All three of my grandparents are prolific readers and love to get/give books for Christmas. None of their preferred genres are mine, so I always struggle to pick for them, and there’s so much that searching on google/amazon gets overwhelming.
My grandpa loves Tom Clancy and James Patterson, but he’s read SO many of their books over the years that I don’t want to gamble and get him one he already has, so I’m looking for something similar. He’s a veteran so I think a military thriller would be cool!
One Grandma is very into history/anthropology/sociology type books that read like novels, like Guns, Germs and Steel. She especially loves prehistory/ancient history. I got her Sapiens last year and she loved it. We went to lunch recently and she said she was reading a book about Neanderthals but I don’t know what it was. I’d love to get her something in the same vein.
My other grandma likes romance and LOVES historical fiction romance, but I don’t have as much insight into what specifically she reads.
I’m hoping to find books that aren’t part of a series so they don’t feel like they have to commit to anything. They’re all in their late 80’s so nothing too smutty, and not in-your-face progressive- they are decently accepting for very old people, but they’re not going to relate to something where the main characters are LGBTQ+ etc.
I would love any and all recommendations!
by literal_moth
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I don’t know if your grandma likes food history/anthropology at all, but I recently read a really interesting book called The Lost Supper that looked at how we ate in prehistory/ancient history, what foods we’ve lost, and the people trying to recover them or recreate them, in a really accessible way. ???