Sunday, October 28, 2012

Rory Gilmore Booklist

Every book or inference made on the Gilmore Girls show is listed below.

BOOKS
 

- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
- Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
- The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Mencken's Chrestomathy by H.R. Mencken
- My Life As Author And Editor by H.R. Mencken
- Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
- A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
- The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
- The Divine Comedy by Dante
- Carrie by Stephen King
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- Don Quixote by Cervantes
-  Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Christine by Stephen King
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- The Art of Fiction by Henry James
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Out of Africa by Isac Denison
- The Art of Fiction by Henry James
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
- Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
- Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Howl by Allen Ginsburg
- Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
- Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
- The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Savage Beauty:The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
- The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
- The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
- The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
- Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
- Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Shining by Stephen King
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Several biographies of Winston Churchill
- The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
- To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
- Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
- Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
- The Return of the King: Lord Of The Rings - Book 3 by J.R.R.Tolkien
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Hamlet by Shakespeare
- Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
- Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
- Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm
- David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D.)
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett  
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- Candide by Voltaire
- The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil,
- Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
- The Bhagava Gita 
- Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
- What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
- Fletch by Gregory McDonald
- Sophie's Choice by William Styron
- The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
- Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
- Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/ Angels on Toast/
- A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell
- What Color is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
- The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
- The Graduate by Charles Webb
- The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
- Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
- Inferno by Dante
- Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
- Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days (3.1)
- A Bolt From The Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
- Shane by Jack Shaefer
- Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
- The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
- The Manticore by Robertson Davies
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Harry Potter - Book 1 by J. K. Rowling
- Henry V by William Shakespeare
- The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
- Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
- Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
- Fiddler of the Roof by Joesph Stein
- The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
- We Owe You Nothing- Punk Planet: the Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
- Marathon Man by William Goldman
- Deenie by Judy Blume
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Woolf
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Love Story by Erich Segal
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
- Babe by Dick King- Smith
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Gidget by Frederick Kohner
- The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
- The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
- Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
- The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
- Stuart Little by E. B. White
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
- Mutiny On The Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
- Eloise by Kay Thompson
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Europe Through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
- The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
- Selected Hotels of Europe
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
- Walt Disney's Bambi (Based on Original Story by Felix Salten) by Felix Salten
- Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective byDonald J. Sobol
- The Fellowship Of The Ring: Lord Of The Ring - Book 1 by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
- Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
- I'm With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
- The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
- Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
- The Hobbit, The Sofa and Digger Stiles (4.3)
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Wurthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Cujo by Stephen King
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
- The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
-  The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
- The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by
- Ron Suskind
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
- A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
- Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
- My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
- Ethics by Spinoza
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
- The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- It takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
- R is for ricochet by Sue Grafton
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhitE
- The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
- Sexus by Henry Miller
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote                                                                    
- The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara
- E. Johnson, John P. McGowan, Jeffrey L. Williams, Vincent B. Leitch
- R  is for Ricochet, S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
- A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
- Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
- Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
- The Vanishing Newspaper by Phillip Meyers  
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- The Canterbery Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
- New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
- Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Sanctuary by William Faulkner
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- The Good Soilder by Ford Maddox Ford
- Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern
- World by Barrington Moore
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- Bitch In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- George W. Bushisms : The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd
- President by Jacob Weisberg
- Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
- Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
- Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
- Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

Original Book list can be found here:    http://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/5203-rory-gilmores-book-list-challenge/    

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Hunger Games Hangover

Many of you out there are wondering, "what next?"

Well...after a little research I found some books that might keep your mind occupied ... *This is a list of books that contain the overall theme of a utopian or dystopian society....MANY OF THEM ARE SERIES SO KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN.


- Divergent (trilogy) by Veronica Roth
- Legend by Marie Lu
- The knife of never letting go by Patrick Ness
- The maze runner (trilogy) by James Dashner
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- Gone by Michael Grant
- Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
- Enclave by Ann Aguirre
- Matched by Ally Condie
- Life as we knew (series) it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Delirium by Lauren Oliver
- Blood Red Road by Moira Young
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
- Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
- Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Wither by Lauren DeStefano



*I READ THE DIVERGENT TRILOGY AND I AM IN LOVE WITH IT...CAN'T WAIT FOR THE FINAL BOOK TO COME OUT.

*LIFE AS WE KNEW IT BY SUSAN BETH PFEFFER IS AN EASY READ. INTERESTING STORY.



Happy Reading Everyone!!!