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Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
Wow, big list. And we only have a month to do it? HeheIs it ok to tick them off if we have already read them?
And the continuation:262) Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
263) Daisy Miller
264) The Scarecrow of Oz
265) The Scarlet Letter
266) Seabiscuit: An American Legend
267) The Second Sex
268) The Secret Life of Bees
269) Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
270) Selected Hotels Of Europe
271) Selected Letters, 1913-1965
272) Sense and Sensibility
273) A Separate Peace
274) Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
275) Sexus
276) The Shadow of the Wind
277) Shane
278) The Shining
279) Siddhartha
280) S is for Silence
281) Slaughterhouse-Five
282) Small Island
283) The Snows of Kilimanjaro
284) Snow White and Rose Red
285) Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
286) The Song of Names
287) Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos
288) The Song Reader
289) Songbook
290) The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
291) Sonnets from the Portuguese
292) Sophie's Choice
293) The Sound and the Fury
294) Speak, Memory
295) Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
296) The Story of My Life
297) A Streetcar Named Desire
298) Stuart Little
299) The Sun Also Rises
300) Swann's Way
301) Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals
302) Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
303) A Tale of Two Cities
304) Tender Is the Night
305) Terms of Endearment
306) Time and Again
307) The Time Traveler's Wife
308) To Have and Have Not
309) To Kill a Mockingbird
310) Richard III
311) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
312) The Trial
313) The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
314) Truth and Beauty
315) Tuesdays with Morrie
316) Ulysses
317) The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
318) Uncle Tom's Cabin
319) Unless
320) Valley of the Dolls
321) The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age
322) Vanity Fair
323) The Velvet Underground & Nico
324) The Virgin Suicides
325) Waiting for Godot
326) Walden
327) Bambi
328) War and Peace
329) We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews
330) What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
331) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
332) When the Emperor Was Divine
333) Who Moved My Cheese?
334) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
335) Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
336) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
337) Wuthering Heights
338) The Yearling
339) The Year of Magical Thinking
If you want some extra challenge (not that that's needed lol) you can also add Oprah's bookclub list, because Rory mentions that she has read all of the books...
Jason wrote: "Wow, big list. And we only have a month to do it? HeheIs it ok to tick them off if we have already read them?"
If your could read all of this in a month I might believe you are a cyborg...or you can time travel.
Tick them off, cross them whatever you like. I have a separate shelf here on goodreads. Already read about 30...not that this is much lol
Well I know I won't complete this fully as there are harry potter books on there.Was it not possible to fit onto one thread on here then?
Trying to think of the best way of doing this, might do a spreadsheet, share it on here and give a column to each participant which they can fill in when they complete it.
Does this link work for you Tinka? Can you edit it? If you like this then I can change the titles to hyperlinks.
Yay it works! Hope someone else joins in :)I personally think something like HP shouldn't be a problem but rather some of the travel guides lol
I have tried to read HP a few times and have thought it one of the worst things ever written, but I do have a plan, might get my eldest to read it out loud as part of her reading homework, then I can half listen and mark it as read. Hehe I see a one star rating ready for it.I thought in Alma's challenge that reading your mum's favourite book would be awful, turns out her favourite book is a chocolate recipe book, should be fun.
ooh, I hope I'm not intruding here, but I actually heard about this challenge a while back and I definitely want to started it this year! :-)
Of course you can Ashley, can you see my link in the post above? Try clicking on it and seeing if you can add your name in a column, help you keep track of the books you have read and see how others are doing.
@Ashleigh Rory is a girl lol And she read or mentioned those books over the course of 7 seasons of the show ^^@Ashley Of course you can enter, anybody who is crazy enough can lol
I assumed it was a guy too, cos he could read. Girls are rubbish!
Haha! Yay! I can't wait to start. I think I've already read some of the books :) omg I laughed so hard when Ashleigh said Rory was a boy xD
Oh and yes Jason! Clicked the link. It's very useful! Thank you :)
@Ashley Me too lolI think Ashleigh needs some homework...watch some Gilmore Girls...you probably gonna lile it ;)
Uh that's a lot to read. I just checked, if i didnt miss some, i've only read 12 of those yet, but i saw a lot of books i already want to read. So maybe one day i could finish this :D
Can we mark off the books we have read previous, for instance I read How the Grinch Stole Christmas! in December. Don't really want to read it again lol
Yeah of course you can add those, I read a lot of these books some time ago as well :)
Fab! will save a lot of time ;)
Looking back at the list I have marked off all the books I have previously read and am thinking I must thank my Mum for introducing me to the classics early on ;) I have read more than I thought!I have created a shelf for the challenge and have already read 55 of them, still a long way to go mind!
