Can some recommend a good book for 65 year old women? Thanks?❤️
Can some recommend a good book for 65 year old women? Thanks?❤️
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Can some recommend a good book for 65 year old women? Thanks?❤️
The Nightingale
What genre?
@Lisa fiction
Romance or suspense something like that.
@Mary any thing by James Patterson Kathy reichs Faye kellerman Jonathan kellerman Janet evonovich
@Mary my new favorite book of all time (TRULY) is Where The Crawdads Sing.. beautifully written page turner
Beneath A Scarlet Sky
Hunger games.. makes you feel 18 ?
Just read them. Really enjoyed them @Dorine
Anything by Debbie Macomber ..
I really enjoyed reading A Gentleman in Moscow.
The Snow Gypsy amazing
Before we were yours
Circle of Friends, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner
@Nancy I second Circle of Friends ?
The Seven Sisters series.
A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
I am 63 and I like authors Lee Smith, Joan Medlicott, Elizabeth Berg, Anita Shreve, Sandra Dallas, Mave Binchy, Ann Rivers Siddon, Patrick Taylor just to name a few.
@Nettie I am 63 too, and I enjoy all of the authors you mentioned. ?
Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah
The Lake House by Kate Morton
The Orphan Train
Mary Alice Monroe, Louise penny, Laura child’s, Susan Witting Albert, Dorthea Benton Frank, @Katherine, Katherine Thompson
Age really isn’t a big thing. All ages even really like young adult.
Where the Crawdads Sing. I loved it and I’m 63 ?
@Teresa I loved it and I’m 62.
Her Father’s House, excellent read. Great story, hard to put down book.
Lilac Girls
@Kymm im reading that now good book
My ok discussion is reading orphan tale . I have to started it yet
I don’t let age determine what I read. I read almost all genres, except romance. I’m in my late 60’s.
The Great Alone * Kristin Hannah
The House by the Lake( there are 3 in a series.) ~by Ella Carey
I don’t care for romance or westerns, but other than those, my taste is varied. I’ve been a serious literary fiction reader for most of my reading life, but I like genre books as well, especially horror, scifi and (very) dark fantasy. Four books I’ve loved recently: Sing, Unburied, Sing, The Passage trilogy, The Sparrow and The Windup Girl. I’m just a couple of years past 65, and I know many women of my age who are still interested in expanding their/our reading horizons.
Francesca’s Kitchen…..Peter Pezzelli
The Mitford series by Jan Karon
I just turned 66 last week. Favorites recently were The Nightengale, A Gentleman in Moscow, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Britt Marie, Educated, Winter Garden…t
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos; Olive Kitteridge; anything written by Lucia Berlin.
Everyone I have recommended this book to has absolutely loved it every age x
I’m 64. Love Stephen King and James Paterson.
Louise Penny’s books!
Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain
@Petherick The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes was awesome too.
What genres do you like? Do you have a favorite title or author?
@Cathie I just haven’t read a book in a long time. Want to, now that I have time.
Thursday’s in the Park
The Alice Network was excellent! It was set mostly in Europe during WW I, and told a story of astonishing heroism.
The help
The Alice Network
You can read anything.
Share your favorite book with her. I am 61 and read just about everything if it’s well written and a interesting story/subject.
Shopaholic series- and I’m in my 60s.
Dinah Jefferies books .
@Lynda I’ve just finished reading The Sapphire Widow ? plus also read the Tea Planters Wife & would agree they are great books (for any age really- I’m in my 40s) ?
The one author that seems to pop up frequently is Kristen Hannah
My cousin has read a couple of her books and likes them.
I have not ordered any yet from the library
I love Kristin Hannah!
Age is not a factor, interests are. Past reading experiences would tell one a great deal
Angry housewives eating bon bons. Such s fantastic book for any age!
I second this one! Amazing read 🙂
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah – I’m 66!
kristin Hannah brill i’m 66 fab books
Books by Maeve Binchy: Tara Road, the Glass Lake, Firefly Summer, circle of Friends, Evening Class, more….
@Judi Oh yes would have to agree Maeve Binchy novels are always fab ? I read lots in my 30s so suitable for any age I’d say ?
@Caroline Did you read Rosamund Pilcher? I liked hers, especially Coming Home.
Judi Purvis Yes I’ve definitely read some of hers…. can’t remember which ones though as it was ages ago….. (I’m keeping a list of books I’ve read now ?)
You can read ANYTHING! 🙂
For a quirky but brilliant read try this…..
