Rory Gilmore Reading List
Rory Gilmore Reading List
Heaney
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three
Michael Chabon Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter
Duffy
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Wurtzel
The Art of Fiction by Henry James Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Women by Susan Faludi
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Christine by Stephen King
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic,
and Madness at the Fair that Changed
Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
America by Erik Larson
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis
Faber Stevenson
The Crucible by Arthur Miller Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by
Edgar Allan Poe
Cujo by Stephen King
Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time by Mark Haddon The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolf
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark
Dunn
David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
Eloise by Kay Thompson
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown
Emma by Jane Austen
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Sobol
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Ethics by Spinoza
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick
Steves
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
People in the World by Greg Critser
The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S.
Thompson
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and
Robert E. Lee
Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III Robert Alexander
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the
Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de
Beauvoir
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William
The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
Tecumseh Sherman
The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson A Monetary History of the United States by
Milton Friedman
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
The Love Story by Erich Segal
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit
Macbeth by William Shakespeare And My Sister by Julie Mars
My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Tim Guest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken
Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Eu- Kesey
rope, 1978 by Myra Waldo
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult Garcia Marquez
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing
Life by Amy Tan
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
Othello by Shakespeare
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in
Literature by Jan Lars Jensen Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by
Dickinson Donald Kagan
The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedi-
tion by Donald Kagan
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by
William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen
Johnson, John P. McGowan Chbosky
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas
Wiggin
Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of
Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White
House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
Suskind
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Property by Valerie Martin
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
Quattrocento by James Mckean
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Millay by Nancy Milford
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Walden by Henry David Thoreau
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shake- We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet:
speare The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel
Sinker
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by
The Trial by Franz Kafka Richard Nelson Bolles
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward
Ulysses by James Joyce Albee
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked
1962 by Sylvia Plath Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion