Books with Older Protagonists
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🍄= I’ve read and recommend
🥀= on my tbr list
Fantasy:
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (42 year old MC)
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (Elderly Couple MC’s) 🥀
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson (55 year old MC) 🥀
The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst (Middle aged MC’s)
Mystery:
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (~70+ years old MC’s) 🥀
Vera Wongs Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto (~60 years old MC)
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey (82 years old MC)
Horror:
Ghost Story by Peter Straub (Elderly MC’s) 🥀
Bone Harvest by James Brogden (Senior citizen MC)
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King (65 year old MC’s)
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (30-50 years old MC’s)
Fiction:
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (~70 years old MC)
How to Age Disgracefully by Claire Pooley (Senior Citizens)
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (59 years old MC)
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (39 year old, 87 year old, middle aged, and ~50 year old MC’s)
Graphic Novels:
Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto (76 year old MC)
Audubon on the Wings of the World
In by Will McPhail (millennial aged MC)
Poetry:
(About Aging and Growing)
Older, Wiser, Shorter: The Truth and Humor of Life After 65 by Jane Seskin
Old Stranger by Joan Larkin 🥀
Sunset Years: You’re still the one by Frank A. Lancione
Our Aching Bones, Our Breaking Hearts by Joel Savishinsky
Howling at the Moon by Darshana Suresh
Romance:
The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian (~80+ years old MC’s) (Already in a relationship)
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf (79 and 81 years old MC’s) 🥀
Science Fiction:
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (~30-50 years old MC’s)
Greybeard by Brian W. Aldiss (50+ years old MC’s)
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon (70 year old MC)