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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
Members: 12 participating members
nessreader, souloftherose, thorold, ManWithAnAgenda, Dilara86, bluepiano, foggidawn, KimarieBee, mkbird, inge87, ahef1963, dara85

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1

by Anthony Trollope

4,239 members

123 reviews

3.8

6 Members: foggidawn, thorold, nessreader, souloftherose, Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Marilynne Robinson

10,569 members

361 reviews

3.9

3 Members: souloftherose, Dilara86, ahef1963

3

The Housekeeper and the Professor

3,093 members

212 reviews

4

4 Members: KimarieBee, nessreader, souloftherose, Dilara86

4

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

15,813 members

471 reviews

4.2

4 Members: foggidawn, thorold, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

by Elizabeth Taylor

1,177 members

57 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thorold, nessreader, souloftherose

6

The Uncommon Reader

by Alan Bennett

5,622 members

564 reviews

3.9

3 Members: inge87, KimarieBee, ManWithAnAgenda

7

2,255 members

137 reviews

4

3 Members: KimarieBee, nessreader, souloftherose

8

Howl's Moving Castle

by Diana Wynne Jones

11,562 members

428 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

1,032 members

34 reviews

3.9

2 Members: mkbird, nessreader

10

Exile According to Julia

by Gisele Pineau

48 members

1 review

½ 3.3

2 Members: mkbird, Dilara86

11

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

10,797 members

287 reviews

4

2 Members: nessreader, ahef1963

12

The Curse of Chalion

by Lois McMaster Bujold

4,694 members

169 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: foggidawn, souloftherose

13

Paladin of Souls

by Lois McMaster Bujold

3,590 members

108 reviews

4.2

2 Members: foggidawn, souloftherose

14

All Passion Spent

by Vita Sackville-West

1,143 members

56 reviews

4

2 Members: nessreader, souloftherose

15

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

by Helen Simonson

5,769 members

448 reviews

4

2 Members: inge87, nessreader

16

The Man in the Wooden Hat

976 members

44 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, souloftherose

17

Quartet in Autumn

1,237 members

53 reviews

4

2 Members: thorold, souloftherose

18

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

by Marina Lewycka

5,629 members

239 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: mkbird, nessreader

19

by Barbara Hambly

1,636 members

28 reviews

4

2 Members: mkbird, nessreader

20

The J.M. Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society

by Barbara J. Zitwer

116 members

11 reviews

3.1

2 Members: mkbird, nessreader

21

A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

10,148 members

643 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dara85

22

Old People and The Things That Pass

by Louis Couperus

534 members

15 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

23

Man in the Holocene

503 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: bluepiano

24

by William Shakespeare

14,480 members

143 reviews

4.1

Member: inge87

25

by Muriel Spark

1,688 members

64 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

1,368 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: inge87

27

The Victoria Vanishes

by Christopher Fowler

668 members

40 reviews

3.8

Member: nessreader

28

56 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bluepiano

29

At Home in Mitford

5,474 members

106 reviews

3.9

Member: foggidawn

30

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am

by Kjersti A. Skomsvold

255 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bluepiano

31

Strange Weather in Tokyo

by Hiromi Kawakami

1,116 members

49 reviews

3.8

Member: bluepiano

32

by Kingsley Amis

275 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thorold

33

by Marilynne Robinson

3,644 members

145 reviews

4

Member: Dilara86

34

Our Souls at Night

2,256 members

218 reviews

4

Member: KimarieBee

35

The Red Address Book

by Sofia Lundberg

356 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

by Stig Saeterbakken

64 members

4 reviews

3.1

Member: bluepiano

37

by Honoré de Balzac

5,758 members

103 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

38

When All Is Said

by Anne Griffin

615 members

28 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

39

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

by Violette Leduc

150 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: bluepiano

40

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,366 members

112 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

41

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

by Jonas Jonasson

7,418 members

439 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

42

The Aunt's Story

by Patrick White

317 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thorold

43

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

807 members

39 reviews

3.1

Member: nessreader

44

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

29,649 members

491 reviews

3.8

Member: nessreader

45

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

by Agatha Christie

3,091 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: souloftherose

46

The Book of Merlyn

3,604 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: nessreader

47

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

by Bohumil Hrabal

411 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

48

The Winter of Frankie Machine

669 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

49

Harry Lipkin, Private Eye

by Barry Fantoni

85 members

17 reviews

3.1

Member: nessreader

50

The Restoration of Otto Laird

by Nigel Packer

50 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: nessreader

51

by Hanif Kureishi

153 members

7 reviews

2.9

Member: nessreader

52

864 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: nessreader

53

by Carol Shields

1,864 members

37 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: nessreader

54

The Unseen World

621 members

41 reviews

4.1

Member: nessreader

55

Heroic Measures

224 members

20 reviews

3.8

Member: nessreader

56

The Dark Flood Rises

by Margaret Drabble

382 members

20 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

4,342 members

223 reviews

3.9

Member: nessreader

59

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

9,642 members

611 reviews

3.9

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