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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1. The year of magical thinking

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Author:
Didion, Joan
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Description:
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.

2. A room of one's own

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Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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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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