Lists of Bests: Rory's Book Club http://www.listsofbests.com/list/697 Rory Gilmore (a character on the WB/CW show Gilmore Girls) is an avid reader; this is a list of books, both classic and contemporary, that she might read. The list is as it was on the WB website when it was still up. source: http://rorysbookclub.ohbuoyancy.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:16:26 GMT en-us 0 50 120 50 0 Nineteen Eighty-Four http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23814 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23814"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VY8ASPE1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2073048 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2073048"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NZXjxxPLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18534 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18534"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618hdHM5GEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> An American Tragedy (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13947 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13947"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41puFdb7pCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theodore Dreiser</div> Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3758"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vPf2CfSEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70395 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70395"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067175274X.01-AP3JBU350A77F._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43347131_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Frank</div> Autobiography of a Face http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/918 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/918"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41964p0t-zL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucy Grealy</div> The Awakening http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1145500 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kate Chopin</div> Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73258 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/73258"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/037541309X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dai Sijie</div> Bee Season: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10398 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10398"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51im0CfE3TL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Myla Goldberg</div> Bel Canto http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1361 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1361"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KS69fxpTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Patchett</div> The Bell Jar (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/574311 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/574311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060837020.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114864128_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sylvia Plath</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51srBOCdgBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584357 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584357"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aERntVfVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Duffy</div> Brave New World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1283"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SJW829TEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> Brick Lane http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/480230 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/480230"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000E8LQQA.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Monica Ali</div> The Catcher in the Rye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7092 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7092"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51namOub2kL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.D. Salinger</div> The Code of the Woosters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29175 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/29175"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MUpQ8O1VL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P.G. Wodehouse</div> Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7840744 <div id="position">19</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edgar Allan Poe</div> A Confederacy of Dunces http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24039 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24039"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51COfsM%2BF3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Kennedy Toole</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TCNJhfz5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> Cousin Bette (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4310 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4310"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nCe-ECvjL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Honore de Balzac</div> Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15565 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15565"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aTB5Y4J9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</div> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AVVhtHugL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Haddon</div> David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19152 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19152"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K%2BFAHoeAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3343 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3343"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B3ZQ4KSTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Miller</div> The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9266 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9266"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FMEXVD2JL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik Larson</div> Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13975 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13975"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q5VgZGWwL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10572 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10572"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41427tj3vlL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Dunn</div> Emma http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15583 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15583"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553212737.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by JANE AUSTEN</div> Empire Falls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9279 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9279"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51L9sXUm%2BDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Russo</div> Ethan Frome (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13946 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13946"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451527666.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edith Wharton</div> Extravagance: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22738 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/22738"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41q98sAMK5L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gary Krist</div> Farenheit 451 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/35282 <div id="position">34</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17263 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17263"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yPWv7hyVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greg Critser</div> The Five People You Meet in Heaven http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21797 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21797"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0751536822.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mitch Albom</div> Flowers for Algernon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4073 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4073"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41h0WtXLFfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Keyes</div> The Fortress of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9248 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9248"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w7euH3gmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> The Fountainhead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13626 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13626"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451191153.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672769_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39622 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39622"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uV0rigouL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10118 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10118"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MVV2ak1HL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kurt Vonnegut</div> The God of Small Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1547 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1547"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060977493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122531785_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arundhati Roy</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21233"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51osy1Yf76L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> Hamlet (Shakespeare Library Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8139601 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8139601"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61lvnKIp0sL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14650 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14650"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61HcHjaY2CL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Conrad</div> Holidays on Ice: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7108 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7108"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RbSJed5HL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Sedaris</div> How to Breathe Underwater http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42224 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42224"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TEXAZBJSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julie Orringer</div> How the Light Gets In http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33035 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33035"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZaeRd%2B7pL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by M. J. Hyland</div> The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32786 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32786"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593080476.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13922 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13922"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DV9JGNCKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Brontë</div>