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Oh great, I just had no idea where exactly to put them :) Thanks!
Danna's Personal Challenge: Reading Like Rory Gilmore PART III own and plan to read
*The Crucible by Arthur Miller
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
*The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
*The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
*The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Woolf
*The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
* The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
* The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
* The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
* The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
* The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
* The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
* The Graduate by Charles Webb
* The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
* The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
* The Group by Mary McCarthy
* The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
* The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
* The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
* The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
* The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
* The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
* The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
* The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
* The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
* The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
* The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
* The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
* The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
* The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
* The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
* The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
* The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
* The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
* The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
* The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
* The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve
* The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
* The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
* The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
* The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
* The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
* The Road by Cormac McCarthy
* The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
* The Shining by Stephen King
* The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
* The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
* The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
* The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
* The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
* The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
* The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
* The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
* The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
* Time and Again by Jack Finney
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* Ulysses by James Joyce
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
* Valley of the Dolls by Susann Jacqueline
* Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
* Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
* Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
* Walden by Henry David Thoreau
* War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
* We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
* What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
* What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
* When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
* Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
* While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
* White Oleander by Janet Fitch
* Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
* Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
* Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
That's it.
I tried reading 1984 and reached page 100 but then backed down, it was boring.
This is so cool! I'm gonna take up this challenge too :)You didn't like 1984? I loved that one!
wow good , how do you think you to finish them all?
I love this list! I'm going to give this a try as well. I hated 1984. I did read all the way through to the end. I just wanted the story to play out differently. I didn't have problems with the writing, just that the plot didn't go as I wanted it to. The concept was certainly interesting.
* 1984 by George Orwell
* A Bolt From The Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
* A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
* A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
* A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
* A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
* A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
* A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
* A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
* A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
* A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
* A Month Of Sundays by Julie Mars
* A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
* A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
* A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
* A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
* A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
* A Separate Peace by John Knowles
* A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
* A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
* A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
* Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll* An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
* Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
* Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank* Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
* As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
* Atonement by Ian McEwan
* Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
* Babe by Dick King-Smith
* Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell
* Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
* Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
* Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
* Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
* Beloved by Toni Morrison
* Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
* Bitch In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
* Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
* Brave New World by Aldous Huxley* Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
* Brick Lane by Monica Ali
* Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
* Candide by Voltaire
* Cane River by Lalita Tademy
* Carrie by Stephen King
* Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
* Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White* Christine by Stephen King
* Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
* Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
* Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
* Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
* Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
* Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
* Cujo by Stephen King
* Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
* David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D.
* David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
* Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
* Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
* Deenie by Beverly Cleary
* Deenie by Judy Blume
* Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
* Don Quixote by Cervantes
* Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting.
* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
* Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
* Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
* East of Eden by John Steinbeck
* Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
* Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
* Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
* Eloise by Kay Thompson
* Emma by Jane Austen
* Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
* Empire Falls by Richard Russo
* Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
* Ethics by Spinoza
* Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
* Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
* Extravagance by Gary Krist
* Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
* Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
* Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
* Fiddler on the Roof by Joesph Stein* Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
* Fletch by Gregory McDonald
* Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
* Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
* Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
* Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
* Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
* Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
* Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
* George W. Bushisms : The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
* Gidget by Frederick Kohner
* Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
* Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky* Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
* Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
* Hamlet by William Shakespear
* Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling- 7 Books
* Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
* Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
* Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
* Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment
* High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby
* Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
* House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
* How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
* How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
* How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
* I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
* Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
* I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
* In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
* Inferno by Dante
* Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
* It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
* Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte* Jewel by Bret Lott
* Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare* Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
* Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
* Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
* Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
* Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
* Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
* Life of Pi by Yann Martel* Light in August by William Faulkner
* Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
* Little Women by Louisa May Alcott* Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
* Lord of the Flies by William Golding
* Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
* Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
* Love Story by Erich Segal
* Macbeth by William Shakespeare* Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
* Marathon Man by William Goldman
* Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
* Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
* Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
* Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H.R. Mencken
* Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
* Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
* Moby Dick by Herman Melville
* Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
* Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
* Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
* Mutiny On The Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
* My Life As Author And Editor by H.R. Mencken
* My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
* My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult* Night by Elie Wiesel
* Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
* Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
* Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/ Angels on Toast/ A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell
* Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
* Old School by Tobias Wolff
* On the Road by Jack Kerouac
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
* One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
* Open House by Elizabeth Berg
* Oracle Night by Paul Auster
* Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
* Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
* Out of Africa by Isac Denison
* Paradise by Toni Morrison
* Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
* Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
* Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi* Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
* Property by Valerie Martin
* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
* Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
* Quattrocento by James McKean
* Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm* Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
* Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
* Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
* Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
* River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
* Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
* Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare* Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
* Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
* Sanctuary by William Faulkner
* Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
* Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
* Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
* Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
* Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
* Shane by Jack Shaefer
* She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
* Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
* Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
* Small Island by Andrea Levy
* Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers* Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
* Songbook by Nick Hornby
* Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
* Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
* Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
* Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
* Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
* Stuart Little by E. B. White
* Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
* Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
* Sybil by Flora Schreiber* Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
* Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
* The Art of Fiction by Henry James
* The Art of War by Sun Tzu
* The Awakening by Kate Chopin
* The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
* The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
* The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff
* The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
* The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
* The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
* The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
* The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
* The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
* The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber