The Spoonie Mummy

I have seen this challenge going around on different blogs and social media platforms and had to give it a go! I am a huge Gilmore Girls fan and Autumn is the perfect season for a re-watch! If you haven’t already it is on Netflix, get a cuppa and snuggle up for a binge!

If you have seen it you will know Rory is a bookworm and all the books below are those she reads or mentions in the series. The challenge is to see how many there are that you have read and the list is loooong so let’s get started! A quick mention to Tailored Book Recommendations where I got this list from!

Read more: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

1. 1984 by George Orwell – no but I really need to!
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain – yes, as a child
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain – yes, again as a child
4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – yes
5. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward – no
6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon – no
7. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser – no
8. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie – no
9. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt – no but I want to
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – no
11. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank – yes, one of my all time favorite books
12. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan – no
13. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as a History by Norman Mailer – no
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 – I have watched the film but never read the book
19. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
20. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
21. Babe by Dick King-Smith – a.k.a. The Sheep Pig pre-movie!
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 – no but want to
27. Beloved by Toni Morrison
28. Beowulf – hated it
29. The Bhagavad Gita 
30. 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
31. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel – on my TBR
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. Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
36. Candide by Voltaire – yes, for study
37. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
38. Carrie by Stephen King
39. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
40. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
41. The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
42. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White – yes, many times!
43. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
44. Christine by Stephen King
45. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – yes
46. Cinderella by Brothers Grimm – yes
47. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
48. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
49. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
50. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
51. The Compact Oxford English Dictionary not cover to cover, but have used on many occasions!
52. The Complete Novels of Dawn Powell
53. The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton – poetry isn’t really my thing
54. The Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
55. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
56. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
57. Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
58. Contact by Carl Sagan
59. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
60. Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
61. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
62. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
63. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
64. Cujo by Stephen King
65. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon yes, great red
66. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
67. Daisy Miller by Henry James
68. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
69. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
70. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown – I really enjoyed the whole series
71. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
72. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller – yes and seen it on stage
73. Deenie by Judy Blume – loved all her books!
74. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
75. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
76. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, and Nikki Sixx
77. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 
78. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells – yes
79. Don Quixote by Cervantes
80. Dracula by Bram Stoker
81. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
82. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
83. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
84. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
85. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
86. Eloise at the Plaza by Kay Thompson
87. Emily the Strange by Rob Reger
88. Emma by Jane Austen – yes and watched various adaptations
89. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
90. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
91. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
92. Ethics by Spinoza
93. Europe through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves
94. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
95. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
96. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
97. Extravagance by Gary Krist
98. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
99. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore – yes
100. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
101. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
102. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
103. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien – yes and I didn’t enjoy
104. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
105. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
106. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
107. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
108. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
109. Fodor’s Selected Hotels of Europe
110. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
111. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
112. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley – yes for GCSE
113. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
114. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers – is this what the Lindsey Lohan movie is based on?!
115. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
116. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
117. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
118. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
119. A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
120. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen – loved the movie, book is on my TBR
121. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
122. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
123. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
124. Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Bears Should Share! by Alvin Granowsky – yes
125. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
126. Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards
127. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
128. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
129. The Graduate by Charles Webb
130. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – on my TBR
131. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens – yes
132. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
133. The Group by Mary McCarthy
134. Haiku, Volume 2: Spring by R.H. Blyth
135. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
136. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling – yes
137. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling I have read them all
138. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
139. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
140. Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson
141. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
142. Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare
143. Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare
144. Henry V by William Shakespeare
145. Henry VI by William Shakespeare
146. He’s Just Not That into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo – love the movie
147. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
148. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
149. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
150. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
151. Horton Hears A Who! by Dr. Seuss – my youngest was a huge Dr Seuss fan so we have read many of his, many times!
152. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
153. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
154. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
155. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
156. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss – yes
157. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
158. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
159. I Feel Bad about My Neck by Nora Ephron
160. The Iliad by Homer
161. I’m with the Band by Pamela Des Barres
162. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
163. Indiana by George Sand
164. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri 
165. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
166. Ironweed by William Kennedy
167. It Takes A Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
168. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë – another fave
169. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
170. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
171. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
172. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton – great movie
173. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
174. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
175. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
176. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
177. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
178. The Last Empire: Essays 1992–2000 by Gore Vidal
179. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932 by William Manchester
180. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II: Alone, 1932–1940 by William Manchester
181. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III: Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965 by William Manchester
182. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
183. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
184. Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
185. Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
186. Letters of Edith Wharton by R. W. B. Lewis 
187. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
188. The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
189. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
190. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
191. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
192. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
193. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis – read the whole series
194. Lisa and David by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
195. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
196. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
197. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
198. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen – one of my favourites as a child, even though it is really sad!
199. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott – my favourite book!
200. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
201. Lord of the Flies by William Golding – another on my TBR
202. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
203. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold – great book and good film adaptation
204. Love Story by Erich Segal
205. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
206. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert – yes for study
207. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
208. Marathon Man by William Goldman
209. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
210. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
211. Memoirs of A Dutiful Daughter by Simone De Beauvoir
212. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
213. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray
214. A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
215. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
216. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
217. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
218. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
219. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare – yes
220. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
221. Misery by Stephen King – have seen the film
222. Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
223. Moby Dick by Herman Melville – yes
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 Céleste 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 Movable 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 Its 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 – yes and another good film
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 – yes
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 edited by Jeffrey J. Williams, et al.
255. Notes of A Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
256. Novels, 1930–1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell
257. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
258. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – great book
259. Old School by Tobias Wolff
260. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens – yes and seen it on stage
261. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
262. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
263. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
264. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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 William Shakespeare – yes
269. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
270. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
271. Out of Africa by Isak Dineson
272. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton – my other favourite book
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 Nietzsche by Fredrich Nietzsche 
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 – yes
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: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford
290. Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
291. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw – yes
292. Quattrocento by James McKean
293. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
294. Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm – yes
295. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
296. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
297. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
298. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
299. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
300. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
301. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
302. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
303. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
304. Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem
305. Richard III by William Shakespeare
306. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
307. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
308. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
309. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
310. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare – i love it
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
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. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
320. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
321. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
322. The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
323. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
324. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
325. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913–1965 by Dawn Powell
326. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen – yes
327. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
328. Sexus by Henry Miller
329. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
330. Shane by Jack Shaefer
331. The Shining by Stephen King
332. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
333. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
334. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
335. Small Island by Andrea Levy
336. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
337. Snow White and Rose Red by Brothers Grimm – yes
338. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
339. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
340. Songbook by Nick Hornby
341. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin – on the TBR as a huge fan of Game of Thrones
342. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
343. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
344. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos
345. “Sonnet 43” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
346. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
347. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
348. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron – on the TBR
349. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
350. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
351. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
352. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
353. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller – feel like I read this when I was younger but might do this one again!
354. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
355. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
356. Stuart Little by E.B. White
357. Summer of Fear by T. Jefferson Parker
358. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
359. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
360. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collet
361. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
362. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens – started and did not finish
363. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
364. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
365. Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
366. Tevya the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem
367. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy 
368. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
369. Time and Again by Jack Finney
370. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – yes and need to watch the movie ow
371. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
372. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – on my TBR
373. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh – great film, book on my TBR
374. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
375. The Trial by Franz Kafka
376. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
377. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
378. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
379. Ulysses by James Joyce
380. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
381. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
382. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
383. Unless by Carol Shields
384. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
385. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyer
386. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
387. Velvet Underground’s the Velvet Underground and Nico (33 1/3 Book 11) by Joe Harvard
388. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides – on my TBR
389. Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
390. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
391. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
392. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
393. We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker
394. What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
395. What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrel
396. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
397. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
398. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
399. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire – on my TBR
400. Wild by Cheryl Strayed – yes
401. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
402. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum – yes
403. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë – on mu TBR
404. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
405. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
406. Yoga for Dummies by Georg Feuerstein and Larry Payne 

I make that a round 50 that I have read! I don’t think that is bad at all! I would love to hear how you do with this challenge – let me know in the comments or tag me in your own blog and social media posts so I se them!

Take care and cozy reading,