Help me find books!

[krystee]

I review books every other month in a publication for senior citizens of a certain faith. I am not that faith, but I mention it because since it is faith-based, I try not to include anything too steamy or gratuitously violent or political. I need to come up with three books for next month, and for some reason, I’m struggling. Here are some I have done recently (can be fiction or nonfiction and new or old):

Just Mercy
Dutch House
Four Winds
American Sherlock
The Light of Days
The Lazy Genius Kitchen
The Next Right Thing
I’m Still Here
Girl With the Louding Voice
A Walk in the Woods
Clutter Free Home
What Happens in Paradise
Wish You Were Here

Do you have any recent or favorite reads you’d recommend I read and review?

[charlatti]

Hamnet
We Are the Brennans
The Eyre Affair
Florence Adler Swims Forever

Nonfiction:
Why We Swim
Saving Jemima by Julie Zickefoose

(I was trying to look for things I’d recommend to my older family members)

[travella]

These are books that are popular on another board I follow that has a lot of older readers.

Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber

The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

[mrspez07]

Are WWII historical fiction acceptable? Kristen Harmel books are pretty clean romance-wise. Main characters are Jewish Women if that is a good fit. My favorite was the Book of Lost Names.

Louise Penny books
Kate Morton books

Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

[krystee]

Thanks, these are great!

[Gato]

The book I just finished, Crying in H Mart, might be interesting for seniors because it describes a daughter saying goodbye to her mom who has cancer, and then grieving.  While it also describes anger and disagreements between mother and daughter, ultimately, it's a little slice of Millennial love for their generation.

Secrets of Happiness, by Joan Silber, is also told from the vantage point of older people.  Although it talks about affairs and LGBTQ relationships - I'm not sure if their religion would approve - it's not graphic.  Joan Silber is a wonderful writer that doesn't get enough attention, IMO.

Oh, William and Lucy by the Sea, the newest two books by Elizabeth Strout, are also told from the vantage point of an older woman looking back on her life and choices.  Some of those choices were definitely not "religiously correct," but again, nothing graphic.

[estrellita]

Fountains of Silence
I Must Betray You
The Maid
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Ordinary Grace
This Tender Land
The Library of Legends
The Glittering Hour

Those are mostly historical fiction and should have minimal language or graphic scenes, if any.

[expectantsteelerfan]

The House in the Cerulean Sea and A Man Called Ove are ones I'd recommend if you haven't done them.