Listening Is Reading
When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.






endearingly grumpy old people and their found families
books whose main characters are older and disillusioned with life and go on a little adventure that melts their hearts (and heals yours)






Hopecore books
For when things seem hopeless. We can always try again and again โค๏ธ
This list is a community project, I asked in the club and received multiple suggestions which I then added onto a list: fiction and nonfiction, fantasy, contemporary, sci-fi, the main theme is just hope. Some people said their recommendation might not fit very well but I added it anyways.
Also, in the og post, I mentioned The Good Place and if people have recommendations tending to that, so some books are related to that.






Good Book, Bad Movie ๐ฝ๏ธ
Crimes committed by movie studios against amazing books. โThe book walked, so these movies could trip and fall down the stairsโ - JadeLovesBooks โจ






Uh Oh! Grandmaโs Got a Gun!
Stories of the elderly misbehaving at astonishing rates! Murder, robbery, and fraud abound!
This list is typically focused on elderly protagonists that currently partake in crimes. I will consider books concerning elderly protagonists that committed crimes when they were younger and are dealing with the consequences later in life. Any and all crimes count, but preferential treatment is given to murder.






It's a (Modern) Mystery!
Like Agatha Christie but in the modern world. Please leave recommendations!






Cute-munity Cozy Reads
A list of cozy fiction for when the world is heavy and the Book Club book is too much.
Books are cozy based on other lists or cute-munity reccs. Your milage may vary.






Murder?! ๐ช At Our Age?! ๐ฌ
A collection of mysteries where the retirees, pensioners, and silverโhaired legends of small towns take crime into their own hands. Sometimes they are solving it, sometimes they causing it, and sometimes they might be doing a bit of both.






sick day: easy reads for when youโre low on spoons
Itโs a cruel irony that taking a sick day means being at home with nothing to do, but very little brain power with which to read.
Enter this list, a collection of books from various genres that donโt require too much brain power but are still GOOD. Accessible prose, storylines that arenโt overly convoluted, and often short chapters or frequent break points. And of course, easy to pick back up after dozing off!
Suggestions welcome!






Mysteries and Thrillers
This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them ๐






elderly sleuths solving cozy mysteries
wise, funny main characters in their golden years who solve crimes and murders! think the thursday murder club, a man on the inside, etc.!