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"Rory Gilmore (a character on the WB/CW show Gilmore Girls) is an avid reader; this is a list of books, both classic and contemporary, that she might read. The list is as it was on the WB website when it was still up." from http://www.listsofbests.com/list/697
Note: This list includes the first 100. There are 20 more that can be found at the link above.
Note: This list includes the first 100. There are 20 more that can be found at the link above.
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The Great Gatsby
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Jane Eyre
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Bell Jar
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Fahrenheit 451
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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1984
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Of Mice and Men
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Brave New World
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Lord of the Flies
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Pride and Prejudice
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Sense and Sensibility
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Night
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,009,861 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Anna Karenina
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Emma
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4.05 avg rating — 969,886 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,036,774 ratings
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,452,470 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Scarlet Letter
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My Sister's Keeper
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
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Frankenstein
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3.90 avg rating — 1,834,923 ratings
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On the Road
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 1,007,622 ratings
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Death of a Salesman
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3.59 avg rating — 256,626 ratings
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Great Expectations
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The Red Tent
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Anita Diamant (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 628,638 ratings
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 559,036 ratings
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 864,820 ratings
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 225,345 ratings
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Life of Pi
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3.94 avg rating — 1,741,854 ratings
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 370,527 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.04 avg rating — 256,388 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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4.01 avg rating — 717,794 ratings
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Pygmalion
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3.89 avg rating — 109,145 ratings
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 793,942 ratings
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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3.83 avg rating — 656,035 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 775,064 ratings
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Middlesex
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4.04 avg rating — 660,991 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 710,489 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.23 avg rating — 781,196 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 610,517 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 237,764 ratings
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A Separate Peace
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3.60 avg rating — 231,019 ratings
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The Complete Stories and Poems
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4.40 avg rating — 294,071 ratings
score: 528,
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,452,438 ratings
score: 508,
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Bel Canto
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3.94 avg rating — 318,306 ratings
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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4.06 avg rating — 604,402 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 392,275 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,099,113 ratings
score: 465,
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,110,567 ratings
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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 284,066 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,056,533 ratings
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
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3.94 avg rating — 57,505 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,251,869 ratings
score: 402,
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Daughter of Fortune
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 139,544 ratings
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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4.02 avg rating — 216,187 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 484,775 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 412,619 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,463,792 ratings
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Galápagos
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3.87 avg rating — 87,955 ratings
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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3.64 avg rating — 67,659 ratings
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The Nanny Diaries (Nanny, #1)
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Emma McLaughlin (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 388,809 ratings
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Ethan Frome
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3.46 avg rating — 136,451 ratings
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
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4.09 avg rating — 503,202 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 553,261 ratings
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Dead Souls
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3.98 avg rating — 95,092 ratings
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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4.02 avg rating — 83,862 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
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3.90 avg rating — 1,387,637 ratings
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Brick Lane
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3.46 avg rating — 35,552 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 750,728 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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3.66 avg rating — 139,699 ratings
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Empire Falls
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Richard Russo (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 125,651 ratings
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The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
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The Polysyllabic Spree
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
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The Little Match Girl
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Daisy Miller
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 285,212 ratings
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Cousin Bette
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An American Tragedy
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3.97 avg rating — 38,571 ratings
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The Taming of the Shrew
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The Razor’s Edge
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Bee Season
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Myla Goldberg (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 25,481 ratings
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A Passage to India
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Rapunzel
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4.18 avg rating — 17,369 ratings
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The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol 1, 1884-1933
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4.01 avg rating — 6,744 ratings
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The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
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Robert Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 15,770 ratings
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How to Breathe Underwater
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Julie Orringer (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 6,589 ratings
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Living History
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The Art of Devotion
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Samantha Bruce-Benjamin (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Nice list. As a fictional character, she is a good reader. Her character is my model in life, as dumb as it sounds. I've got 25 books on my lists from this list (:
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