Hi everyone!

In the post I made the other day I talked about how I plan on taking on the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge, which contains the 339 books mentioned throughout the seven season run of Gilmore Girls. As I said in the previous post, I will not be finishing this challenge this year, and probably will not have it finished by next year either. It’s just something I want to attempt to accomplish at some point in my life. What I really hope is that it will help me broaden my reading tastes.

Below I am posting the names of the books I have read from this challenge already. Tell me in the comments below if you have read any of these books or which ones you are most looking forward to reading (even if it isn’t right this moment).

Thanks for reading!

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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Candide by Voltaire

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer

Carrie by Stephen King

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Eloise by Kay Thompson

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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

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

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Rapunzel

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Snow White and Rose Red

Stuart Little by E.B. White

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten

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

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

 

Hello everyone!

Last year I set a goal to read at least one classic a month in order to broaden my reading options, and to narrow down my TBR pile.

However, life got in the way and I ended up failing that challenge I had set for myself.

But today I have decided to set myself a new goal.

Over the past week I have been re-watching Gilmore Girls. I never watched Gilmore Girls growing up, and I never saw an episode until last year because Netflix had uploaded the entire series and I had the chance to binge-watch. I loved Lorelai and Rory’s relationship, all the quirky people who lived in Stars Hollow, season one Dean, and the bad boy bookworm that is Jess. And most of all I loved Rory’s passion for reading. The interactions between her and her grandfather where they discuss literature (and life in general) reminded me of the conversations I had with my grandfather when we would grab coffee or browse through Borders when I was growing up.

And as I am re-watching the episodes now I’ve gotten the sudden urge to read Sylvia Plath and Dorothy Parker and all these wonderful classics that I always see or hear about, and that I tell myself I will read one day, but have been too scared to try. UNTIL NOW (*cue dramatic music*).

So I’m planning on taking the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge.

This will not be completed by the end of this year, and probably not next year either. There are 339 books on that list. I don’t know how I would find time to read that much, especially with college graduation in 63 days followed by a 6-week internship over the summer. But this is a challenge I want to finish in my lifetime.

There is a website I found which I will link below that helps you check off what you already have read. So far I have made it around 45 books, which I think is a pretty good start. I’ll link a separate post that includes which ones I have read and which ones I need to get to.

The checklist is right here: http://www.listchallenges.com/rory-gilmore-reading-challenge

Go through it and tell me in the comments below how many you have already managed to check off.

Thanks for reading!

 

 

**Edit: Here is the link to the list of the books I have already read from this challenge 🙂

http://laurenecox.com/rory-gilmore-reading-challenge-checklist/