Wow I think you are ahead of the others on here, I think I have done 18.
Jason wrote: "Wow I think you are ahead of the others on here, I think I have done 18."At least it is a start! Just started reading Anna Karenina, one more to tick off the list ;)
I finished that last month, brilliant book.
Jason wrote: "I finished that last month, brilliant book."Enjoying it so far!
So, I finished The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and therefore another one is done! Really an interesting read, one of those classics you think you know because of our pop culture that turns out completely different than expected
Well done, I finished Fahrenheit 451 at the weekend so crossed that book off.
Was is good? I read another Bradbury I really liked and heard only good things about this ons
I love Jerkyll and Hyde :) visit Edinburgh quite often when the book was written can see his inspiration easily.
Tinka wrote: "Was is good? I read another Bradbury I really liked and heard only good things about this ons"In the end it was, it took me a while to accept that you weren't going to be told what was going on straight away. The writing style is really impressive, it makes you read faster and faster.
Hey guys, just thought I would say.....not sure if you read books or use ereaders, but I have quite a few of these books downloaded if anyone needs a pub or mobi copy, putting a 'D' next to all those I have ;)
I have like 10 books from the list at home at the moment, but I'll might come back to your offer. Thanks ;)
Tinka wrote: "I have like 10 books from the list at home at the moment, but I'll might come back to your offer. Thanks ;)"Not a problem, it hard to get hold of some of them ;)
There are some tricky ones to find on the list.
And I'm done with the first Stephen King on the list
A clockwork Orange has just been finished so another one crossed off this list. Woohoo. Still over 300 to go though.
Gilly girls. Love it! So do we have 7 years to do this haha.
Another ticked off, just finished
Get the tissues ready!! Brilliant book!!
Kay wrote: "Gilly girls. Love it! So do we have 7 years to do this haha."You can take as long as you want, this is just a place where you can mark off the books you have read and see what you have to go.
I think she meant the seven years because Gilmore Girls had seven seasons ;)
Well in that case she can have 1year 9 months. That equals 7 seasons.
Yes, but it was too long, I felt there was too much there and that broke up the flow for me.
I think that's a general problem with such long books. There are not many were you really don't notice certain lenghts
There is a possibility that this list might get longer. Netflix revives Gilmore Girls for four 90 Minute movies and I guess more books will be mentioned haha
God I hope they don't mention more Harry Potter. Bleurgh!
Finally finished another book from this challenge The Picture of Dorian Gray and I really enioyed it
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1) 1984
2) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3) Alice in Wonderland
4) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
5) An American Tragedy
6) Angela's Ashes
7) Anna Karenina
8) The Diary of a Young Girl
9) The Archidamian War
10) The Art of Fiction
11) The Art of War
12) As I Lay Dying
13) AtonementThe Bell Jar
14) Autobiography of a Face
15) The Awakening
16) Babe: The Gallant Pig
17) Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
18) Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
19) Bel Canto
20) The Bell Jar
21) Beloved
22) Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
23) The Bhagava Gita
24) The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
25) Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
26) A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
27) Brave New World
28) Brick Lane
29) Brigadoon
30) Candide
31) The Canterbury Tales
32) Carrie
33) Catch-22
34) The Catcher in the Rye
35) Charlotte's Web
36) The Children's Hour
37) Christine
38) A Christmas Carol
39) A Clockwork Orange
40) The Code of the Woosters
41) The Collected Stories
42) The Comedy of Errors
43) Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night / Come Back to Sorrento / Turn, Magic Wheel / Angels on Toast / A Time to Be Born
44) The Complete Poems
45) Complete Stories
46) A Confederacy of Dunces
47) The Count of Monte Cristo
48) Cousin Bette
49) Crime and Punishment
50) The Crimson Petal and the White
51) The Crucible
52) Cujo
53) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
54) Daughter of Fortune
55) Jordi Lisa and David
56) David Copperfield
57) The Da Vinci Code
58) Dead Souls
59) Demons
60) Death of a Salesman
61) Deenie
62) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
63) The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
64) Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
65) Don Quixote
66) Driving Miss Daisy
67) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
68) The Complete Stories and Poems
69) Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol 1, 1884-1933
70) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
71) Ella Minnow Pea
72) Eloise
73) Emily The Strange
74) Emma
75) Empire Falls
76) Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
77) Ethan Frome
78) Ethics
79) Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2007: The Travel Skills Handbook
80) Eva Luna
81) Everything Is Illuminated
82) Extravagance
83) Fahrenheit 451
84) Fahrenheit 9/11
85) The Fall of the Athenian Empire
