I have to admit that I am not in reading at this moment. Mostly because I get so easily distracted these days. I blame modern technology. So I am definitely not Rory Gilmore who can read tons of books without getting distracted. But she was a teenager in early 2000. If you know me a little, you will know that I think that Gilmore Girls is probably the best series of all-time. And in all of those seasons, Rory read like 339 books and that is how the Rory Gilmore reading challenge started.
Rory Gilmore reading challenge
1. 1984 van George Orwell
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn van Mark Twain
3. Alice in Wonderland van Lewis Carroll
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay van Michael Chabon
5. An American Tragedy van Theodore Dreiser
6. Angela’s Ashes van Frank McCourt
7. Anna Karenina van Leo Tolstoy
8. The Diary of a Young Girl van Anne Frank
9. The Archidamian War van Donald Kagan
10. The Art of Fiction van Henry James
11. The Art of War van Sun Tzu
12. As I Lay Dying van William Faulkner
13. Atonement van Ian McEwan
14. Autobiography of a Face van Lucy Grealy
15. The Awakening van Kate Chopin
16. Babe van Dick King-Smith
17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women van Susan Faludi
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress van Dai Sijie
19. Bel Canto van Ann Patchett
20. The Bell Jar van Sylvia Plath
21. Beloved van Toni Morrison
22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation van 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 van Peter Duffy
25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women van Elizabeth Wurtzel
26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays van Mary McCarthy
27. Brave New World van Aldous Huxley
28. Brick Lane van Monica Ali
29. Bridgadoon van Alan Jay Lerner
30. Candide van Voltaire
31. The Canterbury Tales van Chaucer
32. Carrie van Stephen King
33. Catch-22 van Joseph Heller
34. The Catcher in the Rye van J. D. Salinger
35. Charlotte’s Web van E. B. White
36. The Children’s Hour van Lillian Hellman
37. Christine van Stephen King
38. A Christmas Carol van Charles Dickens
39. A Clockwork Orange van Anthony Burgess
40. The Code of the Woosters van P.G. Wodehouse
41. The Collected Stories van Eudora Welty
42. A Comedy of Errors van William Shakespeare
43. Complete Novels van Dawn Powell
44. The Complete Poems van Anne Sexton
45. Complete Stories van Dorothy Parker
46. A Confederacy of Dunces van John Kennedy Toole
47. The Count of Monte Cristo van Alexandre Dumas
48. Cousin Bette van Honore de Balzac
49. Crime and Punishment van Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. The Crimson Petal and the White van Michel Faber
51. The Crucible van Arthur Miller
52. Cujo van Stephen King
53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time van Mark Haddon
54. Daughter of Fortune van Isabel Allende
55. David and Lisa van Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
56. David Copperfield van Charles Dickens
57. The Da Vinci -Code van Dan Brown
58. Dead Souls van Nikolai Gogol
59. Demons van Fyodor Dostoyevsky
60. Death of a Salesman van Arthur Miller
61. Deenie van Judy Blume
62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America van Erik Larson
63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band van Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars en Nikki Sixx
64. The Divine Comedy van Dante
65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood van Rebecca Wells
66. Don Quixote van Cervantes
67. Driving Miss Daisy van Alfred Uhrv
68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde van Robert Louis Stevenson
69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems van Edgar Allan Poe
70. Eleanor Roosevelt van Blanche Wiesen Cook
71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test van Tom Wolfe
72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters van Mark Dunn
73. Eloise van Kay Thompson
74. Emily the Strange van Roger Reger
75. Emma van Jane Austen
76. Empire Falls van Richard Russo
77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective van Donald J. Sobol
78. Ethan Frome van Edith Wharton
79. Ethics van Spinoza
80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 van Rick Steves
81. Eva Luna van Isabel Allende
82. Everything Is Illuminated van Jonathan Safran Foer
83. Extravagance van Gary Krist
84. Fahrenheit 451 van Ray Bradbury
85. Fahrenheit 9/11 van Michael Moore
86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire van Donald Kagan
87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World van Greg Critser
88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas van Hunter S. Thompson
89. The Fellowship of the Ring van J. R. R. Tolkien
90. Fiddler on the Roof van Joseph Stein
91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven van Mitch Albom
92. Finnegan’s Wake van James Joyce
93. Fletch van Gregory McDonald
94. Flowers for Algernon van Daniel Keyes
95. The Fortress of Solitude van Jonathan Lethem
96. The Fountainhead van Ayn Rand
97. Frankenstein van Mary Shelley
98. Franny and Zooey van J. D. Salinger
99. Freaky Friday van Mary Rodgers
100. Galapagos van Kurt Vonnegut
101. Gender Trouble van Judith Butler
102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President van Jacob Weisberg
103. Gidget van Fredrick Kohner
104. Girl, Interrupted van Susanna Kaysen
105. The Gnostic Gospels van Elaine Pagels
106. The Godfather: Book 1 van Mario Puzo
107. The God of Small Things van Arundhati Roy
108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears van Alvin Granowsky
109. Gone with the Wind van Margaret Mitchell
110. The Good Soldier van Ford Maddox Ford
111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
