Rory Gilmore Reading List

Rory Gilmore reading list based on books that Rory is seen holding or reading throughout the series. Books that we do not own and may be requested via interlibrary loan: Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion by Henry Miller; Northranger Abbey by Jane Austen; Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman; The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton; In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust; Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke; Europe Through the Back Door by Rick Stevens; Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir; The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia by Sylvia Plath; Summer of Fear by T Jefferson Parker; Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare; Chikara by Robert Skimin; Personal History: A Memoir by Katharine Graham.

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The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim. This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite. . . of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy. . . and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged...
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James Joyce's novel Ulysses is said to be one of the most important works in Modernist literature. It details Leopold Bloom's passage through Dublin on an ordinary day: June 16, 1904. Causing controversy, obscenity trials and heated debates, Ulysses is a pioneering work that brims with puns, parodies, allusions, stream-of-consciousness writing and clever structuring. Modern Library ranked it as number one on its list of the twentieth

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An autobiographical portrait of marriage and motherhood by the acclaimed author details her struggle to come to terms with life and death, illness, sanity, personal upheaval, and grief.
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A Le Monde 100 Books of the Century book

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. ... [Woman] pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words and profound thoughts in literature

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A poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life.
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Original text side-by-side with a plain English translation, along with analysis.