Read like Rory Gilmore
Love the Gilmore Girls and wonder what to do while waiting on their 4 episode return? During the 154 episodes that aired during the original 7 season run, Rory read 339 books on screen, and mentioned many more. Check out Rory's reads and see how your reading list compares at the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge.
Here are just a few of the titles Rory read. You may find more at: thelibrary.org/catalog
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia" - a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imainations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions - a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
Forty-one stories demonstrating Eudora Welty's talent for writing from multiple points-of-view.
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e Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance -- until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
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Opportunity knocks for an Iranian immigrant in California when the county offers for sale a seized house at a bargain price. It will serve as a launching pad for his real-estate business. When the county discovers it made an error, the drug-addicted woman who owned the house demands its return, but the Iranian refuses. Unfortunately for him, the woman's lover is a policeman who takes the law into his hands.
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The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their traditiona-bound like in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Gangulo settle together in Cambride, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of brining old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in a memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name.
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