RORY GILMORE BOOK LIST

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
7. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
8. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
9. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
20. Babe by Dick King-Smith
21. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
22. Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
23. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
24. Beloved by Toni Morrison
25. Beowulf
26. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
27. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
28. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
29. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
30. Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
31. Candide by Voltaire
32. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
33. Carrie by Stephen King
34. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
35. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
36. The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
37. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
38. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
39. Christine by Stephen King
40. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
41. Cinderella by Brothers Grimm
42. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
43. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
44. Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
45. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
46. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
47. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
48. Cujo by Stephen King
49. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
50. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
51. Daisy Miller by Henry James
52. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
53. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
54. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
55. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
56. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
57. Deenie by Judy Blume
58. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
59. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed
America by Erik Larson
60. The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
61. Dracula by Bram Stoker
62. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
63. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
64. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
65. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
66. Eloise at the Plaza by Kay Thompson
67. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
68. Emma by Jane Austen
69. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
70. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
71. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
72. Ethics by Spinoza
73. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
74. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
75. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
76. Extravagance by Gary Krist
77. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
78. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
79. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
80. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
81. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
82. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
83. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
84. Fodor’s Selected Hotels of Europe
85. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
86. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
87. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
88. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
89. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
90. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
91. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
92. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
93. A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
94. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
95. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
96. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
97. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
98. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
99. Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards
100. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
101. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
102. The Graduate by Charles Webb
103. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
104. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
105. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
106. The Group by Mary Mccarthy
107. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
108. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
109. Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by
Hunter S. Thompson
110. He’s Just Not That into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
111. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
112. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
113. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
114. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
115. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
116. I Feel Bad about My Neck by Nora Ephron
117. The Iliad by Homer
118. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
119. Indiana by George Sand
120. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri 
121. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
122. Ironweed by William J. Kennedy
123. It Takes A Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
124. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
125. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
126. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
127. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
128. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
129. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
130. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
131. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
132. The Last Empire: Essays 1992–2000 by Gore Vidal
133. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
134. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
135. Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
136. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
137. The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
138. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
139. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
140. Lisa and David by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
141. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
142. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
143. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
144. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
145. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
146. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
147. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
148. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
149. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
150. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
151. Love Story by Erich Segal
152. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
153. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
154. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
155. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
156. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
157. Memoirs of A Dutiful Daughter by Simone De Beauvoir
158. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray
159. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
160. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
161. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
162. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
163. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
164. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
165. Misery by Stephen King
166. Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
167. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
168. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
169. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
170. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
171. The Mourning Bride by William Congreve
172. A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
173. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
174. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
175. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe by Myra Waldo
176. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
177. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
178. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
179. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
180. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
181. Nancy Drew and the Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene
182. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
183. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
184. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
185. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
186. Night by Elie Wiesel
187. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
188. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism edited by Jeffrey J. Williams, et al.
189. Notes of A Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
190. Oedipus Rex by Sophicles
191. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
192. Old School by Tobias Wolff
193. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
194. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
195. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
196. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of A Writing Life by Amy Tan
197. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
198. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
199. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
200. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
201. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
202. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
203. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
204. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
205. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
206. Primary Colors by Joe Klein
207. Property by Valerie Martin
208. The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe
209. The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford
210. Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
211. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
212. Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm
213. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
214. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
215. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
216. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
217. Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem
218. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
219. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
220. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
221. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
222. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
223. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
224. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
225. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
226. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
227. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
228. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
229. The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
230. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
231. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
232. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913–1965 by Dawn Powell
233. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
234. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
235. Sexus by Henry Miller
236. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruíz Zafon
237. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
238. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
239. Small Island by Andrea Levy
240. Snow White and Rose Red by Brothers Grimm
241. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
242. Songbook by Nick Hornby
243. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
244. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
245. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
246. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
247. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
248. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
249. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
250. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
251. Stuart Little by E.B. White
252. Summer of Fear by T. Jefferson Parker
253. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
254. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
255. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
256. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dicken
257. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
258. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
259. Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
260. Tevya the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem
261. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy 
262. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
263. Time and Again by Jack Finney
264. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
265. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
266. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
267. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
268. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
269. The Trial by Franz Kafka
270. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
271. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
272. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
273. Ulysses by James Joyce
274. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
275. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
276. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
277. Unless by Carol Shields
278. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
279. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
280. Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
281. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
282. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
283. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
284. We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker
285. What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
286. What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
287. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
288. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
289. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
290. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
291. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
292. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion