Novels
* Emma by Jane Austen
* Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
* Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Timeline by Michael Chrichton
* David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
* Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
* Little Dorrit Charles Dickens
* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
* Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
* Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
* Ulysses by James Joyce
* The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* The Group by Mary McCarthy
* Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
* The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
* Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
* Chikara!: A Sweeping Novel of Japan and America by Robert Skimin
* The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
* War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
* Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Short Stories
* Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
* Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm
Poetry
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect by Robert Burns
* Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
* Shakespeare’s Sonnets by William Shakespeare
* New Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by William Shurr et al
Drama
Love for Love by William Congreve
The Mourning Bride by William Congreve
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
* The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
* Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
* Richard III by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
* The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Non-Fiction
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
* The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
* Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
* Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi
* The Art of Eating by M.F. K. Fisher
* James Joyce’s Ulysses by Stuart Gilbert
The Walter Hagen Story by Walter Hagen
* Partial Portraits by Henry James
* The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath edited by Karen V. Kukil
* To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation by Martin Luther
* The Days of H.L. Mencken by H.L. Mencken
* A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
The Total Woman by Marabel Morgan
* Who’s Who and What’s What in Shakespeare by Evangeline M. O’Connor
* The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Republic by Plato
Etiquette by Emily Post
* Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
* Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
* A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Reference
The Bible
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
* The Oxford Shakespeare
Webster’s Dictionary
Newspapers
Barron’s
The Financial Times
The Wall Street Journal
Magazines
* CosmoGirl
* Cosmopolitan
Glamour
GQ
* Highlights for Children
InStyle
Ms.
* The New Yorker
Playboy
Comics
Archie
Mister Miracle
Superman
Authors
* Francis Bacon
* Honore de Balzac
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Judy Blume
* Charlotte Bronte
* Colette
Dante
* Fyodor Dostoevksy
Sigmund Freud
Václav Havel
Homer
* Ben Jonson
Stephen King
* Christopher Marlowe
John Muir
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edna O’Brien
* George Sand
Jean-Paul Sartre
* John Webster
Edith Wharton
* Walt Whitman
NOTE: For anyone attempting a Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge, those works marked with an asterisk are ones which Rory is either shown reading, or strongly implied to have read.
