Rory Gilmore Reading List
I'm a voracious reader, more so than anyone I know - I've read 84 books so far this year. I also LOVE Gilmore Girls, and have always related to Rory's love of books, so when I came across this list, I knew I had to rise to the challenge. We'll see how long it takes me. Strikethroughs are obviously the ones I've read.
1984 - George Orwell
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Archidamian War - Donald Kagan
The Art of Fiction - Henry James
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Autobiography of a Face - Lucy Grealy
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Babe - Dick King-Smith
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women - Susan Faludi
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - 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 - Peter Duffy
Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women - Elizabeth Wurtzel
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays - Mary McCarthy
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
Bridgadoon - Alan Jay Lerner
Candide - Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
Carrie - Stephen King
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White
The Children’s Hour - Lillian Hellman
Christine - Stephen King
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse
The Collected Short Stories - Eudora Welty
A Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
Complete Novels - Dawn Powell
The Complete Poems - Anne Sexton
Complete Stories - Dorothy Parker
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas père
Cousin Bette - Honor’e de Balzac
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Cujo - Stephen King
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
David and Lisa - Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Da Vinci -Code - Dan Brown
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
Demons - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Deenie - Judy Blume
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson
The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band - Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
The Divine Comedy - Dante
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
Don Quijote - Cervantes
Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhrv
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
Eleanor Roosevelt - Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters - Mark Dunn
Eloise - Kay Thompson
Emily the Strange - Roger Reger
Emma - Jane Austen
Empire Falls - Richard Russo
Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective - Donald J. Sobol
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Ethics - Spinoza
Europe through the Back Door, 2003 - Rick Steves
Eva Luna - Isabel Allende
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Extravagance - Gary Krist
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore
The Fall of the Athenian Empire - Donald Kagan
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World - Greg Critser
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien
Fiddler on the Roof - Joseph Stein
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Finnegan’s Wake - James Joyce
Fletch - Gregory McDonald
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger
Freaky Friday - Mary Rodgers
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President - Jacob Weisberg
Gidget - Fredrick Kohner
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels
The Godfather: Book 1 - Mario Puzo
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Alvin Granowsky
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford
The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
The Graduate - Charles Webb
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Group - Mary McCarthy
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J. K. Rowling
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
Henry IV, part I - William Shakespeare
Henry IV, part II - William Shakespeare
Henry V - William Shakespeare
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
Holidays on Ice: Stories - David Sedaris
The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
How to Breathe Underwater - Julie Orringer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Seuss
How the Light Gets In - M. J. Hyland
Howl - Allen Ginsburg
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The Iliad - Homer
I’m with the Band - Pamela des Barres
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Inferno - Dante
Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Iron Weed - William J. Kennedy
It Takes a Village - Hillary Clinton
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
The Jumping Frog - Mark Twain
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
Just a Couple of Days - Tony Vigorito
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar - Robert Alexander
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - Anthony Bourdain
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Lady Chatterleys’ Lover - D. H. Lawrence
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 - Gore Vidal
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
The Legend of Bagger Vance - Steven Pressfield
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
The Little Locksmith - Katharine Butler Hathaway
The Little Match Girl - Hans Christian Andersen
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Living History - Hillary Rodham Clinton
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Lottery: And Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Love Story - Erich Segal
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Manticore - Robertson Davies
Marathon Man - William Goldman
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman - William Tecumseh Sherman
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
The Meaning of Consuelo - Judith Ortiz Cofer
Mencken’s Chrestomathy - H. R. Mencken
The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Miracle Worker - William Gibson
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion - Jim Irvin
Moliere: A Biography - Hobart Chatfield Taylor
A Monetary History of the United States - Milton Friedman
Monsieur Proust - Celeste Albaret
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister - Julie Mars
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath - Seymour M. Hersh
My Life as Author and Editor - H. R. Mencken
My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru - Tim Guest
Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 - Myra Waldo
My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult
The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Krauss
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature - Jan Lars Jensen
New Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson
The New Way Things Work - David Macaulay
Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
Night - Elie Wiesel
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism - 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 - Dawn Powell
Notes of a Dirty Old Man - Charles Bukowski
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Old School - Tobias Wolff
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life - Amy Tan
Oracle Night - Paul Auster
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Othello - Shakespeare
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War - Donald Kagan
Out of Africa - Isac Dineson
The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition - Donald Kagan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Pigs at the Trough - Arianna Huffington
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs - McNeil and Gillian McCain
The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
The Portable Dorothy Parker - Dorothy Parker
The Portable Nietzche - Fredrich Nietzche
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill - Ron Suskind
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Property - Valerie Martin
Pushkin: A Biography - T. J. Binyon
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
Quattrocento - James Mckean
A Quiet Storm - Rachel Howzell Hall
Rapunzel - Grimm Brothers
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
The Razor’s Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad - Virginia Holman
The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
R Is for Ricochet - Sue Grafton
Rita Hayworth - Stephen King
Robert’s Rules of Order - Henry Robert
Roman Holiday - Edith Wharton
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
Rosemary’s Baby - Ira Levin
The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
Sacred Time - Ursula Hegi
Sanctuary - William Faulkner
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay - Nancy Milford
Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller - Henry James
The Scarecrow of Oz - Frank L. Baum
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Seabiscuit: An American Legend - Laura Hillenbrand
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette - Judith Thurman
Selected Hotels of Europe
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 - Dawn Powell
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Sexus - Henry Miller
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shane - Jack Shaefer
The Shining - Stephen King
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
S Is for Silence - Sue Grafton
Slaughter-house Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Small Island - Andrea Levy
Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
Snow White and Rose Red - Grimm Brothers
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World - Barrington Moore
The Song of Names - Norman Lebrecht
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos - Julia de Burgos
The Song Reader - Lisa Tucker
Songbook - Nick Hornby
The Sonnets - William Shakespeare
Sonnets from the Portuegese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sophie’s Choice - William Styron
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
Stuart Little - E. B. White
Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust
Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals - Anne Collett
Sybil - Flora Rheta Schreiber
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Tender Is The Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Term of Endearment - Larry McMurtry
Time and Again - Jack Finney
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Tragedy of Richard III - William Shakespeare
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters - Elisabeth Robinson
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship - Ann Patchett
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 - Sylvia Plath
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unless - Carol Shields
Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
The Vanishing Newspaper - Philip Meyers
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) - Joe Harvard
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Walt Disney’s Bambi - Felix Salten
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
We Owe You Nothing - Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited - Daniel Sinker
What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 - Richard Nelson Bolles
What Happened to Baby Jane - Henry Farrell
When the Emperor Was Divine - Julie Otsuka
Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
The Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion