One of the things on my birthday goal list is to read ten books from the Rory Gilmore Book Challenge. If you're a Gilmore Girls fan, you know that Rory is ridiculously smart and almost always has her nose in a book. Someone, or probably multiple someones, compiled a list of all the books Rory is shown reading throughout the seven seasons of the show. This list is very long and is as follows. The ones I've read are in green, the ones I've started and have yet to finish are in purple.
1984 by George Orwell
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Alice in
Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Amazing Adventures
of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
An American Tragedy by
Theodore Dreiser
Angela’s Ashes by Frank
McCourt
Anna Karenina by Leo
Tolstoy
Anne Frank: The Diary of
a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Archidamian War by
Donald Kagan
The Art of Fiction by
Henry James
The Art of War by Sun
Tzu
As I Lay
Dying by William Faulkner
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy
The Awakening by Kate
Chopin
Babe by Dick King-Smith
Backlash: The Undeclared
War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
Balzac and the Little
Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
The Bell Jar by Sylvia
Plath
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beowulf: A
New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
The Bhagava Gita
The Bielski Brothers:
The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the
Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
Bitch in Praise of
Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
A Bolt from the Blue and
Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
Brave New
World by Aldous Huxley
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Bridgadoon by Alan Jay
Lerner
Candide by Voltaire
The
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph
Heller
The Catcher
in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Charlotte’s
Web by E. B. White
The Children’s Hour by
Lillian Hellman
Christine by Stephen
King
A
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange by
Anthony Burgess
The Code of the Woosters
by P.G. Wodehouse
The Collected Short
Stories by Eudora Welty
The Collected Stories of
Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
A Comedy of Errors by
William Shakespeare
Complete Novels by Dawn
Powell
The Complete Poems by
Anne Sexton
Complete Stories by
Dorothy Parker
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
The Count of Monte
Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
Cousin Bette by Honor’e
de Balzac
Crime and Punishment by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crimson Petal and
the White by Michel Faber
The Crucible by Arthur
Miller
Cujo by Stephen King
The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Daisy Miller by Henry
James
Daughter of Fortune by
Isabel Allende
David and Lisa by Dr
Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
David Copperfield by
Charles Dickens
The Da
Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Dead Souls by Nikolai
Gogol
Demons by Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
Death of a
Salesman by Arthur Miller
Deenie by Judy Blume
The Devil
in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
by Erik Larson
The Dirt: Confessions of
the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and
Nikki Sixx
The Divine Comedy by
Dante
The Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Don Quijote by Cervantes
Driving Miss Daisy by
Alfred Uhrv
Dr. Jekyll & Mr.
Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Edgar Allan Poe:
Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Eleanor Roosevelt by
Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Electric Kool-Aid
Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel
in Letters by Mark Dunn
Eloise by Kay Thompson
Emily the Strange by
Roger Reger
Emma by Jane Austen
Empire Falls by Richard
Russo
Encyclopedia Brown: Boy
Detective by Donald J. Sobol
Ethan Frome by Edith
Wharton
Ethics by Spinoza
Europe through the Back
Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
Eva Luna by Isabel
Allende
Everything Is
Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extravagance by Gary
Krist
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray
Bradbury
Fahrenheit 9/11 by
Michael Moore
The Fall of the Athenian
Empire by Donald Kagan
Fat Land: How Americans
Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Fellowship of the
Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
Fiddler on the Roof by
Joseph Stein
The Five
People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Finnegan’s Wake by James
Joyce
Fletch by Gregory McDonald
Flowers for Algernon by
Daniel Keyes
The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem
The Fountainhead by Ayn
Rand
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey by J.
D. Salinger
Freaky Friday by Mary
Rodgers
Galapagos by Kurt
Vonnegut
Gender Trouble by Judith
Butler
George W. Bushism: The
Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob
Weisberg
Gidget by Fredrick
Kohner
Girl, Interrupted by
Susanna Kaysen
The Gnostic Gospels by
Elaine Pagels
The Godfather: Book 1 by
Mario Puzo
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
Goldilocks and the Three
Bears by Alvin Granowsky
Gone with the Wind by
Margaret Mitchell
The Good
Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
The Gospel According to
Judy Bloom
The Graduate by Charles
Webb
The Grapes
of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F.
