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the old and the restless

Description: old and aging protagonists in novels because as I get older, I become tired of twentysomething heroes

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1

by Anthony Trollope

4,387 members

131 reviews

3.8

7 Members: foggidawn, thorold, nessreader, souloftherose, Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda, Steven.Jeczala

2

by Marilynne Robinson

10,866 members

364 reviews

3.9

4 Members: souloftherose, Dilara86, ahef1963, Steven.Jeczala

3

The Housekeeper and the Professor

3,259 members

221 reviews

4

4 Members: KimarieBee, nessreader, souloftherose, Dilara86

4

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

16,466 members

479 reviews

4.2

4 Members: foggidawn, thorold, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

by Elizabeth Taylor

1,250 members

59 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thorold, nessreader, souloftherose

6

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,765 members

575 reviews

3.9

3 Members: inge87, KimarieBee, ManWithAnAgenda

7

2,337 members

142 reviews

4

3 Members: KimarieBee, nessreader, souloftherose

8

Howl's Moving Castle

by Diana Wynne Jones

12,320 members

439 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: nessreader, souloftherose, Dilara86, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: ManWithAnAgenda : Great book, but Sophie gets to be young again...

9

The Hearing Trumpet

by Leonora Carrington

1,123 members

42 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mkbird, nessreader

10

Exile According to Julia

by Gisele Pineau

49 members

1 review

½ 3.3

2 Members: mkbird, Dilara86

11

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

11,166 members

292 reviews

4

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963

12

The Curse of Chalion

by Lois McMaster Bujold

4,850 members

175 reviews

4.2

2 Members: foggidawn, souloftherose

13

Paladin of Souls

by Lois McMaster Bujold

3,699 members

112 reviews

4.2

2 Members: foggidawn, souloftherose

14

All Passion Spent

by Vita Sackville-West

1,192 members

57 reviews

4

2 Members: nessreader, souloftherose

15

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

by Helen Simonson

5,914 members

463 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, nessreader

16

The Man in the Wooden Hat

1,019 members

48 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, souloftherose

17

Quartet in Autumn

1,288 members

55 reviews

4

2 Members: thorold, souloftherose

18

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

by Marina Lewycka

5,736 members

239 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: mkbird, nessreader

19

by Barbara Hambly

1,700 members

30 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mkbird, nessreader

20

The J.M. Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society

by Barbara J. Zitwer

120 members

11 reviews

3.1

2 Members: mkbird, nessreader

21

A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

11,358 members

691 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

22

Old People and The Things That Pass

by Louis Couperus

547 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

23

Man in the Holocene

517 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: bluepiano

24

by William Shakespeare

15,155 members

147 reviews

4.1

Member: inge87

25

by Muriel Spark

1,738 members

65 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

1,407 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: inge87

27

The Victoria Vanishes

by Christopher Fowler

692 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: nessreader

28

56 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bluepiano

29

At Home in Mitford

5,681 members

106 reviews

3.9

Member: foggidawn

30

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am

by Kjersti A. Skomsvold

263 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bluepiano

31

Strange Weather in Tokyo

by Hiromi Kawakami

1,233 members

53 reviews

3.8

Member: bluepiano

32

by Kingsley Amis

281 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thorold

33

by Marilynne Robinson

3,822 members

150 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

34

Our Souls at Night

2,359 members

227 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

35

The Red Address Book

by Sofia Lundberg

381 members

43 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Stig Saeterbakken

66 members

4 reviews

3.1

Member: bluepiano

37

by Honoré de Balzac

5,997 members

109 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

38

When All Is Said

by Anne Griffin

653 members

30 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

39

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

by Violette Leduc

155 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: bluepiano

40

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,694 members

115 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

by Jonas Jonasson

7,771 members

461 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

42

The Aunt's Story

by Patrick White

327 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thorold

43

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

904 members

42 reviews

3.1

Member: nessreader

44

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,874 members

508 reviews

3.8

Member: nessreader

45

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

by Agatha Christie

3,238 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: souloftherose

46

The Book of Merlyn

3,729 members

37 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: nessreader

47

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

by Bohumil Hrabal

427 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

48

The Winter of Frankie Machine

693 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

49

Harry Lipkin, Private Eye

by Barry Fantoni

86 members

17 reviews

3.1

Member: nessreader

50

The Restoration of Otto Laird

by Nigel Packer

53 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

51

by Hanif Kureishi

164 members

7 reviews

2.9

Member: nessreader

52

895 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

53

by Carol Shields

1,900 members

37 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: nessreader

54

The Unseen World

649 members

44 reviews

4.1

Member: nessreader

55

Heroic Measures

229 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: nessreader

56

The Dark Flood Rises

by Margaret Drabble

411 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

57

Richard Osman's House of Games / The Thursday Murder Club

by Richard Osman

1 member

Member: nessreader

58

The Thursday Murder Club

by Richard Osman

5,538 members

270 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

59

Baba Dunja's Last Love

by Alina Bronsky

159 members

16 reviews

4

Member: nessreader

60

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

9,964 members

623 reviews

3.9

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January 2014
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