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

* Episode 1: Bucket List Books

* 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!

* The 100 Greatest British Novels List

* Beyond the Zero Podcast, with Andrei The Untranslated

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