Scott Fitzgerald
Great Expectations by
Charles Dickens
The Group by Mary
McCarthy
Hamlet by
William Shakespeare
Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
A Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Heart of
Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Helter Skelter: The True
Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
Henry IV, part I by
William Shakespeare
Henry IV, part II by
William Shakespeare
Henry V by William
Shakespeare
High Fidelity by Nick
Hornby
The History of the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Holidays on Ice: Stories
by David Sedaris
The Holy Barbarians by
Lawrence Lipton
House of Sand and Fog by
Andre Dubus III
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
How to Breathe
Underwater by Julie Orringer
How the
Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
How the Light Gets in by
M. J. Hyland
Howl by Allen Gingsburg
The Hunchback of Notre
Dame by Victor Hugo
The Iliad by Homer
I’m with the Band by
Pamela des Barres
In Cold Blood by Truman
Capote
Inherit the Wind by
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Iron Weed by William J.
Kennedy
It Takes a Village by
Hillary Clinton
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
The Joy
Luck Club by Amy Tan
Julius Caesar by William
Shakespeare
The Jumping Frog by Mark
Twain
The Jungle by Upton
Sinclair
Just a Couple of Days by
Tony Vigorito
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel
of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
The Kite
Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Lady
Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence
The Last Empire: Essays
1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
Leaves of Grass by Walt
Whitman
The Legend of Bagger
Vance by Steven Pressfield
Less Than Zero by Bret
Easton Ellis
Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Lies and the Lying Liars
Who Tell Them by Al Franken
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
The Lion,
The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Little Dorrit by Charles
Dickens
The Little Locksmith by
Katharine Butler Hathaway
The Little
Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Living History by
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Lord of the Flies by
William Golding
The Lottery: And Other
Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Lovely
Bones by Alice Sebold
The Love Story by Erich
Segal
Macbeth by
William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
The Manticore by
Robertson Davies
Marathon Man by William
Goldman
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Memoirs of
a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of General W. T.
Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
The Meaning of Consuelo
by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Mencken’s Chrestomathy
by H. R. Mencken
The Merry Wives of
Windsro by William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis by
Franz Kafka
Middlesex by Jeffrey
Eugenides
The Miracle Worker by
William Gibson
Moby Dick by Herman
Melville
The Mojo Collection: The
Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
Moliere: A Biography by
Hobart Chatfield Taylor
A Monetary History of
the United States by Milton Friedman
Monsieur Proust by
Celeste Albaret
A Month Of Sundays:
Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
A Moveable Feast by
Ernest Hemingway
Mrs.
Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mutiny on the Bounty by
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
My Lai 4: A Report on
the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
My Life as Author and
Editor by H. R. Mencken
My Life in Orange:
Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
My
Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
The Name of the Rose by
Umberto Eco
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Nanny Diaries by
Emma McLaughlin
Nervous System: Or,
Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
New Poems of Emily
Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
The New Way Things Work
by David Macaulay
Nickel and Dimed by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Night by Elie Wiesel
Northanger Abbey by Jane
Austen
The Norton Anthology of
Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson,
John P. McGowan
Novels 1930-1942: Dance
Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born
by Dawn Powell
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
by Charles Bukowski
Of Mice
and Men by John Steinbeck
Old School by Tobias
Wolff
Oliver
Twist by Charles Dickens
On the Road by Jack
Kerouac
One Day in the Life of
Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of
Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Opposite of Fate:
Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
Oracle Night by Paul
Auster
Oryx and Crake by
Margaret Atwood
Othello by Shakespeare
Our Mutual Friend by
Charles Dickens
The Outbreak of the
Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
Out of Africa by Isac
Dineson
The Outsiders by S. E.
