As I noticed that I've rarely read books with older women (or older people in general) as main characters, I asked people on the Fediverse for recommendations. As there were so many awesome books recommended I decided to collect them here. Moved from my old bookwyrm account.
Books featuring older women Public
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As I noticed that I've rarely read books with older women (or older people in general) as main characters, I asked people on the Fediverse for recommendations. As there were so many awesome books recommended I decided to collect them here. Moved from my old bookwyrm account.
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5 stars
In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend, Sparrowhawk, a magician β¦
luce π says: A great, thoughtful, slow book with many musings on the power of women in a patriarchal world.
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Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #7)
At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into β¦
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luce π says: Terry Pratchett - any of the novels with Granny Weatherwax in.
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Blue remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds
One-hundred-and-fifty years from now, the moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge β¦
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Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
E-Book Extras: ONE: The Keys to Chalion: A Dictionary of People, Places, and Things; TWO: Chalion MiscellanyIt's been three years β¦
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Hammered by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra science fiction)
Once Jenny Casey was somebody's daughter. Once she was somebody's enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on β¦
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Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan (The Worth Saga, #2.75)
Mrs. Bertrice Martinβa widow, some seventy-three years youngβhas kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily β¦
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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk by Kathleen Rooney
"A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk... paints a portrait β¦
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5 stars
The Wall (German: Die Wand) is a 1963 novel by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer. Considered the author's finest work, The β¦
