"How can you read this? There's no pictures!" --The Rory Gilmore Reading List |
| Rory, it's something about your face. And the fact that you had sex with Pete Campbell |
So, I came across this post this morning: http://bookreviews.me.uk/rory-gilmore-reading-challenge/
A list of books Rory Gilmore has read. I have this complicated relationship with Gilmore Girls (I like it, but don't like anyone on it, and I hate the fact that I like it. Also, it really went downhill starting college), and they all have resurfaced with Amy Sherman-Palladino's show Bunheads (which I adore so far, uncomplicatedly). Rory, to me, was unbearable. Too in love with her own intelligence, too mousy, too much a Mary Sue. But after looking at this list, I have to say "Damn, girl." Since the show ended with her at roughly age 22 (I'm guessing), I decided to do a compare/contrast-- me at 22 vs. the insufferable Rory
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – read sometime in middle school
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon-- tried in high school. it's like a million pages long. and comic books, not my thing
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy-- read in high school. I had a v. long depressing 19th cent. Russian lit phase
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank-- read middle school
Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
The Art of Fiction by Henry James-- read (partially) in college for Am. Lit
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner-- read for Honors English junior year of high school. It went completely over my head
Atonement by Ian McEwan-- read. bc of James McAvoy
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Babe by Dick King-Smith
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie-- read during a gap year in college.
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – read in high school. God, my teen angst.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney-- college Brit Lit 1 sucks
The Bhagava Gita
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
Candide by Voltaire – read in between college and high school, but nothing was retained.
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer-- again, Brit Lit 1 sucks
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger – read once in high school. Hated it. Read it again this past year bc I felt I was unfair in high school, and hated it even more.
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White-- back when I wanted to be a precocious 9 year old.
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
Christine by Stephen King
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – read... refer back to Charlotte's Web
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse-- I adore PG Wodehouse.
The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare-- fun story. I was in this in middle school as one of the male leads. It's a play about male twins. I'm a Filipino girl. My "twin" was a ginger haired boy. It was...lame.
Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker-- she is to blame for a lot of my college sophomore year's alcohol mistakes
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père-- read in high school. This is a wonderfully fun book
Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky-- refer back to Anna Karenina. Also, Raskolnikov and his best friend are hella studly.
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber – started and not finished
The Crucible by Arthur Miller-- read in high school
Cujo by Stephen King
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon – read – 2009
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown – read
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller-- high school again
Deenie by Judy Blume
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx--- this is a reminder. My sister was supposed to loan me her copy a year ago, and she still hasn't gotten around to it. Come on, dude. It's never at the library.
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells---ugh. Hated.
Don Quijote by Cervantes
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - read – 2009
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
Eloise by Kay Thompson-- she was a demon child
Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
Emma by Jane Austen – read. Emma/Cher Horowitz from Clueless were my idols from about 10 years old on
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol-- in elementary school, and forever after since then. He is a baller.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton-- my god, my Edith Wharton phase lasted so much longer than even my 19th Cent. Russian lit one
Ethics by Spinoza
Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extravagance by Gary Krist
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – in middle school.
Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien – read, as well as the other 2. UGH the time you wasted, high school nerd.
Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom – read
Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
Fletch by Gregory McDonald
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand- in high school. Did not win me over
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger--- only slightly more tolerable than Catcher in the Rye
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers-- in elementary school. Can't think why, b/c it was before the Lindsay Lohan movie
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy – started and not finished
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky-- Goldilocks was an idiot.
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – IT"S SOO LONG
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck-- that stupid turtle crossing the road chapter. No thanks high school required reading.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Obviously. many many times from middle school on.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens-- Pip is a chump.
The Group by Mary McCarthy-- reading currently and it is excellent. Huge thumbs up for this.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare-- AP English 12
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling – my favorite one!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling – This was required reading for me in 4th grade. It seems so random.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers-- navel-gazing college times.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad-- AP English 12, again.
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry (TBR)
Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare-- one of many college Shakespeare courses
Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare--see above
Henry V by William Shakespeare--see above
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby-- LOVE. HUH.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr)
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende-- in college. I remember nothing about this book.
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss-- well, I am pretty sure, although I've def. seen the Boris Karloff narrated cartoon enough times that it should count.
How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
Howl by Allen Gingsburg-- another fun fact/hugely embarrassing story. I went through a phase in high school where I wore a beret and leather pencil skirt ALL THE TIME> what the hell was I/my parents thinking?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo-- Victor Hugo needs to learn about the value of brevity.
The Iliad by Homer-- went with my best friend and her parents to see Troy bc we were obsessed with Orlando Bloom. Her dad (rightfully) railed against the movie and talked about how it failed The Iliad. He was right.
I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote-- had to for some college class or another.
Inferno by Dante-- did it in college solely bc I found out it had a character with my name suffering in hell.
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë – devoured. From high school on.
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare-- for high school class again. We also watched a version with Charleton Heston, and it had one of the most homoerotic scenes ever-- in a bathhouse.
The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence-- in college. This really doesn't hold up well.
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman-- for a class in college
The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke-- lord, save me. I did. In college.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens-- like all Dickens things, the BBC adaptation is better.
The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen-- Holy super depressing story, Hans! What went wrong in your life?
