I love reading. I can't tell you the number of week nights I have started a book only to look at the clock and it be well into the early hours of the morning. As I've explored social media more, I have come across several reading challenges. I decided to particpate in a few.
The books I have read are crossed out, I have already read. The title italicized are currently being read. I have made a note next to books I already have and are in my "To Be Read" pile. Many of the books on the list I read in high school or college and don't really remember them. My goal is to read all the books for pleasure.
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge - As common place with me, I become interested in a show after it's gone into reruns. But I love Rory, she is so intellectual, I am smitten! The books in this list were apparently either read by the characters or mention/quoted.
Classics
| Austen | Jane | Northanger Abbey |
| Austen | Jane | Emma |
| Austen | Jane | Pride & Prejudice |
| Bronte | Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Bronte | Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Browning | Elizabeth Barrett | Sonnets From The Portuguese |
| Cervantes | Don Quixote | |
| Chaucer | Geoffrey | Canterbury Tales, The |
| Dante | Inferno | |
| Dante | Divine Comedy, The | |
| Dickens | Charles | David Cooperfield |
| Dickens | Charles | Little Dorrit |
| Dickens | Charles | Great Expectations |
| Dickens | Charles | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Dickens | Charles | Our Mutual Friend |
| Dickens | Charles | A Christmas Carol |
| Dickens | Charles | Oliver Twist |
| Dickinson | Emily | New Poems of Emily Dickinson |
| Flaubert | Gustave | Madame Bovary |
| Heaney | Seamus | Beowulf: A New Verse Translation |
| Homer | Iliad, The | |
| Hugo | Victor | Hunchback of Notre Dame, The |
| Lawrence | D. H. | Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| Melville | Herman | Moby Dick |
| Poe | Edgar Allen | Raven, The |
| Shakespeare | William | Othello |
| Shakespeare | William | Henry IV, Part 2 |
| Shakespeare | William | Julius Caesar |
| Shakespeare | William | Romeo And Juliet |
| Shakespeare | William | Hamlet |
| Shakespeare | William | Henry V |
| Shakespeare | William | Merry Wives of Windsor, The |
| Shakespeare | William | A Comedy of Errors |
| Shakespeare | William | Richard III |
| Shakespeare | William | The Sonnets |
| Shakespeare | William | Macbeth |
| Shelley | Mary | Frankenstein |
| Stowe | Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Thoreau | Henry David | Walden |
| Tolstoy | Leo | War And Peace |
| Tolstoy | Leo | Anna Karenina |
| Twain | Mark | The Jumping Frog of Calavares County |
| Twain | Mark | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Voltaire | Candide | |
| Wharton | Edith | Roman Holiday |
| Whitman | Walt | Leaves of Grass |
Childrens/Young Adult
| Anderson | Hans Christian | Little Match Girl, The |
| Baum | L. Frank | Wizard of Oz, The |
| Baum | L. Frank | Scarecrow of Oz, The |
| Blume | Judy | Deenie |
| Brothers Grimm | Rapunzel | |
| Carroll | Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Chbosky | Stephen | Perks of Being A Wallflower, The |
| Collodi | Carol | Pinocchio |
| Granowsky | Alvin | Goldilocks & The Three Bears |
| Grimm Brothers | Snow White and Rose Red | |
| Hinton | S. E. | Outsiders, The |
| Keene | Carolyn | The Nancy Drew Series |
| King-Smith | Dick | Babe |
| Lofting | Hugh | Doctor Doolittle |
| Rawlings | Marjorie Kinnan | Yearling, The |
| Rodgers | Mary | Freaky Friday |
| Rowling | J. K. | Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire |
| Rowling | J. K. | Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone: Book 1 |
| Salten | Felix | Walt Disney's Bambi (based on Original Story by Felix Salten) |
| Seuss | Dr. | How The Grinch Stole Christmas |
| Sobol | Donald | Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective |
| Thompson | Kay | Eloise |
| White | E. B. | Stuart Little |
| White | E. B. | Charlotte's Web |
| Wiggin | Kate Douglas | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
Modern Classics
| Albee | Edward | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Beckett | Samuel | Waiting for Godot |
| Burgess | Anthony | A Clockwork Orange |
| Dostoevsky | Fyodor | Demons (translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) |
