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Rory Gilmore's Book List Challenge


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Ooh, thanks Frankie! I didn't pick up on all of these as the show aired, but I'm glad someone was paying closer attention. I'd say around half of these books were referenced in the original series. And according to the spreadsheet I keep, Huck Finn has been referenced more times than any other book. :)

 

 

Yep, most of them are 're-mentions' :) I was hoping for more new titles, modern ones! :)

 

I'm watching the episodes again and picked up on another reference: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (in the spring episode).

 

Oh yeah, Cloud Atlas was actually the one that I noticed myself! It was in reference to the Shropshire book, right? :)

 

 

In other news, Kylie's informed me of another list of the new titles and I shall now update the one I made last week. 

 

Edit: I updated the list in my previous post above ^  but you can also read it here: 

 

The List provided by these two sources here and here.

 

 

 

Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

(there are other titles in the picture on the link. “Some other favorites featured include Proust and Euclid. “)

Jack Kerouac: On the Road

Marie Kondo: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up

Sun Tzu: The Art of War

David Foster Wallace: Consider the Lobster

Cheryl Strayed: Wild

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

Sholem Aleichem: Tevya The Dairyman and the Railroad Stories 

Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 

Nora Ephron: I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman  

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Karl Ove Knausgård: My Struggle

Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman 

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre

David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas 

Diana Gabaldon: Outlander

George R.R. Martin: Game of Thrones

William Wordsworth: Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love

William Shakespeare: Macbeth

Jack London: Call of the Wild

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods

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Today I finished my first Rory Gilmore read of the year. It was Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry and I did not like it at all. I can't remember how this work is referred to in the series: whether it's the actual novel or the movie that was mentioned. Or just a character in either two. But I have a feeling it's the mother of the novel that got the book/movie to the list. I have a feeling this is a rare occasion of the movie being better than the book. 

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