The Rory Gilmore Challenge

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Anybody remember Gilmore Girls? I watch it from time to time on ABC Family, when the mood strikes. Anyone who has seen the show even once knows that Rory Gilmore is a tremendous bookworm. Some tortured soul out there decided to find out exactly how much of a bookworm by writing down every book that Rory claims to have read in the entire series. Those 350 books are what comprise The Rory Gilmore Challenge. (That was a link to the list.)

I'm going to do it. I'm going to read all those books. Yes I am. You watch me.

Here's a list of the ones I've started and not finished:

1.     George Orwell - 1984

2.     Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

3.     Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes

4.     William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying

5.     Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales

6.     Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

7.     Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

8.     Edgar Allen Poe - The Complete Works

9.     Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

10. Shirley Jackson - The Lottery: And Other Stories

11. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

12. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

13. Henry Robert - Robert's Rules of Order

14. Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

15. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter

16. Kurt Vennegut - Slaughter-House Five

17. Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory

18. James Joyce - Ulysses

19. Richard Nelson Bolles - What Colour is Your Parachute?

Here are the ones I've actually completed:

1.     Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

2.     Seamus Heaney - Beowulf

3.     Joseph Heller - Catch 22

4.     J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

5.     Arthur Miller - The Crucible

6.     F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

7.     William Shakespeare - Hamlet

8.     J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone

9.     J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

10. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

11. David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice

12. Dr. Seuss - How the Grinch Stole Christmas

13. William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar

14. C.S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

15. David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

16. Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis

17. Charles Bukowski - Notes of a Dirty Old Man

18. S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders

19. John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

20. Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven

21. The Brothers Grimm - Rapunzel

22. William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

23. Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

24. Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

25. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

So 350 minus 19 plus 25 . . . carry the two . . . I've attempted nearly one half of the challenge already. My goal is to read all the books I have not read - and then re-read the ones I have, over the next four years (Because that's how many years are in high school). We'll see how this works out. I'm going to start . . . right after I finish reading Trainspotting. Are any of you interested in attempting the folly that is The Rory Gilmore Challenge? Let me know! It'll be fun!

P.S. The formatting is wonky and I'm too tired to do anything about it now. I'll fix it tomorrow.