Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
“Gilmore Girls” released Oct. 2005, is a timeless show that keeps people coming back year after year. The show explores the relationship between mother and daughter through Emily Gilmore, Lorelai Gilmore and Rory Gilmore.
Rory is very into reading, which is expressed continuously throughout the show. She is constantly referencing and reading various books throughout the entirety of the show. The internet has collectively put together a list of every single book that is mentioned or seen within the show.
This 399 book challenge is intense but full of wonderful books that literature lovers will enjoy.
Here are the first 50 out of the 399 books in this reading challenge:
“1984” -George Orwell
“Adventures of Huckleberry Fin” -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
“The Diary of a Young Girl” -Anne Frank
“The Archi Damian 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 by 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” -Unknown
“The Bhagava Gita”
“The Bielski Brothers” -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
“Brigadoon” -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 Wooster” -P.G. Wodehouse
“The Collected Stories” -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” -Honore de Balzac
“Crime and Punishment” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The Crimson Petal and the White” -Michel Faber
Find the rest of the list here