Hinton
A Passage to India by
E.M. Forster
The Peace of Nicias and
the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
The Perks of Being a
Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Peyton Place by Grace
Metalious
The Picture
of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Pigs at the Trough by
Arianna Huffington
Pinocchio by Carlo
Collodi
Please Kill Me: The
Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
The Polysyllabic Spree
by Nick Hornby – read
The Portable Dorothy
Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Portable Nietzche by
Fredrich Nietzche
The Price of Loyalty:
George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron
Suskind
Pride and Prejudice by
Jane Austen
Property by Valerie
Martin
Pushkin: A Biography by
T. J. Binyon
Pygmalion by George
Bernard Shaw
Quattrocento by James
Mckean
A Quiet Storm by Rachel
Howzell Hall
Rapunzel
by Grimm Brothers
The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe
The Razor’s Edge by W.
Somerset Maugham
Reading
Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Rebecca by Daphne du
Maurier
Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Red Tent by Anita
Diamant
Rescuing Patty Hearst:
Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
The Return of the King:
The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien
R Is for Ricochet by Sue
Grafton
Rita Hayworth by Stephen
King
Robert’s Rules of Order
by Henry Robert
Roman Fever by Edith
Wharton
Romeo and
Juliet by William Shakespeare
A Room of One’s Own by
Virginia Woolf
A Room with a View by E.
M. Forster
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira
Levin
Sacred Time by Ursula
Hegi
Sanctuary by William
Faulkner
Savage Beauty: The Life
of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
The Scarecrow of Oz by
Frank L. Baum
The Scarlet Letter by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Seabiscuit: An American
Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
The Second Sex by Simone
de Beauvoir
The Secret
Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Secrets of the Flesh: A
Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
Selected Letters of Dawn
Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
Sense and Sensibility by
Jane Austen
A Separate Peace by John
Knowles
Several Biographies of
Winston Churchill
Sexus by Henry Miller
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shane by Jack Shaefer
The Shining by Stephen
King
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
S Is for Silence by Sue
Grafton
Slaughter-house Five by
Kurt Vonnegut
Small Island by Andrea
Levy
Snows of
Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
Snow White and Rose Red
by Grimm Brothers
Social Origins of
Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of The Modern World
by Barrington Moore
The Song of Names by
Norman Lebrecht
Song of the Simple
Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
The Song Reader by Lisa
Tucker
Songbook by Nick Hornby
The Sonnets by William
Shakespeare
Sonnets from the
Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sophie’s Choice by
William Styron
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
Speak, Memory by
Vladimir Nabokov
Stiff: The Curious Lives
of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The Story of My Life by
Helen Keller
A
Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Stuart Little by E. B.
White
Sun Also Rises by Ernest
Hemingway
Swann’s Way by Marcel
Proust
Swimming with Giants: My
Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
Sybil by Flora Rheta
Schreiber
A Tale of
Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Tender Is The Night by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Term of Endearment by
Larry McMurtry
Time and Again by Jack
Finney
The Time Traveler’s Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
To Have and Have Not by
Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a
Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Tragedy of Richard
III by William Shakespeare
A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
The True and Outstanding
Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
Truth & Beauty: A
Friendship by Ann Patchett
Tuesdays
with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Unabridged Journals
of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unless by Carol Shields
Valley of the Dolls by
Jacqueline Susann
The Vanishing Newspaper
by Philip Meyers
Vanity Fair by William
Makepeace Thackeray
Velvet Underground’s The
Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
The Virgin Suicides by
Jeffrey Eugenides
Waiting for Godot by
Samuel Beckett
Walden by Henry David
Thoreau
Walt Disney’s Bambi by
Felix Salten
War and Peace by Leo
Tolstoy
We Owe You Nothing –
Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
What Colour is Your
Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
What Happened to Baby
Jane by Henry Farrell
When the Emperor Was
Divine by Julie Otsuka
Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson
Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
Wicked: The Life and
Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
The Wizard of Oz by
Frank L. Baum
Wuthering
Heights by Emily Brontë
The Yearling by Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings
The Year of Magical
Thinking by Joan Didion
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
