List lovingly created by Mary Ruhl
Cultural Attitudes & Aging Well
A Long Bright Future: Happiness, Health and Financial Security in an Age of Increased Longevity - Lauren Carstensen A Year by the Sea; A Weekend to Change Your Life; A Walk on the Beach - Joan Anderson Aging Well - George Vaillant, MD Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande Disrupt Aging - Jo Ann Jenkins Don’t Retire, Rewire - Jeri Sedlar Fifty to Forever - Hugh Downs How to be Old: Thinking Person’s Guide to Retirement - Richard Gerberding How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free - Ernie Zelinski Inventing the Rest of our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood - Suzanne Braun Levine New Passages - Gail Sheehy Old Age - Simone de Beauvoir Old is Not a Four-letter Word - Susan Towle Saving the Best for Last: Creating our Lives after 50 - Renee Fisher The Fountain of Age - Betty Friedan The Girls with the Grandmother Faces - Frances Weaver The Life Cycle Completed - Joan Erickson The Long History of Old Age - Pat Thayne This Chair Rocks - Ashton Applewhite What are Old People For? - William Thomas, MD With A Little Help From Our Friends: Creating Community As We Grow Older - Beth Baker Your Life Calling - Jane Pauley Physical Health & Longevity Anti Cancer A New Way of Life - David Servan-Schreiber, MD PhD Counterclockwise - Lauren Kessler (local author!) Drop Dead Healthy - A.J. Jacobs If I Live to be 100: Lessons from the Centenarians - Neenah Ellis Secrets of Longevity: Hundreds of Ways to Live to 100 - Dr. Mao Shing Ni Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever or Die Trying - Bill Gifford Strong Men and Strong Women Beat Arthritis - Dr. Miriam Nelson The Art of Aging, A Doctor’s Prescription for Well-Being - Sherwin Nuland The Blue Zones: Lessons on Living Longer from the People Who Live the Longest - Dan Buettner* The Gift of Caring - Marcy Houle & Eliz. Eckstrom, MD The Healthy Aging Brain: Sustaining Attachment, Attaining Wisdom - Louis Cozolino The Longevity Revolution - Robert N. Butler, MD What Makes Olga Run? The Mystery of the 90-something Track Star & What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives - Bruce Grierson Younger Next Year - Chris Crowley Younger Next Year for Women - Chris Crowley |
Creativity & Aging
It's Never too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Mid-Life and Beyond -Julia Cameron & Emma Lively Lastingness: The Art of Old Age - Nicholas Delbanco Sky Above Clouds: Finding Our Way Through Creativity, Aging, and Illness - Wendy Miller & Gene Cohen, MD The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life - Gene Cohen, MD Mental Health & Cognitive Aging Aging with Grace: What The Nun Study Teaches us about Leading Longer, Healthier and More Meaningful Lives - David Snowdon, MD The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - Norman Doidge MD The Mature Mind: the Positive Power of the Aging Brain - Gene Cohen, MD The Secret Life of the Grown Up Brain - Barbara Strauch Literature & Memoir As We Are Now - May Sarton Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? - Roz Chast Journal of a Solitude - May Sarton Old Age, Journey into Simplicity - Helen Luke Somewhere Toward the End: A Memoir - Diana Athill The Summer of a Dormouse - John Mortimer The Wild Braid: a Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden Stanley Kunitz When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi MD Wisdom, Spirituality, Death & Dying Aging as a Spiritual Practice: A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser - Lewis Richmond Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul - Stephen Jenkinson From Aging to Sage-ing - Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Odyssey: School for the Second Half of Life - Shoshana Zuboff Second Wind: Navigating the Passage to a Slower, Deeper, and More Connected Life - Dr. Bill Thomas Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying - Ram Dass The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker The Force of Character and the Lasting Life - James Hillman The Hourglass: Life as an Aging Mortal - Pamela Cuming The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife - James Hollis The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes The Wonder of Aging: A New Approach to Embracing Life After Fifty - Michael Gurian Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life - Daniel Klein |