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The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.85 — 876,760 ratings — published 2020
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.31 — 116,319 ratings — published 2024
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,293,176 ratings — published 2012
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.90 — 147,216 ratings — published 2010
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.42 — 984,150 ratings — published 2025
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.82 — 313,649 ratings — published 2009
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.49 — 228,413 ratings — published 2014
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,925 ratings — published 1984
The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.34 — 391,129 ratings — published 2021
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.72 — 43,748 ratings — published 2013
Our Souls at Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.92 — 89,749 ratings — published 2015
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,917,453 ratings — published 1993
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,730,368 ratings — published 2006
Theo of Golden (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.41 — 711,639 ratings — published 2023
Mad Mabel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.37 — 404,853 ratings — published 2025
The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.45 — 263,108 ratings — published 2023
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.01 — 243,358 ratings — published 2023
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.34 — 307,860 ratings — published 2022
The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.80 — 91,394 ratings — published 2021
How the Penguins Saved Veronica (Veronica McCreedy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.09 — 51,541 ratings — published 2020
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,615,932 ratings — published 2022
Killers of a Certain Age (Killers of a Certain Age, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.85 — 128,428 ratings — published 2022
The Remember Balloons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.71 — 2,403 ratings — published 2018
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,343 ratings — published 2014
The Story of Arthur Truluv (Mason, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.19 — 58,536 ratings — published 2017
The Buried Giant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.59 — 129,402 ratings — published 2015
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.94 — 201,496 ratings — published 2012
Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.13 — 116,084 ratings — published 2019
Drawn Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,363 ratings — published 2018
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,912 ratings — published 2014
Lost & Found (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.40 — 12,539 ratings — published 2014
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,386,454 ratings — published 1952
Emily, Alone (Emily Maxwell, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,691 ratings — published 2011
Life After Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.33 — 4,863 ratings — published 2013
Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.06 — 8,010 ratings — published 2007
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.86 — 283,883 ratings — published 2008
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.27 — 336,389 ratings — published 1987
Too Old for This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.77 — 63,747 ratings — published 2025
The Heart of Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,922 ratings — published 2025
Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.27 — 22,228 ratings — published 2024
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,448 ratings — published 2024
How to Age Disgracefully (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.11 — 73,907 ratings — published 2024
Mrs. Plansky's Revenge (Mrs. Plansky #1)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.68 — 6,183 ratings — published 2023
The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp (Miss Sharp Investigates, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.51 — 7,970 ratings — published 2020
The Old Woman with the Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.48 — 9,200 ratings — published 2013
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed (Elderly Lady, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.86 — 15,264 ratings — published 2020
Madeline Finn and the Therapy Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.37 — 413 ratings — published 2020
Dandelion Wine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.09 — 82,810 ratings — published 1957
The Switch (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 3.93 — 157,447 ratings — published 2020
The Love Story of Missy Carmichael (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as elderly)
avg rating 4.05 — 20,306 ratings — published 2020
“In western narrative, isolation is liberation, the elderly is inconvenient, apathy is aesthetic - invasion is ambition, exploitation is exploration, indifference is etiquette, appropriation is innovation.”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.”
― Healology
― Healology
