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)