Yksi pitkäaikaisimmista tv-sarja suosikeistani on ollut Gilmoren tytöt, ja esikuvani nuoruudessani kyseisen sarjan henkilö Rory. Niille, jotka eivät sarjasta ole kuulleet (onko sellaisia?) lienee pieni selostus paikallaan. Gilmoren tytöthän kertoo äidistä ja tyttärestä, jotka asuvat pikkukaupungissa conneticutin osavaltiossa; Star´s Hallows on kaupungin nimi. Heidän suhteensa on erilainen kuin normaalit äitien ja tytärten suhteet,sillä äiti Lorelai on saanut tyttärensä Roryn (lyhenne Lorelaista :D) vain 16-vuotiaana. Koko sarjan ajan heidän suhteensa peilautuu muun muassa Lorelain ei niin hyvään suhteeseen oman äitinsä kanssa. Ei sarjan juonenkäänteistä nyt sen enempää ;) Sanon vain että suosittelen katsomaan.
Joka tapauksessa Rory on todellinen lukutoukka. Läpi koko sarjan näemme kuinka Rory lukee kirjoja, juttelee kirjoista äitinsä ja muidenkin hahmojen kanssa. Hänellä on kirja mukanaan joka paikassa, ellei useampikin. Jopa koulun tansseihin hän on varustautunut kirjalla. Sarjan aikana mainitaan monia kirjoja, jotka voidaan olettaa Rory`n lukeneen.
Olenkin törmännyt netissä sellaiseen ilmiöön kuin Roryn lukulista. Sitä on joissain englanninkielisissä blogeissa ja kirjasivustoissa alettu lukemaan. Vähän aikaa asiaa muhittuani päässäni, päätin että aion ottaa Rory`n lukulistan osaksi elämääni ja blogiani. Alan vähitellen käymään sitä läpi. Oman versioni listasta olen yhyttänyt tältä sivustolta. Kirjaan sen tähän alas.
1. 1984
– George Orwell
2.
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
3.
The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
4.
An
American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
5.
Angela’s
Ashes – Frank McCourt
6.
Anna
Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
7. Anne
Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
8.
Archidamian
War – Donald Kagen
9.
The
Art of Fiction - Henry James
10. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
11. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
12. Atonement – Ian McEwan
13. Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
14. Babe – Dick King-Smith
15. Backlash – Susan Faludi
16. Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
17. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
18. Beloved – Toni Morrison
19. Beowulf – Seamus Heaney
20. The Bhagava Gita
21. The Bielski Brothers – Peter Duffy
22. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women – Elizabeth Wurtzel
23. A Bolt From the Blue & other Essays – Mary
McCarthy
24. Brick Lane – Monica Ali
25. Brigadoon – Alan Jay Lerner
26. Candide – Voltaire
27. The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
28. Carrie
–Stephen King
29. Catch – 22 – Joseph Heller
30. The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
31. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
32. The Children’s Hour – Lilian Hellman
33. Christine – Stephen King
34. Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
35. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
36. The Code of the Woosters – PG Wodehouse
37. The Collected Short Stories – Eudora Welty
38. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
39. A Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare
40. Complete Novels – Dawn Powell
41. The Complete Poems – Anne Sexton
42. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
43. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
44. Cousin Bette – Honore de Balzac
45. Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
46. The Crimson Petal & the White – Michael Faber
47. The Crucible – Arthur Miller
48. Cujo – Stephen King
49. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime –
Mark Haddon
50. Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
51. David and Lisa – Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin
52. David Coperfield – Charles Dickens
53. The
Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
54. Deal Souls – Nikolai Gogol (Season 3, episode 3)
55. Demons – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
56. Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
57. Deenie – Judy Blume
58. The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
59. The Dirt – Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mark, &
Nikki Sixx
60. The Divine Comedy – Dante
61. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca
Wells
62. Don Quijote – Cervantes
63. Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhrv
64. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
65. Complete Tales & Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
66. Eleanor Roosevelt – Blanche Wiesen Cook
67. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
68. Ella
Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn
69. Eloise
– Kay Thompson
70. Emily the Strange – Roger Reger
71. Emma – Jane Austen
72. Empire Falls – Richard Russo
73. Encyclopedia Brown – Donald J. Sobol
74. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
75. Ethics – Spinoza
76. Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
77. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Foer
78. Extravagance – Gary Kist
79. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
80. Fahrenheit 911 – Michael Moore
81. The Fall of the Athenian Empire – Donald Kagan
82. Fat Land:How Americans Became the Fattest People in
the World – Greg Critser
83. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
84. The
Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien
85. Fiddler on the Roof – Joseph Stein
86. The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
87. Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
88. Fletch – Gregory McDonald
89. Flowers of Algernon – Daniel Keyes
90. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
91. Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger
92. The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathon Lethem
93. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
94. Freaky Friday – Mary Rodgers
95. Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
96. Gender Trouble – Judith Baker
97. George W. Bushism – Jacob Weisberg
98. Gidget – Fredrick Kohner
99. Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
100.
