Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge

Better Late Than Never!

2012-01-22T17:40:00.000-08:00

A few weeks ago, I asked if any of you were interested in giving this Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge a try again. Thanks to those of you who responded that you'd would, I was convinced that a) I wasn't the only one who had a hard time getting to this one last year and b) I should run the challenge again. And then my gall bladder kicked up and I've been pretty much out of it for the past month. Argh! Still, I'm game if you are and we'll just run this challenge with a slightly different start date than planned.

Here are the rules for 2012:

1. The challenge will begin February 1, 2012 and run through January 31, 2013.

2. There will continue to be three reading levels:

EMILY: Read 3 books from 2 different categories

LORELEI: Read 5 books from 3 different categories

RORY: Read 10 books from at least 3 different categories

3. As we've done previously, movie adaptations of any of the movies can be counted. For the EMILY level, one movie can be substituted, for the LORELEI level 2 movies can be substituted, and for the RORY level, 3 movies can be substituted.

4. The categories to choose from are: Classics, Childrens/YA, Modern Classics, Non-fiction and Other.

5. A complete list of the books to choose from can be found here.

6. Cross over books from other challenges count.

7. Any book that you have started this year but not read more than half of by February 1st will count.

At the end of the challenge, a winner will be chosen at random from those who have successfully reached the level that they signed up for. You do not need to announce your books now and do not have to have a blog to participate. If you do have a blog, please link a starting post and leave it in a comment.

Hope you'll decide to read along with us!

Epic Fail!

2011-11-27T12:15:00.000-08:00

My sincere apologizes for letting this challenge entirely go by the wayside in 2011. We've had a situation in my household this year that meant that some things so had to be let go of and this, unfortunately was one of them. I thought very seriously of letting it go entirely but, having just looked at the list of books I have yet to read, I'm not sure I'm ready to do that just yet.

Let's try this again in 2012, shall we? If you're still interested, just leave a comment here so I know if it's worth the bother of giving it another go.

Sign Up Form for 2011 Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge!

2011-01-19T14:26:00.000-08:00

Completely forgot to do this! Here the Mr. Linky for this year's challenge:

Even if you participated last year, will you please be sure to sign up separately for this year's challenge.

For those that participated last year, you have until Friday January 21st to let me know if you reached any of the levels of the challenge to be entered in the prize drawing!

Who Reached Their Goal?

2011-01-06T20:38:00.000-08:00

So the 2010 version of the Gilmore Girls Challenge is officially at an end and I'm wondering: how many of you managed to reach your goal? If you were shooting for the Rory level, did you at least reach the 15 book level? How many of you reached 10 books?

If you even reached the Emily level, please let me know by Friday, January 14th and I'll get your name entered into the drawing for the year end prize! Even if you didn't reach the goal this year, are you going to join us again? I'm making the goals much easier for 2011 including the option of watching movie adaptations for some of your choices. I know I'm going to be taking advantage of that option!

Change In The Rory Goal

2010-12-18T16:51:00.000-08:00

Round about November I began to think that setting the Rory goal at 20 books was just plan crazy. Maybe, I thought, that's just me because I'm having such a hard time reaching it. But when I asked for any of you who had reached 20 books to let me know, I only heard crickets chirping. Hooray, I'm not alone!

So my Christmas present to you is that the Rory level goal is now only 15 books. If you were shooting for the Rory level and you've gotten that far, give yourself a pat on the back!

Next year, we're starting off with more realistic goals!

Anyone Going To Reach The Rory Level?

2010-12-10T20:53:00.000-08:00

The more I think about it, the more I realize I was crazy to expect anyone to read 20 books for one challenge. So I'm wondering if any of you have actually done that? If any of you have, then we'll stick with it for this year. If not, then I'm going to make a change for this year which will maybe make it possible for more of us to reach that level.

If you've reached 20 books for the challenge for this year, will you please shoot me an email at litandlifeATgmailDOTcom?

The End Is Near - Of This Year Anyway!

2010-12-04T17:30:00.000-08:00

The girls are all dolled up - for the holidays, I'm sure! As we reach what seems to be the busiest time of the year, I've had to admit that I'm not going to read nearly all of the books that I had hoped to read for this challenge. I'm going to have to load up on easy reads to reach my goal of 20 books. Luckily, there are a lot of fairy tales on the list which fits right in with my new passion for them. But...I still want to read all of those other books I had hoped to read when I started the challenge.

