Rory Gilmore’s Books

I normally don’t like people telling me what to read. But this here is an exception. Just a few days ago I was thinking, “Damn, I miss the Gilmore Girls.” and here I found a list of books Rory was seen toting, holding or reading. I dare you to mention how many of them you’ve read. :D

• A Month Of Sundays by Julie Mars

• The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

• Small Island by Andrea Levy

• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

• A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

• My Life in Orange by Tim Guest

• Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

• How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

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

• Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen

• The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

• How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

• Oracle Night by Paul Auster

• Quattrocento by James McKean

• The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan

• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

• Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

• Old School by Tobias Wolff

• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

• The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff

• Brick Lane by Monica Ali

• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

• The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

• Property by Valerie Martin

• Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman

• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

• The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander

• Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

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

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

• Unless by Carol Shields

• Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

• Songbook by Nick Hornby

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

• Extravagance by Gary Krist

• Empire Falls by Richard Russo

• The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

• Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

• The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

• The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

• Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

• Night by Elie Wiesel

• The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

• A Separate Peace by John Knowles

• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

• The Awakening by Kate Chopin

• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

• Time and Again by Jack Finney

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sybil by Flora Schreiber

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

• Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

• 1984 by George Orwell

• The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

• The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner

• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

• Emma by Jane Austen

• On The Road by Jack Kerouac
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

5 thoughts on “Rory Gilmore’s Books

  1. 10 books Uni :D
    hehehe… and the Namesake of Jumpa Lahiri and Crime & punishment of dostoevsky is on the next list. Still, I don’t know who is Rory Gilmore and why is the books she reads give you a favor XD

  2. Rory Gilmore is a fictional character from the TV series The Gilmore Girls (lookitup). About a single mother named Lorelai Gilmore and her teenage daughter Rory. It was a hit back in 2003-ish? Perhaps you were too young at the time. :p

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