The
Ghostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels
101.
The
Godfather – Mario Puzo
102.
The
God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
103.
Goldilocks
& the Three Bears – Alvin Granowsky
104.
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
105.
The
Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford
106.
The
Gospel According to Judy Bloom
107.
The
Graduate – Charles Webb
108.
The
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
109.
The
Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
110.
Great
Expectations – Charles Dickens
111.
The
Group – Mary McCarthy
112.
Hamlet
– Shakespeare
113.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
114.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
115.
A
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
116.
Heart
of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
117.
Helter
Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi
118.
Henry
IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare
119.
Henry
IV, Part 2 – Shakespeare
120.
Henry
V – Shakespeare
121.
High
Fidelity – Nick Hornby
122.
The
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbons
123.
Holidays
on Ice – David Sedaris
124.
The
Holy Barbarians – Lawrence Lipton
125.
House
of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III
126.
The
House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
127.
How
to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer
128.
How
the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
129.
How
the Light Gets In – MJ Hyland
130.
Howl
– Alan Ginsburg
131.
The
Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
132.
The
Illiad – Homer
133.
I’m
With the Band – Pamela des Barres
134.
In
Cold Blood – Truman Capote
135.
Inferno
– Dante
136.
Inherit
the Wind – Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
137.
Iron
Weed – William J. Kennedy
138.
It
Takes a Village – Hilary Clinton
139.
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
140.
The
Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
141.
Julius
Caesar – Shakespeare
142.
The
Jumping Frog – Mark Twain
143.
The
Jungle – Upton Sinclair
144.
Just
a Couple of Days – Tony Vigorito
145.
The
Kitchen Boy – Robert Alexander
146.
Kitchen
Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
147.
The
Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
148.
Lady
Chatterley’s Love – DH Lawrence
149.
The
Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 – Gore Vidal
150.
Leaves
of Grass – Walt Whitman
151.
The
Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield
152.
Less
Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
153.
Letters
to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
154.
Lies
and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken
155.
Life
of Pi – Yann Martel
156.
Little
Dorrit – Charles Dickens
157.
The
Little Locksmith – Katharine Butler Hathaway
158.
The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Anderson
159.
Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
160.
Living
History – Hillary Clinton
161.
Lord
of the Flies – William Golding
162.
The
Lottery & Other Stories – Shirley Jackson
163.
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
164.
The Love Story – Eric Segal
165.
Macbeth
– Shakespeare
166.
Madame
Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
167.
The
Manticore – Robertson Davies (Season 3, episode 3)
168.
Marathon
Man – William Goldman
169.
The
Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
170.
Memoirs
of Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir
171.
Memoirs
of General WT Sherman – William Tecumseh Sherman
172.
Me
Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
173.
The
Meaning of Consuelo – Judith Ortiz Cofer
174.
Mencken’s
Chrestomathy – HR Mencken
175.
The
Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare
176.
The
Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
177.
Middlesex
– Jeffrey Eugenides
178.
The
Miracle Worker – William Gibson
179.
Moby
Dick – Herman Melville
180.
The
Mojo Collection – Jim Irvin
181.
Moliere
– Hobart Chatfield Taylor
182.
A
Monetary History of the US – Milton Friedman
183.
Monsieur
Proust – Celeste Albaret
184.
A
Month of Sundays – Julie Mars
185.
A
Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
186.
Mrs.
Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
187.
Mutiny
on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
188.
My
Lai 4 – Seymour M Hersh
189.
My
Life as Author and Editor – HR Mencken
190.
My
Life in Orange – Tim Guest
191.
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
192.
The
Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
193.
The
Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
194.
The
Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
195.
The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin
196.
Nervous
System – Jan Lars Jensen
197.
New
Poems of Emily Dickinson
198.
Things
Work – David Macaulay
199.
Nickel
and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
200.
Night
– Elie Wiesel
201.
Northanger
Abbey – Jane Austen
202.
The
Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism – William E Cain
203.
Notes
of a Dirty Old Man – Charles Bukowski
204.
Of
Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
205.
Old
School – Tobias Wolff
206.
On
the Road – Jack Keruac
207.
Peyton
Place – Grace Metalious
208.
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
209.
Pigs
at the Trough – Arianna Huffington
210.
Pinocchio
– Carlo Collodi
211.
Please
Kill Me – Legs McNeil & Gilliam McCain
212.
The
Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
213.
The
Portable Dorothy Parker
214.
The
Portable Nietzche
215.
The
Price of Loyalty – Ron Suskind
216.
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
217.
Property
– Valerie Martin
218.
Pushkin
– TJ Binyon
219.
Pygmalion
– George Bernard Shaw
220.