So I've decided to host the challenge for another year. There will be a couple of changes regarding the number of books you need to read to reach each level.

Emily: Read a total of four books from at least two different categories.

Lorelei: Read a total of six books from at least three different categories.

Rory: Read a total of ten books from at least three different categories.

For the list of books, click here.

Here's another twist for this year: for the Emily level, you can substitute one movie adaptation of any book. For the Lorelei level, you can substitute two movies and for the Rory level you can substitute four movies.

Hope you'll all decide to continue with the challenge again next year!

How's Everyone Doing?

2010-11-14T09:28:00.000-08:00

With fewer than two months left in the challenge, I've got a couple of questions for everyone. How are you doing toward making your goal? And would you be interested in doing this again next year?

I'm having to make some drastic changes in my reading plans for the challenge. I had hoped to load on heavy with the classics for this challenge but that's clearly not going to happen. I've only read 7 books that qualify but I have nothing more I have to read for review for the rest of the year and will really concentrate on hitting my 20 for this challenge which was my goal. But...that means that there are a lot of great books on the list that I'm still wanting to read. So I'm pondering whether or not to continue the challenge for next year and need your feed back.

I know it's a busy time of year, but don't forget to make time to read. We all need that done time to balance out the chaos that is the holiday season!

And The Winner Is....

2010-11-03T12:17:00.000-07:00

The winner of an $80 gift certificate from CSN Stores is Kathmeista! I'll be sending your name off to the company and you'll be hearing fromthem shortly about how to redeem your gift certificate. Congratulations!

Attention Gilmore Girl fans! CSN giveaway!

2010-10-22T14:24:00.000-07:00

I'm very excited to announce your chance to win an $80 gift certificate for CSN stores. I'm sure you've seen them around the blogosphere; they've been terrific about offering giveaways at many sites. In fact, I had never heard of CNS stores until the first time I say a review for one of their products on a blog. I'm always hesitant to order things online from a company I'm not familiar with but I've read nothing but great reviews about the CSN products and service.

When they approached me about doing a giveaway on one of my blogs, I decided that you, my fellow Gilmore Girls lovers, should have top shot at this for sticking with it. Here's the scoop: CSN Stores is actually over 200 stores that sell everything from bed sets to fire pits to school room furniture. I've got my eye on a new bookcase...or two. Or perhaps a nice big reading chair for my bedroom. The sites are easy to navigate and you can even get quotes.

To enter the giveaway, just leave me a comment with your email address. If you are participating in the challenge, please be sure to remind me to earn an extra chance to win! I will announce the winner on November 1st.

Almost Half Way There!

2010-06-18T16:00:00.000-07:00

How's everybody doing? Theoretically, we should be through half of the books we planned to read - I'm 1/10th. I definitely took on too many books for review in May and that graduate in the picture? I had one of those at my house. Even though the party was planned for outdoors, this is Nebraska and anything can happen at any given hour, weatherwise, so the entire house had to be cleaned, top to bottom. Whew--very proud of the kid but just as happy as he was to be done hitting the books, I was anxious to start hitting the books!

Do you summer plans involve more reading or do you find yourself having less time to read in the summer?

Three Months Down--How's Everybody Doing?

2010-04-01T14:56:00.001-07:00

Well this is embarrassing--we're a quarter of the way through the year, through the challenge, and I have yet to read a single book for it. I promised myself, back in December that I wasn't going to accept so many review books. But Trish and Lisa at TLC Book Tours keep dangling great books in front of my face like they're some drug I'm desperately addicted to (well, honestly, they are). And, I'm not reading nearly as much as I did last year and as I had anticipated reading this year. I may just have to read "Eloise" soon just to get something on the board!

How are you all doing? I'm enjoying reading your reviews and hope that everyone takes a minute to stop by and say hello when people post new reviews. I'm loving that Mr. Linky in the sidebar--I can see immediately when there's a new review. I have no idea how I got it to work like that so I will never be able to do it again. That's pretty much how most of the things I do on the computer work!

Just for fun, let's say that you're Rory and you're packing for a weekend trip. It's only two days, but you know that Rory would pack far more books than you could reasonably read in that time period. What's sitting in your TBR pile that you'd have to pack to take along?

How's Everybody Doing?

