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Rory Gilmore’s Reading List

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It’s officially almost autumn, that means it’s Gilmore Girls season. Although over 300 books are mentioned on the show, I’m capping the list at 50 because there are just too many! Plus, I’m not giving sales to Ayn Rand.
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Children’s Literature

 
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White, Garth Williams, Paperback
 
Stuart Little (75th Anniversary Edition) - E. B. White
 
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Paperback

Diaries

 
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank, Paperback
 
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath|Paperback

Fiction Classics

 
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Dystopian society where you can trust no one.
1984: 75th Anniversary by George Orwell, Paperback
 
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Classic 19th-century novel about a woman who engages in an affair in New Orleans.
The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin, Hardcover
 
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Engaging language and honest depiction of depression.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Paperback
 
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It’s difficult for me to think of a book that reflects such pure talent more than this one
Beloved by Toni Morrison
 
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Everything in society is perfect, making it, paradoxically, meaningless.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Paperback
 
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Funny despite the wartime setting.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Paperback
 
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Pompous and ridiculous narrator who lives with his mother in New Orleans.
A Confederacy of Dunces
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Long but worth it!
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Paperback
 
Little Women and Other Novels (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)|Hardcover
 
 
Tender Is the Night: A Novel
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History

 
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Out of print now but can be found on resale sites.
MY LAI 4 A Report on the Massacre and its Aftermath
 
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From the author of ‘Unbroken.’
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand, Paperback

Memoir

 
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Memoir of a woman who experienced cancer in the face as a child, resulting in surgeries that left her looking unlike the other kids in her class. But the book is never written with melodramatic self-pity. She was best friends with Ann Patchett, who a...
Autobiography of a Face [Thirtieth Anniversary Edition] by Lucy Grealy ...
 
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Hemingway looks back at his time in Paris as a then-unknown writer.
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway, Paperback
 
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A must-read account of the Holocaust.
Night by Elie Wiesel, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
 
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about a Persian teacher who illegally facilitated her students’ reading of Western classics. published in 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi, Paperback
 
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, Paperback
 
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Talks about her friendship with author Lucy Grealey.
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett, Paperback

Modern Literary Fiction

 
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Best friends with Lucy Grealey, also on this list!
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, Paperback
 
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published in 1998
Daughter of Fortune: A Novel by Isabel Allende, Paperback
 
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Debut novel of this acclaimed author, published in 1997
The God of Small Things (Booker Prize Winner) by Arundhati Roy, Paperback
 
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Paperback
 
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Sad but engaging story set in Afghanistan.
The Kite Runner (10th Anniversary Edition) by Khaled Hosseini, Paperback
 
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Booker Prize-winning novel about a boy on a ship with animals, also deals with religious topics.
Life of Pi (Booker Prize Winner) by Yann Martel, Paperback
 
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, Paperback
 
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy #1) by Margaret Atwood, Paperback
 
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The novel about five sisters who all commit suicide in a year, one by one.
The Virgin Suicides: A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)

Philosophy

 
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Cornerstone text of feminist theory.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler ...

Plays

 
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Gossip ruins two teachers’ lives at a girls’ school. Published in 1934.
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
 
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The “Scottish Play” concerning fate and power.
Macbeth
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A woman with a questionable past comes to stay with her sister and her aggressive husband in their New Orleans home.
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Paperback
 
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett, Paperback

Poetry

 
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From the 1300s
The Canterbury Tales
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The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton|Paperback
 
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not the exact same collection as portrayed in the show, but that one seems to be out of print
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Collectible ...
 
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Published by San Francisco-based City Lights Publishers. A cornerstone of beatnik literature.
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, Paperback
 
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Paperback
 
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Written from 1845 to 1846 by an English poet
Sonnets from the Portuguese
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Travel

 
Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook
 
The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget (Travel Guide with eBook)

Young Adult

 
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Teenage gang members were never so lovable. Written by Hinton when she was just a teenager herself.
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Paperback
 
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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