books to claim to have read to look insufferable
puts beret on a jaunty angle ‘why yes i went to Oxbridge and go skiing on my holibobs with papa, why do you ask?’ takes a hit of tobacco flavoured vape, puts asterisk in margin of the obscure classic i’m ‘reading’
the list for people who want to look ‘well read’ and need some books to name drop - look no further if you have read them, more power to you, but this is explicitly about the people who claim to have read them but can’t read instructions on pasta
consider this a shopping list 🖤






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.






HRCYED 3.0 x Pagebound Quests (Covers Edition)
If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that I think matches at least one of these cover prompts: craft, food, motion, biomes/landscapes, animals, weather.






Famous authors traveling
I love travel literature, and I do enjoy reading real life travel experiences by writers known for other works. So, here is a list of travel books from well-known authors!






Mary Karr's Required Reading: Memoirs & Hybrids
Abridged list curated by Mary Karr in Art of Memoir (2015). I've selected only the books she's denoted to be "better written" as the original list is seven pages long.






mentioned in “This Book Made Me Think of You”
The ultimate bookish read!






Spring Awakenings: Pre-WWII Classics for New Begin
Classic literature published before World War II, curated for spring reading and themes of renewal, youth, and emotional awakening. These spring classics often feature pastoral settings, coming-of-age narratives, and gentle optimism rooted in early 20th-century literary tradition.
If you love… pastoral settings, early 20th-century classics, quiet coming-of-age stories, and hopeful literary fiction






Rory Gilmore read these books
Every book Rory Gilmore read/talked about in Gilmore Girls based on this list :
https://www.listchallenges.com/books-rory-gilmore-actually-read/list/3






Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List






Tough Guy Book Club
All books read by Tough Guy Book Club since 2014. The club that wants men to Read More, Talk More, and have more Friends.






From one place to Another place
Novel as travelogue, travelogue as novel






Ernest Hemingway






Summer Reads
Books to enjoy in the summer months.






The Hipster Handbook
If you haven’t read these works, at least pretend you have.
List is from The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham (AKA I had this book in my own hipster days and wanted to keep a list of how many I actually read)






classics for fall






Reading Special Topics in Calamity Physics
book in "Chapter 30: The Nocturnal Conspiracy by Smoke Wyannoch Harvey" is fictional






Set in Early 20th Century
Takes places during 1900-1930






Glaive Recommendations & References
Recommendations from and references to musician Glaive (Ash Blue Gutierrez).
See the pinned comment📌
If I'm missing any, let me know!






my tbr for this year





