Books About Older People

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Getting older, midlife crisis, all that fun stuff.
1
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
35,234 members
561 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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2
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
5,982 members
119 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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3
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
29,294 members
597 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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4
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
19,247 members
219 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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5
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
19,076 members
521 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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6
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
by Bill Bryson
6,643 members
120 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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8
Rumpole of the Bailey
by John Mortimer
793 members
16 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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9
Emily, Alone
by Stewart O'Nan
725 members
57 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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10
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
17,742 members
392 reviews
3.9
Member
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11
A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
14,512 members
786 reviews
½ 4.3
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12
Tender Is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14,492 members
195 reviews
½ 3.7
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13
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,336 members
275 reviews
3.9
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14
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
12,684 members
321 reviews
4
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15
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
11,807 members
297 reviews
3.9
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ahef1963
16
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
10,928 members
232 reviews
½ 3.7
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17
The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
8,519 members
122 reviews
3.8
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aulsmith
18
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
7,974 members
203 reviews
½ 3.4
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19
Skipping Christmas
by John Grisham
7,341 members
171 reviews
½ 3.3
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20
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,632 members
143 reviews
½ 3.7
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21
The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
6,488 members
114 reviews
4.1
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22
A Spot of Bother
by Mark Haddon
6,058 members
192 reviews
½ 3.5
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23
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
5,973 members
198 reviews
½ 4.3
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24
Faceless Killers
by Henning Mankell
5,776 members
223 reviews
½ 3.6
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25
A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
5,269 members
280 reviews
4.1
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26
Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Ann Burns
4,434 members
85 reviews
3.9
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27
The Gathering
by Anne Enright
4,358 members
215 reviews
3.1
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28
The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
by Michael Chabon
3,930 members
161 reviews
½ 3.4
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aulsmith
29
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
by Alexander McCall Smith
2,772 members
65 reviews
½ 3.5
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ahef1963
30
A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
2,613 members
95 reviews
4
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aulsmith
31
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
by Beth Hoffman
2,368 members
229 reviews
4
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32
Life Before Man
by Margaret Atwood
2,108 members
30 reviews
½ 3.3
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ahef1963
33
All Passion Spent
by Vita Sackville-West
1,339 members
62 reviews
4.1
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34
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
by G. B. Edwards
1,060 members
37 reviews
½ 4.3
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35
The Radiant Way
by Margaret Drabble
867 members
12 reviews
3.8
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36
Man in the Holocene
by Max Frisch
593 members
14 reviews
3.8
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bluepiano
37
To Dance with the White Dog
by Terry Kay
584 members
24 reviews
4.1
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38
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir
by Vivian Gornick
456 members
18 reviews
3.9
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Diane-bpcb
39
Essays After Eighty
by Donald Hall
286 members
13 reviews
4
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40
The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am
by Kjersti A. Skomsvold
281 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
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bluepiano
41
Christmas Quilt
by Thomas J. Davis
181 members
4 reviews
3.8
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dara85
42
Murder in Plain Sight (Hqn)
by Marta Perry
139 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
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43
Glass
by George Savage
34 members
1 review
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bluepiano
44
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
11,177 members
653 reviews
3.9
45
Cruel Beautiful World
by Caroline Leavitt
285 members
76 reviews
4.1
46
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
35,166 members
633 reviews
4.1
47
How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
8,032 members
115 reviews
3.1
48
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
5,632 members
101 reviews
½ 3.7
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Cass Timberlane
by Sinclair Lewis
460 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
50
The Cry of the Sloth
by Sam Savage
312 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3