Episode 82: Bucket List Books, Part II

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 Jenni...