THE RORY GILMORE READING LIST
1) 1984 by George Orwell
2) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
4) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5) All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
6) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
7) An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
8) And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
9) Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
10) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
11) The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
12) The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
13) The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as a History by Norman Mailer
14) The Art of Fiction by Henry James
15) The Art of Living by Epictetus
16) The Art of War by Sun Tzu
17) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
18) Atonement by Ian McEwan
19) Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
20) The Awakening by Kate Chopin
21) Babe by Dick King-Smith
22) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
23) Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
24) Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
25) Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
26) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
27) Beloved by Toni Morrison
28) Beowulf
29) The Bhagavad Gita
30) 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
31) Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
32) A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
33) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
34) Brick Lane by Monica Ali
35) Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
36) Candide by Voltaire
37) The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
38) Carrie by Stephen King
39) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
40) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
41) The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
42) Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
43) The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
44) Christine by Stephen King
45) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
46) Cinderella by Brothers Grimm
47) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
48) The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
49) The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
50) A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
51) The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
52) The Complete Novels of Dawn Powell
53) The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
54) The Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
55) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
56)A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
57) Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
58) Contact by Carl Sagan
59) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
60) Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
61) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
62) The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
63) The Crucible by Arthur Miller
64) Cujo by Stephen King
65) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
66) Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
67) Daisy Miller by Henry James
68) Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
69) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
70) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
71) Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
72) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
73) Deenie by Judy Blume
74) Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
75) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
76) The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
77) The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, and Nikki Sixx
78) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
79) The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
80) Don Quixote by Cervantes
81) Dracula by Bram Stoker
82) Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
83) Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
84) Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
85) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
86) Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
87) Eloise at the Plaza by Kay Thompson
88) Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
89) Emma by Jane Austen
90) Empire Falls by Richard Russo
91) Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
92) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
93) Ethics by Spinoza
94) Europe through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves
95) Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
96) Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
97) The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
98) Extravagance by Gary Krist
99) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
100) Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
there’s more...i’ll update later
