Older Protagonist
Here are some suggestions from our Librarians for books that feature an older protagonist. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Created May 2023)
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The Thursday Murder Club
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes. When a local developer is found dead, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late? (Publisher)
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Antiquities
An elderly trustee of the now defunct Temple Academy for Boys, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, as he prepares to write a memoir of his days at the school, navigates between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage.
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We Spread
Penny, an elderly artist, begins to lose her grip on reality in a room in a unique long-term care residence.
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Chances Are
One beautiful September day, three 66-year-old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college, and must puzzle out a lingering mystery from the summer of 1971.
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota
A family inheritance tears two Minnesota sisters apart—but years later, they might get a chance to reunite.Edith Magnusson never expected to be famous for anything, let alone her pies. But the pies she makes at her humble nursing-home job put the place on the map, and soon people are traveling from all over to try a slice. At 64 years old, it seems she's starting a new life... (Kirkus)
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Oh William!
The iconic heroine of My Name is Lucy Barton recounts her complicated, compassionate relationship with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidant - and the lives they eventually built with other people.
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Under the Wave at Waimea
Famed traveloger/novelist Theroux takes us to Hawaii to confront issues of aging, mortality, and morality as big-wave surfer Joe Sharkey finds his powers declining once he reaches his sixties. (Library Journal)
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The Last Trial
A brilliant octogenarian defense lawyer on the brink of retirement seeks to prove the innocence of a long-time friend, a former Nobel Prize winner who has been charged with murder.
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An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
The six linked stories in Swedish author Tursten's delightful sequel showcase the ingenious murder methods that Maud, an idiosyncratic octogenarian with questionable motives, has devised over the years. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Secrets Between Us
Two elderly Indian women—one poor, the other poorer still—move beyond mutual suspicion to forge a bond, start a business, and, even this late in life, absorb change. (Kirkus)
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