The Mookse and the Gripes Pantheon

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Welcome to The Mookse and the Gripes Pantheon, a personal list of some of my favorite authors whose work I talk about most often, here and there. My main criterion for compiling this list was this: once I finish a book by the author, I want to read everything that author has written.

The plan, then, is to do just that. This is aspirational and not necessarily something I’m going to fret about as time goes by. For me, this will function as a kind of checklist which may be added to periodically as I find I can’t leave an author out of my Pantheon. Links are to reviews I’ve posted on this site. For foreign-language authors, the lists below contain what is available in English translation, though the dates to the side are original publication dates.

I got this idea from Kim at Reading Matters (here is her list of “My Favourite Authors”) and Simon from Savidge Reads (here is his “Hall of Fame”).

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Jane Austen (1775—1817)

• Sense and Sensibility (1811)
• Pride and Prejudice (1813)
• Mansfield Park (1814)
• Emma (1815)
• Northanger Abbey (1818)
• Persuasion (1818)

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César Aira (1949— )

• Ema, the Captive (1981)
• How I Became a Nun (1989)
• Ghosts (1990)
• The Hare (1991)
• The Proof (1992)
• The Seamstress and the Wind (1994)
• The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira (1998)
• An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000)
• Birthday (2001)
• Shantytown (2001)
• Varamo (2002)
• The Linden Tree (2003)
• The Little Buddhist Monk (2005)
• Dinner (2006)
• The Literary Conference (2006)
• Conversations (2007)
• The Divorce (2010)
• Artforum (2014)
• The Musical Brain (2015; stories)

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Roberto Bolaño (1953—2003)

• The Skating Rink (1993)
• Nazi Literature in the Americas (1996)
• Distant Star (1996)
• The Savage Detectives (1998)
• Amulet (1999)
• Monsieur Pain (1999)
• By Night in Chile (2000)
• Antwerp (2002)
• A Little Lumpen Novelita (2002)
• 2666 (2004)
• The Third Reich (2010)
• Woes of the True Policeman (2011)
• The Spirit of Science Fiction (2016)
• Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas  (2021)

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Willa Cather (1873 – 1947)

• The Troll Garden (1905; stories)
• Alexander’s Bridge (1912)
• O Pioneers! (1913)
• The Song of the Lark (1915)
• My Ántonia (1918)
• Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920; stories)
• One of Ours (1922)
• A Lost Lady (1923)
• The Professor’s House (1925)
• My Mortal Enemy (1926)
• Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
• Shadows on the Rock (1931)
• Obscure Destinies (1932; stories)
• Lucy Grayheart (1935)
• Not Under Forty (1936; essays)
• Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)
• The Old Beauty and Others (1948; stories)

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J.M. Coetzee (1940—)

• Dusklands (1974)
• In the Heart of the Country (1977)
• Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
• Life & Times of Michael K (1983)
• Foe (1986)
• Age of Iron (1990)
• The Master of Petersburg (1994)
• Boyhood (1997)
• Disgrace (1999)
• Youth (2002)
• Elizabeth Costello (2003)
• Slow Man (2005)
• Diary of a Bad Year (2007)
• Summertime (2009)
• The Childhood of Jesus (2013)
• The Schooldays of Jesus (2016)
• The Death of Jesus (2019)

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Louise Erdrich (1954— )

• Love Medicine (1984)
• The Beet Queen (1986)
• Tracks (1988)
• The Bingo Palace (1994)
• Tales of Burning Love (1997)
• The Antelope Wife (1998)
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001)
• The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003)
• Four Souls (2004)
• The Painted Drum (2005)
• The Plague of Doves (2008)
• Shadow Tag (2010)
• The Round House (2012)
• LaRose (2016)
• Future Home of the Living God (2017)
• The Night Watchman (2020)

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Penelope Fitzgerald (1916—2000)

• The Golden Child (1977)
• The Bookshop (1978)
• Offshore (1979)
• Human Voices (1980)
• At Freddie’s (1982)
• Innocence (1986)
• The Beginning of Spring (1988)
• The Gate of Angels (1990)
• The Blue Flower (1994)

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László Krasznahorkai (1954— )

• Satantango (1985)
• Herman: The Game Warden & The Death of the Craft (1986)
• The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)
• The Prisoner of Urga (1992)
• War and War (1999)
• From North a Hill, from South a Lake, from East a Road, from West a River (2003)
• Ruin and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens (2004)
• Seiobo There Below (2008)
• The Last Wolf (2009)
• Animalinside (2010)
• The World Goes On (stories; 2013)
• The Homecoming of Baron Wenckheim (2016)
• The Manhattan Project (2017)
• Spadework for a Palace (2018)
• Chasing Homer (2019)

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Javier Marías (1951— )

• Voyage Along the Horizon (1973)
• The Man of Feeling (1986)
• All Souls (1989)
• A Heart So White (1992)
• Written Lives (1992)
• Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me (1994)
• When I Was Mortal (1996)
• Dark Back of Time (1998)
• Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 1: Fever and Spear (2002)
• Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Dance and Dream (2004)
• Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell (2007)
• The Infatuations (2011)
• Thus Bad Begins (2014)
• Berta Isla (2017)
• Tomas Nevinson (2021)

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William Maxwell (1908—2000)

• Bright Center of Heaven (1934)
• They Came Like Swallows (1937)
• The Folded Leaf (1945)
• Time Will Darken It (1948)
• The Chateau (1961)
• So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)