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott – in elementary school. I'm one of 4 sisters, it seemed necessary.
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding-- for 9th grade. Again, does not hold up well.
The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold – disturbing. Read in college
The Love Story by Erich Segal--Save me. This sucks.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare – For high school? (I think?)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert-- Read in college. Introduced the idea of ennui to me, which I am running with.
The Manticore by Robertson Davies
Marathon Man by William Goldman-- I have borrowed this from the library a dozen times, bc I love The Princess Bride novel. Never read it though, b/c I am terrified of dentists, and this probably won't help.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris-- Read this today. It's hilarious.
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken
The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare-- F You Falstaff. Read for a college Shakespeare course, and very much hated.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka-- meh.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway-- read since I was 22, and also loved absolutely. Read this as a companion piece to the movie Midnight in Paris. You will so have the hots for Hemingway. (or a bro-crush)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf-- helped a friend write a term paper about this without reading it. Hope you didn't fail that, homes! (but I read it shortly after)
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult – SIDENOTE: Rory reads some not great stuff. It's endearing.
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin-- See? Rory reads some nonsense chick lit, just like the rest of us.
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson-- read in high school. My high school best friend was like a combination of Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, and Sylvia Plath. It was a terrifying experience.
The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Night by Elie Wiesel-- for a high school class
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen – I've read all of Jane Austen. This was... not her best.
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan-- quite obviously for a college course, b/c why else would I?
Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck-- required reading for high school.
Old School by Tobias Wolff
On the Road by Jack Kerouac-- I suspect you have to be at a certain point in your life/ mindset to like this book. I never have been. I keep trying to see if I hit it at some point.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey-- meh
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez-- an all-time favorite. I could drown in Garcia Marquez's words, they are so rich and beautiful
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Othello by Shakespeare – Desdemona is a chump.
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster-- if you are going to read an overwrought EM Forster book, save time and read A Room with a View. At least it's swoony, and the movie is awesome.
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky-- average feelings about the book, but I do want to see that movie.
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde-- Is it bad that I think Dorian's punishment is way harsh?
Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi-- Ho letto il libro in classe di italiano.
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby – read in college. Have a big thing for Nick Hornby.
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker-- in college.
The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – read in middle school and many times since. Bc I'm a living breathing girl in the English speaking world.
Property by Valerie Martin
Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw-- I loved My Fair Lady.
Quattrocento by James Mckean
A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers – read a huge collection of Grimm tales in elementary school. It may have warped my mind
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe-- I am not a Poe girl.
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham-- and yet another moody romance.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier – read. Loved.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR) – read in high school. Why did I do this to myself?
R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert-- I was in a sorority in college, and the parliamentary rules of order kind of fascinated me.
Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton-- I'm 90% sure that the list conflated Roman Fever by Wharton and Roman Holiday by Upton Sinclair. I read Roman Fever.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare-- this got better and better since the first time I read it. 11 year old me thought they both were idiots.
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf-- ohhh moody wannabe writer college me.
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster-- "Here is where the bird sings!" love this movie and book (to a lesser degree)
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne – read
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd – in high school, I think. My mother loved this and insisted I read it.
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
Selected Hotels of Europe
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen – read. Oh foolish Marianne.
A Separate Peace by John Knowles-- for a high school class. Very fond memories of this one.
Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
Sexus by Henry Miller
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shane by Jack Shaefer
The Shining by Stephen King
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse-- love Herman Hesse. My dad told me (when he saw me reading this) that it's a sin for you to not love Herman Hesse when you are early 20s, and you absolutely outgrow him once you get to the real world.
S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut-- Apparently not liking Vonnegut is some sort of crime against youth, but I'll be honest-- I hate Vonnegut
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers – read in elementary school. This was my favorite for a long time. I think bc one of them falls in love with a bear.
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
Songbook by Nick Hornby
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare-- love love love (most)
Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning-- love love love (most) (again)
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov-- SIDENOTE: did Rory really not read Lolita? Was that too creepy, considering how she dressed like a schoolgirl, and older guys IRL thought she was hot?
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams-- Oh, drama camp. Also, Vivian Leigh really acts this to the back row in the movie. Settle down your crazy eyes, lady.
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway--- loved, love, will love. It just keeps getting better
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust-- at the height of my pretension (thus far)
Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens-- I do not love Dickens, but I think this is the most romantic story (not book, mind) ever. Why are all of Dickens' women so insipid, and why did no one realize how studly Sidney Carton is?
Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald-- my love of Fitzgerald is as boundless as the sea.
Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – read and resented. in college.
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – read and loved by middle school me.
The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith-- read and loved in middle school. I don't remember anything about it except I cried a lot.
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unless by Carol Shields
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray – read. Becky Sharp is like 19th cent. Blair Waldorf, which means she gets super punished for it.
Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides-- this is tragic and wonderful, and again needs to be read by a certain time.
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Walden by Henry David Thoreau-- My Dickinson/Bronte/Plath friend? She was obsessed with Thoreau. I thought (think) he was kind of a tool who couldn't compare to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy-- not as good as Anna Karenina and feels 3 times as long.
We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson-- babysitting.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee – read
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum-- in elementary school. The book is trippy, man.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë-- why do people think this is so romantic?
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
