2026 Reading Challenge
Genres

Elderly


Elderly Books

The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
A Man Called Ove
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady, #1)
Our Souls at Night
Water for Elephants
The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lists

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai GersteinMy Freedom Trip by Frances and Ginger ParkTrapped! by Robert BurleighMy Dog, My Hero by Betsy ByarsMoses the Kitten by James Herriot
Books for Reading Aloud to Older Readers
101 books — 2 voters
Old Man's War by John ScalziRainbows End by Vernor VingeRemnant Population by Elizabeth MoonStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelOn Basilisk Station by David Weber
Geriatro-punk
40 books — 7 voters

The Bad Beginning by Lemony SnicketFlowers in the Attic by V.C. AndrewsA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Storyteller by Jodi PicoultThe Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
Elderly Villains
29 books — 8 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
342 books — 160 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainHeidi by Johanna Spyri
Intergenerational Friendships
267 books — 45 voters
Home, Hearth, and Oreos by J. Suthern HicksThe Notebook by Nicholas SparksWater for Elephants by Sara GruenThe 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas JonassonThe Green Mile by Stephen King
Assisted Living Facility, Retirement and Nursing Homes - FICTION
35 books — 22 voters

Quotes Tagged “Elderly”

Daphne du Maurier
“ She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe. ”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
47 likes

Robert A. Heinlein
“ Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left. ”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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Videos Tagged “Elderly”

Daddy's dilemma!
Daddy's dilemma!
Daddy's coming-of-age musings.
Daddy's coming-of-age musings.
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