86) Fat Land
87) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
88) The Fellowship of the Ring
89) Fiddler on the Roof
90) The Five People You Meet in Heaven
91) Finnegans Wake
92) Fletch
93) Flowers for Algernon
94) The Fortress of Solitude
95) The Fountainhead
96) Frankenstein
97) Franny and Zooey
98) Freaky Friday
99) ³Ò²¹±ôá±è²¹²µ´Ç²õ
100) Gender Trouble
101) George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President
102) Gidget
103) Girl, Interrupted
104) The Gnostic Gospels
105) The Godfather
106) The God of Small Things
107) Bears Should Share!/Goldilocks and the Three Bears
108) Gone with the Wind
109) The Good Soldier
110) Letters to Judy
111) The Graduate
112) The Grapes of Wrath
113) The Great Gatsby
114) Great Expectations
115) The Group
116) Hamlet
117) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
118) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
119) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
120) Heart of Darkness
121) Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
122) Henry VI, Part 1
123) King Henry IV, Part 1
124) Henry V
125) High Fidelity
126) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
127) Holidays on Ice
128) The Holy Barbarians
129) House of Sand and Fog
130) The House of the Spirits
131) How to Breathe Underwater
132) How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
133) How the Light Gets In
134) Howl
135) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
136) The Iliad
137) I'm with the Band: Confessions of a GroupieI'm with the Band
138) In Cold Blood
139) Inferno
140) Inherit the Wind
141) Iron Weed
142) It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us
143) Jane Eyre
144) The Joy Luck Club
145) Julius Caesar
146) The Jumping Frog and Other Stories
147) The Jungle
148) Just a Couple of Days
149) The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
150) Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
151) The Kite Runner
152) Lady Chatterley's Lover
153) The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
154) Leaves of Grass
155) The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
156) Less Than Zero
157) Letters to a Young Poet
158) Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
159) Life of Pi
160) Little Dorrit
161) The Little Locksmith
162) The Little Match Girl
163) Little Women
164) Living History
165) Lord of the Flies
166) The Lottery and Other Stories
167) The Lovely Bones
168) Love Story
169) Macbeth
170) Madame Bovary
171) The Manticore
172) Marathon Man
173) The Master and Margarita
174) Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
175) William Tecumseh Sherman: Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
176) Me Talk Pretty One Day
177) The Meaning of Consuelo
178) A Mencken Chrestomathy
179) The Merry Wives of Windsor
180) The Metamorphosis
181) Middlesex
182) The Miracle Worker
183) Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
184) The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion
185) Moliere: A Biography
186) A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960
187) Monsieur Proust
188) A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister
189) A Moveable Feast
190) Mrs. Dalloway
191) Mutiny on the Bounty
192) My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath
193) My Life As Author And Editor
194) My Life in Orange
195) Myra Waldo's Travel And Motoring Guide To Europe
196) My Sister's Keeper
197) The Naked and the Dead
198) The Name of the Rose
199) The Namesake
200) The Nanny Diaries
201) Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature
202) New Poems of Emily Dickinson
203) The New Way Things Work
204) Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
205) Night
206) Northanger Abbey
207) The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
208) Novels 1944-1962: My Home is Far Away / The Locusts Have No King / The Wicked Pavilion / The Golden Spur
209) Notes of a Dirty Old Man
210) Of Mice and Men
211) Old School
212) Oliver Twist
213) On the Road
214) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
215) One Hundred Years of Solitude
216) The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
217) Oracle Night
218) Oryx and Crake
219) Othello
220) Our Mutual Friend
221) The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
222) Out of Africa
223) The Outsiders
224) A Passage to India
225) The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
226) The Perks of Being a Wallflower
227) Peyton Place
228) The Picture of Dorian Gray
229) Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
230) Pinocchio
231) Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
232) The Polysyllabic Spree
233) The Portable Dorothy Parker
234) The Portable Nietzsche
235) The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
236) Pride and Prejudice
237) Property
238) Pushkin: A Biography
239) Pygmalion
240) Quattrocento
241) A Quiet Storm
242) Rapunzel
243) The Raven
244) The Razor's Edge
245) Reading Lolita in Tehran
246) Rebecca
247) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
248) The Red Tent
249) Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad
250) The Return of the King
251) R is for Ricochet
252) Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
253) Robert's Rules of Order
254) Roman Fever
255) Romeo and Juliet
256) A Room of One's Own
257) A Room with a View
258) Rosemary's Baby
259) The Rough Guide to Europe 2005
260) Sacred Time
261) Sanctuary