adapted from http://www.bookclubforum.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/5203-rory-gilmores-book-list-challenge/

read so far 44 of 199

• 1984 - george orwell
• the adventures of huckleberry finn - mark twain
• alice in wonderland - lewis carroll
• the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay - michael chabon
• an american tragedy - theodore dreiser
• angela's ashes - frank mccourt
• anna karenina - leo tolstoy
• anne frank: the diary of a young girl - anne frank
• the art of fiction - henry james
• as i lay dying - william faulkner
• atonement - ian mcewan
• the awakening - kate chopin
• bel canto - ann patchett
• the bell jar - sylvia plath
• beloved - toni morrison
• beowulf: a new verse translation - seamus heaney
• the bhagava gita
• brave new world - aldous huxley
• brick lane - monica ali
• bridgadoon - alan jay lerner
• candide - voltaire
• the canterbury tales - chaucer
• carrie - stephen king
• catch-22 - joseph heller
• the catcher in the rye - j. d. salinger
• charlotte's web - e. b. white
• christine - stephen king
• a christmas carol - charles dickens
• a clockwork orange - anthony burgess
• a comedy of errors - william shakespeare
• the count of monte cristo - alexandre dumas
• cousin bette - honoré de balzac
• crime and punishment - fyodor dostoevsky
• the crucible - arthur miller
• cujo - stephen king
• the curious incident of the dog in the night-time - mark haddon
• daisy miller - henry james
• daughter of fortune - isabel allende
• david copperfield - charles dickens
• the da vinci code - dan brown
• demons - fyodor dostoyevsky
• death of a salesman - arthur miller
• deenie - judy blume
• the divine comedy - dante
• don quijote - cervantes
• driving miss daisy - alfred uhrv
• dr. jekyll & mr. hyde - robert louis stevenson
• complete tales & poems - edgar allan poe
• emma - jane austen
• ethan frome - edith wharton
• ethics - spinoza
• eva luna - isabel allende
• everything is illuminated - jonathan safran foer
• fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury
• fear and loathing in las vegas - hunter s. thompson
• the fellowship of the ring: book 1 of the lord of the ring - j. r. r. tolkien
• fiddler on the roof - joseph stein
• the five people you meet in heaven - mitch albom
• finnegan's wake - james joyce
• fletch - gregory mcdonald
• the fortress of solitude - jonathan lethem
• the fountainhead - ayn rand
• frankenstein - mary shelley
• franny and zooey - j. d. salinger
• galapagos - kurt vonnegut
• girl, interrupted - susanna kaysen
• the godfather: book 1 - mario puzo
• the god of small things - arundhati roy
• gone with the wind - margaret mitchell
• the graduate - charles webb
• the grapes of wrath - john steinbeck
• the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald
• great expectations - charles dickens
• hamlet - william shakespeare
• harry potter and the goblet of fire - j. k. rowling
• harry potter and the sorcerer's stone - j. k. rowling
• a heartbreaking work of staggering genius - dave eggers
• heart of darkness - joseph conrad
• henry iv, part i - william shakespeare
• henry iv, part ii - william shakespeare
• henry v - william shakespeare
• high fidelity nick hornby
• the house of the spirits - isabel allende
• how to breathe underwater - julie orringer
• how the grinch stole christmas - dr. seuss
• howl - allen gingsberg
• the hunchback of notre dame - victor hugo
• the iliad - homer
• in cold blood - truman capote
• inferno - dante
• it takes a village - hillary clinton
• jane eyre - charlotte bronte
• julius caesar - william shakespeare
• the jumping frog - mark twain
• kitchen confidential: adventures in the culinary underbelly - Anthony Bourdain
• the kite runner - khaled hosseini
• lady chatterleys' lover - d. h. lawrence
• leaves of grass - walt whitman
• lies and the lying liars who tell them - al franken
• life of pi - yann martel
• little dorrit - charles dickens
• little women - louisa may alcott
• lord of the flies - william golding
• the lovely bones - alice sebold
• the love story - erich segal
• macbeth - william shakespeare
• madame bovary - gustave flaubert
• the manticore - robertson davies
• memoirs of a dutiful daughter - simone de beauvoir
• me talk pretty one day - david sedaris
• the merry wives of windsor - william shakespeare
• the metamorphosis - franz kafka
• middlesex - jeffrey eugenides
• moby dick - herman melville
• monsieur proust - celeste albaret
• a moveable feast - ernest hemingway
• mrs. dalloway - virginia woolf
• my life as author and editor - h. r. mencken
• my sister's keeper - jodi picoult
• the naked and the dead - norman mailer
• the name of the rose - umberto eco
• the namesake - jhumpa lahiri
• the nanny diaries - emma mcLaughlin
• nervous system: or, losing my mind in literature - jan lars jensen
• new poems of emily dickinson - emily dickinson
• northanger abbey - jane austen
• notes of a dirty old man - charles bukowski
• of mice and men - john steinbeck
• on the road - jack kerouac
• one flew over the cuckoo's nest - ken kesey
• one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
• oracle night - paul auster
• oryx and crake - margaret atwood
• othello - william shakespeare
• our mutual friend - charles dickens
• out of africa - isac dineson
• the outsiders - s. e. hinton
• a passage to india - e.m. forster
• the perks of being a wallflower - stephen chbosky
• peyton place - grace metalious
• the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde
• the polysyllabic spree - nick hornby
• the portable dorothy parker - dorothy parker
• the portable nietzche - fredrich nietzche
• pride and prejudice - jane austen
• pygmalion - george bernard shaw
• the raven - edgar allan poe
• the razor's edge - w. somerset maugham
• rebecca - daphne du maurier
• the return of the king: the lord of the rings book 3 - j. r. r. tolkien
• rita hayworth - stephen king
• roman holiday - edith wharton
• romeo and juliet - william shakespeare
• a room of one's own - virginia woolf
• a room with a view - e. m. forster
• rosemary's baby - ira levin
• sanctuary - william faulkner
• the scarecrow of oz - frank l. baum
• the scarlet letter - nathaniel hawthorne
• the second sex - simone de beauvoir
• the secret life of bees - sue monk kidd
• sense and sensibility - jane austen
• a separate peace - john knowles
• several biographies - winston churchill
• sexus - henry miller
• the shadow of the wind - carlos ruiz zafon
• the shining - stephen king
• siddhartha - hermann hesse
• slaughter-house five - kurt vonnegut
• snows of kilimanjaro - ernest hemingway
• songbook - nick hornby
• the sonnets - william shakespeare
• sophie's choice - william styron
• the sound and the fury - william faulkner
• speak, memory - vladimir nabokov
• a streetcar named desire - tennessee williams
• the sun also rises - ernest hemingway
• swann's way - marcel proust
• a tale of two cities - charles dickens
• tender is the night - f. scott fitzgerald
• the time traveler's wife - audrey niffenegger
• to have and have not - ernest hemingway
• to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
• the tragedy of richard III - william shakespeare
• a tree grows in brooklyn - betty smith
• the trial - franz kafka
• ulysses - james joyce
• the unabridged journals of sylvia plath 1950-1962 - sylvia plath
• valley of the dolls - jacqueline susann
• vanity fair - william makepeace thackeray
• the virgin suicides - jeffrey eugenides
• waiting for godot - samuel beckett
• walden - henry david thoreau
• war and peace - leo tolstoy
• who moved my cheese? - spencer johnson
• who's afraid of virginia woolf - edward albee
• wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west - gregory maguire
• the wizard of oz - frank l. baum
• wuthering heights - emily bronte