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Cormac McCarthy (1933— )

• The Orchard Keeper (1965)
• Outer Dark (1968)
• Child of God (1973)
• Suttree (1979)
• Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (1985)
• All the Pretty Horses (1992)
• The Crossing (1994)
• Cities of the Plain (1998)
• No Country for Old Men (2005)
• The Road (2006)
• The Passenger (unpublished)

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Carson McCullers (1917—1967)

• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
• Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941)
• The Member of the Wedding (1946)
• The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)
• Clock Without Hands (1961)

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Alice Munro (1931— )

• Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
• Lives of Girls and Women (1971)
• Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)
• The Beggar Maid (1978)
• The Moons of Jupiter (1982)
• The Progress of Love (1986)
• Friend of My Youth (1990)
• Open Secrets (1994)
• The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
• Runaway (2004)
• The View from Castle Rock (2006)
• Too Much Happiness (2009)
• Dear Life (2012)

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Flannery O’Connor (1925—1964)

• Wise Blood (1952)
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955)
• The Violent Bear It Away (1960)
• Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965)

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Cynthia Ozick (1928— )

• Trust (1966)
• Envy, or Yiddish in America (1969)
• The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories (1971)
• Bloodshed and Three Novellas (1976)
• Levitation: Five Fictions (1982)
• The Cannibal Galaxy (1983)
• The Messiah of Stockholm (1987)
• The Shawl (1989)
• The Puttermesser Papers (1997)
• Heir to the Glimmering World (2004)
• Dictation: A Quartet (2007)
• Foreign Bodies (2010)
• Antiquities (2021)

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Marilynne Robinson (1943— )

• Housekeeping (1981)
• Gilead (2004)
• Home (2008)
• Lila (2014)
• Jack (2020)

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Philip Roth (1933—2018)

• Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
• Letting Go (1962)
• When She Was Good (1967)
• Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)
• Our Gang (1971)
• The Breast (1972)
• The Great American Novel (1973)
• My Life as a Man (1974)
• The Professor of Desire (1977)
• The Ghost Writer (1979)
• Zuckerman Unbound (1981)
• The Anatomy Lesson (1983)
• The Prague Orgy (1985)
• The Counterlife (1986)
• Deception (1990)
• Patrimony (1991)
• Operation Shylock (1993)
• Sabbath’s Theater (1995)
• American Pastoral (1997)
• I Married a Communist (1998)
• The Human Stain (2000)
• The Dying Animal (2001)
• The Plot Against America (2004)
• Everyman (2006)
• Exit Ghost (2007)
• Indignation (2008)
• The Humbling (2009)
• Nemesis (2010)

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W.G. Sebald (1944—2001)

• Vertigo (1990)
• The Emigrants (1992)
• The Rings of Saturn (1995)
• Austerlitz (2001)

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Muriel Spark (1918—2006)

• The Comforters (1957)
• Robinson (1958)
• Memento Mori (1959)
• The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960)
• The Bachelors (1960)
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
• The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
• The Mandelbaum Gate (1965)
• The Public Image (1968)
• The Driver’s Seat (1970)
• Not to Disturb (1971)
• The Hothouse by the East River (1973)
• The Abbess of Crewe (1974)
• The Takeover (1976)
• Territorial Rights (1979)
• Loitering With Intent (1981)
• The Only Problem (1984)
• A Far Cry from Kensington (1988)
• Symposium (1990)
• Reality and Dreams (1996)
• Aiding and Abetting (2000)
• The Finishing School (2004)

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Elizabeth Taylor (1912—1975)

• At Mrs. Lippincote’s (1945)
• Palladian (1946)
• A View of the Harbour (1947)
• A Wreath of Roses (1949)
• A Game of Hide and Seek (1951)
• The Sleeping Beauty (1953)
• Angel (1957)
• In a Summer Season (1961)
• The Soul of Kindness (1964)
• The Wedding Group (1968)
• Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (1971)
• Blaming (1976)
• You’ll Enjoy It When You Get There (2014; stories)

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William Trevor (1928—2016)

• A Standard of Behaviour (1958)
• The Old Boys (1964)
• The Boarding House (1965)
• The Love Department (1966)
• The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories (1967)
• Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel (1969)
• Miss Gomez and the Brethren (1971)
• The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories (1972)
• Elizabeth Alone (1973)
• The Last Lunch of the Season (1973)
• Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories (1975)
• The Children of Dynmouth (1976)
• Lovers of Their Time (1978)
• The Distant Past (1979)
• Other People’s Worlds (1980)
• Beyond the Pale (1981)
• Fools of Fortune (1983)
• The News from Ireland and Other Stories (1986)
• Nights at the Alexandra (1987)
• The Silence in the Garden (1988)
• Family Sins and Other Stories (1989)
• Two Lives (1991)
• Felicia’s Journey (1994)
• After Rain (1996)
• Death in Summer (1998)
• The Hill Bachelors (2000)
• The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)
• A Bit on the Side (2004)
• Cheating at Canasta (2007)
• Love and Summer (2009)
• Last Stories (2018)

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Eudora Welty (1909—2001)

• The Robber Bridegroom (1942)
• Delta Wedding (1946)
• The Ponder Heart (1954)
• Losing Battles (1970)
• The Optimist’s Daughter (1972)

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John Williams (1922—1994)

• Nothing But the Night (1948)
• Butcher’s Crossing (1960)
• Stoner (1965)
• Augustus (1972)