Good morning my loves!

Today’s post is a little different for me – I’ve never actually sought to participate in such a huge reading challenge, and while it’s a little daunting, I am very excited to get started!

You’ll probably have guessed from the title of the post that I am going to be attempting to read every book every mentioned in The Gilmore Girls TV series – both the original and the most recent series. It’s a total of over FOUR HUNDRED BOOKS. Yeesh. Now, as you’ll see, some of them are already crossed out, and that is because I have read them and read them recently enough to remember them properly. There are some on the list I have already read but it was such a long time ago that I remember next to nothing so I’m planning on re-reading.

This is a challenge that will take place over many years and my hope is to read 3ish from the list every month. My reasons for wanting to do this, aside from the fact that I loved watching The Gilmore Girls when I was growing up, is that it is such a varied list of books, that I hope will expand my reading horizons.

So, I will hopefully be posting monthly on my progress but this is the only time I will be sharing the complete list. And here it is!

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1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5.  All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
6.  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
7. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
8. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
9. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
11. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
12. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
13. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as a History by Norman Mailer
14. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
15. The Art of Living by Epictetus
16. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
17. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
18. Atonement by Ian McEwan
19. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
20. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
    
21. Babe by Dick King-Smith
22. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
23. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
24. Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
25. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
26. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
27. Beloved by Toni Morrison
28. Beowulf 
29. The Bhagava Gita
30. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1200 Jews by Peter Duffy
31. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
32. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
33. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
34. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
35. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
36. Candide by Voltaire
37. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
38. Carrie by Stephen King
39. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
40. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
    
41. Charlotte’s Web by E B White
42. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
43. Cinderella by Brothers Grimm
44. Christine by Stephen King
45. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
46. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
47. The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
48. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
49. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
50. Compact Oxford English Dictionary
51. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
52. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
53. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
54. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
55. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
56. Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
57. Contact by Carl Sagan
58. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
59. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    
61. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
62. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
63. Cujo by Stephen King
64. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
65. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
66. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
67. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
68. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
69. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
70. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
71. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
72. Deenie by Judy Blume
73. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
74. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
75. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
76. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
77. Don Quixote by Cervantes
78. Dracula by Bram Stoker
79. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
80. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
    
81. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
82. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
83. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
84. Eloise at the Plaza by Kay Thompson
85. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
86. Emma by Jane Austen
87. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
88. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J Sobol
89. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
90. Ethics by Spinoza
91. Europe through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves
92. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
93. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
94. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
95. Extravagance by Gary Krist
96. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
97. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
98. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
99. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
100. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
     
101. The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkien
102. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
103. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
104. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
105. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
106. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
107. Fodor’s Selected Hotels of Europe
108. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
109. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
110. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
111. Franny and Zooey by J D Salinger
112. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
113. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
114. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
115. George W Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
116. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
117. A Girl from Yamhill by a Beverly Cleary
118. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
119. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
120. The Godfather: Book  by Mario Puzo
     
121. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
122. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
123. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
124. Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards
125. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
126. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
127. The Graduate by Charles Webb
128. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
129. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
130. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
131. The Group by Mary McCarthy
132. Haiku, Volume 2: Spring by R.H. Blyth
133. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
134. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling
135. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J K Rowling
136. He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
137. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
138. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
139. Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson
140. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
     
141. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
142. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
143. Henry V by William Shakespeare
144. Henry VI by William Shakespeare
145. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
146. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
147. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
148. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
149. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
150. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
151. Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss
152. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
153. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss
154. How the Light Gets In by M J Hyland
155. Howl and Other Poem by Allen Ginsberg
156. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
157. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
158. The Iliad by Homer
159. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres
160. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
     
161. Indiana by George Sand
162. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
163. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee
164. Ironweed by William J Kennedy
165. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
166. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
167. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
168. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
169. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
170. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
171. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
172. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
173. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
174. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
175. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
176. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D H Lawrence
177. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
178. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester
179. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester
180. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester
     
181. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
182. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
183. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
184. Letters of Ayn Rand edited by Michael S. Berliner
185. Letters of Edith Wharton by R.W.B. Lewis
186. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
187. The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
188. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
189. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
190. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
191. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
192. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
193. Lisa and David by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin MD
194. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
195. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
196. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
197. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
198. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
199. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
200. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
     
201. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
203. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
204. The Love Story by Erich Segal
205. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
206. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
207. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
208. Marathon Man by William Goldman
209. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
210. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
211. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
212. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
213. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
214. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray, Ph.D.
215. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
216. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
217. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
218. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
219. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
220. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
     
221. Misery by Stephen King
222. Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
223. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
224. The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time by Jim Irvin
225. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
226. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
227. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
228. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
229. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
230. Motley Crue by Seamus Craic
231. The Mourning Bride by William Congreve
232. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
233. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
234. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
235. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M Hersh
236. My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken
237. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
238. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe,  by Myra Waldo
239. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
240. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
     
241. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
242. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
243. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
244. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
245. Nancy Drew and The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene
246. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
247. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
248. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
249. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
250. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America  by Barbara Ehrenreich
251. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
252. Night by Elie Wiesel
253. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
254. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E Cain, Laurie A Finke, Barbara E Johnson, John P McGowan
255. Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
256. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
257. Oedipus Rex by Sophicles
258. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
259. Old School by Tobias Wolff
260. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
     
261. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
262. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
263. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
264. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
265. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
266. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
267. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
268. Othello by Shakespeare
269. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
270. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
271. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
272. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
273. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
274. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
275. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
276. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
277. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
278. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
279. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
280. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
     
281. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
282. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
283. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
284. The Price of Loyalty: George W Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
285. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
286. Primary Colors by Joe Klein
287. Property by Valerie Martin
288. The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe
289. The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
290. Pushkin: A Biography by T J Binyon
291. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
292. Quattrocento by James Mckean
293. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
294. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
295. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
296. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
297. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
298. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
299. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
300. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
     
301. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
302. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
303. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
304. The Return of the King by J R R Tolkien
305. Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem
306. Richard III by William Shakespeare
307. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
308. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
309. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
310. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
311. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
312. A Room with a View by E M Forster
313. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
314. The Rough Guide to Europe by Various Authors
315. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
316. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
317. The Satanic Verses by  Salman Rushdie
318. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
319. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
320. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L Baum
     
321. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
322. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
323. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
324. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
325. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
326. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
327. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
328. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
329. Sexus by Henry Miller
330. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
331. Shane by Jack Shaefer
332. The Shining by Stephen King
333. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
334. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
335. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
336. Small Island by Andrea Levy
337. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
338. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
339. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
340. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
     
341. Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
342. A Song of Ice and Fire George R.R. Martin
343. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
344. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
345. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
346. Songbook by Nick Hornby
347. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
348. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
349. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
350. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
351. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
352. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
353. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
354. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
355. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
356. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
357. Stuart Little by E B White
358. Summer of Fear by T. Jefferson Parker
359. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
360. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
     
361. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
362. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
363. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
364. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
365. Tender Is The Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
366. Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
367. Tevya The Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem
368. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
369. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
370. Time and Again by Jack Finney
371. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
372. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
373. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
374. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
375. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
376. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
377. The Trial by Franz Kafka
378. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
379. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
380. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
     
381. Ulysses by James Joyce
382. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath – by Sylvia Plath
383. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
384. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
385. Unless by Carol Shields
386. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
387. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
388. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
389. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (33 1/3 Book 11) by Joe Harvard
390. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
391. Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
392. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
393. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
394. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
395. We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker
396. What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
397. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
398. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
399. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
400. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
     
401. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
402. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
403. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
404. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L Baum
405. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
406. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
407. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
408. Yoga for Dummies by Georg Feuerstein and Larry Payne

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And there we have it. the complete list!

** note. I did not write this list, I found it on an amazing blog. But for the life of me, I cannot find it now. If you know where I can so that I can credit, or it was you that wrote this list, please let me know so that I can link to your post!

Is this challenge something you’d like to do? Let me know in the comments down below!

Peace and pages
Amy
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