The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

1)      1984 by George Orwell / 1984

2)      Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3)      Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain / Tom Sawyerin seikkailut

4)      Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll / Liisan seikkailut Ihmemaassa

5)      All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

6)      The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

7)      An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

8)      And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie / Eikä yksikään pelastunut

9)      Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt / Seitsemännen portaan enkeli

10)   Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy / Anna Karenina

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 / Herääminen

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 / Minun kansani, minun rakkaani

28)   Beowulf by Who the Heck Knows

29)   The Bhagava Gita

30)   The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1200 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)   Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

36)   Candide by Voltaire

37)   The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (for school & in old English at that!)

38)   Carrie by Stephen King

39)   Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

40)   The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger / Sieppari ruispellossa

41)   Charlotte’s Web by E B White

42)   The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman

43)   Cinderella by Brothers Grimm

44)   Christine by Stephen King

45)   A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens / Saiturin joulu

46)   A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

47)   The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse

48)   The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

49)   A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

50)   Compact Oxford English Dictionary

51)   Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

52)   The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

53)   Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

54)   A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

55)   A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

56)   Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace

57)   Contact by Carl Sagan

58)   The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

59)   Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

60)   Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

61)   The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

62)   The Crucible by Arthur Miller

63)   Cujo by Stephen King

64)   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

65)   Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

66)   Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

67)   David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

68)   The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown / Da Vinci koodi

69)   Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

70)   Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

71)   Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

72)   Deenie by Judy Blume

73)   The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

74)   The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx

75)   The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

76)   The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

77)   Don Quixote by Cervantes

78)   Dracula by Bram Stoker

79)   Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

80)   Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

81)   Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

82)   The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

83)   Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

84)   Eloise at the Plaza by Kay Thompson

85)   Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

86)   Emma by Jane Austen

87)   Empire Falls by Richard Russo

88)   Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J Sobol

89)   Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

90)   Ethics by Spinoza

91)   Europe through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves

92)   Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

93)   Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

94)   The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

95)   Extravagance by Gary Krist

96)   Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

97)   Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

98)   The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

99)   Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

100)      Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

101)      The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkien

102)      Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

103)      The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

104)      Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

105)      Fletch by Gregory McDonald

106)      Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

107)      Fodor’s Selected Hotels of Europe

108)      The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

109)      The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

110)      Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

111)      Franny and Zooey by J D Salinger

112)      Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

113)      Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

114)      Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

115)      George W Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

116)      Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

117)      A Girl from Yamhill by a Beverly Cleary

118)      Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

119)      The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

120)      The Godfather: Book by Mario Puzo

121)      The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

122)      Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

123)      Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

124)      Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards

125)      The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

126)      The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago

127)      The Graduate by Charles Webb

128)      The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

129)      The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

130)      Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

131)      The Group by Mary McCarthy

132)      Haiku, Volume 2: Spring by R.H. Blyth

133)      Hamlet by William Shakespeare

134)      Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling

135)      Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J K Rowling

136)      He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo

137)      A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

138)      Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

139)      Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson

140)      Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

141)      Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

142)      Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

143)      Henry V by William Shakespeare

144)      Henry VI by William Shakespeare

145)      High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

146)      The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

147)      Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

148)      The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

149)      House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

150)      The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

151)      Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss

152)      How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

153)      How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss

154)      How the Light Gets In by M J Hyland

155)      Howl and Other Poem by Allen Ginsberg

156)      The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

157)      I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

158)      The Iliad by Homer

159)      I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres

160)      In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

161)      Indiana by George Sand

162)      The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

163)      Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee

164)      Ironweed by William J Kennedy

165)      It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

166)      Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

167)      The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

168)      Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

169)      The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

170)      The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

171)      Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

172)      Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

173)      The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

174)      Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

175)      The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

176)      Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D H Lawrence

177)      The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

178)      The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester

179)      The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester

180)      The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester

181)      Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

182)      The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

183)      Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

184)      Letters of Ayn Rand edited by Michael S. Berliner

185)      Letters of Edith Wharton by R.W.B. Lewis

186)      Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

187)      The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus

188)      Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

189)      The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

190)      Life of Pi by Yann Martel

191)      Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

192)      The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

193)      Lisa and David by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin MD

194)      Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

195)      Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

196)      The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

197)      The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

198)      Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

199)      Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

200)      Lord of the Flies by William Golding

201)      The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

202)      The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

203)      The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

204)      The Love Story by Erich Segal

205)      Macbeth by William Shakespeare

206)      Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

207)      The Manticore by Robertson Davies

208)      Marathon Man by William Goldman

209)      The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

210)      Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

211)      Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

212)      Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

213)      The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

214)      Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray, Ph.D.

