Recs if you like The Sound and the Fury...
Rory Gilmore: Reading listπ©·
A list of every book Rory Gilmore is seen reading in the series βGilmore Girlsβ
Books not included on the list
- various biographies by Winston Churchill
understanding the american south
a multigenre syllabus on the history, identity, and culture(s) of the american southeast - a region often known otherwise as simply βthe southβ or βthe deep south,β consisting in part of βthe bible beltβ (most of it) and parts of appalachia.
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
100 Gothic Classics
A list of 100 gothic classics which covers over 250 years of literature, from the high-drama castles of the 1700s to the psychological "New Gothic" of today.
rory gilmore book chalenge
well, this is all the books read by rory in the gilmore girls tv show.
Stars Hollow Book Club (Gilmore Girls Books)
This list gathers over 300 books mentioned or read on the show so you can sip coffee, order in, and read along with Rory Gilmore and the other Stars Hollow residents.
Reading Rabbit Hole: Gilmore Girls
A challenge to read all books mentioned or referenced in the American TV Show, Gilmore Girls. Books are referenced by all characters in the show. The Mojo Collection, dictionaries, instructional books, and travel books will not be included in the list.
Happy reading!
Bleakness Is My Weakness
For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.
More to come!
Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!
Nobel prize winners in literature (authors)
Awarded annually to an author from any country, since 1901.
This list contains popular books from all the award winning authors.
Awards from 1901 -2025
Southern Gothic
~ stream of consciousness ~
works of literary fiction that use the stream of consciousness narrative technique (popular in post-WWI modernist literature) to express the natural flow of thoughts, feelings, memories and sensory impressions.
often fragmented, unconventional, experimental in terms of structure, punctuation and syntax.
recs welcome!
Do You Know How Crazy You Sound Right Now?
Books written from the POV of characters in or imminently bound for psychiatric institutions.
Marilyn Monroe's Personal Library
Marilyn Monroe was known as an avid reader with a deep love of literature. She took literature courses at UCLA, married a playwright, and was (in?)famously photographed reading Ulysses in a park. It's said that her divorce to Arthur Miller stemmed from an incident in which he insulted her intelligence. Supposedly, she amassed a 1000+ book collection at the height of her reading that she was very proud of. Here are the books known to be a part of her beloved personal library.
Books in The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
These books are mentioned in the book The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop (plus I added the book itself)
family matters
from multi-generational tales to sibling sagas!
The Guardianβs The 100 Best Novels of All Time
A list published by The Guardian on 5/16/2026, as voted on by authors, critics, and academics worldwide.
Dark Academia except you are also a character
Notes in the margins are a must. β Me, a neurotic literature degree holder
Top 100 Books! (According to The Guardian)
The Guardian Top 100 Best Novels
Bending The Rules - 50 Novels
Unconventional and experimental novels that play with syntax, style, narrative and structure Tristram Shandy - the grandfather of experimental Pale Fire - intertwines a poem and commentary Dictionary of the Khazars - in the form of a dictionary Man Eating typewriter - written in Polari Exercises in style - 99 retellings of the same story Hopscotch - designed to be read in multiple ways If on a winterβs night a traveller - a story within a story within aβ¦
Time Magazineβs All-Time Best 100 Novels
Time Magazineβs All-Time Best 100 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.
