Jika anda melalui zaman remaja pada awal tahun 2000, pastinya anda pernah menonton atau mendengar siri televisyen yang agak popular satu ketika dahulu iaitu Gilmore Girls. Siri televisyen Gilmore Girls kini menjadi sebutan semula kerana Netflix menghasilkan semula siri revival Gilmore Girls baru-baru dengan menyatukan kesemua pelakon utama siri ini untuk empat episod baru yang berdurasi sembilan puluh minit setiap episod.
Salah satu watak utama di dalam siri ini adalah Rory Gilmore dan bagi anda yang mengikuti siri ini, sudah pastinya anda tahu bahawa Rory Gilmore adalah satu watak anak gadis yang gemar membaca buku. Malah beliau turut menjadi inspirasi kepada pembaca-pembaca lain sehinggakan ada yang mewujudkan Cabaran Membaca Rory Gilmore di mana sebanyak 399 buah buku telah disenaraikan dengan berpandukan buku-buku yang dilihat dibaca oleh Rory Gilmore di dalam siri televisyen ini. Berikut disenaraikan beberapa judu-judul buku tersebut:
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2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn karya Mark Twain
3. Alice in Wonderland karya Lewis Carroll
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay karya Michael Chabon
5. An American Tragedy karya Theodore Dreiser
6. Angela’s Ashes karya Frank McCourt
7. Anna Karenina karya Leo Tolstoy
8. The Diary of a Young Girl karya Anne Frank
9. The Archidamian War karya Donald Kagan
10. The Art of Fiction karya Henry James
11. The Art of War karya Sun Tzu
12. As I Lay Dying karya William Faulkner
13. Atonement karya Ian McEwan
14. Autobiography of a Face karya Lucy Grealy
15. The Awakening karya Kate Chopin
16. Babe karya Dick King-Smith
17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women karya Susan Faludi
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress karya Dai Sijie
19. Bel Canto karya Ann Patchett
20. The Bell Jar karya Sylvia Plath
21. Beloved karya Toni Morrison
22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation karya Seamus Heaney
23. The Bhagava Gita
24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews karya Peter Duffy
25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women karya Elizabeth Wurtzel
26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays karya Mary McCarthy
27. Brave New World karya Aldous Huxley
28. Brick Lane karya Monica Ali
29. Bridgadoon karya Alan Jay Lerner
30. Candide karya Voltaire
31. The Canterbury Tales karya Chaucer
32. Carrie karya Stephen King
33. Catch-22 karya Joseph Heller
34. The Catcher in the Rye karya J. D. Salinger
35. Charlotte’s Web karya E. B. White
36. The Children’s Hour karya Lillian Hellman
37. Christine karya Stephen King
38. A Christmas Carol karya Charles Dickens
39. A Clockwork Orange karya Anthony Burgess
40. The Code of the Woosters karya P.G. Wodehouse
41. The Collected Stories karya Eudora Welty
42. A Comedy of Errors karya William Shakespeare
43. Complete Novels karya Dawn Powell
44. The Complete Poems karya Anne Sexton
45. Complete Stories karya Dorothy Parker
46. A Confederacy of Dunces karya John Kennedy Toole
47. The Count of Monte Cristo karya Alexandre Dumas
48. Cousin Bette karya Honore de Balzac
49. Crime and Punishment karya Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. The Crimson Petal and the White karya Michel Faber
51. The Crucible karya Arthur Miller
52. Cujo karya Stephen King
53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time karya Mark Haddon
54. Daughter of Fortune karya Isabel Allende
55. David and Lisa karya Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
56. David Copperfield karya Charles Dickens
57. The Da Vinci -Code karya Dan Brown
58. Dead Souls karya Nikolai Gogol
59. Demons karya Fyodor Dostoyevsky
60. Death of a Salesman karya Arthur Miller
61. Deenie karya Judy Blume
62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America karya Erik Larson
63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band karya Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
64. The Divine Comedy karya Dante
65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood karya Rebecca Wells
66. Don Quixote karya Cervantes
67. Driving Miss Daisy karya Alfred Uhrv
68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde karya Robert Louis Stevenson
69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems karya Edgar Allan Poe
70. Eleanor Roosevelt karya Blanche Wiesen Cook
71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test karya Tom Wolfe
72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters karya Mark Dunn
73. Eloise karya Kay Thompson
74. Emily the Strange karya Roger Reger
