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Rory fra Gilmore Girls er populærkulturens mest kjente lesehest sammen med Hermione fra Harry Potter. "The Rory Gilmore reading challenge" er en utfordring som går ut på å lese alle bøkene hun leser på skjermen (totalt 339).

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1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

2. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

3. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

1. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

2. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

3. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

4. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

5. Atonement by Ian McEwan

6. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

8. Babe by Dick King-Smith

9. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

10. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

11. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

12. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

21. Beloved by Toni Morrison

1. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

2. The Bhagava Gita

3. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

4. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

5. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

7. Brick Lane by Monica Ali

8. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

9. Candide by Voltaire

10. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

11. Carrie by Stephen King

12. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

1. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

2. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

3. Christine by Stephen King

38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

2. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

3. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

4. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

5. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

6. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

7. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

8. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

9. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

10. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

11. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

13. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

14. Cujo by Stephen King

53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

1. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

2. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

3. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

57. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

1. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

2. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

4. Deenie by Judy Blume

5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

6. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx

7. The Divine Comedy by Dante

8. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

9. Don Quixote by Cervantes

10. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

11. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

12. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

13. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

14. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

15. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

16. Eloise by Kay Thompson

17. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

18. Emma by Jane Austen

19. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

20. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

21. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

22. Ethics by Spinoza

23. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

24. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

25. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

26. Extravagance by Gary Krist

27. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

28. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

29. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

30. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

31. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

1. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

2. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

3. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

4. Fletch by Gregory McDonald

5. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

6. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

7. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

9. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

10. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

11. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

12. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

13. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

14. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

15. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

16. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

17. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

18. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

19. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

20. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

21. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

22. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

23. The Graduate by Charles Webb

24. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

25. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

26. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

27. The Group by Mary McCarthy

28. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

1. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

3. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

4. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

5. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

6. Henry V by William Shakespeare

7. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

8. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

9. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

10. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

11. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

12. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

13. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

14. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

15. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

16. Howl by Allen Ginsberg

17. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

18. The Iliad by Homer

19. I'm With the Band by Pamela des Barres

20. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

21. Inferno by Dante

22. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

23. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

24. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

25. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

26. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

27. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

28. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

29. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

30. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

31. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

32. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

1. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence

2. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

3. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

4. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

5. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

6. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

7. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

9. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

10. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

11. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

12. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

13. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

14. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

15. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

1. The Love Story by Erich Segal

2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

4. The Manticore by Robertson Davies

5. Marathon Man by William Goldman

6. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

7. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

8. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

9. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

10. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

11. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

12. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

13. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

14. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

15. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

16. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

17. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

18. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

19. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

20. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

21. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

22. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

23. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

24. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

25. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It's Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

26. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

27. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

28. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

29. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

30. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

31. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

32. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

33. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

34. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

35. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

36. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

37. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

38. Night by Elie Wiesel

39. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

40. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan

41. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

42. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

43. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

44. Old School by Tobias Wolff

45. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

2. Oracle Night by Paul Auster

3. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

4. Othello by Shakespeare

5. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

6. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

7. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

8. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

9. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

10. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

11. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

12. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

13. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

14. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

15. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

16. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

17. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

18. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

19. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

20. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind

236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

1. Property by Valerie Martin

2. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

3. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

4. Quattrocento by James Mckean

5. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

6. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

7. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

8. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

9. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

10. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

11. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

12. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

13. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

1. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

2. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

3. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert

4. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

5. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

6. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

7. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

8. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

9. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

10. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

11. Sanctuary by William Faulkner

12. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

13. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

14. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

15. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

16. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

17. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

1. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

2. Selected Hotels of Europe

3. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell

4. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

5. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

6. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

7. Sexus by Henry Miller

276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

1. Shane by Jack Shaefer

2. The Shining by Stephen King

3. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

4. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

5. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

6. Small Island by Andrea Levy

7. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

8. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

9. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore

10. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

11. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

12. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

13. Songbook by Nick Hornby

14. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

15. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

16. Sophie's Choice by William Styron

17. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

18. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

19. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

20. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

21. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

22. Stuart Little by E. B. White

23. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

24. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

25. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

26. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

27. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

28. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

29. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

30. Time and Again by Jack Finney

31. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

32. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

3. The Trial by Franz Kafka

4. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

5. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

6. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

7. Ulysses by James Joyce

8. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

9. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

10. Unless by Carol Shields

11. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

12. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

13. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

14. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

15. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

16. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

17. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

18. Walt Disney's Bambi by Felix Salten

19. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

20. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker

21. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

22. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

23. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

24. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

25. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

26. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

27. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

28. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

29. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

30. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Bøker jeg ønsker å lese sommeren/høsten 2020: En god blanding av fantasy, samfunn og filosofi. Kanskje litt ambisiøst å prøve å lese alt innenfor denne perioden, men det er et templat hvertfall.

Om noen ser lista og vil komme med noen anbefalinger basert på denne, gjerne gi beskjed.

• 1984, George Orwell (nesten ferdiglest)
• Silence in the Age of Noise, Erling Kagge
• Elantris, Brandon Sanderson
• Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson
• Utopia for Realister, Rutger Bregman
• Hva ville Gerhardsen gjort? Veien videre for Arbeiderpartiet, Mímir Kristjánsson

Bøker 2022