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Making our way through Rory Gilmore's reading
list one blog post at a time.

Rory's Reading List 

All 339 books. All in alphabetical order. 

*The books posted in purple have already appeared on our blog. 



1984 - George Orwell
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
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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
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty - 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  
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 Hadden
Daisy Miller - Henry James 
Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
David and Lisa - Dr. Throdore Issac Rubin M.D. 
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol 
Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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 Lewis Stevenson
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems - Edgar Allen Poe
Eleanor Roosevelt - Blanche Wiesen 
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 - Daniel J. Sobol
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton 
Ethics - Spinoza 
Europe through the Back Door, 2003 - Rick Steves 
Eva Luna - Isabel Allende
Everything Is Illuminated - 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 Alborn
Finnegan’s Wake - 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
 - 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 

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 - Lawrence Lipton
 
House of Sand and Fog - Andrew Dubus Ill 
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 Gingsburg 
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The Iliad  - Homer 
I’m with the Band - Pamela des barres
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Iron Weed - William J. Kennedy 
It Takes a Village - Hillary Clinton
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
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
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 - Yaan Martel 
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
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 Sbold
The Love Story - Erich Segal 
Macbeth - William Shakespeare 
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert  
The Manticore - Robertson Davies 
Marathon Mars - 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 Windsro - 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 - Virgina 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
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 
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature - Jan Lars Jensen 
New Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickenson 
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 - Charlies Bukowski
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 
Old School - Tobias Wolff
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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 - Paul Auster
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Othello - Shakespeare Shakespeare
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War - Donald Kagan
 Donald Kagan
Out of Africa - Isac Dineson
 Isac Dineson
The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton 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 Huffingson
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 - T.J. Binyon
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
Quattrocento - James McKean
A Quiet Storm - Rachel Howzell Hall
Rapunzel - Grimm Brothers
The Raven - Edgar Allen 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 Book 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien
R Is for Ricochet - Sue Grafton
Rita Hayworth - Stephen King
Robert’s Rules of Order - Henry Robert
Roman Fever - 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
Sacred Time - Ursula Hegi
Sanctuary - William Faulkner
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent  Millay - Nancy Milfod
The Scarecrow of Oz - Frank L. Baum
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Seabiscuit: An American Legend - Laura Hillenbrand
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette - Judith Thurman
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 - Dawn Powell
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Several Biographies of Winston Churchill - Winston Churchill
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 Desiree - 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 Skaespeare
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 Alborn
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 - Phillip 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 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 Bronte 
The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

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