75. Emma karya Jane Austen
76. Empire Falls karya Richard Russo
77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective karya Donald J. Sobol
78. Ethan Frome karya Edith Wharton
79. Ethics karya Spinoza
80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 karya Rick Steves
81. Eva Luna karya Isabel Allende
82. Everything Is Illuminated karya Jonathan Safran Foer
83. Extravagance karya Gary Krist
84. Fahrenheit 451 karya Ray Bradbury
85. Fahrenheit 9/11 karya Michael Moore
86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire karya Donald Kagan
87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World karya Greg Critser
88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas karya Hunter S. Thompson
89. The Fellowship of the Ring karya J. R. R. Tolkien
90. Fiddler on the Roof karya Joseph Stein
91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven karya Mitch Albom
92. Finnegan’s Wake karya James Joyce
93. Fletch karya Gregory McDonald
94. Flowers for Algernon karya Daniel Keyes
95. The Fortress of Solitude karya Jonathan Lethem
96. The Fountainhead karya Ayn Rand
97. Frankenstein karya Mary Shelley
98. Franny and Zooey karya J. D. Salinger
99. Freaky Friday karya Mary Rodgers
100. Galapagos karya Kurt Vonnegut
101. Gender Trouble karya Judith Butler
102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President karya Jacob Weisberg
103. Gidget karya Fredrick Kohner
104. Girl, Interrupted karya Susanna Kaysen
105. The Gnostic Gospels karya Elaine Pagels
106. The Godfather: Book 1 karya Mario Puzo
105. The Gnostic Gospels karya Elaine Pagels
106. The Godfather: Book 1 karya Mario Puzo
110. The Good Soldier karya Ford Maddox Ford
111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
112. The Graduate karya Charles Webb
113. The Grapes of Wrath karya John Steinbeck
114. The Great Gatskarya karya F. Scott Fitzgerald
115. Great Expectations karya Charles Dickens
116. The Group karya Mary McCarthy
117. Hamlet karya William Shakespeare
118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire karya J. K. Rowling
119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone karya J. K. Rowling
120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius karya Dave Eggers
121. Heart of Darkness karya Joseph Conrad
122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders karya Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
123. Henry IV, part I karya William Shakespeare
124. Henry IV, part II karya William Shakespeare
125. Henry V karya William Shakespeare
126. High Fidelity karya Nick Hornkarya
127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire karya Edward Gibbon
128. Holidays on Ice: Stories karya David Sedaris
129. The Holy Barbarians karya Lawrence Lipton
130. House of Sand and Fog karya Andre Dubus III
131. The House of the Spirits karya Isabel Allende
132. How to Breathe Underwater karya Julie Orringer
133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas karya Dr. Seuss
134. How the Light Gets In karya M. J. Hyland
135. Howl karya Allen Ginsberg
136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame karya Victor Hugo
137. The Iliad karya Homer
138. I’m With the Band karya Pamela des Barres
139. In Cold Blood karya Truman Capote
140. Inferno karya Dante
141. Inherit the Wind karya Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
142. Iron Weed karya William J. Kennedy
143. It Takes a Village karya Hillary Rodham Clinton
144. Jane Eyre karya Charlotte Bronte
145. The Joy Luck Club karya Amy Tan
146. Julius Caesar karya William Shakespeare
147. The Jumping Frog karya Mark Twain
148. The Jungle karya Upton Sinclair
149. Just a Couple of Days karya Tony Vigorito
150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar karya Robert Alexander
151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly karya Anthony Bourdain
152. The Kite Runner karya Khaled Hosseini
153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover karya D. H. Lawrence
154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 karya Gore Vidal
155. Leaves of Grass karya Walt Whitman
156. The Legend of Bagger Vance karya Steven Pressfield
157. Less Than Zero karya Bret Easton Ellis
158. Letters to a Young Poet karya Rainer Maria Rilke
159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them karya Al Franken
160. Life of Pi karya Yann Martel
161. Little Dorrit karya Charles Dickens
162. The Little Locksmith karya Katharine Butler Hathaway
163. The Little Match Girl karya Hans Christian Andersen
164. Little Women karya Louisa May Alcott
165. Living History karya Hillary Rodham Clinton
