Eu tentei assistir Gilmore Girls, tentei mas nunca consegui realmente acompanhar... talvez se tivesse dado tempo para que os personagens me cativassem ao invés de ficar os criticando, a coisa teria andado mas não aconteceu.
Na época eu não sabia que Rory era viciada em livros, em nenhum dos episódios que parei para assistir na época a vi lendo alguma coisa - alias o que mais via era ela discutindo com a mãe, ficando de mal e se refugiando na casa do avós, aquelas figuras superciais e fúteis (na maioria das vezes) - não era um exemplo que me agradava.
Porém, numa das minhas visitas ao blog The Novel World, percebi que a Nari tinha colocado a lista dos livros mencionados na série... e a lista era enoooorme! Assisti algumas reprises por aqui e não é verdade que Rory Gilmore era mesmo bookaholic? (nas primeiras 3 temporadas... depois, quando ela descobre os garotos, meio que deixa os livros de lado!). O que me chamou atenção foi o fato de que a maioria dos livros citados no seriado eram clássicos, não apenas os chick-lit que têm preenchido a maioria das prateleiras nas livrarias!
Fiquei muitíssimo inspirada (e arrependida por não ter prestado atenção nesse detalhe antes), já li alguns dos livros da lista e quero ler tantos outros (alguns com resenha aqui no blog, outros antes do blog surgir - mas que lerei novamente porque valem a pena!). A lista é bem eclética, não inclui apenas romances, tem não-ficção, poesias, biografias, filosofia, históricos, etc., e não é restrita apenas aos escritores americanos, inclui de europeus a asiáticos. Então decidi compartilhar com vocês.
Legenda:
002. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
003. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
004. Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
005. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
006. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
007. A Quiet Storm: A Novel by Rachel Howzell Hall
008. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
009. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
011. Dreiser American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
013. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
015. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
016. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie
017. Bee Season: A Novel by Myla Goldberg
019. Beloved by Toni Morrison
021. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
022. Brick Lane: A Novel by Monica Ali
023. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
024. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
027. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
029. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
030. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
031. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
032. Demons, 182 by Fyodor Dostoevsky
034. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
035. Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn
037. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
038. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
039. Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Back Door 2007: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves
040. Extravagance: A Novel by Gary Krist
041. Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury
042. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
043. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
044. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
045. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
046. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
048. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
050. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
051. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
052. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
053. Howl by Allen Ginsberg
054. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence
055. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
056. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
058. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
060. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
062. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
066. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
067. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
068. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
069. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
070. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
071. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
072. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
074. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
076. Night by Elie Wiesel
077. Dawn Powell: Novels 1930-1942 by Dawn Powell
078. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
079. Old School by Tobias Wolff
080. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
081. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
083. Oracle Night: A Novel by Paul Auster
084. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
085. Othello by William Shakespeare
086. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
087. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
088. Property by Valerie Martin
089. Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
090. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
091. Quattrocento by James Mckean
092. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
093. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
095. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
096. Sacred Time: A Novel by Ursula Hegi
097. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
098. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
099. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
101. Siddhartha: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
102. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
103. Small Island: A Novel by Andrea Levy
104. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway
105. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
106. Songbook by Nick Hornby
107. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
108. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
109. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
110. Swimming With Giants: My Encounters With Whales, Dolphins, and Seals by Anne Collet
111. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
113. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
115. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
116. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
118. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
119. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis,
Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
121. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
122. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Père
124. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the
Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
125. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
127. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
128. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
129. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
131. The Group by Mary McCarthy
132. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
133. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
135. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
136. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
138. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
139. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
140. The Little Locksmith: A Memoir by Katharine Butler Hathaway
141. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
142. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
143. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
144. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
145. The Meaning of Consuelo: A Novel by Judith Ortiz Cofer
147. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
149. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
150. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
151. The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
153. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
154. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
155. The Portable Nietzsche - (Viking Portable Library)
156. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House,
and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
157. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
158. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
159. The Rough Guide to Europe 2006 - Various Authors
160. The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
162. The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
165. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
166. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
167. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
168. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
169. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
171. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters: A Novel by Elisabeth Robinson
172. Unabridged Journals by Sylvia Plath
173. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
174. Time and Again by Jack Finney
176. Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
177. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
178. Unless: A Novel (P.S.) by Carol Shields
179. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
180. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
181. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
182. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
183. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
184. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel by Rebecca Wells
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