This week we turn back the clock and revisit our very first podcast topic: Bucket List Books! We check in on our progress over the last few years, discuss our philosophies and motivations, look ahead to our next bucket lists books, and share plenty of listener feedback. What books are on your bucket list—and why?
Summer Book Club
The book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We have lined up a guest to join us to discuss the book in Episode 86, coming out on August 8.
Shownotes
Books
Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, by Patrick Radden Keefe
Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett
Long Island, by Colm Tóibín
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young
A Little Luck, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle
Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
Festival and Game of the Worlds, by César Aira, translated by Katherine Silver
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken
War, by Céline, translated by Charlotte Mandell
Death on the Installment Plan, by Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim
London, by Céline
Journey to the End of Night, by Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim
The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild, by Mathias Énard, translated by Frank Wynne
Compass, by Mathias Énard, translated by Charlotte Mandell
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
Carpenteria, by Alexis Wright
Praiseworthy, by Alexis Wright
Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust
The Stones of Aran, by Tim Robinson
The Black Prince, by Iris Murdoch
Frost in May, by Antonia White
The Mountain Lion, by Jean Stafford
The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs
Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer
Don Quixote, by Cervantes, translated by
Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz
The Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor
Satantango, by László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes
Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
The Voyage Home, by Pat Barker
Parallel Stories, by Péter Nádas, translated by Imre Goldstein
Pilcrow, by Adam Mars-Jones
Cedilla, by Adam Mars-Jones
Caret, by Adam Mars-Jones
Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
My Struggle, by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackery
South Riding, by Winifred Holtby
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
Silas Marner, by George Eliot
Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot
Felix Holt, by George Eliot
Romola, by George Eliot
Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
Mason & Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon
The Complete Essays, by Michel de Montaigne, translated by M.A. Screech
Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber
A Summer with Montaigne, by Antoine Compagnon, translated by Tina Kover
The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
Pilgrimage, by Dorothy Richardson
The Peregrine, by J.A. Baker
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft
Links
Involutions of the Seashell: Anthony and Lori discuss Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
Shawn Breathes Books: The Original Mookse and the Gripes Bucket List Book Tag Video!
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Episode 82: Bucket List Books, Part II