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A Book with a Main Character Over 60 Read More Reading Challenge 2021 |
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The Switch
by Beth O'Leary
Ready for an adventure in the months after her husband of 60 years departs, a woman from a picture-postcard Yorkshire village offers to swap places with her burned-out adult granddaughter to pursue romance in bustling London.
Read the Overdrive ebook or listen to the Hoopla audio version.
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Old Man's War
by John Scalzi
Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the conflict involves much more than he understands.
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When All Is Said
by Anne Griffin
An 84-year-old loner, sitting at a grand hotel bar in Ireland, toasts the five people who have meant the most to him while recalling unspoken losses and joys, a tragic secret and a fierce love. A moving, well-written first novel. Read the book on Overdrive or listen to the audiobook on Hoopla.
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It's Not All Downhill from Here
by Terry McMillan
Confident that her best days are still ahead, a successful businesswoman relies on close friends and her resourcefulness when an unexpected loss turns her world upside down. By the best-selling author of Waiting to Exhale. Read the ebook on Overdrive.
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The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman
Meeting weekly in their retirement village’s Jigsaw Room to exchange theories about unsolved crimes, four savvy septuagenarians propose a daring but unorthodox plan to help a woman rookie cop solve her first big murder case. The ebook is available on Overdrive.
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota
by J. Ryan Stradal
A talented baker running a business out of her nursing home reconnects with her master brewer sister at the same time her pregnant granddaughter launches an IPA brewpub. By the award-winning author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest.
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A Dark and Stormy Night: a Dorothy Martin Mystery
by Jeanne M. Dams
When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to a country house weekend, they expect nothing more explosive than the Guy Fawkes fireworks, but a severe storm finds them isolated, incommunicado, and determined to find out what has been happening at ancient Branston Abbey.
For more senior sleuths, try Colin Cotterill's Dr. Siri Paiboun series or Christopher Fowler's Bryant and May series.
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