215)      Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken

216)      The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

217)      The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

218)      Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

219)      A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

220)      The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

221)      Misery by Stephen King

222)      Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt

223)      Moby Dick by Herman Melville

224)      The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time by Jim Irvin

225)      Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

226)      Molloy by Samuel Beckett

227)      A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

228)      Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

229)      A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

230)      Motley Crue by Seamus Craic

231)      The Mourning Bride by William Congreve

232)      A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

233)      Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

234)      Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

235)      My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M Hersh

236)      My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken

237)      My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

238)      Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe,  by Myra Waldo

239)      My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

240)      My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard

241)      The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

242)      Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

243)      The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

244)      The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

245)      Nancy Drew and The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene

246)      The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

247)      Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

248)      New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

249)      The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

250)      Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America  by Barbara Ehrenreich

251)      Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

252)      Night by Elie Wiesel

253)      Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

254)      The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E Cain, Laurie A Finke, Barbara E Johnson, John P McGowan

255)      Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

256)      Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

257)      Oedipus Rex by Sophicles

258)      Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

259)      Old School by Tobias Wolff

260)      Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

261)      On the Road by Jack Kerouac

262)      One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

263)      One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

264)      One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

265)      The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

266)      Oracle Night by Paul Auster

267)      Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

268)      Othello by Shakespeare

269)      Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

270)      The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

271)      Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

272)      The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

273)      A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

274)      The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

275)      The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

276)      Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

277)      The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

278)      Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

279)      Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

280)      Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

281)      The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

282)      The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

283)      The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

284)      The Price of Loyalty: George W Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind

285)      Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

286)      Primary Colors by Joe Klein

287)      Property by Valerie Martin

288)      The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe

289)      The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

290)      Pushkin: A Biography by T J Binyon

291)      Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

292)      Quattrocento by James Mckean

293)      A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

294)      R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

295)      Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

296)      The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

297)      The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

298)      Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

299)      Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

300)      Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

301)      The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

302)      The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

303)      Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman (I went through a True Crime phase and am fascinated by the Patty Hearst story)

304)      The Return of the King by J R R Tolkien

305)      Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem

306)      Richard III by William Shakespeare

307)      Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

308)      Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert

309)      Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

310)      Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

311)      A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

312)      A Room with a View by E M Forster

313)      Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

314)      The Rough Guide to Europe by Various Authors

315)      Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

316)      Sanctuary by William Faulkner

317)      The Satanic Verses by  Salman Rushdie

318)      Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

319)      Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

320)      The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L Baum

321)      The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

322)      Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

323)      The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

324)      The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

325)      Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

326)      Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell

327)      Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

328)      A Separate Peace by John Knowles

329)      Sexus by Henry Miller

330)      The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

331)      Shane by Jack Shaefer

332)      The Shining by Stephen King

333)      Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

334)      S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

335)      Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

336)      Small Island by Andrea Levy

337)      Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

338)      Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

339)      Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern          World by Barrington Moore

340)      Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

341)      Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

342)      A Song of Ice and Fire George R.R. Martin

343)      The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

344)      Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

345)      The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

346)      Songbook by Nick Hornby

347)      The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

348)      Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

349)      Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

350)      The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

351)      Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

352)      The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

353)      Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

354)      The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

355)      The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

356)      A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

357)      Stuart Little by E B White

358)      Summer of Fear by T. Jefferson Parker

359)      The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

360)      Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

361)      Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

362)      Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

363)      A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

364)      The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

365)      Tender Is The Night by F Scott Fitzgerald

366)      Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

367)      Tevya The Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem

368)      They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy (They Shoot Gilmores, Don’t They?)

369)      The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

370)      Time and Again by Jack Finney

371)      The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

372)      To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

373)      To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

374)      The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

375)      Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

376)      A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

377)      The Trial by Franz Kafka

378)      The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

379)      Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

380)      Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom / Tiistaisin Morrien luona

381)      Ulysses by James Joyce

382)      The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath – by Sylvia Plath

383)      The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

384)      Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

385)      Unless by Carol Shields

386)      Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

387)      The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

388)      Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

389)      Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (33 1/3 Book 11) by Joe Harvard

390)      The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

391)      Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

392)      Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

393)      Walden by Henry David Thoreau

394)      War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

395)      We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker

396)      What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles

397)      What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

398)      When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

399)      Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

400)      Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

401)      Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

402)      Wild by Cheryl Strayed

403)      The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

404)      The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L Baum

405)      Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

406)      The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

407)      The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

408)      Yoga for Dummies by Georg Feuerstein and Larry Payne