Full Rory Gilmore Reading List (518 Books)

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The Full Rory Gilmore Reading List (in Alphabetical Order)

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Absolute Rage by Robert Tanenbaum
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
5. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
6. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
7. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
8. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
9. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
10. American Steel by Richard Preston
11. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
12. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
13. The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett
14. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
15. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
16. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
17. The Apocalyptics – Cancer and the Big Lie: How Environmental Politics Controls What We Know About Cancer by Edith Efron
18. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
19. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as a History by Norman Mailer
20. The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher
21. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
22. The Art of Living by Epictetus
23. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
24. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
25. Atonement by Ian McEwan
26. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
27. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
28. Babe by Dick King-Smith
29. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
30. Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx
31. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
32. Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
33. Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
34. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
35. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
36. Beloved by Toni Morrison
37. Beowulf by Anonymous
38. The Best of Martha Stewart Living: Holidays by Martha Stewart Living
39. The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous
40. The Big Love by Sarah Dunn
41. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1200 Jews by Peter Duffy
42. Billy Budd & Other Tales by Melville
43. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
44. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
45. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
46. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
47. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
48. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
49. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
50. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
51. Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
52. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
53. The Brontes by Juliet Barker
54. Call of the Wild by Jack Longdon
55. Candide by Voltaire
56. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
57. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
58. Carrie by Stephen King
59. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
60. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
61. The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
62. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
63. Charlotte’s Web by E B White
64. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
65. Christine by Stephen King
66. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
67. Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
68. Cinderella by Brothers Grimm
69. Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
70. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
71. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
72. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
73. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
74. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
75. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
76. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
77. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
78. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
79. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
80. Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
81. Contact by Carl Sagan
82. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
83. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
84. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
85. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
86. The Crisis by David Harris
87. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
88. Cujo by Stephen King
89. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
90. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
91. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
92. David and Lisa by Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin, M.D.
93. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
94. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
95. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
96. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
97. Deenie by Judy Blume
98. Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
99. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
100. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
101. Diary of Virginia Wolf, Volumes 1,3,4,5 Edited by Anne Olivier Bell
102. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
103. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
104. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
105. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
106. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
107. Don Quixote by Cervantes
108. Downpour by Nick Holmes
109. Dracula by Bram Stoker
110. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
111. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
112. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
113. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
114. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
115. Elements by Euclid
116. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
117. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
118. Eloise at the Plaza by Kay Thompson
119. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
120. Emma by Jane Austen
121. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
122. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
123. Essentials of Economics, 3rd. Edition by Bradley R. Schiller
124. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
125. Ethics by Spinoza
126. Europe through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves
127. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
128. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
129. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
130. Extravagance by Gary Krist
131. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
132. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
133. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
134. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
135. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
136. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
137. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
138. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
139. Firewall by Lawrence Walsh
140. First Folio by William Shakespeare
141. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
142. Flavor of the Month by Olivia Goldsmith
143. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
144. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
145. Fodor’s Selected Hotels of Europe
146. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
147. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
148. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
149. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
150. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
151. Frida by Hayden Herrera
152. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
153. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
154. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
155. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
156. Gigi by Collette
157. A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
158. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
159. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
160. Glengarry Glen Ross by David Marmet
161. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
162. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
163. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
164. Goldilocks and the Three Bears/Bears Should Share! (Another Point of View) by Alvin Granowsky
165. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
166. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
167. Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards
168. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
169. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
170. The Graduate by Charles Webb
171. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
172. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
173. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
174. The Group by Mary McCarthy
175. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
176. Guys and Dolls by Damon Runyon
177. Haiku, Volume 2: Spring by R.H. Blyth
178. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
179. Harrold & the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
180. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
181. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
182. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
183. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
184. Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson
185. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
186. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
187. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
188. Henry V by William Shakespeare
189. Henry VI by William Shakespeare
190. He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
191. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
192. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
193. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
194. The History of Tom Thumb by Anonymous
195. Hockey for Dummies by  John Davidson and John Steinbreder
196. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
197. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
198. Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss
199. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
200. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
201. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
202. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
203. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
204. How the Light Gets In by M.J. Hyland
205. How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
206. The Human Factor by Graham Greene
207. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
208. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
209. The Iliad by Homer
210. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres
211. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
212. Indiana by George Sand
213. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
214. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
215. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
216. The Invitation by Oriah
217. Ironweed by William J. Kennedy
218. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
219. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
220. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
221. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
222. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
223. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
224. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
225. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
226. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
227. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony
     Bourdain
228. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
229. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D.H. Lawrence
230. Larousse Wine by David Cobbold
231. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
232. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by
     William Manchester
233. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester
234. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester
235. The Last Word by Graham Greene
236. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
237. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
238. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
239. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
240. Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
241. Letters of Edith Wharton by R.W.B. Lewis
242. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
243. The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
244. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
245. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
246. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
247. Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
248. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
249. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
250. Lisa and David by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
251. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
252. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
253. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
254. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
255. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
256. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
257. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
258. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
259. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
260. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
261. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
262. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
263. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
264. Love Story by Erich Segal
265. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
266. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
267. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
268. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
269. Marathon Man by William Goldman
270. Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers and Mary Shepard
271. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
272. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton
273. Matisse the Master: A Life of Mattise by Hilary Spurling
274. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
275. The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
276. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
277. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
278. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray, Ph.D.
279. A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
280. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
281. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
282. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
283. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
284. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
285. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
286. Misery by Stephen King
287. Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
288. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
289. The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time by Jim Irvin
290. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
291. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
292. Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
293. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
294. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
295. A Month of Sundays: Searching for The Spirit and My Sister by Julie Mars
296. Motley Crue by Seamus Craic
297. The Mourning Bride by William Congreve
298. A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
299. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
300. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
301. My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
302. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
303. My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken
304. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
305. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe by Myra Waldo
306. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
307. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
308. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
309. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
310. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
311. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
312. Nancy Drew and The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene
313. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
314. Native Son by Richard Wright
315. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon
316. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
317. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
318. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
319. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
320. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
321. Night by Elie Wiesel
322. No Man is an Island by John Donne
323. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
324. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, et al.
325. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
326. Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic
     Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
327. November of the Heart by LaVyrle Spenser
328. The Odyssey by Homer
329. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
330. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
331. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
332. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
333. Old School by Tobias Wolff
334. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
335. On the Contrary by Mary McCarthy
336. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
337. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
338. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
339. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
340. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
341. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
342. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
343. Orations by American Orators
344. The Orestia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides by W.B. Stanford
345. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
346. Othello by William Shakespeare
347. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
348. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
349. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
350. Out of Africa by Isak Dineson
351. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
352. The Oxford Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
353. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
354. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
355. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
356. The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth M. Pollack
357. Personal History by Katherine Graham
358. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
359. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
360. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
361. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
362. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and
     Gillian McCain
363. Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch
364. Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson
365. Points of View by W. Somerset Maugham
366. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
367. Pomeranian: An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet by Happeth A. Jones
368. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
369. The Portable Nietzsche by Fredrich Nietzsche
370. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
371. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
372. Primary Colors by Joe Klein
373. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
374. Property by Valerie Martin
375. The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe
376. Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution by Stephen Colegrave and Chris Sullivan
377. The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford
378. Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
379. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
380. Quattrocento by James McKean
381. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
382. Quiller Bamboo by Adam Hall
383. Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm
384. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
385. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
386. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
387. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
388. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
389. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
390. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
391. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
392. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
393. Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem
394. Richard III by William Shakespeare
395. R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
396. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
397. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
398. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
399. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
400. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
401. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
402. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
403. The Rough Guide to Europe by Various Authors
404. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
405. Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
406. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
407. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
408. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
409. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
410. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
411. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
412. Schindler’s List  by Thomas Keneally
413. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
414. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
415. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
416. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
417. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
418. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
419. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
420. Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
421. Sexus by Henry Miller
422. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
423. Shane by Jack Shaefer
424. Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
425. The Shining by Stephen King
426. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
427. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
428. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
429. The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
430. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
431. Sleeping Beauty by The Brothers Grimm
432. Small Island by Andrea Levy
433. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
434. Snow White and Rose Red by the Brothers Grimm
435. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
436. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
437. Songbook by Nick Hornby
438. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
439. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
440. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
441. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
442. Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
443. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
444. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
445. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
446. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
447. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
448. Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service
449. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
450. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
451. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
452. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
453. Story of O by Pauline Reage
454. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
455. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
456. Stuart Little by E.B. White
457. Summer of Fear by T. Jefferson Parker
458. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
459. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
460. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
461. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
462. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
463. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
464. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
465. Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
466. Tevya The Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem
467. Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
468. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
469. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
470. Thunder by James Grady
471. Time and Again by Jack Finney
472. Timeline by Michael Crichton
473. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
474. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
475. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
476. The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac
477. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
478. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
479. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
480. The Trial by Franz Kafka
481. Trouble in Our Backyard: Central America and the United States in the Eighties by Martin Diskin
482. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
483. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
484. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
485. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
486. Ulysses by James Joyce
487. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
488. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
489. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
490. Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
491. Unless by Carol Shields
492. U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis by David Patrick Houghton
493. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
494. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
495. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
496. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (33 1/3 Book 11) by Joe Harvard
497. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
498. Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
499. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
500. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
501. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
502. We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker
503. What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
504. What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
505. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
506. When Everything Changed by Gail Collins
507. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
508. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
509. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory
     Maguire
510. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
511. The Wine Bible by Karen MacNeil
512. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
513. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
514. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
515. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
516. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
517. Yoga for Dummies by Georg Feuerstein and Larry Payne
518. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantakis

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