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.82 — 303,019 ratings — published 2009
Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.55 — 142 ratings — published 2013
The Night Guest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.44 — 6,158 ratings — published 2013
All Fours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.41 — 208,700 ratings — published 2024
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,225,138 ratings — published 2022
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.47 — 996 ratings — published 2023
Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,669 ratings — published 2020
The Weekend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.38 — 17,051 ratings — published 2019
Las gratitudes (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.34 — 37,792 ratings — published 2019
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,880 ratings — published 1984
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,096 ratings — published 2019
The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,637 ratings — published 2016
How to Stop Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.83 — 220,501 ratings — published 2018
The Dark Flood Rises (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.55 — 2,881 ratings — published 2016
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,589 ratings — published 2017
This Chair Rocks (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,349 ratings — published 2016
Cat’s Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,649 ratings — published 1988
Memento Mori (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.61 — 7,394 ratings — published 1959
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,310,490 ratings — published 1952
When the Cranes Fly South (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.33 — 32,096 ratings — published 2024
The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.31 — 79,243 ratings — published 2025
All the Words We Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.40 — 1,182 ratings — published 2024
The Long Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 2007
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.89 — 26,710 ratings — published 2014
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.32 — 30,066 ratings — published 2025
Three Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.60 — 100,357 ratings — published 2025
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.31 — 55,025 ratings — published 2024
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules (League of Pensioners, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.25 — 24,655 ratings — published 2012
The Book About Getting Older (for people who don’t want to talk about it)
by (shelved 2 times as ageing)
avg rating 4.27 — 393 ratings — published
Quartet in Autumn (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ageing)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,310 ratings — published 1978
“Wisdom
When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange -- my youth.”
― Love Songs
When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange -- my youth.”
― Love Songs
“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'
'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.
'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'
'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'
'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― The Velveteen Rabbit
'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.
'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'
'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'
'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― The Velveteen Rabbit