2010-02-01T17:21:00.001-08:00

I see that some of you are really hitting the books--you must have been the "A" students! I'm still working on my first book; if I'm going to reach Rory level, I've got to get reading. I raided my daughter's bookshelf and am now working on The Perks of Being a Wallflower, having given up on A Christmas Carol for the time being. I also found Alice in Wonderland and can't wait to read that before the movie comes out.

Speaking of movies, have you signed up for the movie mini-challenge yet? I've watching a couple now but have yet to get reviews written. There are so many movies to choose from; click on the link in the right column.

Leaving Your Reviews

2010-01-12T18:13:00.001-08:00

I've added a Mr. Linky in the side bar for you to add your reviews. Also, I've added an "About The Challenge" on the sidebar which has a link back to the list of books for easier reference. Can't wait to see what you're all reading!

Movie Mini-Challenge

2010-01-07T07:33:00.001-08:00

I told you there'd be big news this week from Sheila at One Person's Journey Through The World Of Books. And here it is: Sheila is hosting a movie mini-challenge starting today and running through March 8, 2010. There are as many movies referred to in The Gilmore Girls as there are books so the challenge is to fire up that DVD player, grab a cup of coffee (if you're like Sheila) or tea (if you're like me) , prop up your feet and feast your eyes on some of the great and not so great movies on the list. To sign up, head on over to Sheila's blog. Psst--there's a prize involved! Just for watching movies! How great is that?

One More Thing and Something to Look Forward To!

2010-01-04T19:02:00.000-08:00

Thanks, Kath, for pointing out to me that I had forgotten to mention that audiobooks can be counted. I love to listen to audiobooks while I work; no way I wouldn't count them!

Also, be sure to check back later this week. We've got a movie mini-challenge coming up, thanks to Sheila from One Person's Journey Through A World of Books.

And We're Off And Reading!

2010-01-01T08:11:00.001-08:00

Today is the official kick-off the The Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge! Anybody already reading? I started Charles Dickens' The Christmas Books in December by reading from A Christmas Carol to my family when we were snowed in on Christmas Eve but never got further than the first chapter. So, first up for me is to finish that book.

I'm still trying to work out how we'll post our reviews. For the time being, if you have a review to post, use the Mr. Linky at the bottom of the first post. Put your name and URL in the first box and the name of the book in the second box. If you don't have a blog, just leave a comment in the most recent post with a way to contact you, and I'll get hold of you to get a review we'll post right to the blog.

It's Almost That Time!

2009-12-26T09:35:00.000-08:00

We're almost ready to officially kick off the challenge! Has anyone started doing any reading yet? I had every intention of reading Charles Dickens' "The Christmas Books" over the holidays but who was I kidding? I didn't even have time to do Christmas cards this year! We did read some of "A Christmas Carol" from it as a family on Christmas Eve. It's so much easier to get the family to sit and listen when the weather has made them a captive audience!

I've joined a number of challenges this year but I was only able to join so many of them because this one has such a wide variety of books available that can cross over into other challenges. If I pick my books right from this list, there are a couple of challenges I could finish without even picking up an extra book. I'm liking the idea of double pats on the back without twice the work!

Starting Date

2009-12-10T22:06:00.000-08:00

So the challenge officially begins January 1st. And I told you that if you are no more than half done by then you can count the book. But I really want to read A Christmas Carol this year. Before Christmas. And I want it to count for the challenge. So, since it's my challenge, I'm changing the rule!

The challenge officially starts January 1st. But if you want to get a head start, you can count anything that you're reading this month that's on the list. You just can't add the review until January 1st.

Now I just have to figure out when I'm going to work in another book before Christmas. Hmm...

Crossing Over With Other Challenges

2009-12-05T22:20:00.001-08:00

Okay, when I was watching The Gilmore Girls on the WB network, I knew Rory Gilmore was an avid reader surrounding by a smart mom and spent a lot of time in school. Stands to reason that there would be a lot of books around. But I had no idea how many that was until a friend guided me to a list of almost 300 books.

Now I know I'm slow getting this challenge up, but the good news about this challenge is that with this many books to choose from, it makes a great crossover challenge.

If you're reading the Women Unbound Challenge, you'll find on this list "The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir, "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf, "Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen and and "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. For "Woolf In Winter" you could also add Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway. Crossing over with All About The Brontes, you could read "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte and "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. The Shelf Discovery Challenge has crossovers with "Deenie" by Judy Blume and the Nancy Drew books by Carolyn Keene. If you're participating in the Really Old Classics Challenge, you can crossover "The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, "Bhagavad Gita," and "The Iliad" by Homer. Wow, I just figured out that I could sign up for about three more challenges!

