Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

I've been in a bit of a slump of late vis-a-vis my novel reading and series watching. Not that I haven't been reading/watching, I have, but very few books or shows command my undivided attention like The Good Wife or Gilmore Girls used to. As for books, its already April and I've only read 5 books to completion this year...at this rate I'm going to lose my mojo. 

So I'm setting myself a challenge, going to try and read 10 books off this list of books Rory read in the course of Gilmore Girls before this year is out. (Technically some of this are just mentioned or seen on her shelves...)

  1. 1984 by George Orwell 
  2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (read it before high school, don't remember much of the plot)
  3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 
  4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
  5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
  7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Saving this for when my russian is good enough to read the original. I've watched the Keira Knightley movie though and loved it!)
  8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1st read it when I was 10 and God oh God, it stays with you.)
  9. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
  10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
  11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 
  14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
  15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  16. Babe by Dick King-Smith
  17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
  18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
  19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 
  21. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
  23. The Bhagava Gita
  24. 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
  25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
  27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
  30. Candide by Voltaire 
  31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
  32. Carrie by Stephen King
  33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger – read
  35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
  36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
  37. Christine by Stephen King
  38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
  41. The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
  42. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
  43. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
  44. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
  45. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
  46. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
  47. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  48. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
  49. Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac
  50. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  51. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber – started and not finished
  52. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  53. Cujo by Stephen King
  54. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (read 2012. Loved it!)
  55. Daisy Miller by Henry James 
  56. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
  57. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
  58. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (my first Dickens. Probably in 1998. Sooner if the illustrated version counts.)
  59. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown 
  60. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  61. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  62. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
  63. Deenie by Judy Blume
  64. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
  65. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
  66. The Divine Comedy by Dante
  67. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
  68. Don Quijote by Cervantes (read the abridged version)
  69. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
  70. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  71. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
  72. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
  73. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
  74. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
  75. Eloise by Kay Thompson
  76. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
  77. Emma by Jane Austen 
  78. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
  79. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
  80. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  81. Ethics by Spinoza
  82. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
  83. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
  84. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  85. Extravagance by Gary Krist
  86. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 
  87. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
  88. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
  89. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
  90. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  91. The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 
  92. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
  93. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 
  94. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
  95. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
  96. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  97. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
  98. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  99. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  100. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
  101. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
  102. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
  103. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
  104. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
  105. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
  106. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  107. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
  108. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
  109. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 
  110. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
  111. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 
  112. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
  113. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
  114. The Graduate by Charles Webb
  115. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  116. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  117. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  118. The Group by Mary McCarthy
  119. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  120. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
  121. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 
  122. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  123. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  124. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 
  125. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
  126. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
  127. Henry V by William Shakespeare
  128. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  129. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  130. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
  131. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
  132. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr)
  133. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
  134. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
  135. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
  136. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
  137. Howl by Allen Gingsburg
  138. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  139. The Iliad by Homer (started it in the Namagunga library, hid it and never found it again! :(
  140. I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres
  141. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  142. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
  143. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
  144. It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
  145. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (earliest memory of a grown up novel I remember reading. Didn't even know how to pronounce "Eyre" in 1997. Used to substitute different names for characters when I was narrating the story to my friends)
  146. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  147. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
  148. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
  149. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  150. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
  151. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
  152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Started it in 2010, got bored. Threw it in a box. Can't find it now)
  153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence
  154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
  155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
  157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
  158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
  160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  161. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (First book I remember reading in the Namagunga library!!! Form one, 2002. How I miss that library!)
  162. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
  163. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
  164. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
  165. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (One of my all time favourite books. First read it around the time I read Jane Eyre.)
  166. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
  167. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (read in 2012 by recommendation from a good friend when I asked for a bed book - that book you read in bed when you're done for the day but aren't quite sleepy yet...yeah, up til now I'm not sure if he was kidding me!)
  168. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
  169. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 
  170. The Love Story by Erich Segal
  171. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 
  172. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  173. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
  174. Marathon Man by William Goldman
  175. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  176. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
  177. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
  178. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  179. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
  180. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken
  181. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
  182. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  183. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  184. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
  185. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  186. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
  187. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
  188. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
  189. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
  190. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
  191. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
  192. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  193. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
  194. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
  195. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
  196. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
  197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 
  198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
  199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
  202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
  203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
  204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
  205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
  206. Night by Elie Wiesel
  207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 
  208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
  209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
  210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
  211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (read in 2001. This one copy I'm sure must have been my bro's literature novel for that term.)
  212. Old School by Tobias Wolff
  213. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  214. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  215. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  216. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  217. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  218. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
  219. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
  220. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  221. Othello by Shakespeare 
  222. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
  223. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
  224. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
  225. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
  226. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  227. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
  228. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  229. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
  230. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  231. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
  232. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (the disney version, anyway)
  233. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
  234. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 
  235. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker (favourite post-breakup read)
  236. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
  237. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
  238. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (I've read this book at least twice a year since 1998! Obviously it's not the same copy, but every time I spy a copy I open it and never put it down til the last line!)
  239. Property by Valerie Martin
  240. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
  241. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  242. Quattrocento by James Mckean
  243. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
  244. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 
  245. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
  246. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
  247. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
  248. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  249. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
  250. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  251. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
  252. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien
  253. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
  254. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
  255. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
  256. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
  257. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  258. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  259. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
  260. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
  261. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
  262. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
  263. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
  264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
  265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
  267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 
  269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
  270. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
  271. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (started...but since I can't recall the plot I think I didn't finish it. I shouldn't have read P&P first, every other Austen falls short simply by the absence of Mr Darcy.)
  272. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  273. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
  274. Sexus by Henry Miller
  275. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  276. Shane by Jack Shaefer
  277. The Shining by Stephen King
  278. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  279. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
  280. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  281. Small Island by Andrea Levy – on my book pile
  282. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
  283. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
  284. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
  285. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
  286. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
  287. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
  288. Songbook by Nick Hornby
  289. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare (Namagunga library is the bomb I assure you!)
  290. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  291. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
  292. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  293. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
  294. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
  295. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  296. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
  297. Stuart Little by E. B. White
  298. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  299. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
  300. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
  301. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
  302. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  303. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  304. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
  305. Time and Again by Jack Finney
  306. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 
  307. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
  308. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
  309. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
  310. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  311. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  312. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
  313. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
  314. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  315. Ulysses by James Joyce
  316. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
  317. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 
  318. Unless by Carol Shields
  319. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
  320. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
  321. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  322. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
  323. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
  324. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
  325. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  326. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
  327. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  328. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
  329. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
  330. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
  331. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
  332. Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
  333. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 
  334. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
  335. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
  336. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  337. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  338. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  339. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
So there we have it, 44 books out of a whooping 339! Hopeful it will soon be 54...

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