“I live in two worlds, one is a world of books,” Rory said. “I’ve been a resident of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann’s Way. It’s a rewarding world.”
It's over. Twenty sixteen is really finally over. Last year was a total blast: new president in U. S. A, painfull deaths, unfortunaly events... the list keeps on going and going. Some will say last year was one of the worst; I think thirteen sixty-one was worst: one third of people was dying because of the Black Death. But, okay. But we made through it and now we are here. I hope you had an amazing Christmas and the coolest New Year! I know I had.
Goodbye to the old "New Year, New Me". New Year means new books. And along with it comes a whole year of new reading challenges. Behold for my twenty seventeen literary challenge as it will be The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge! (if you are new around here you probably may not now about my crazy and almost insane love towards the amazing T.V. series Gilmore Girls. If that's your case: Hi, there! Nice to meet you, I'm Lídice and I'm mad for the Gilmore Girls! Welcome to my blog!)
Being that set, let's move on.
I have found myself wanting to read classics like I never wanted before (thanks, Rory) so I'll be joining the huge mass of people who, before me, has joined this blow minded reading challenge.
So without further ado, here it is: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge!
Side note: the ones in blue are the book I've already read
1 “1984” by George Orwell 2 “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain 3 “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carrol 4 “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” by Michael Chabon 5 “An American Tragedy” by Theodore Dreiser 6 “Angela’s Ashes” by Frank McCourt 7 “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy 8 “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank 9 “The Archidamian War” by Donald Kagan 10 “The Art of Fiction” by Henry James 11 “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu 12 “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner 13 “Atonement” by Ian McEwan 14 “Autobiography of a Face” by Lucy Grealy 15 “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin 16 “Babe” by Dick King-Smith 17 “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women” by Susan Faludi 18 “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie 19 “Bel Canto” by Ann Patchett 20 “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath 21 “Beloved” by Toni Morrison 22 “Beowulf: A New Verse Translation” by Seamus Heaney 23 “The Bhagavad Gita” 24 “The Bielski Brothers” by Peter Duffy 25 “Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women” by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26 “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays” by Mary McCarthy 27 “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley 28 “Brick Lane” by Monica Ali 29 “Brigadoon” by Alan Jay Lerner 30 “Candide” by Voltaire 31 “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer 32 “Carrie” by Stephen King 33 “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller 34 “The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger 35 “Charlotte’s Web” by E. B. White 36 “The Children’s Hour” by Lillian Hellman 37 “Christine” by Stephen King 38 “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens 39 “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess 40 “The Code of the Woosters” by P.G. Wodehouse 41 “The Collected Stories” by Eudora Welty 42 “A Comedy of Errors” by William Shakespeare 43 “Complete Novels” by Dawn Powell 44 “The Complete Poems” by Anne Sexton 45 “Complete Stories” by Dorothy Parker 46 “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole 47 “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas 48 “Cousin Bette” by Honore de Balzac 49 “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky 50 “The Crimson Petal and the White” by Michel Faber 51 “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller 52 “Cujo” by Stephen King 53 “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon 54 “Daughter of Fortune” by Isabel Allende 55 “David and Lisa” by Dr Theodore Isaac Rubin M.D 56 “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens 57 “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown 58 “Dead Souls” by Nikolai Gogol 59 “Demons” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 60 “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller 61 “Deenie” by Judy Blume 62 “The Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson 63 “The Dirt” by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 64 “The Divine Comedy” by Dante 65 “The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” by Rebecca Wells 66 “Don Quixote” by Cervantes 67 “Driving Miss Daisy” by Alfred Uhry 68 “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson 69 “Complete Tales & Poems” by Edgar Allan Poe 70 “Eleanor Roosevelt” by Blanche Wiesen Cook 71 “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe 72 “Ella Minnow Pea” by Mark Dunn 73 “Eloise” by Kay Thompson 74 “Emily the Strange” by Roger Reger 75 “Emma” by Jane Austen 76 “Empire Falls” by Richard Russo 77 “Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective” by Donald J. Sobol 78 “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton 79 “Ethics” by Spinoza 80 “Europe through the Back Door” by Rick Steves 81 “Eva Luna” by Isabel Allende 82 “Everything Is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer 83 “Extravagance” by Gary Krist 84 “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury 85 “The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader” by Michael Moore 86 “The Fall of the Athenian Empire” by Donald Kagan 87 “Fat Land” by Greg Critser 88 “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thompson 89 “The Fellowship of the Ring” by J. R. R. Tolkien 90 “Fiddler on the Roof” by Joseph Stein 91 “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” by Mitch Albom 92 “Finnegan’s Wake” by James Joyce 93 “Fletch” by Gregory McDonald 94 “Flowers of Algernon” by Daniel Keyes 95 “The Fortress of Solitude” by Jonathan Lethem 96 “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand 97 “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley 98 “Franny and Zooey” by J. D. Salinger 99 “Freaky Friday” by Mary Rodgers 100 “Galapagos” by Kurt Vonnegut 101 “Gender Trouble” by Judith Butler 102 “George W. Bushisms” by Jacob Weisberg 103 “Gidget” by Frederick Kohner 104 “Girl, Interrupted” by Susanna Kaysen 105 “The Gnostic Gospels” by Elaine Pagels 106 “The Godfather: Book 1” by Mario Puzo 107 “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy 108 “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” by Alvin Granowsky 109 “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell 110 “The Good Soldier” by Ford Madox Ford 111 “The Graduate” by Charles Webb 112 “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck 113 “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald 114 “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens 115 “The Group” by Mary McCarthy 116 “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare 117 “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J. K. Rowling 118 “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” by J. K. Rowling 119 “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” by Dave Eggers 120 “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad 121 “Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders” by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 122 “Henry IV, Part I” by William Shakespeare 123 “Henry IV, Part II” by William Shakespeare 124 “Henry V” by William Shakespeare 125 “High Fidelity” by Nick Hornby 126 “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Edward Gibbon 127 “Holidays on Ice: Stories” by David Sedaris 128 “The Holy Barbarians” by Lawrence Lipton 129 “House of Sand and Fog” by Andre Dubus III 130 “The House of the Spirits” by Isabel Allende 131 “How to Breathe Underwater” by Julie Orringer 132 “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” by Dr. Seuss 133 “How the Light Gets In” by M. J. Hyland 134 “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg 135 “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” by Victor Hugo 136 “The Iliad” by Homer 137 “I’m With the Band” by Pamela des Barres 138 “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote 139 “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 140 “Iron Weed” by William J. Kennedy 141 “It Takes a Village” by Hillary Rodham Clinton 142 “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte 143 “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan 144 “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare 145 “The Celebrated Jumping Frog” by Mark Twain 146 “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair 147 “Just a Couple of Days” by Tony Vigorito 148 “The Kitchen Boy” by Robert Alexander 149 “Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony Bourdain 150 “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini 151 “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” by D. H. Lawrence 152 “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000” by Gore Vidal 153 “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman 154 “The Legend of Bagger Vance” by Steven Pressfield 155 “Less Than Zero” by Bret Easton Ellis 156 “Letters to a Young Poet” by Rainer Maria Rilke 157 “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them” by Al Franken 158 “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel 159 “Little Dorrit” by Charles Dickens 160 “The Little Locksmith” by Katharine Butler Hathaway 161 “The Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Andersen 162 “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott 163 “Living History” by Hillary Rodham Clinton 164 “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding 165 “The Lottery: And Other Stories” by Shirley Jackson 166 “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold 167 “Love Story” by Erich Segal 168 “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare 169 “Madame Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert 170 “The Manticore” by Robertson Davies 171 “Marathon Man” by William Goldman 172 “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov 173 “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter” by Simone de Beauvoir 174 “Memoirs” by William Tecumseh Sherman 175 “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris 176 “The Meaning of Consuelo” by Judith Ortiz Cofer 177 “Mencken’s Chrestomathy” by H. L. Mencken 178 “The Merry Wives of Windsor” by William Shakespeare 179 “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka 180 “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides 181 “The Miracle Worker” by William Gibson 182 “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville 183 “The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion” by Jim Irvin 184 “Moliere: A Biography” by Hobart Chatfield Taylor 185 “A Monetary History of the United States” by Milton Friedman 186 “Monsieur Proust” by Celeste Albaret 187 “A Month Of Sundays” by Julie Mars 188 “A Moveable Feast” by Ernest Hemingway 189 “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf 190 “Mutiny on the Bounty” by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 191 “My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath” by Seymour M. Hersh 192 “My Life as Author and Editor” by H. L. Mencken 193 “My Life in Orange” by Tim Guest 194 “Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978” by Myra Waldo 195 “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult 196 “The Naked and the Dead” by Norman Mailer 197 “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco 198 “The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri 199 “The Nanny Diaries” by Emma McLaughlin 200 “Nervous System” by Jan Lars Jensen 201 “Poems” by Emily Dickinson 202 “The New Way Things Work” by David Macaulay 203 “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich 204 “Night” by Elie Wiesel 205 “Northanger Abbey” by Jane Austen 206 “The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism” 207 “Notes of a Dirty Old Man” by Charles Bukowski 208 “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck 209 “Old School” by Tobias Wolff 210 “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac 211 “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey 212 “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 213 “The Opposite of Fate” by Amy Tan 214 “Oracle Night” by Paul Auster 215 “Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood 216 “Othello” by William Shakespeare 217 “Our Mutual Friend” by Charles Dickens 218 “The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War” by