Book Giveaway--"The Bell Jar"

2009-12-05T10:00:00.000-08:00

Jo-Jo of Jo-Jo loves to read!!! is hosting a giveaway for Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar." Since this is one of the books included on the Gilmore Girls list, I thought you might like a chance to win it if you were thinking about reading it.

Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge

2009-12-01T20:43:00.001-08:00

Books played a big part in the television show "The Gilmore Girls." Rory was an avid reader. When Rory and Lorelai were going to Europe, Rory wanted to bring 12 books. Mind you, she was carrying everything in a backpack. Recently, a friend sent me a link to an episode-by-episode listing of all of the books seen, read, or mentioned in the series and the idea for a challenge was born. Of course, I didn't really have any idea how many books that actually was. Or how to set up a challenge. So I'm a little late getting this up and running. The good news is that there should be something in this for everyone. Rory and company read everything from Homer to Dan Brown and poetry to social commentary. The challenge will officially run from January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010. You can begin reading now and anything that you're not more than half way through right now can be counted.
Crossover books from other challenges are allowed. A lot of the books on the list have also been made into movies and those will count as well.

There are three levels of participation:

Emily: Read 5 books from at least two different categories.
Lorelai: Read 10 books from at least three different categories.
Rory: Read 20 books from at least four different categories.

Here is the very long list of books you can choose from:

Classics

Austen	Jane	Northanger Abbey
Austen	Jane	Emma
Austen	Jane	Pride & Prejudice
Bronte	Emily	Wuthering Heights
Bronte	Charlotte	Jane Eyre
Browning	Elizabeth Barrett	Sonnets From The Portuguese
Cervantes		Don Quixote
Chaucer	Geoffrey	Canterbury Tales, The
Dante		Inferno
Dante		Divine Comedy, The
Dickens	Charles	David Cooperfield
Dickens	Charles	Little Dorrit
Dickens	Charles	Great Expectations
Dickens	Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens	Charles	Our Mutual Friend
Dickens	Charles	A Christmas Carol
Dickens	Charles	Oliver Twist
Dickinson	Emily	New Poems of Emily Dickinson
Flaubert	Gustave	Madame Bovary
Heaney	Seamus	Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Homer		Iliad, The
Hugo	Victor	Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
Lawrence	D. H.	Lady Chatterley's Lover
Melville	Herman	Moby Dick
Poe	Edgar Allen	Raven, The
Shakespeare	William	Othello
Shakespeare	William	Henry IV, Part 2
Shakespeare	William	Julius Caesar
Shakespeare	William	Romeo And Juliet
Shakespeare	William	Hamlet
Shakespeare	William	Henry V
Shakespeare	William	Merry Wives of Windsor, The
Shakespeare	William	A Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare	William	Richard III
Shakespeare	William	The Sonnets
Shakespeare	William	Macbeth
Shelley	Mary	Frankenstein
Stowe	Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom's Cabin
Thoreau	Henry David	Walden
Tolstoy	Leo	War And Peace
Tolstoy	Leo	Anna Karenina
Twain	Mark	The Jumping Frog of Calavares County
Twain	Mark	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire		Candide
Wharton	Edith	Roman Holiday
Whitman	Walt	Leaves of Grass

Childrens/Young Adult

Anderson	Hans Christian	Little Match Girl, The
Baum	L. Frank	Wizard of Oz, The
Baum	L. Frank	Scarecrow of Oz, The
Blume	Judy	Deenie
Brothers Grimm		Rapunzel
Carroll	Lewis	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Chbosky	Stephen	Perks of Being A Wallflower, The
Collodi	Carol	Pinocchio
Granowsky	Alvin	Goldilocks & The Three Bears
Grimm Brothers		Snow White and Rose Red
Hinton	S. E.	Outsiders, The
Keene	Carolyn	The Nancy Drew Series
King-Smith	Dick	Babe
Lofting	Hugh	Doctor Doolittle
Rawlings	Marjorie Kinnan	Yearling, The
Rodgers	Mary	Freaky Friday
Rowling	J. K.	Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire
Rowling	J. K.	Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone: Book 1
Salten	Felix	Walt Disney's Bambi (based on Original Story by Felix Salten)
Seuss	Dr.	How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Sobol	Donald	Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective
Thompson	Kay	Eloise
White	E. B.	Stuart Little
White	E. B.	Charlotte's Web
Wiggin	Kate Douglas	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Modern Classics

