I used to watch Gilmore Girls reruns as a kid, but never watched the full series in order. Last year, during my freshman year of college, my binge-watching habit led me to watching the full series in order. I have yet to see the new rendition because...college. First night of winter break it's just me and the Gilmore girls.

Rory Gilmore is goals on every level. She is smart, ambitious, independent, funny, and beautiful. I have always admired her for many reason. I also envied her for reading more books than me. I recently came across the "Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge" on Pinterest. I have no idea who started the challenge, but that individual is brilliant. I found the full list of books Rory has read or has mentioned in the series. You can print out a check list here.

I have only read about 20 of the 338 books on the list. For clarification, I have read more than 20 books in my lifetime. As an English major, I'm insecure about the fact that I've only read 20 of the same books as Rory. That's about to change though. My new goal is to catch up to Rory.

I give you, the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

9. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

13. Atonement by Ian McEwan

14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

16. Babe by Dick King-Smith

17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

21. Beloved by Toni Morrison

22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

23. The Bhagavad Gita

24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built aVillage in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali

29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

30. Candide by Voltaire

31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

32. Carrie by Stephen King

33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman

37. Christine by Stephen King

38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

41. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père

48. Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac

49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

52. Cujo by Stephen King

53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

57. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

61. Deenie by Judy Blume

62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that ChangedAmerica by Erik Larson

63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee

64. The Divine Comedy by Dante

65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

66. Don Quixote by Cervantes

67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

73. Eloise by Kay Thompson

74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

75. Emma by Jane Austen

76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

79. Ethics by Spinoza

80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

83. Extravagance by Gary Krist

84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

89. The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R.Tolkien

90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald

94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

102.George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

111. The Graduate by Charles Webb

112. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

113. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

114. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

115. The Group by Mary McCarthy

116. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

117. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

118. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

119. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

120. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

121. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and

Curt Gentry

122. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

123. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

124. Henry V by William Shakespeare

125. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

126. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

127. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

128. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

129. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

130. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

131. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

132. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

133. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland

134. Howl by Allen Gingsburg

135. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

136. The Iliad by Homer

137. I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres

138. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

139. Inferno by Dante

140. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

141. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

142. It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton

143. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

144. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

145. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

146. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

147. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

148. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

149. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

150. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

151. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

152. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence

153. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

154. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

155. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

156. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

157. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

158. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

159. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

160. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

161. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

162. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

163. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

164. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

165. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

166. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

167. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

168. The Love Story by Erich Segal

169. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

170. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

171. The Manticore by Robertson Davies

172. Marathon Man by William Goldman

173. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

174. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

175. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

176. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

177. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

178. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

179. The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare

180. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

181. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

182. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

183. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

184. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

185. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

186. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

187. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

188. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

189. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

190. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

191. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

192. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

193. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

194. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

195. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

196. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

197. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

198. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

199. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

200. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

201. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

202. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

203. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

204. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

205. Night by Elie Wiesel

206. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

207. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke,

Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan

208. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic

Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

209. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

210. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

211. Old School by Tobias Wolff

212. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

213. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

214. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

215. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

216. Oracle Night by Paul Auster

217. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

218. Othello by Shakespeare*

219. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

220. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

221. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

222. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

223. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

224. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

225. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

226. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

227. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

228. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

229. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

230. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian

McCain

231. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

232. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

233. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

234. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of

Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind

235. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

236. Property by Valerie Martin

237. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

238. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

239. Quattrocento by James Mckean

240. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

241. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

242. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

243. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

244. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

245. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

246. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

247. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

248. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

249. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien

250. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

251. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

252. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert

253. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

254. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

255. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

256. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

257. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin*

258. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

259. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

260. Sanctuary by William Faulkner

261. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

262. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

263. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

264. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

265. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

266. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

267. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

268. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

269. Selected Hotels of Europe

270. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell

271. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

272. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

273. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

274. Sexus by Henry Miller

275. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

276. Shane by Jack Shaefer

277. The Shining by Stephen King

278. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

279. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

280. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

281. Small Island by Andrea Levy

282. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

283. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

284. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of

the Modern World by Barrington Moore

285. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

286. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de

Burgos

287. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

288. Songbook by Nick Hornby

289. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

290. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

291. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

292. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

293. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

294. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

295. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

296. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

297. Stuart Little by E. B. White

298. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

299. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

300. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne

Collett

301. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

302. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

303. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

304. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

305. Time and Again by Jack Finney

306. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

307. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

308. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee narrated by actress Sissy Spacek

309. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

310. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

311. The Trial by Franz Kafka

312. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

313. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

314. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

315. Ulysses by James Joyce

316. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

317. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

318. Unless by Carol Shields

319. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

320. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

321. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

322. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third

series) by Joe Harvard

323. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

324. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

325. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

326. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten

327. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

328. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel

Sinker

329. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

330. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

331. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

332. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

333. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

334. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

335. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

336. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

337. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

338. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

What a list. I better start like 10 years ago.