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Mężczyzna imieniem Ove

Fredrick Backman · 352 pages

Grief Over a SpouseNeighborsSuicidal IdeationElderly Protagonist
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En man som heter Ove

Fredrik Backman · 346 pages

Chosen FamilySuicidal IdeationGrief Over a SpouseNeighbors
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The Art of Racing in the Rain

Garth Stein · 321 pages

Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing,

Grief Over a SpouseDeath of a SpouseGrief and MourningHeartwarming
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The Reading List

Sara Nisha Adams · 368 pages

Widowed ProtagonistDeath of a SpouseElderly ProtagonistGrief and Mourning
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Anybody Out There?

Marian Keyes · 592 pages

Life is perfect for Anna Walsh. She has the "Best Job in the World" as a PR exec for a top-selling urban beauty brand, a lovely apartment in New York, and a perfect husband - the love of her life, Aidan Maddox. Until the morning she wakes up in her mammy's living room in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, and completely smashed-up hands - and no memory of how she got there. While

Grief Over a SpouseDeath of a SpouseWidowed ProtagonistGrief and Mourning
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson · 394 pages

You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major P

Elderly ProtagonistWidowed ProtagonistDeath of a SpouseHeartwarming
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All the Lonely People

Mike Gayle · 430 pages

NeighborsElderly ProtagonistGrief Over a SpouseTearjerker
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin · 279 pages

A.J. Fikry's life is not what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is failing, and his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. He is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island and from Amelia, the Knightley Press sales rep who refuses to be deterred by A.J.'s bad attitude. And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore that gives A.J

Widowed ProtagonistDeath of a SpouseGrief Over a SpouseTearjerker
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

Phaedra Patrick · 331 pages

Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite g

Grief Over a SpouseElderly ProtagonistDeath of a SpouseWidowed Protagonist
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The Story of Arthur Truluv

Elizabeth Berg · 247 pages

"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetery, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's

Grief Over a SpouseElderly ProtagonistWidowed ProtagonistGrief and Mourning
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce · 355 pages

Harold Fry has recently retired and now, he doesn't do very much. Even mowing the lawn, like his wife Maureen tells him to do, seems too much work for him. When, one day, he recieves a lettre in a pink envelope, this lazyness changes. In it, his collegue from long time ago, Queenie Hennessy, tells him she is going to die soon from a cancer in a hospice at the other end of England. Harold, at first

Elderly ProtagonistTearjerkerGrief and MourningSuicide Content
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How to Read a Book

Monica Wood · 280 pages

Grief Over a SpouseWidowed ProtagonistDeath of a SpouseElderly Protagonist
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The Last Devil to Die

Richard Osman · 369 pages

The fourth installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, now streaming on Netflix “The best Murder Club book yet. . . A poignant complement to both the fair-play mystery plot and the characters’ lively humor.” —The New York Times Book Review It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club. Shocking news reaches them—an old friend has been killed, and a d

Elderly ProtagonistGrief Over a SpouseDeath of a SpouseFound Family
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This Book Made Me Think of You

Libby Page · 417 pages

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT CELEBRATES LOVE, LIFE, AND FINDING THE RIGHT BOOK AT THE RIGHT TIME Join readers around the world who have fallen in love with the book praised by Adriana Trigiani as “the feel-good novel of the year”—an emotional and uplifting story about one woman’s reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love again. “A lovely, affecting paean to the power of books and enduring

Grief Over a SpouseWidowed ProtagonistDeath of a SpouseGrief and Mourning
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery · 325 pages

EA novel by the French professor of philosophy Muriel Barbery. The book centers on a working-class concierge of an upscale apartment building in Paris, Renee Michel. She is an auto-didact of immense learning who deliberately conceals her intelligence. Her secret is discovered by a young resident of the building named Paloma. The novel is narrated alternately by each of these two characters. Fir

Suicidal IdeationNeighborsSuicide ContentFound Family
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A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 736 pages

Chosen FamilyTearjerkerSuicidal IdeationGrief and Mourning
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The Time Keeper

Mitch Albom · 232 pages

In The Time Keeper, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years.

Suicidal IdeationDeath of a SpouseSuicide ContentGrief Over a Spouse
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An Available Man

Hilma Wolitzer · 285 pages

"In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a h

Grief Over a SpouseDeath of a SpouseElderly ProtagonistWidowed Protagonist
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Sam's Letters to Jennifer

James Patterson · 264 pages

Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story that will upend completely the world she thought she knew - a

Death of a SpouseGrief Over a SpouseWidowed ProtagonistTearjerker
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Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt · 368 pages

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who sees everything, but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his hum

Widowed ProtagonistElderly ProtagonistHeartwarmingFound Family
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P.S. I Love You

Cecelia Ahern · 512 pages

Grief Over a SpouseDeath of a SpouseWidowed ProtagonistTearjerker
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Regretting You

Colleen Hoover · 363 pages

Death of a SpouseGrief Over a SpouseWidowed ProtagonistGrief and Mourning
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The Reading List

Adams Sara Nisha

Grief Over a SpouseWidowed ProtagonistElderly ProtagonistSuicide Content
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Every Last Cuckoo

Kate Maloy · 290 pages

Sarah Lucas imagined the rest of her days would be spent living peacefully in her rural Vermont home in the steadfast company of her husband. But now, with Charles's sudden passing, seventy-five-year-old Sarah is left inconsolably alone. As grief settles in, Sarah's mind lingers on her past: her imperfect but devoted fifty-year marriage to Charles; the years they spent raising their three very

Grief Over a SpouseDeath of a SpouseElderly ProtagonistWidowed Protagonist

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