112. The Graduate van Charles Webb
113. The Grapes of Wrath van John Steinbeck
114. The Great Gatsby van F. Scott Fitzgerald
115. Great Expectations van Charles Dickens
116. The Group van Mary McCarthy
117. Hamlet van William Shakespeare
118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire van J. K. Rowling
119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone van J. K. Rowling
120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius van Dave Eggers
121. Heart of Darkness van Joseph Conrad
122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders van Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
123. Henry IV, part I van William Shakespeare
124. Henry IV, part II van William Shakespeare
125. Henry V van William Shakespeare
126. High Fidelity van Nick Hornby
127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire van Edward Gibbon
128. Holidays on Ice: Stories van David Sedaris
129. The Holy Barbarians van Lawrence Lipton
130. House of Sand and Fog van Andre Dubus III
131. The House of the Spirits van Isabel Allende
132. How to Breathe Underwater van Julie Orringer
133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas van Dr. Seuss
134. How the Light Gets In van M. J. Hyland
135. Howl van Allen Ginsberg
136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame van Victor Hugo
137. The Iliad van Homer
138. I’m With the Band van Pamela des Barres
139. In Cold Blood van Truman Capote
140. Inferno van Dante
141. Inherit the Wind van Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
142. Iron Weed van William J. Kennedy
143. It Takes a Village van Hillary Rodham Clinton
144. Jane Eyre van Charlotte Bronte
145. The Joy Luck Club van Amy Tan
146. Julius Caesar van William Shakespeare
147. The Jumping Frog van Mark Twain
148. The Jungle van Upton Sinclair
149. Just a Couple of Days van Tony Vigorito
150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar van Robert Alexander
151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly van Anthony Bourdain
152. The Kite Runner van Khaled Hosseini
153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover van D. H. Lawrence
154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 van Gore Vidal
155. Leaves of Grass van Walt Whitman
156. The Legend of Bagger Vance van Steven Pressfield
157. Less Than Zero van Bret Easton Ellis
158. Letters to a Young Poet van Rainer Maria Rilke
159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them van Al Franken
160. Life of Pi van Yann Martel
161. Little Dorrit van Charles Dickens
162. The Little Locksmith van Katharine Butler Hathaway
163. The Little Match Girl van Hans Christian Andersen
164. Little Women van Louisa May Alcott
165. Living History van Hillary Rodham Clinton
166. Lord of the Flies van William Golding
167. The Lottery: And Other Stories van Shirley Jackson
168. The Lovely Bones van Alice Sebold
169. The Love Story van Erich Segal
170. Macbeth van William Shakespeare
171. Madame Bovary van Gustave Flaubert
172. The Manticore van Robertson Davies
173. Marathon Man van William Goldman
174. The Master and Margarita van Mikhail Bulgakov
175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter van Simone de Beauvoir
176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman van William Tecumseh Sherman
177. Me Talk Pretty One Day van David Sedaris
178. The Meaning of Consuelo van Judith Ortiz Cofer
179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy van H. R. Mencken
180. The Merry Wives of Windsor van William Shakespeare
181. The Metamorphosis van Franz Kafka
182. Middlesex van Jeffrey Eugenides
183. The Miracle Worker van William Gibson
184. Moby Dick van Herman Melville
185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion van Jim Irvin
186. Moliere: A Biography van Hobart Chatfield Taylor
187. A Monetary History of the United States van Milton Friedman
188. Monsieur Proust van Celeste Albaret
189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister van Julie Mars
190. A Moveable Feast van Ernest Hemingway
191. Mrs. Dalloway van Virginia Woolf
192. Mutiny on the Bounty van Charles Nordhoff en James Norman Hall
193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath van Seymour M. Hersh
194. My Life as Author and Editor van H. R. Mencken
195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru van Tim Guest
196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 van Myra Waldo
197. My Sister’s Keeper van Jodi Picoult
198. The Naked and the Dead van Norman Mailer
199. The Name of the Rose van Umberto Eco
200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
201. The Nanny Diaries van Emma McLaughlin
202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature van Jan Lars Jensen
203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson van Emily Dickinson
204. The New Way Things Work van David Macaulay
205. Nickel and Dimed van Barbara Ehrenreich
206. Night van Elie Wiesel
207. Northanger Abbey van Jane Austen
208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism van 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 van Dawn Powell
210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man van Charles Bukowski
211. Of Mice and Men van John Steinbeck
212. Old School van Tobias Wolff
213. On the Road van Jack Kerouac
214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest van Ken Kesey
215. One Hundred Years of Solitude van Gabriel Garcia Marquez
216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life van Amy Tan
217. Oracle Night van Paul Auster
218. Oryx and Crake van Margaret Atwood
219. Othello van Shakespeare
220. Our Mutual Friend van Charles Dickens
221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War van Donald Kagan