| Du Maurier | Daphne | Rebecca |
| Faulkner | William | Sanctuary |
| Faulkner | William | As I Lay Dying |
| Faulkner | William | Sound and The Fury, The |
| Fitzgerald | F. Scott | Tender is the Night |
| Forster | E. M. | A Room With A View |
| Ginsburg | Allen | Howl |
| Heller | Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Hellman | Lillian | Children's Hour, The |
| Hemingway | Ernest | Snows of Killimanjaro |
| Hemingway | Ernest | Sun Also Rises, The |
| Hemingway | Ernest | A Moveable Feast |
| Hemingway | Ernest | To Have And Have Not |
| James | Henry | Daisy Miller |
| James | Henry | Art of Fiction, The |
| Joyce | James | Finnegan's Wake |
| Joyce | James | Ulysses |
| Kafka | Franz | Trial, The |
| Kafka | Franz | Metamorphosis |
| Lawrence & Lee | Jerome & Robert Edwin | Inherit The Wind |
| Lee | Harper | To Kill A Mockingbird |
| Mailer | Norman | Naked & The Dead, The |
| Mencken | H. R. | Mencken's Chresthonomy |
| Mencken | H. R. | My Life As Author & Editor |
| Miller | Henry | Sexus |
| Miller | Arthur | Crucible, The |
| Mitchell | Margaret | Gone With The Wind |
| Nordhoff & Hall | Charles & James Norman | Mutiny On The Bounty |
| Orwell | George | Nineteen Eighty-four |
| Parker | Dorothy | Portable Dorothy Parker, The |
| Plath | Sylvia | Bell Jar, The |
| Proust | Marcel | Swann's Way |
| Rand | Ayn | Fountainhead, The |
| Salinger | J. D. | Franny And Zooey |
| Salinger | J. D. | Catcher In The Rye, The |
| Shaefer | Jack | Shane |
| Steinbeck | John | Grapes of Wrath, The |
| Tolkien | J.R.R. | The Fellowship of the Rings: Lord of the Ring Book 1 |
| Tolkien | J. R. R. | The Return of The King: Lord of the Ring Book 3 |
| Vonnegut | Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Welty | Eudora | Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, The |
| Williams | Tennessee | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Woolf | Virginia | A Room of One's Own |
| Woolf | Virginia | Mrs. Dalloway |
Non-fiction
| Albaret | Celeste | Monsieur Proust |
| Albom | Mitch | Tuesdays With Morrie |
| Assorted Authors | Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism | |
| Binyon | T. J. | Pushkin: A Biography |
| Bolles | Richard Nelson | What Color Is Your Parachute? 2005 |
| Bourdain | Anthony | Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly |
| Bugliosi & Gentry | Vincent & Curt | Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders |
| Butler | Judith | Gender Trouble |
| Capote | Truman | In Cold Blood |
| Clinton | Hilary Rodham | Living History |
| Clinton | Hilary Rodham | It Takes A Village |
| Collett | Anne | Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals |
| Cook | Blanche Wiesen | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| De Beauvoir | Simone | Second Sex, The |
| De Beauvoir | Simone | Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter |
| Denison | Isak | Out of Africa |
| Des Barres | Pamela | I'm With The Band |
| Didion | Joan | Year of Magical Thinking, The |
| Eggers | Dave | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius |
| Ehrenreich | Barbara | Nickel And Dimed |
| Faludi | Susan | Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women |
| Fodor | Eugene | Selected Hotels of Europe |
| Ford | Ford Madox | Good Soldier, The |
| Franken | Al | Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them |
| Friedman | Milton | A Monetary History of the United States |
| Gibbon | Edward | History of the Decline & Fall of The Roman Empire, The |
| Gibson | William | Miracle Worker, The |
| Harvard | Joe | Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico (33 1/3 Series) |
| Hersh | Seymour M. | My Lai 4: A Report On The Massacre And Its Aftermath |
| Huffington | Arianna | Pigs At The Trough |
| Irvin | Jim | Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion, The |
| Johnson | Spencer | Who Moved My Cheese? |
| Kagan | Donald | Outbreak of the Peoponnesian War, The |
| Kagan | Donald | Peace of Nicias & The Sicilian Expedition, The |
| Kagan | Donald | Archidamian War |
| Kerouac | Jack | On The Road |
| Lee/Neil/Mars/Sixx | The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band | |
| Lipton | Lawrence | Holy Barbarians, The |
| Macaulay | David | New Way Things Work, The |
| McCarthy | Mary | A Bolt From The Blue & Other Essays |
