Exceptional books featuring lead characters who are aged 50+ (approximately!)
Mid-Life Onwards
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The Frozen River: A Novel
by Ariel Lawhon
Hardcover: Dec 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that...
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Blood Test: A Comedy
by Charles Baxter
Hardcover: Oct 2024
From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder.
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Tell Me Everything: A Novel
by Elizabeth Strout
Hardcover: Sep 2024
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
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The Night Guest
by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Hardcover: Sep 2024
Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that's sure to keep you awake at night.
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Colored Television: A Novel
by Danzy Senna
Hardcover: Sep 2024
A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia.
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Witness: Stories
by Jamel Brinkley
Hardcover: Aug 2023
Paperback: Jul 2024
From National Book Award finalist Jamel Brinkley, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken and not taken.
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The General and Julia: A Novel
by Jon Clinch
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Jul 2024
Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy in this epic and intimate novel from the author of the "masterly" (The...
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Pink Slime
by Fernanda Trias
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize.
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After the Funeral and Other Stories
by Tessa Hadley
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Jul 2024
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships.
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Enlightenment: A Novel
by Sarah Perry
Hardcover: Jun 2024
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.
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The Librarianist: A Novel
by Patrick deWitt
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself.
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Long Island: Eilis Lacey Series #2
by Colm Toibin
Hardcover: May 2024
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín'...
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