Thursday, December 29, 2011

Rory Gilmore Book Challenge

Hey, friends! I found this list on a blog that took it from a forum, featuring a big chunk of books that Rory read on Gilmore Girls. I combined that list with three lists I found online: here and here. I'm sure Kaitlyn will join me in this journey :)
Red = Started but not finished
Purple = Finished



1984 by George Orwell
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Ambassadors by Henry James 
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
The Art of Fiction by Henry James

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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

Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 
Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
The BFG by Roald Dahl

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 
Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Candide by Voltaire 
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
Christine by Stephen King
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
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 
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

The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies
Cujo by Stephen King
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 

A Dance to the Music of Time (series) by Anthony Powell
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
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

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Deenie by Judy Blume

Deliverance by James Dickey
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

The Door into Summer by Robert Heinlein
Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
Double Star by Robert Heinlein
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 

Dune by Frank Herbert
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
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

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Fear by L. Ron Hubbard
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 (TBR)
Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
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

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles 
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast (series) by Mervyn Peake
The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Greenmantle by Charles de Lint

The Group by Mary McCarthy
Guards! Guards by Tery Pratchett
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
Hamlet by William Shakespeare

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
 

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene 

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow 
Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Holes by Louis Sachar
Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipual
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 Ginsberg

Howard's End by E.M. Forster 
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres

The Iliad by Homer
The Illusions by Richard Bach
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

It by Stephen King
It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 

The Jessica Darling series by Megan McCaffertyThe 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

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer 
Katherine by Anya Seton
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
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

Light in August by William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Little Country by Charles de Lint
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

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (nor will I probably finish this one)
The Love Story by Erich Segal

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Loving by Henry Green
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
Magician by Raymond E. Feist
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
The Magus by John Fowles
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Manticore by Robertson Davies
Marathon Man by William Goldman
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Matilda by Roald Dahl
Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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

Middlemarch by George Eliot
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

Mission Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
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

Moonheart by Charles de Lint
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

Mort by Terry Pratchett
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Mulengro by Charles de Lint
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

Native Son by Richard Wright
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Night by Elie Wiesel

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
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

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
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

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Old School by Tobias Wolff

The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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
Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 

Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Persuasion by Jane Austen
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Property by Valerie Martin
The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Recognitions by William Gaddis
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 and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
Roman Holiday 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

S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
Sanctuary by William Faulkner

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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
Sexus by Henry Miller
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shane by Jack Shaefer

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
The Shining by Stephen King
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Small Island by Andrea Levy 
Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 

Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
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

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

The Stand by Stephen King
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
Stuart Little by E. B. White

The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell 
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
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

Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
Time and Again by Jack Finney

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Trader by Charles de Lint
The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Trial by Franz Kafka

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller 
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 

The Twits by Roald Dahl
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Unless by Carol Shields

USA (Trilogy) by John Dos Passos 
V. by Thomas Pynchon
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

Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten

The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Watership Down by Richard Adams (FAVORITE)
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
We the Living by Ayn Rand
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 
Wide Saragasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Yarrow by Charles de Lint

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

Posted: 12/29/2011
Updated: 5/29/2012