Thursday, May 25, 2006

And I think I'm well-read

So for comparison's sake, let's see the Gilmore Girls' reading list (via gilmoregirls.org):

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Shining by Stephen King
Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
Emma by Jane Austen
Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Group by Mary McCarthy
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Ulysses by James Joyce
Swimming With Giants by Anne Collet
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Last Empire Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Maybe Rory has read all of these, but I can at least pretend I have.

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