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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.
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Holidays on Ice
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3.89 avg rating — 130,099 ratings
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Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
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Gloria Feldt (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 293 ratings
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| 104 |
Eva Luna
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 295,438 ratings
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The Fountainhead
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The Namesake
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Autobiography of a Face
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| 110 |
The Portable Dorothy Parker
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| 111 |
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 990,615 ratings
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A Long Way Down
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| 113 |
High Fidelity
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3.90 avg rating — 213,935 ratings
score: 161,
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| 114 |
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 821,380 ratings
score: 157,
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Demons
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 167,913 ratings
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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4.17 avg rating — 3,046 ratings
score: 147,
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The Jungle
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3.78 avg rating — 153,686 ratings
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| 119 |
Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
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3.48 avg rating — 2,817 ratings
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| 120 |
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 195,060 ratings
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| 121 |
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister
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3.60 avg rating — 578 ratings
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| 122 |
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 8,707 ratings
score: 133,
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| 123 |
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature
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3.60 avg rating — 379 ratings
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The Collected Stories
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4.20 avg rating — 8,296 ratings
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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4.08 avg rating — 11,281 ratings
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| 126 |
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,503,062 ratings
score: 113,
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| 126 |
Howl and Other Poems
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| 128 |
The Velvet Underground and Nico
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3.72 avg rating — 1,163 ratings
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| 129 |
The Nietzsche Reader
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4.25 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Charlotte’s Web
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4.21 avg rating — 2,023,007 ratings
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The Reader
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| 132 |
Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1)
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| 132 |
Liliana (Liliana, #1)
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Neva Squires-Rodriguez (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 110 ratings
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| 132 |
The Holy Barbarians
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3.65 avg rating — 624 ratings
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| 135 |
The Trouble with Playing Cupid (Cupid, #1)
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Tamara Philip (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 88 ratings
score: 99,
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| 136 |
Four Quartets
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4.37 avg rating — 19,669 ratings
score: 95,
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Sons and Lovers
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3.64 avg rating — 55,561 ratings
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| 138 |
Dawn Powell: Novels 1944–1962
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4.13 avg rating — 139 ratings
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| 139 |
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad
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3.58 avg rating — 1,390 ratings
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| 139 |
The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 562,117 ratings
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| 139 |
Roman Fever and Other Stories
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4.10 avg rating — 2,050 ratings
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Small Island
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4.01 avg rating — 37,626 ratings
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| 143 |
Extravagance
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Gary Krist (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 826 ratings
score: 68,
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| 143 |
The Song Reader
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Lisa Tucker (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 2,475 ratings
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The Fortress of Solitude
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3.84 avg rating — 24,115 ratings
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Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night / Come Back to Sorrento / Turn, Magic Wheel / Angels on Toast / A Time to Be Born
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3.74 avg rating — 410 ratings
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 321,821 ratings
score: 59,
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Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
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4.04 avg rating — 336,401 ratings
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| 149 |
How the Light Gets In
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3.42 avg rating — 4,088 ratings
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn l Summary & Study Guide
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3.93 avg rating — 117 ratings
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| 151 |
Just A Couple Of Days
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Tony Vigorito (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
score: 49,
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| 152 |
The Best Way to Play
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3.48 avg rating — 452 ratings
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| 153 |
The Meaning of Consuelo
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3.61 avg rating — 811 ratings
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| 154 |
Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 208,320 ratings
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| 155 |
My Life in Orange
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Sybil
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3.99 avg rating — 90,660 ratings
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Pinocchio
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| 158 |
Who Moved My Cheese?
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3.87 avg rating — 506,825 ratings
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| 159 |
Favorite Tales of Sholom Aleichem
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4.25 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 1,179,694 ratings
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Old School
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3.84 avg rating — 13,883 ratings
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Oracle Night
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3.81 avg rating — 17,663 ratings
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| 163 |
Property
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Valerie Martin (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 5,878 ratings
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In Praise of the Stepmother
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3.43 avg rating — 10,014 ratings
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| 165 |
V for Vendetta
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 323,300 ratings
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Quattrocento
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James N. McKean (Goodreads Author)
3.26 avg rating — 672 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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A Quiet Storm
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Rachel Howzell Hall (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 650 ratings
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Sacred Time
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
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Vincent B. Leitch (Editor)
4.14 avg rating — 2,128 ratings
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
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Ironweed
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The Song of Names
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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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