Jon Hassler / Complete Works and Groupings

List of Complete Works:

Staggerford (1977) -- A week in the life of a 35-year-old high school English teacher

Four Miles to Pinecone (1977) -- A 16-year-old boy witnesses a robbery

Simon's Night (1979) -- A retired professor checks himself into a rest home too early

Jemmy (1980) -- A 17-year-old girl must quit school to raise her brother and sister

The Love Hunter (1981) -- A professor with MS goes hunting with his friend in Canada

A Green Journey (1985) -- Agatha travels to Ireland with friends to meet her pen pal

Grand Opening (1987) -- A family buys a grocery store in a small southeastern MN town

North of Hope (1990) -- A priest on a northern MN Indian Reservation finds a former friend

Dear James (1993) -- Agatha travels to Italy with friends and a group of college students

Rookery Blues (1995) -- Five professors form a jazz quintet as the campus debates a strike

The Dean's List (1997) -- A sequel to Rookery Blues – a poet comes to Rookery State

My Staggerford Journal (1999) -- The journal Hassler kept while he was writing Staggerford

Keepsakes and Other Stories (1999) -- A collection of short stories

Underground Christmas (1999) -- A longer short story

Rufus at the Door and Other Stories (2000) -- A collection of short stories

Good People ... from an Author’s Life (2001) -- Hassler’s memoirs

The Staggerford Flood (2002) -- Agatha keeps friends in her house during a flood

The Staggerford Murders / The Life and Death of Nancy Clancy’s Nephew (2004) -- Two novellas

The New Woman (2005) -- Agatha moves into a senior citizens apartment building

Works with Text by Jon Hassler:

Stories Teachers Tell (2004) -- A collection of non-fiction stories by teachers

Churches of Minnesota (2006) -- A collection of photographs and text

Agatha / Staggerford Novels:

Staggerford (1977)

A Green Journey (1985)

Dear James (1993)

The Staggerford Flood (2002)

The New Woman (2005)

The Staggerford Flood / The Life and Death of Nancy Clancy’s Nephew (2004)

Rookery Novels:

Simon's Night (1979)

The Love Hunter (1981)

Rookery Blues (1995)

The Dean's List (1997)

Other Novels:

Grand Opening (1987)

North of Hope (1990)

Young Adult Novels:

Four Miles to Pinecone (1977)

Jemmy (1980)

Short Stories:

Keepsakes and Other Stories (1999)

Underground Christmas (1999)

Rufus at the Door and Other Stories (2000)

Nonfiction Works:

My Staggerford Journal (1999)

Good People ... from an Author’s Life (2001)