Elderly


The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
A Man Called Ove
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
The Correspondent
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)
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha ChristieThe Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy GilmanMiss Marple by Agatha ChristieThe Thursday Murder Club by Richard OsmanGin & Daggers by Jessica Fletcher
Senior Sleuths
73 books — 36 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

Harold and Maude by Colin HigginsLily by Stevie TurnerScattershot by Richard  GoodwinTurtle Tears by J. Suthern HicksHome, Hearth, and Oreos by J. Suthern Hicks
Wonderful Old Lady Protagonists
89 books — 60 voters

Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls. ...more
Michael Bedard, Redwork

Rita Dove
I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an elk's horns, or sing Tosca or screw James Dean in a field of wheat. To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong: I'll never be through with my life. ...more
Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks

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