Rory Gilmore Challenge, Season 2

Gilmore Girls Season 2

Below are the books mentioned in season 2, as collated by Amanda here. The effort she has put in is amazing, with notes telling you the exact reference and episode.

I will highlight any I have read in green. Any that are crossed out I do not intend on reading, either because it is a topic I have no interest in (Cookery, etc.), a biography of someone I have no interest in or it is going to be a struggle for me to read, or just something I will not enjoy.

Have you read any? What are your thoughts?

  1. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
  2. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
  3. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  4. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
  5. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
  6. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  7. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
  8. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
  9. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
  10. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
  11. Richard III – William Shakespeare
  12. The Scarecrow of Oz (Oz, #9) – L. Franj Baum
  13. Personal History – Katherine Graham
  14. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  15. One the Road – Jack Kerouac
  16. Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson
  17. Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Alborn
  18. Howl and Other Poems – Allen Ginsberg
  19. The Iliad – Homer
  20. The Collected Stories – Eudora Welty
  21. Othello – William Shakespeare
  22. Contact – Carl Sagan
  23. Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
  24. The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
  25. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay – Nancy Milford
  26. Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
  27. The Bhagavad Gita – Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
  28. The Children’s Hour – Lillian Hellman
  29. Candide – Voltaire
  30. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir
  31. Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence
  32. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk – Legs McNeil
  33. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band – Tommy Lee
  34. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country – Mark Twain
  35. What Color is your Parachute? 2000: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers – Richard N. Bolles
  36. The Portable Nietzsche – Friedrich Nietzsche
  37. Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski
  38. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ – Jose Sarmago
  39. The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
  40. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 – Gore Vidal
  41. Unfinished Business: Memoirs: 1902-1988 – John Houseman
  42. Summer of Fear – T. Jefferson Parker
  43. Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies – Laura Esquivel
  44. The Protocol – April Christofferson
  45. James Joyce’s Ulysses – Stuart Gilbert
  46. The Little Locksmith – Katherine Butler Hathaway
  47. Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night/ Come Bac to Sorrento/ Turn, Magic Wheel/ Angels on Toast/ A Time to be Born – Dawn Powell

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