Albee	Edward	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Beckett	Samuel	Waiting for Godot
Burgess	Anthony	A Clockwork Orange
Dostoevsky	Fyodor	Demons (translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
Du Maurier	Daphne	Rebecca
Faulkner	William	Sanctuary
Faulkner	William	As I Lay Dying
Faulkner	William	Sound and The Fury, The
Fitzgerald	F. Scott	Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald	F. Scott	Great Gatsby, The
Forster	E. M.	A Room With A View
Ginsburg	Allen	Howl
Heller	Joseph	Catch-22
Hellman	Lillian	Children's Hour, The
Hemingway	Ernest	Snows of Killimanjaro
Hemingway	Ernest	Sun Also Rises, The
Hemingway	Ernest	A Moveable Feast
Hemingway	Ernest	To Have And Have Not
James	Henry	Daisy Miller
James	Henry	Art of Fiction, The
Joyce	James	Finnegan's Wake
Joyce	James	Ulysses
Kafka	Franz	Trial, The
Kafka	Franz	Metamorphosis
Lawrence & Lee	Jerome & Robert Edwin	Inherit The Wind
Lee	Harper	To Kill A Mockingbird
Mailer	Norman	Naked & The Dead, The
Mencken	H. R.	Mencken's Chresthonomy
Mencken	H. R.	My Life As Author & Editor
Miller	Henry	Sexus
Miller	Arthur	Crucible, The
Mitchell	Margaret	Gone With The Wind
Nordhoff & Hall	Charles & James Norman	Mutiny On The Bounty
Orwell	George	Nineteen Eighty-four
Parker	Dorothy	Portable Dorothy Parker, The
Plath	Sylvia	Bell Jar, The
Proust	Marcel	Swann's Way
Rand	Ayn	Fountainhead, The
Salinger	J. D.	Franny And Zooey
Salinger	J. D.	Catcher In The Rye, The
Shaefer	Jack	Shane
Steinbeck	John	Grapes of Wrath, The
Tolkien	J.R.R.	The Fellowship of the Rings: Lord of the Ring Book 1
Tolkien	J. R. R.	The Return of The King: Lord of the Ring Book 3
Vonnegut	Kurt	Slaughterhouse Five
Welty	Eudora	Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, The
Williams	Tennessee	A Streetcar Named Desire
Woolf	Virginia	A Room of One's Own
Woolf	Virginia	Mrs. Dalloway