222. Out of Africa van Isac Dineson
223. The Outsiders van S. E. Hinton
224. A Passage to India van E.M. Forster
225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition van Donald Kagan
226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower van Stephen Chbosky
227. Peyton Place van Grace Metalious
228. The Picture of Dorian Gray van Oscar Wilde
229. Pigs at the Trough van Arianna Huffington
230. Pinocchio van Carlo Collodi
231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
232. The Polysyllabic Spree van Nick Hornby
233. The Portable Dorothy Parker van Dorothy Parker
234. The Portable Nietzche van Fredrich Nietzche
235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill van Ron Suskind
236. Pride and Prejudice van Jane Austen
237. Property van Valerie Martin
238. Pushkin: A Biography van T. J. Binyon
239. Pygmalion van George Bernard Shaw
240. Quattrocento van James Mckean
241. A Quiet Storm van Rachel Howzell Hall
242. Rapunzel van Grimm Brothers
243. The Raven van Edgar Allan Poe
244. The Razor’s Edge van W. Somerset Maugham
245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books van Azar Nafisi
246. Rebecca van Daphne du Maurier
247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm van Kate Douglas Wiggin
248. The Red Tent van Anita Diamant
249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad van Virginia Holman
250. The Return of the King van J. R. R. Tolkien
251. R Is for Ricochet van Sue Grafton
252. Rita Hayworth van Stephen King
253. Robert’s Rules of Order van Henry Robert
254. Roman Holiday van Edith Wharton
255. Romeo and Juliet van William Shakespeare
256. A Room of One’s Own van Virginia Woolf
257. A Room with a View van E. M. Forster
258. Rosemary’s Baby van Ira Levin
259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
260. Sacred Time van Ursula Hegi
261. Sanctuary van William Faulkner
262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay van Nancy Milford
263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller van Henry James
264. The Scarecrow of Oz van Frank L. Baum
265. The Scarlet Letter van by Nathaniel Hawthorne
266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend van Laura Hillenbrand
267. The Second Sex van Simone de Beauvoir
268. The Secret Life of Bees van Sue Monk Kidd
269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette van Judith Thurman
270. Selected Hotels of Europe
271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 van Dawn Powell
272. Sense and Sensibility van Jane Austen
273. A Separate Peace van John Knowles
274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
275. Sexus van Henry Miller
276. The Shadow of the Wind van Carlos Ruiz Zafon
277. Shane van Jack Shaefer
278. The Shining van Stephen King
279. Siddhartha van Hermann Hesse
280. S Is for Silence van Sue Grafton
281. Slaughter-house Five van Kurt Vonnegut
282. Small Island van Andrea Levy
283. Snows of Kilimanjaro van Ernest Hemingway
284. Snow White and Rose Red van Grimm Brothers
285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World van Barrington Moore
286. The Song of Names van Norman Lebrecht
287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos van Julia de Burgos
288. The Song Reader van Lisa Tucker
289. Songbook van Nick Hornby
290. The Sonnets van William Shakespeare
291. Sonnets from the Portuegese van Elizabeth Barrett Browning
292. Sophie’s Choice van William Styron
293. The Sound and the Fury van William Faulkner
294. Speak, Memory van Vladimir Nabokov
295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers van Mary Roach
296. The Story of My Life van Helen Keller
297. A Streetcar Named Desiree van Tennessee Williams
298. Stuart Little van E. B. White
299. Sun Also Rises van Ernest Hemingway
300. Swann’s Way van Marcel Proust
301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals van Anne Collett
302. Sybil van Flora Rheta Schreiber
303. A Tale of Two Cities van Charles Dickens
304. Tender Is The Night van F. Scott Fitzgerald
305. Term of Endearment van Larry McMurtry
306. Time and Again van Jack Finney
307. The Time Traveler’s Wife van Audrey Niffenegger
308. To Have and Have Not van Ernest Hemingway
309. To Kill a Mockingbird van Harper Lee
310. The Tragedy of Richard III van William Shakespeare
311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn van Betty Smith
312. The Trial van Franz Kafka
313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship van Ann Patchett
315. Tuesdays with Morrie van Mitch Albom
316. Ulysses van James Joyce
317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 van Sylvia Plath
318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin van Harriet Beecher Stowe
319. Unless van Carol Shields
320. Valley of the Dolls van Jacqueline Susann
321. The Vanishing Newspaper van Philip Meyers
322. Vanity Fair van William Makepeace Thackeray
323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) van Joe Harvard
324. The Virgin Suicides van Jeffrey Eugenides
325. Waiting for Godot van Samuel Beckett
326. Walden van Henry David Thoreau
327. Walt Disney’s Bambi van Felix Salten
328. War and Peace van Leo Tolstoy
329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 van Richard Nelson Bolles
331. What Happened to Baby Jane van Henry Farrell
332. When the Emperor Was Divine van Julie Otsuka
333. Who Moved My Cheese? van Spencer Johnson
334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf van Edward Albee
335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West van Gregory Maguire
336. The Wizard of Oz van Frank L. Baum
337. Wuthering Heights van Emily Bronte
338. The Yearling van Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
339. The Year of Magical Thinking van Joan Didionv