Paseando por la blogosfera me encontré con este desafío y me apunto. (Aunque creo que lo extenderé más allá del 2012, Dios mediante)
Se trata de leer libros que estén en la lista de todos los mencionados por Rory a lo largo de las siete temporadas de Las Chicas Gilmore. Son muchísimos y no hay intención de leerlos todos; ir leyendo conforme se va pudiendo y conforme va apeteciendo, porque el surtido es variado.
Ahí va la lista:
1984 – George Orwell
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
Mencken Chrestomathy – H.L. Mencken
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister – Julie Mars
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
A Quiet Storm: A Novel – Rachel Howzell Hall
A Room of One’s Own (Un cuarto propio) – Virginia Woolf
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Un árbol crece en Brooklyn)– Betty Smith
American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
Atonement: A Novel (Expiación) – Ian McEwan
Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel– Dai Sijie
Bee Season: A Novel – Myla Goldberg
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Beowulf
Brave New World (Un mundo Feliz) – Aldous Huxley
Brick Lane – Monica Ali
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty – Eudora Welty
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
Cousin Bette – Honoré de Balzac
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Daisy Miller – Henry James
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Dead Souls (Almas muertas)– Nikolai Gogol
Death of a Salesman (La muerte de un viajante) – Arthur Miller
Demons – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Eleanor Roosevelt – Blanche Wiesen Cook
Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable – Mark Dunn
Emma – Jane Austen
Empire Falls – Richard Russo
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Extravagance: A Novel – Gary Krist
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World – Greg Critser
Finnegan Awakes – James Joyce
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness (El corazón de las tinieblas) – Joseph Conrad
Holidays on Ice: Stories – David Sedaris
How the Light Gets In – M. J. Hyland
How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer
Howl – Allen Ginsberg
Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Just a Couple of Days – Tony Vigorito
Leaves of Grass (Hojas de hierba) – Walt Witman
Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Living History – Hillary Rodham Clinton
Lord of the Flies (El señor de las moscas) – William Golding
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Memorias de una joven formal)– Simone de Beauvoir
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
Monsieur Proust – Celeste Albaret
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath – Seymour M. Hersh
My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru – Tim Guest
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature – Jan Lars Jensen
New Poems of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson
Night – Elie Wiesel
Dawn Powell: Novels 1930-1942 – Dawn Powell
Old School – Tobias Wolff
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Oracle Night – Paul Auster
Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
Othello – William Shakespeare
Out of Africa (Memorias de Africa)– Isak Dinesen
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk – Legs McNeil
Property – Valerie Martin
Pushkin: A Biography – T.J. Binyon
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
Quattrocento – James Mckean
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books – Azar Nafisi
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad – Virginia Holman
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
Rosemary’s Baby (El bebé de Rosemary) – Ira Levin
Sacred Time – Ursula Hegi
Sanctuary – William Faulkner
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay – Nancy Milford
Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Small Island – Andrea Levy
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories – Ernest Hemingway
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos – Julia de Burgos
Songbook – Nick Hornby
Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabokov
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
Swimming With Giants: My Encounters With Whales, Dolphins, and Seals – Anne Collett
Sybil – Flora Rheta Schreiber
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Tender Is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews – Peter Duffy
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Code of the Woosters – P.G. Wodehouse
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche) – Mark Haddon
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America – Erik Larson
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathan Lethem
The Fountainhead (El Manantial)– Ayn Rand
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Great Gatsby (El gran Gatsby) – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Group – Mary McCarthy
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Holy Barbarians – Lawrence Lipton
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar – Robert Alexander
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 – Gore Vidal
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
The Little Locksmith: A Memoir – Katharine Butler Hathaway
The Lottery: And Other Stories – Shirley Jackson
The Manticore – Robertson Davies
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
The Meaning of Consuelo – Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
The Name of the Rose (El nombre de la rosa) – Umberto Eco
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin
The Opposite of Fate – Amy Tan
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
The Portable Dorothy Parker – Dorothy Parker
The Portable Nietzsche
The Razor’s Edge – W. Somerset Maugham
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
The Scarecrow of Oz – L. Frank Baum
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Second Sex – Simone De Beauvoir
The Secret Life of Bees -Sue Kidd
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Song of Names – Norman Lebrecht
The Song Reader – Lisa Tucker
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
The Story of My Life – Helen Keller
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters – Elisabeth Robinson
Unabridged Journals – Sylvia Plath
The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
Time and Again – Jack Finney
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship – Ann Patchett
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unless – Carol Shields
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
When the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Edward Albee
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire
En un banner lateral iré apuntando los que ya están leídos (algunos a día de hoy) y no vale "vi la peli".