Donald Kagan 219 “Out of Africa” by Isak Dineson 220 “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton 221 “A Passage to India” by E.M. Forster 222 “The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition” by Donald Kagan 223 “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky 224 “Peyton Place” by Grace Metalious 225 “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde 226 “Pigs at the Trough” by Arianna Huffington 227 “Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi 228 “Please Kill Me” by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 229 “The Polysyllabic Spree” by Nick Hornby 230 “The Portable Dorothy Parker” by Dorothy Parker 231 “The Portable Nietzsche” by Friedrich Nietzsche 232 “The Price of Loyalty” by Ron Suskind 233 “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen 234 “Property” by Valerie Martin 235 “Pushkin: A Biography” by T. J. Binyon 236 “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw 237 “Quattrocento” by James Mckean 238 “A Quiet Storm” by Rachel Howzell Hall 239 “Rapunzel” by The Brothers Grimm 240 “The Razor’s Edge” by W. Somerset Maugham 241 “Reading Lolita in Tehran” by Azar Nafisi 242 “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier 243 “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” by Kate Douglas Wiggin 244 “The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant 245 “Rescuing Patty Hearst” by Virginia Holman 246 “The Return of the King” by J. R. R. Tolkien 247 “R Is for Ricochet” by Sue Grafton 248 “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” by Stephen King 249 “Robert’s Rules of Order” by Henry Robert 250 “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton 251 “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare 252 “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf 253 “A Room with a View” by E. M. Forster 254 “Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin 255 “The Rough Guide to Europe”, 2003 Edition 256 “Sacred Time” by Ursula Hegi 257 “Sanctuary” by William Faulkner 258 “Savage Beauty” by Nancy Milford 259 “Daisy Miller” by Henry James 260 “The Scarecrow of Oz” by Frank L. Baum 261 “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne 262 “Seabiscuit: An American Legend” by Laura Hillenbrand 263 “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir 264 “The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd 265 “Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette” by Judith Thurman 266 “Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965” by Dawn Powell 267 “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen 268 “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles 269 “Winton S. Churchill” by Martin Gilbert 270 “Sexus” by Henry Miller 271 “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 272 “Shane” by Jack Schaefer 273 “The Shining” by Stephen King 274 “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse 275 “S Is for Silence” by Sue Grafton 276 “Slaughter-house Five” by Kurt Vonnegut 277 “Small Island” by Andrea Levy 278 “Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway 279 “Snow White and Rose Red” by The Brothers Grimm 280 “Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy” by Barrington Moore 281 “The Song of Names” by Norman Lebrecht 282 “Song of the Simple Truth” by Julia de Burgos 283 “The Song Reader” by Lisa Tucker 284 “Songbook” by Nick Hornby 285 “The Sonnets” by William Shakespeare 286 “Sonnets from the Portuguese” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 287 “Sophie’s Choice” by William Styron 288 “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner 289 “Speak, Memory” by Vladimir Nabokov 290 “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” by Mary Roach 291 “The Story of My Life” by Helen Keller 292 “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams 293 “Stuart Little” by E. B. White 294 “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway 295 “Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust 296 “Swimming with Giants” by Anne Collett 297 “Sybil” by Flora Rheta Schreiber 298 “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens 299 “Tender Is The Night” by F. Scott Fitzgerald 300 “Terms of Endearment” by Larry McMurtry 301 “Time and Again” by Jack Finney 302 “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger 303 “To Have and Have Not” by Ernest Hemingway 304 “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee 305 “Richard III” by William Shakespeare 306 “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith 307 “The Trial” by Franz Kafka 308 “The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters” by Elisabeth Robinson 309 Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 310 “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom 311 “Ulysses” by James Joyce 312 “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962” by Sylvia Plath 313 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe 314 “Unless” by Carol Shields 315 “Valley of the Dolls” by Jacqueline Susann 316 “The Vanishing Newspaper” by Philip Meyer 317 “Vanity Fair” by William Makepeace Thackeray 318 “The Velvet Underground and Nico” by Joe Harvard 319 “The Virgin Suicides” by Jeffrey Eugenides 320 “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett 321 “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau 322 “Bambi” by Felix Salten 323 “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy 324 “We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews” edited by Daniel Sinker 325 “What Colour is Your Parachute?” by Richard Nelson Bolles 326 “What Happened to Baby Jane?” by Henry Farrell 327 “When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka 328 “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson 329 “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” by Edward Albee 330 “Wicked” by Gregory Maguire 331 “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by Frank L. Baum 332 “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte 333 “The Yearling” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 334 “The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion
Well, that's a list. Have you read any of these books? If so, have you liked them or not? That's everything from my part, thank you for reading! Oh, and guys! Go and check out my Outlander booktalk on YouTube my clicking here!
Till nex time,
L.