Gilmore Girls Challenge

The List

** You can find the orginial Buzzfeed quiz/list by contributor Jenna Guillaume here: How Many Books from "Gilmore Girls" Have You Read?

See my introduction to The Gilmore Girls Challenge.

I'll be updating this page whenever I finish any books off this list and linking them to a post on my thoughts.

 BOLD = Previously read

**  =  Re-read

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8. The Archidamian by Donal Kagan
9. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
10. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
11. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
12. Atonement by Ian McEwan
13. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
14. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
15. Babe by Dick King-Smith
16. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
17. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
18. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
19. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
20. Beloved by Toni Morrison
21. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
22. The Bhagavad Gita 
23. The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy
24. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
25. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
26. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
27. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
28. Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
29. Candide by Voltaire
30. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
31. Carrie by Stephen King
32. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
33. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
34. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
35. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
36. Christine by Stephen King
37. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
38. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
39. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
40. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
41. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
42. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
43. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
44. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
45. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
46. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandrew Dumas
47. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
48. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
49. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
50. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
51. Cujo by Stephen King
52. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
53. Daisy Miller by Henry James | ★★★
54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
55. David and Lisa by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin M.D.
56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 
57. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
61. Deenie by Judy Blume
62. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
63. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
64. The Dirt by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, and Nikki Sixx
65. The Divine Comedy by Dante
66. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
67. Don Quixote by Cervantes
68. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
69. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
70. Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
71. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
72. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
73. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
74. Eloise by Kay Thompson
75. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
76. Emma by Jane Austen
77. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
78. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donal J. Sobol
79. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
80. Ethics by Spinoza
81. Europe Through the Back Door by Rick Steves
82. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
83. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
84. Extravagance by Gary Krist
85. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
86. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
87. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donal Kagan
88. Fat Land by Greg Critser
89. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
90. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
91. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
92. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
93. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
94. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
95. Flowers of Algernon by Daniel Keyes
96. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
97. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
98. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
99. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
100. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
101. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
102. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
103. George W. Bushisms by Jacob Weisberg
104. Gidget by Frederick Kohner
105. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
106. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
107. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
108. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
109. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granosky
110. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
111. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
112. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
113. The Graduate by Charles Webb
114. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
115. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
116. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
117. The Group by Mary McCarthy
118. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
120. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
121. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
122. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
123. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
124. Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare
125. Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare
126. Henry V by William Shakespeare
127. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
128. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
129. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
130. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
131. House of San and Fog by Andre Dubus III
132. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
133. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
134. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
135. How the Light Gets In by M.J. Hyland
136. Howl by Allen Ginsberg
137. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
138. The Iliad by Homer
139. I'm With the Band by Pamela des Barres
140. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
141. Inferno by Dante
142. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
143. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
144. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
145. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
146. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
147. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
148. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
149. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
150. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
151. The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
152. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Burdain
153. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
154. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
155. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
156. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
157. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
158. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
159. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
160. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
161. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
162. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
163. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
164. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
165. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
166. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
167. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
168. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
169. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
170. Love Story by Erich Segal
171. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
172. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
173. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
174. Marathon Man by William Goldman
175. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
176. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
177. Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman
178. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
179. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
180. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
181. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
182. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
183. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
184. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
185. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
186. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
187. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
188. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
189. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
190. A Month of Sundays by Julie Mars
191. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
192. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
193. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
194. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
195. My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken
196. My Life in Orange by Time Guest
197. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
198. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
199. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
200. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
201. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
202. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
203. Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
204. Poems by Emily Dickinson
205. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
206. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
207. Night by Elie Wiesel
208. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
209. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
210. Novels 1930-1942 by Dawn Powell 
211. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Chales Bukowski
212. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
213. Old School by Tobias Wolff
214. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
215. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
216. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
217. The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
218. Oracle Night by Paul Austen
219. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
220. Othello by William Shakespeare
221. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
222. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donal Kagan
223. Out of Africa by Isak Dineson
224. The Outsider by S.E. Hinton
225. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
226. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
227. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
228. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
229. The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
230. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
231. Pinocchio by Carlo Callodi
232. Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
233. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
234. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
235. The Portable Nietzche by Friedrich Nietzche
236. The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind
237. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
238. Property by Valerie Martin
239. Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
240. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
241. Quattrocento by James Mckean
242. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
243. Rapunzel by The Brothers Grimm
244. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
245. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
246. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
247. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
248. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
249. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
250. Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
251. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
252. R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
253. Rita Heyworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
254. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert
255. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
256. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
257. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
258. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
259. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
260. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
261. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
262. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
263. Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford
264. The Scarecrown of Oz by Frank L. Baum
265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
270. Selected Hotels of Europe
271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
274. Winston S. Churchill by Martin Gilbert
275. Sexus by Henry Miller
276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
277. Shane by Jack Schaefer
278. The Shining by Stephen King
279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
280. S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
281. Slaughterhouse Five by Jurt Vonnegut
282. Small Island by Andrea Levy
283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
284. Snow White and Rose Red by The Brothers Grimm
285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore
286. The Song Names by Normal Lebrecht
287. Song of the Simple Truth by Julia de Burgos
288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
289. Songbook by Nick Hornby
290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
291. Sonnets From the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
292. Sophies's Choice by William Styron
293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
297. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
298. Stuart Little by E.B. White
299. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
300. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
301. Swimming with Giants by Anne Collett
302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
304. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
305. Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
306. Time and Again by Jack Finney
307. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
310. Richard III by William Shakespeare
311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
312. The Trial by Franz Kafka
313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth Robinson
314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
316. Ulysses by James Joyce
317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
318. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
319. Unless by Carol Shields
320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyer
322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
323. The Velvet Underground and Nico by Joe Harvard
324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
327. Bambi by Felix Salten
328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
329. We Owe You Nothing - Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
330. What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
331. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
332. When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
333. Who Moved My Chesse? by Spencer Johnson
334. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
335. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
336. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion