I am a HUGE fan of Gilmore Girls and have seen every episode a million times… ok so not a million times but you catch my drift. As I go through the list I’ve made a few edits. For example, the list includes both The Divine Comedy by Dante and Inferno… well, Inferno is part of The Divine Comedy so no need to have it separate. Same with Complete Novels of Dawn Powell. There is a later listing for some of the novels separated. So here is my edited list. As I read the books I will cross them out and if I decide to review them I will update them with the link to my review.
Progress: 86/355
1984 by George OrwellAdventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainAlice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- The American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourtAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank- The 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 McEwanAutobiography 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 PlathBeloved by Toni MorrisonBeowulf: 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
- Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
- Candide by Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales by ChaucerCarrie by Stephen KingCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Catcher in the Rye by J. D. SalingerCharlotte’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 Stories 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
- Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
The Crucible by Arthur Miller- Cujo by Stephen King
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende- David and Lisa by Dr. Theodore Isaac 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 DanteThe Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells- Don Quixote by Cervantes
- Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonEdgar 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 AustenEmpire Falls by Richard RussoEncyclopedia 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 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 Graduate by Charles Webb
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
Hamlet by William ShakespeareHarry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 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 Ginsberg
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor HugoThe Iliad by Homer- I’m With the Band by Pamel 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 Rodham Clinton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte- 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
- 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
- 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 ShakespeareMadame 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 Windsor 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
- Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
- 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 WieselNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen- The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowsk
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck- Old School by Tobias Wolff
On the Road by Jack KerouacOne 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 Isak 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
- 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 The Brothers Grimm
- 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 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 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
- The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition by Rick Steves
- Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
- Sanctuary by William Faulkner
- Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
- Daisy Miller by Henry James
- 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 Hotels of Europe
- Selected Letters of Danw 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 The Brothers Grimm
- Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of 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 Portuguese 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 Hellen Keller
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- Stuart Little by E. B. White
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwaySwann’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
- Terms 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 PlathUncle 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? by 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 Bronte- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Complete Poems by Ben Johnson
- The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays by John Webster
- Francis Bacon: The Major Works by Francis Bacon
- Christopher Marlowe: Complete Works by Christopher Marlowe
The Hobbit by J. R. R. TolkienThe Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis- Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Bridges of Madison County by Robert James WallerThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane- Heartburn by Nora Ephron
- The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffman and Alexandre Dumas
- Indiana by George Sand
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- Nancy Drew and The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- Oedipus Rex by Sophicles
Dracula by Bram Stoker- Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray, PhD
Great challenge! Some of the books seem really intimidating, but that’s the fun part! 🙂 Good luck to you! Cheers, tx
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Some of them are definitely intimidating but even if I don’t get all the way through them I am sure going to try! 🙂
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That’s great and exactly what I am hoping to do this year too – stretch my reading boundaries, experiment with various genres and authors and just have fun. Too many books, so little time. Thanks for the follow ! tx
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Wow, that is a massive tbr pile. Always plenty to choose from though. 😉
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OMIGOSH! I love Gilmore girls! I love that show so much XD so what is this challenge? Are these all the books mentioned in the show?
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Yep! Every single book ever mentioned on the show or read by Rory.
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wow. this is a daunting list. might do this challenge sometime
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Who knows if I’ll ever finish it but it’s fun to check ones off the list lol.
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Gee. Good luck with that! I’m only at 25, it’s kind of embarrassing! But everything’s possible! hihi
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Haha thanks! I haven’t read anything off this list for a long time!
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