Non-fiction

Albaret	Celeste	Monsieur Proust
Albom	Mitch	Tuesdays With Morrie
Assorted Authors		Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism
Binyon	T. J.	Pushkin: A Biography
Bolles	Richard Nelson	What Color Is Your Parachute? 2005
Bourdain	Anthony	Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Bugliosi & Gentry	Vincent & Curt	Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Butler	Judith	Gender Trouble
Capote	Truman	In Cold Blood
Clinton	Hilary Rodham	Living History
Clinton	Hilary Rodham	It Takes A Village
Collett	Anne	Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals
Cook	Blanche Wiesen	Eleanor Roosevelt
De Beauvoir	Simone	Second Sex, The
De Beauvoir	Simone	Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Denison	Isak	Out of Africa
Des Barres	Pamela	I'm With The Band
Didion	Joan	Year of Magical Thinking, The
Eggers	Dave	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ehrenreich	Barbara	Nickel And Dimed
Faludi	Susan	Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Fodor	Eugene	Selected Hotels of Europe
Ford	Ford Madox	Good Soldier, The
Franken	Al	Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Friedman	Milton	A Monetary History of the United States
Gibbon	Edward	History of the Decline & Fall of The Roman Empire, The
Gibson	William	Miracle Worker, The
Harvard	Joe	Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico (33 1/3 Series)
Hersh	Seymour M.	My Lai 4: A Report On The Massacre And Its Aftermath
Huffington	Arianna	Pigs At The Trough
Irvin	Jim	Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion, The
Johnson	Spencer	Who Moved My Cheese?
Kagan	Donald	Outbreak of the Peoponnesian War, The
Kagan	Donald	Peace of Nicias & The Sicilian Expedition, The
Kagan	Donald	Archidamian War
Kerouac	Jack	On The Road
Lee/Neil/Mars/Sixx		The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Lipton	Lawrence	Holy Barbarians, The
Macaulay	David	New Way Things Work, The
McCarthy	Mary	A Bolt From The Blue & Other Essays
McCarthy	Mary	Group, The
McNeill & McCain	Legs and Gillian	Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Meyers	Phillip	Vanishing Newspaper, The
Milford	Nancy	Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Moore	Barrington	Social Origins of Dictatorship & Democracy: Lord & Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Moore	Michael	Fahrenheit 9/11
Nietzche	Fredrich	Portable Nietzche, The
Pagels	Elaine	Gnostic Gospels
Plath	Sylvia	Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, The
Rubin M.D.	Theodore Issac	David and Lisa
Sherman	Wiliam Tecumseh	Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
Sinker	Daniel	We Owe You Nothing - Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews (Edited)
Spinoza	Baruch	Ethics
Steves	Rick	Europe Through The Back Door, 2003
Suskind	Ron	The Price of Loyalty: George W Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
Taylor	Hobart Chatfield	Moliere: A Biography
Thompson	Hunter S.	Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Thompson	Hunter S.	Fear & Loathing: On The Campaign Trail '72
Thurman	Judith	Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Tzu	Sun	Art of War, The
Vidal	Gore	The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
Waldo	Myra	Myra Waldo's Travel & Motoring Guide To Europe
Weisberg	Jacob	George W Bushisms: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit & Wisdom of Our 43rd President
Woolf	Thomas	Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The
Wurtzel	Elizabeth	Bitch In Praise of Difficult Women
		Rough Guide To Europe, The 2003 Edition
		Compact Oxford English Dictionary, The
		several biographies of Winston Churchill

Other

Allende	Isabel	House of the Spirits, The
Allende	Isabel	Eva Luna
Bloom	Judy	Gospel According To Judy Bloom, The
Brown	Dan	DaVinci Code, The
Bukowski	Charles	Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Davies	Robertson	Manticore, The
Dubus III	Andre	House of Sand And Fog, The
Ellis	Bret Easton	Less Than Zero
Erdrich	Louise	Love Medicine
Eugenides	Jeffrey	Virgin Suicides, The
Faber	Michel	Crimson Petal and the White, The
Farrell	Henry	What Happened To Baby Jane?
Foer	Jonathon Safran	Everything Is Illuminated
Gogol	Nikolai Vasilevich	Dead Souls
Goldman	William	Marathon Man
Grafton	Sue	R is For Richocet
Grafton	Sue	S is For Silence
Hathaway	Katharine Butler	Little Locksmith, The
Hornsby	Nick	High Fidelity
Kaysen	Susanna	Girl, Interrupted
Kennedy	William J.	Ironweed
King	Stephen	Cujo
King	Stephen	Shining, The
King	Stephen	Carrie
King	Stephen	Christine
King	Stephen	Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Kohner	Frederick	Gidget
Lerner	Alan Jay	Brigadoon
Levin	Ira	Rosemary's Baby
Marquez	Gabriel Garcia	One Hundred Years of Solitude
McCourt	Frank	Angela's Ashes
McDonald	Gregory	Fletch
McEwan	Ian	Atonement
McMurtry	Larry	Terms of Endearment
Metalious	Grace	Peyton Place
Parker	Dorothy	Complete Stories
Powell	Dawn	Complete Novels/Novels 1930-1942
Powell	Dawn	Selected Letters of Dawn Powell
Pressfield	Steven	Legend of Bagger Vance, The
Puzo	Mario	Godfather: Book 1, The
Reger	Roger	Emily The Strange
Rilke	Rainer Maria	Letters to a Young Poet
Robert	Henry	Robert's Rules of Order
Segal	Erich	Love Story
Sexton	Anne	Complete Poems, The
Stein	Joseph	Fiddler On The Roof
Styron	William	Sophie's Choice
Susann	Jacqueline	Valley of the Dolls
Tan	Amy	Joy Luck Club, The
Toole	John Kennedy	A Confederacy of Dunces
Uhry	Alfred	Driving Miss Daisy
Webb	Charles	Graduate, The
Wells	Rebecca	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The
Welty	Eudora	Collected Short Stories, The
		Bhagava Gita, The