Two Old Women, 20th Anniversary Edition https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0062244981/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_l-tvCbRX0X0JQ
I picked up a secondhand copy on eBay for around £2.50. It’s a quick read but incredibly useful for us ladies just slightly past the ‘spring chicken’ phase.
The nightingale series by Donna Douglas x
My favourite author is Santa Montefiore, a loveky storyteller my mother in law 73 and reads anything but loves thrillers
Outlander
Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, etc – literary classics ❤
@Rosemary
Age shouldn’t matter. I did enjoy, The house we grew up in.
Anything by Kristin @Hannah
Love for Lydia, H.E. Bates.
As mentioned above age shouldn’t stop you reading any genre. I am nearer 60 than 50 and love a wide range of books ?
There you go. Absolutely anything. I read Harry Potter when I was in my 70’s. Apart from all the latest recommendations I pop in classics like Black Beauty or a Wilkie Collins. The Colour Purple by Alice Walker or To Kill a Mockingbird. So many great reads.
What’s age got to do with reading a good book at 65
I am 75 and enjoy everything except sci fi.
What’s age got to do with it! A good thriller.
What’s age got to do with what you read?!?!?!
I’m 66 and read anything and everything .. any type of genre .. I don’t think age has got anything to do with what you read .. my granddaughter recommended me to read The Hunger Games.. I really enjoyed them
A Man Called Ove
I’m 76 and read everything . she should read Anything she likes
My grandmother is 76. She loves Bill O’Reilly.
Once you reach your 60s or 70s you should only read the books you enjoy.
@Judy I totally agree! And if you start one that you can’t get into, it’s ok to put it aside and go on the the next one.
but of course ? try M C Beaton detective Agatha Raisin with a bit of humour in them and set in the Cotswolds
I don’t base anything I read on age; don’t think age has anything to do with book choice.
Any of Kristin Hannah’s books! Start with the House on Tradd Street.
Gill Paul books
Anything a 20 yr would read
Does it matter how old you are as long as we all enjoy books!!
Not sure what age would have to do with a good read. I’m 65 and read everything that looks like it would be good. That includes Young Adult books. I loved The House of Night series so much after reading the first one that I bought them all.
What kind of books do you like – fiction, historical, romance, autobiographical? Give us an idea so we can better suggest a book.
Any book, age doesn’t matter one bit.
@Kelly absolutely agree
“a well heeled woman’
Lilac Girls
Small Great Things by Jody Picoult
@Ros I’m reading this now and love it
One of those books that stays with you. Enjoy
@Ros thanks!
What difference does age make……baffled
Also loved 600 Hours of Edward
As a 70 year old I am taken aback by the need to put age as a factor for determining a suitable book choice.
Read the 5 people you meet in Heaven and everything by Anita Shreve. X
I agree age doesn’t matter with reading preference. I do have to say that my taste has dramitcally changed as I have aged. I read books now that I would have never read in my thirties and books I read in my thirties don’t interest me now. I find I relate to certain books/stories differently with my age.
Maeve Binchy, Joann Harris, Chris Bohjalian, Dennis Lehane,
Where the Crawdad’s Sing.
I’m 69 and like a good thriller where the author had done serious research on his topic AND shares it with them reader (fact vs fiction). Think James Rollins or Steve Berry.
Just out of curiosity… is there a reason you put a specific age on your tweet?
I’m 67. I read all genres. Age really isn’t relevant to reading unless it’s a children’s book or one aimed specifically at young adults (even then I loved the Mockingjay series). Haven’t tried Harry Potter though.
I’m 75 and I like to read non fiction, historical fiction, crime and the odd romance. I also like books about the Australian outback ( non fiction mainly). particularly outback stations. old stock routes. pioneer farmers. I really don’t think age has much to do with it. You might like Kate Furnivall’s books. I am on my third and am hooked on her writing.
I shall be 65 next week and I’ll read anything except horror. I’ve always read randomly and widely and I’ve no plans to change that. I’ve just finished a sexy Regency romance and starting a memoir about a woman who escaped Afghanistan after Russia invaded.
My mom who’s 93, shares books with my sister who’s 68 and myself .. I’m 55 . We like several different genres, just good writing! Have you tried Julie Cantrell book Perennials, Mary Kay Andrews for fun, Elin Hildebrand, Kristin Hannah, Karen White, Anthony Elgin, Barbara Delinsky, Marilyn Simon Rothstein is hilarious.. so many fabulous writers out there !
I’m glad I don’t read books according to age, apart from youth books, anything else ,the world’s your oyster