| McCarthy | Mary | Group, The |
| McNeill & McCain | Legs and Gillian | Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk |
| Meyers | Phillip | Vanishing Newspaper, The |
| Milford | Nancy | Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Moore | Barrington | Social Origins of Dictatorship & Democracy: Lord & Peasant in the Making of the Modern World |
| Moore | Michael | Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| Nietzche | Fredrich | Portable Nietzche, The |
| Pagels | Elaine | Gnostic Gospels |
| Plath | Sylvia | Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, The |
| Rubin M.D. | Theodore Issac | David and Lisa |
| Sherman | Wiliam Tecumseh | Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman |
| Sinker | Daniel | We Owe You Nothing - Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews (Edited) |
| Spinoza | Baruch | Ethics |
| Steves | Rick | Europe Through The Back Door, 2003 |
| Suskind | Ron | The Price of Loyalty: George W Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill |
| Taylor | Hobart Chatfield | Moliere: A Biography |
| Thompson | Hunter S. | Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas |
| Thompson | Hunter S. | Fear & Loathing: On The Campaign Trail '72 |
| Thurman | Judith | Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette |
| Tzu | Sun | Art of War, The |
| Vidal | Gore | The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 |
| Waldo | Myra | Myra Waldo's Travel & Motoring Guide To Europe |
| Weisberg | Jacob | George W Bushisms: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit & Wisdom of Our 43rd President |
| Woolf | Thomas | Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The |
| Wurtzel | Elizabeth | Bitch In Praise of Difficult Women |
| Rough Guide To Europe, The 2003 Edition | ||
| Compact Oxford English Dictionary, The | ||
| several biographies of Winston Churchill |
Other
| Allende | Isabel | House of the Spirits, The |
| Allende | Isabel | Eva Luna |
| Bloom | Judy | Gospel According To Judy Bloom, The |
| Brown | Dan | DaVinci Code, The |
| Bukowski | Charles | Notes of a Dirty Old Man |
| Davies | Robertson | Manticore, The |
| Dubus III | Andre | House of Sand And Fog, The |
| Ellis | Bret Easton | Less Than Zero |
| Erdrich | Louise | Love Medicine |
| Eugenides | Jeffrey | Virgin Suicides, The |
| Faber | Michel | Crimson Petal and the White, The |
| Farrell | Henry | What Happened To Baby Jane? |
| Foer | Jonathon Safran | Everything Is Illuminated |
| Gogol | Nikolai Vasilevich | Dead Souls |
| Goldman | William | Marathon Man |
| Grafton | Sue | R is For Richocet |
| Grafton | Sue | S is For Silence |
| Hathaway | Katharine Butler | Little Locksmith, The |
| Hornsby | Nick | High Fidelity |
| Kaysen | Susanna | Girl, Interrupted |
| Kennedy | William J. | Ironweed |
| King | Stephen | Cujo |
| King | Stephen | Shining, The |
| King | Stephen | Carrie |
| King | Stephen | Christine |
| King | Stephen | Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption |
| Kohner | Frederick | Gidget |
| Lerner | Alan Jay | Brigadoon |
| Levin | Ira | Rosemary's Baby |
| Marquez | Gabriel Garcia | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| McCourt | Frank | Angela's Ashes |
| McDonald | Gregory | Fletch |
| McEwan | Ian | Atonement |
| McMurtry | Larry | Terms of Endearment |
| Metalious | Grace | Peyton Place |
| Parker | Dorothy | Complete Stories |
| Powell | Dawn | Complete Novels/Novels 1930-1942 |
| Powell | Dawn | Selected Letters of Dawn Powell |
| Pressfield | Steven | Legend of Bagger Vance, The |
| Puzo | Mario | Godfather: Book 1, The |
| Reger | Roger | Emily The Strange |
| Rilke | Rainer Maria | Letters to a Young Poet |
| Robert | Henry | Robert's Rules of Order |
| Segal | Erich | Love Story |
| Sexton | Anne | Complete Poems, The |
| Stein | Joseph | Fiddler On The Roof |
| Styron | William | Sophie's Choice |
| Susann | Jacqueline | Valley of the Dolls |
| Tan | Amy | Joy Luck Club, The |
| Toole | John Kennedy | A Confederacy of Dunces |
| Uhry | Alfred | Driving Miss Daisy |
| Webb | Charles | Graduate, The |
| Wells | Rebecca | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The |
| Welty | Eudora | Collected Short Stories, The |
| Bhagava Gita, The |
I love reading challenges. I love reading!
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