Recs if you like An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good...

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

Book titles that represent reasons you might go to the doctor, what you might say to each other, or what treatments might be offered to cure your ailments. It's up to you to decide what is what😉

(This is not a commentary on these books or authors! The focus of this list is purely on the titles---but if you find a favorite new read here, I'd love to know🤭)

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.

Fiction has always been where truth hides. Across horror, thriller, literary fiction, fantasy & mystery every book on this list has something to say about power, who holds it, who destroys it, and how it reproduces itself.

A collection of mysteries where the retirees, pensioners, and silver‑haired 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.

Novellas, shorter books, and stories that are a decent bite of literature and a full meal despite being compact. Like a burrito on a commute to work. AKA my full novella master list.

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

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!

Somebody asked for a list based on the recs folks gave on my pagebound club post, so this is that! (Plus i dumped a bunch of my faves & tbr in)

All genres, no teenagers or early 20s heroines. Open to suggestions because we need to read about women of all ages and walks of life.

I love it when titles break the naming conventions of books. I’ve had enough a blank of blank and blank, I want something NEW, something STRANGE, something that immediately makes me check out the synopsis with the excitement of a dog who has seen a squirrel 🐿️

Crime, obsession, feminine rage etc 🩷

Short story collections in any genre, all stories by a single author.

i am trying my darndest to give this genre niche its best shot

Those books that know how to mix things up!

Femme fatales, lady thieves, and other feminine criminals of both the real and fictional variety.

Books about people of a certain age

Reading translated fiction changed the trajectory of my life so I need to return the favor by promoting them more

When thinking is too hard and too much excitement is overwhelming.