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April 2005
Compiled by Melissa Groveman, of Greene County Public Library, Xenia, OH, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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I tried to include only books in which the protagonist is active in their present, and exclude those that were primarily "looking backward."

NOVELS

The following novels were published between 2000 and 2005 and feature senior citizens as protagonists. A variety of genres are represented.

Marion Babson   The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog
Margaret Hope Bacon   Year of Grace
Robert Barnard   A Cry from the Dark
Alessandro Baricco   Without Blood
Anouar Benmalek   Lovers of Algeria
Sonny Brewer   Poet of Tolstoy Park
Michael Chabon   Final Solution
Sarah Challis   Turning for Home
John Anthony Chestara   A Second Journey
Paula Marantz Cohen   Jane Austen in Boca
C. R. Corwin   Morgue Mama
Richard T. Dawn   Death for Dessert
Clyde Edgerton   Lunch at the Picadilly
Gunter Grass   Too Far Afield
Jon Hassler   A Green Journey
Naomi Hirahara   Summer of the Big Bachi
Charles McCarry   Old Boys
Larry McMurtry   Loop Group
Haruki Murakami   Kafka on the Shore
Christopher Nolan   The Banyan Tree
Joseph Olshan   In Clara's Hands
Matthew Pearl   Dante Club
Carol Phillips   A Distant Shore
Peter R. Pouncey   Rules for Old Men Waiting
Jeanne Ray   Julie and Romeo
Pam Rice   Coming to my Senses
Philip Roth   The Dying Animal
Annette Sanford   Eleanor and Abel
John Scalzi   Old Man's War
Louise Shaffer   The Three Miss Margarets
Porter Shreve   Drives Like a Dream
Ronald Tierney   Nickel Plated Soul

SERIES

Senior citizens star in the following series'. The majority of the books in each series were published between 2000 and 2005

Peter Abresch   James P. Dandy Elderhostel Series
Charlene Ann Baumbich   Dearest Dorothy Series
M. C. Beaton   Agatha Raisin Mysteries
Anne George   Southern Sisters Mysteries
Parnell Hall   Puzzle Lady/Cora Felton Mysteries
Fred Hunter   Jeremy Ransom and Emily Charters Mysteries
Joan Medlicott   Covingon, North Carolina Series
Jonathan Lewis Nasaw   E. L. Pender Series
Cynthia Riggs   Victoria Trumbull Mysteries
Anne B. Ross   Miss Julia Series
Gretchen Sprague   Martha Patterson Mysteries

www.webrary.org/rs:flbklists/activeseniors.html
First published on the Web: 5/27/2005
Last updated: 5/27/2005