Recs if you like The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry...

books whose main characters are older and disillusioned with life and go on a little adventure that melts their hearts (and heals yours)

sometimes they're running to something, sometimes they're running from something, sometimes they're just running.

A compilation of books (mostly fiction) in which the main character/s set out on a journey, leading to moments of meditation, introspection, meandering walks through the memory, conflicts with both the self, the path, and others, and ultimately: change, for both the characters and the reader. In these novels, the journey is more important than the destination.

Recommendations are welcome!

I think more books should be about old people getting into shenanigans. There is this small part of the book space with the stories of people who find the meaning of their life or mess others up because they don't care anymore. These are their stories , hilarious, emotional, heartwarming and heartbreaking, each unique...

Hope they make you feel alive!

“We live a full human life not by stopping at any stage, but by becoming all that is in us to become.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

Books that talk about or illustrate aging, elderhood, and living the last chapters of a life.

the name’s Bond. Alexz Bond. 😂

always taking suggestions for books with a full name in the title.

As a massive bookworm and theatre nerd, this list was inevitable.

Second chances, found family, cranky but comedic old folks. No 20 somethings as main character's here!

Characters in novels traveling our world, either via road trip, flights, tours, what have you, that will make you want to travel.

Fiction, memoir, or essay collections that heavily or centrally feature walking.

The ultimate bookish read!

Books recommended by Ruth Shaw in her memoir, The Bookseller at the End of the World.

Inspired by the Road by Cormac McCarthy and the Long Walk by Richard Bachman/Stephen King, these are books featuring characters going on long walks and plots that take place on the road.

Whether it's a vision of a brighter futures, everyday helpers, or simply books that leave us feeling more hopeful about humankind than when we started, this is an ongoing collection of books that feel like a candle in the dark, a constellation to guide us forward 💌