Not Over The Hill Yet!
Fiction for National Older Americans Month

Here is a sampling of novels about older men and women. There are so many more. Don’t forget you can always Ask Readers Services for suggestions on any topic. Readers Services staff will help you find the materials you need.

Dearest Dorothy, If Not Now, When?*
Charlene Ann Baumbich

The Story of Forgetting
Stefan Merrill Block

The Penultimate Chance Saloon
Simon Brett

Hounded To Death*
Rita Mae Brown

Amigoland
Oscar Casares

Consider the Lilly
Sandra Carey Cody

Diary of a Bad Year
J.M. Coetzee

The Post-War Dream
Mitch Cullin

The Lightning Tree
P.J. Curtis

Prayers for Sale
Sandra Dallas

That Summer in Paris
Abha Dawesar

The Madonnas of Leningrad
Debra Dean

The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai

The Garden of Last Days
Andre Dubus III

Too Much Money
Dominick Dunne

Walking Across Egypt
Clyde Edgerton

Can’t Wait To Get To Heaven
Fannie Flagg

The Christmas Pearl
Dorothea Benton Frank

Secret Keepers
Mindy Friddle

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel García Márquez

Never Go Back
Robert Goddard

You Have the Right To Remain Puzzled: A Puzzle Lady Mystery*
Parnell Hall

Goodbye, She Lied: An Esbeth Walters Mystery*
Russ Hall

Union Atlantic
Adam Haslett

The New Woman
Jon Hassler

The Pleasure Was Mine
Tommy Hays

Remembering the Bones
Frances Itani

The Sweet By and By
Todd Johnson

Getting Old Is To Die For*
Rita Lakin

Breaking Out of Bedlam
Leslie Larson

An Ominous Death
Annette Mahon

Every Last Cuckoo
Kate Maloy

The Holy City
Patrick McCabe

Rhino Ranch
Larry McMurtry

Promises of Change*
Joan Medlicott

Crossroads
Nancy Moser

Look at the Dark
Nicholas Mosley

A Wedding To Die For*
Radine Trees Nehring

Fragile Beasts
Tawni O’Dell

Murder Never Forgets
Diana O’Hehir

The Stranger in the Opera House: An Emma Winberry Mystery*
Helen Macie Osterman

Rules For Old Men Waiting
Peter Pouncey

Dinosaurs on the Roof
David Rabe

My Jim
Nancy Rawles

Death and Honesty*
Cynthia Riggs

The J.A.P. Chronicles
Isabel Rose

Old Man’s War
John Scalzi

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See

No End to the Journey
S. Shankar

An Unfinished Life
Mark Spragg

The Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society
Augusta Trobaugh

Winter Birds
Jamie Langston Turner

Noah’s Compass
Anne Tyler

All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and
All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
Tod Wodicka

A Curious Earth
Gerard Woodward

*part of a series

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