Quattrocento
– James McKean
221.
A
Quiet Storm – Rachel Howzell Hall
222.
Rapunzel
– Grimm Brothers
223.
The
Razor’s Edge – W Somerset Maugham
224.
Reading
Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
225.
Rebecca
– Daphne de Maurier
226.
Rebecca
of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin
227.
The
Red Tent – Anita Diamant
228.
Rescuing
Patty Hearst – Virginia Holman
229.
The Return of the King – JRR Tolkien
230.
R
is for Ricochet – Sue Grafton
231.
Rita
Hayworth – Stephen King
232.
Robert’s
Rules of Order – Henry Robert
233.
Roman
Holiday – Edith Wharton
234.
Romeo
and Juliet – Shakespeare
235.
A
Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
236.
A
Room with a View – EM Forster
237.
Rosemary’s
Baby – Ira Levin
238.
Sacred
Time – Ursula Hegi
239.
Sanctuary
– William Faulkner
240.
Savage
Beauty – Nancy Milford
241.
Say
Goodbye to Daisy Miller – Henry James
242.
The
Scarecrow of Oz – Frank L. Baum
243.
The
Scarlet Letter – Nathanial Hawthorne
244.
Seabiscuit
– Laura Hillenbrand
245.
The
Second Sex – Simone de Beauvior
246.
The
Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
247.
Secrets
of the Flesh – Judith Thurman
248.
Selected
Letters of Dawn Powell (1913-1965)
249.
Sense
and Sensibility – Jane Austen
250.
A
Separate Place – John Knowles
251.
Several
Biographies of Winston Churchill
252.
Sexus
– Henry Miller
253.
The
Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron
254.
Shane
– Jack Shaefer
255.
The Shining – Stephen King
256.
Siddartha
– Hermann Hesse
257.
S
is for Silence – Sue Grafton
258.
Slaughter-House
5 – Kurt Vonnegut
259.
Small
Island – Andrea Levy
260.
Snows
of Kilamanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
261.
Snow
White and Red Rose – Grimm Brothers
262.
Social
Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy – Barrington Moore
263.
The
Song of Names – Norman Lebrecht
264.
Song
of the Simple Truth – Julia de Burgos
265.
The
Song Reader – Lisa Tucker
266.
Songbook
– Nick Hornby
267.
The
Sonnets – Shakespeare
268.
Sonnets
from the Portuegese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
269.
Sophie’s
Choice – William Styron
270.
The
Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
271.
Speak,
Memory – Vladimir Nabakov
272.
Stiff,
The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
273.
The
Story of my Life – Helen Keller
274.
A
Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
275.
Stuart
Little – EB White
276.
Sun
Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
277.
Swann’s
Way – Marcel Proust
278.
Swimming
with Giants – Anne Collett
279.
Sybil
– Flora Rheta Schreiber
280.
A
Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
281.
Tender
is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald
282.
Term
of Endearment – Larry McMurty
283.
Time
and Again – Jack Finney
284.
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffeneggar
285.
To
Have and to Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
286.
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
287.
The
Tragedy of Richard III – Shakespeare
288.
A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
289.
The
Trial – Franz Kafka
290.
The
True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters – Elisabeth Robinson
291.
Truth
& Beauty – Ann Patchett
292.
Tuesdays
with Morrie – Mitch Albom
293.
Ulysses
– James Joyce
294.
The
Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (1950-1962)
295.
Uncle
Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
296.
Unless
– Carol Shields
297.
Valley
of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
298.
The
Vanishing Newspaper – Philip Meyers
299.
Vanity
Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
300.
Velvet
Underground – Joe Harvard
301.
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
302.
Waiting
for Godot – Samuel Beckett
303.
Walden
– Henry David Thoreau
304.
War
and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
305.
We
Owe You Nothing – Daniel Sinker
306.
What
Colour is Your Parachute – Richard Nelson Bolles
307.
What
Happened to Baby Jane – Henry Farrell
308.
When
the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka
309.
Who
Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
310.
Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee
311.
Wicked
– Gregory Maguire
312.
The
Wizard of Oz – Frank L Baum
313.
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
314.
The
Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
315.
The
Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
Aion siis alkaa käymään tuota yllä olevaa listaa läpi. Olen lihavoinut listalta ne kirjat, jotka olen jo lukenut. En aio lukea kaikkia englanniksi, vaikka osa saattaa tulla englanniksi luettuakin. Kirjoista, jotka olen tummentanut olen tainnut melkein kaikki lukea suomennoksina. Eli luultavasti enimmäkseen tulen turvautumaan suomennoksiin. Kuten äsken sanoin saattaa olla, että osan luen englanniksi, jos se sattuu sopimaan paremmin ;) Saa nähdä miten pitkään tämän listan läpikäymisessä menee. :D Eiköhän se kuitenkin joskus loppuun saateta.
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