Desafío 2012: La lista de libros de Rory Gilmore

Me adhiero a la iniciativa de La lectora omnivora para dedicar este año a la lista de lectura de Rory Gilmore. Yo también fui una gran fanática de la serie Gilmore Girls y la he visto en todas sus repeticiones, así que este reto me parece de lo más simpático. 

«Para los que no conocen la serie, Rory es una adolescente hiper lectora, y en los diálogos entre madre e hija o con sus amigas o novios o lo que sea, siempre hay referencias a los libros que está leyendo o que leyó.

Aunque la actriz, Alexis Bledel, ha confesado que la mayor parte de las veces no tenía idea de qué era lo que estaba diciendo, (recitaba el guión), creo que la lista de lectura elaborada en base a las siete brillantes temporadas de la serie a ustedes sí que les resultará familiar y atractiva.

Lo bueno es que hay miles de clásicos y libros "obligatorios", asi que seguro que todos arrancamos el desafío con unos cuantos ya leídos».

Acontinuación dejo la lista de libros y señalo en guinda los libros que ya leí. ¡Hasta la próxima lectura!

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