166. Lord of the Flies karya William Golding
167. The Lottery: And Other Stories karya Shirley Jackson
168. The Lovely Bones karya Alice Sebold
169. The Love Story karya Erich Segal
170. Macbeth karya William Shakespeare
171. Madame Bovary karya Gustave Flaubert
172. The Manticore karya Robertson Davies
173. Marathon Man karya William Goldman
174. The Master and Margarita karya Mikhail Bulgakov
175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter karya Simone de Beauvoir
176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman karya William Tecumseh Sherman
177. Me Talk Pretty One Day karya David Sedaris
178. The Meaning of Consuelo karya Judith Ortiz Cofer
179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy karya H. R. Mencken
180. The Merry Wives of Windsor karya William Shakespeare
181. The Metamorphosis karya Franz Kafka
182. Middlesex karya Jeffrey Eugenides
183. The Miracle Worker karya William Gibson
184. Mokarya Dick karya Herman Melville
185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion karya Jim Irvin
186. Moliere: A Biography karya Hobart Chatfield Taylor
187. A Monetary History of the United States karya Milton Friedman
188. Monsieur Proust karya Celeste Albaret
189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister karya Julie Mars
190. A Moveable Feast karya Ernest Hemingway
191. Mrs. Dalloway karya Virginia Woolf
192. Mutiny on the Bounty karya Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath karya Seymour M. Hersh
194. My Life as Author and Editor karya H. R. Mencken
195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru karya Tim Guest
196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 karya Myra Waldo
197. My Sister’s Keeper karya Jodi Picoult
198. The Naked and the Dead karya Norman Mailer
199. The Name of the Rose karya Umberto Eco
200. The Namesake karya Jhumpa Lahiri
201. The Nanny Diaries karya Emma McLaughlin
202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature karya Jan Lars Jensen
203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson karya Emily Dickinson
204. The New Way Things Work karya David Macaulay
205. Nickel and Dimed karya Barbara Ehrenreich
206. Night karya Elie Wiesel
207. Northanger Abbey karya Jane Austen
208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism karya William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born karya Dawn Powell
210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man karya Charles Bukowski
211. Of Mice and Men karya John Steinbeck
212. Old School karya Tobias Wolff
213. On the Road karya Jack Kerouac
214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest karya Ken Kesey
215. One Hundred Years of Solitude karya Gabriel Garcia Marquez
216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life karya Amy Tan
217. Oracle Night karya Paul Auster
218. Oryx and Crake karya Margaret Atwood
219. Othello karya Shakespeare
220. Our Mutual Friend karya Charles Dickens
221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War karya Donald Kagan
222. Out of Africa karya Isac Dineson
223. The Outsiders karya S. E. Hinton
224. A Passage to India karya E.M. Forster
225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition karya Donald Kagan
226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower karya Stephen Chbosky
227. Peyton Place karya Grace Metalious
228. The Picture of Dorian Gray karya Oscar Wilde
229. Pigs at the Trough karya Arianna Huffington
230. Pinocchio karya Carlo Collodi
231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
232. The Polysyllabic Spree karya Nick Hornkarya
233. The Portable Dorothy Parker karya Dorothy Parker
234. The Portable Nietzche karya Fredrich Nietzche
235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill karya Ron Suskind
236. Pride and Prejudice karya Jane Austen
237. Property karya Valerie Martin
238. Pushkin: A Biography karya T. J. Binyon
239. Pygmalion karya George Bernard Shaw
240. Quattrocento karya James Mckean
241. A Quiet Storm karya Rachel Howzell Hall
242. Rapunzel karya Grimm Brothers
243. The Raven karya Edgar Allan Poe
244. The Razor’s Edge karya W. Somerset Maugham
245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books karya Azar Nafisi
246. Rebecca karya Daphne du Maurier
247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm karya Kate Douglas Wiggin
248. The Red Tent karya Anita Diamant
249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad karya Virginia Holman
250. The Return of the King karya J. R. R. Tolkien
251. R Is for Ricochet karya Sue Grafton
252. Rita Hayworth karya Stephen King
