Need some recommendations for mid 80s varacious mysteries and thriller reader.
I need ideas fo a Father’s Day gift. My dad is in his mid 80s and is a voracious reader. He likes biographies, mysteries and thriller. Everything I’m finding he’s already read. Any suggestions?
Can you get him a book voucher or take him to the book store to pick out his own? It’s hard picking out presents for people like that when they’ve already read a lot of stuff.
Judge Dee murder
mysteries about an ancient Chinese judge and his assistants. Authentically written by Robert van Gulik, a Dutch ambassador to China. Little known and wonderful!
A good book anyone must like is Sapiens by Yval Noah Harrari. But it’s non fiction.
Gift certificate from a bookstore.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grant;
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson;
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson.
Your father might also like the Toby Peters mystery series by Stuart Kaminsky. Toby is a private eye in Golden Age Hollywood, and Kaminsky incorporates movie stars like Clark Gable, Judy Garland, and many more into his mysteries. Fun and very entertaining!
Has he read the latest book by Ron Chernow titled Grant?
See my recommendations above: The Spy Who Loved and Elizabeth is missing
Mind hunter by John Douglas, Red Notice by Bill Browder. The Shardlake series by CJ Sansom
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Erm. You know it’s tomorrow?? ?
This is an old series but I found 3 at a used bookstore and my 82 year old dad who is also a velocireader had not read them-Travis McGee mysteries by John D. McDonald. They all have a color in the title-the first is A Deep Blue Good-bye.
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve gotten him two books from your suggestions. Unfortunately a gift card wouldn’t work. He thinks they mean you didn’t take the time for a thoughtful gift. I put more thought into dinner and an outing then the gift this year
So which books did you decide on???
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Syndrome E
Fools to the Left, Jokers to the Right by Michael Smerconish
Anything by Walter Isaacson;
David McCullough;
Doris Kearns Goodwin
My husband actually likes the Donna Leon mystery books which take place in Venice, Italy.
Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Dept Q mysteries do not disappoint.
The president is missing.
Billy Boyle by James R Benn…The Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart…The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva and then the rest of the Gabriel Allon series by him…The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison…Wolves Eat Dogs (Arkady Renko Series Book 5) by Martin Cruz Smith…Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand…Tinker to Evers to Chance: The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America by David Rapp…Over Time: My Life As a Sportswriter by Frank Deford…
Lonesome Dove
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
How would he feel about the Charles Lenox mysteries, set in the mid-19th century in England, by Charles Finch?
James Lee Burke has a detective series with a main character, Dave Robicheaux. Those books are excellent and there are about 20 books in the series
Penelope Lively’s Dancing Fish and Ammonites, a Memoir.
Loved it, so memorable!
A little late but Night Film by Pessl
Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg.
David Liss – The Whiskey Rebels or Simon Winchester’s The Professor and the Madman
Carl Sandberg’s Lincoln
Grant by Ron Chernow