* books read
The Gilmore Reading List
1984 by George Orwell
A Bolt From The Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
A Quiet Storm: A Novel by Rachel Howzell Hall
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming by Al Gore
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Babe by Dick King-Smith
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Bambi by Felix Salten
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
Bitch In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
Candide by Voltaire
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Christine by Stephen King
Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
Cousin Bette by Honor'e de Balzac
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cujo by Stephen King
Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
* Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Deenie by Judy Blume
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
Eloise by Kay Thompson
Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
* Emma by Jane Austen
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
Europe Through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extravagance: A Novel by Gary Krist
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Fiddler of the Roof by Joesph Stein
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Fletch by Gregory McDonald
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
George W. Bushisms by Jacob Weisberg
Gidget by Frederick Kohner
Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
* Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
* Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
Howl by Allen Ginsburg
I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
It takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Love Story by Erich Segal
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Marathon Man by William Goldman
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H.R. Mencken
Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mutiny On The Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
My Life As Author And Editor by H.R. Mencken
My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
My Sister's Keeper: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Night by Elie Wiesel
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oracle Night: A Novel by Paul Auster
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Othello by William Shakespeare
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Out of Africa by Isac Denison
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Property by Valerie Martin
Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Quattrocento by James Mckean
R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
* Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
Sacred Time: A Novel by Ursula Hegi
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
Savage Beauty:The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
Selected Hotels of Europe
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Several biographies of Winston Churchill
Sexus by Henry Miller
Shane by Jack Shaefer
Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults by Donald R. Gallo
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Small Island: A Novel by Andrea Levy
Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore
Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
Songbook by Nick Hornby
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Art of Fiction by Henry James
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Bhagava Gita
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis by Peter Duffy
The Canterbery Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
The Code of the Woostersby P.G. Wodehouse
The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels & 56 Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 by Edward Gibbon
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair by Erik Larson
The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Woolf
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
The Good Soilder by Ford Maddox Ford
The Gospel According to Judy BloomYou’ve Been Gilmored (6.14)
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Group by Mary McCarthy
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (Paperback) by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Iliad by Homer
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Manticore by Robertson Davies
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Meaning of Consuelo: A Novel by Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene
* The Nanny Diaries: A Novel by Emma McLaughlin
The New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke,
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Ed... by Ron Suskind
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback) by Stephen Crane
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Return of the King: Lord Of The Rings – Book 3 by J.R.R.Tolkien
The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
* The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Shining by Stephen King
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
* The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism In The Information Age by Philip Meyer
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
Time and Again by Jack Finney
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Album
Ulysses by James Joyce
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unless: A Novel by Carol Shields
Valley of the Dolls by Susann Jacqueline
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico by Joe Harvard
* Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
We Owe You Nothing- Punk Planet: the Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
What Color is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The LOVE DOVE Reading List
Anne Of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Confession By Leo Tolstoy
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Dangerous Liasons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Dangerous Liasons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mary Poppins - The Complete Collection by P. L. Travers
North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Picnic At Hanging Rock by Lady Joan Weigall Lindsay
North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Picnic At Hanging Rock by Lady Joan Weigall Lindsay
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Sybil Turner
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Hound Of The Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
* The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
The Wind In the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
The Wind In the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Witches Of Eastwick by John Updike