253. Robert’s Rules of Order karya Henry Robert
254. Roman Holiday karya Edith Wharton
255. Romeo and Juliet karya William Shakespeare
256. A Room of One’s Own karya Virginia Woolf
257. A Room with a View karya E. M. Forster
258. Rosemary’s Bakarya karya Ira Levin
259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
260. Sacred Time karya Ursula Hegi
261. Sanctuary karya William Faulkner
262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay karya Nancy Milford
263. Say Goodkaryae to Daisy Miller karya Henry James
264. The Scarecrow of Oz karya Frank L. Baum
265. The Scarlet Letter karya Nathaniel Hawthorne
266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend karya Laura Hillenbrand
267. The Second Sex karya Simone de Beauvoir
268. The Secret Life of Bees karya Sue Monk Kidd
269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette karya Judith Thurman
270. Selected Hotels of Europe
271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 karya Dawn Powell
272. Sense and Sensibility karya Jane Austen
273. A Separate Peace karya John Knowles
274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
275. Sexus karya Henry Miller
276. The Shadow of the Wind karya Carlos Ruiz Zafon
277. Shane karya Jack Shaefer
278. The Shining karya Stephen King
279. Siddhartha karya Hermann Hesse
280. S Is for Silence karya Sue Grafton
281. Slaughter-house Five karya Kurt Vonnegut
282. Small Island karya Andrea Levy
283. Snows of Kilimanjaro karya Ernest Hemingway
284. Snow White and Rose Red karya Grimm Brothers
285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World karya Barrington Moore
286. The Song of Names karya Norman Lebrecht
287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos karya Julia de Burgos
288. The Song Reader karya Lisa Tucker
289. Songbook karya Nick Hornkarya
290. The Sonnets karya William Shakespeare
291. Sonnets from the Portuegese karya Elizabeth Barrett Browning
292. Sophie’s Choice karya William Styron
293. The Sound and the Fury karya William Faulkner
294. Speak, Memory karya Vladimir Nabokov
295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers karya Mary Roach
296. The Story of My Life karya Helen Keller
297. A Streetcar Named Desiree karya Tennessee Williams
298. Stuart Little karya E. B. White
299. Sun Also Rises karya Ernest Hemingway
300. Swann’s Way karya Marcel Proust
301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals karya Anne Collett
302. Sybil karya Flora Rheta Schreiber
303. A Tale of Two Cities karya Charles Dickens
304. Tender Is The Night karya F. Scott Fitzgerald
305. Term of Endearment karya Larry McMurtry
306. Time and Again karya Jack Finney
307. The Time Traveler’s Wife karya Audrey Niffenegger
308. To Have and Have Not karya Ernest Hemingway
309. To Kill a Mockingbird karya Harper Lee
310. The Tragedy of Richard III karya William Shakespeare
311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn karya Betty Smith
312. The Trial karya Franz Kafka
313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters karya Elisabeth Robinson
314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship karya Ann Patchett
315. Tuesdays with Morrie karya Mitch Albom
316. Ulysses karya James Joyce
317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 karya Sylvia Plath
318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin karya Harriet Beecher Stowe
319. Unless karya Carol Shields
320. Valley of the Dolls karya Jacqueline Susann
321. The Vanishing Newspaper karya Philip Meyers
322. Vanity Fair karya William Makepeace Thackeray
323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) karya Joe Harvard
324. The Virgin Suicides karya Jeffrey Eugenides
325. Waiting for Godot karya Samuel Beckett
326. Walden karya Henry David Thoreau
327. Walt Disney’s Bambi karya Felix Salten
328. War and Peace karya Leo Tolstoy
329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited karya Daniel Sinker
330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 karya Richard Nelson Bolles
331. What Happened to Bakarya Jane karya Henry Farrell
332. When the Emperor Was Divine karya Julie Otsuka
333. Who Moved My Cheese? karya Spencer Johnson
334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf karya Edward Albee
335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West karya Gregory Maguire
336. The Wizard of Oz karya Frank L. Baum
337. Wuthering Heights karya Emily Bronte
338. The Yearling karya Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
339. The Year of Magical Thinking karya Joan Didion
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