rory gilmore’s reading list

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf · 1989

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 2024

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf · 2017

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre · 2013

faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1962

no lingerie human

Osamu Dazai · 2022

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy • 1877

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813

Persuasion

Jane Austen · 1817

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 1818

Die Verwandlung

Franz Kafka · 1915

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 2016

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 1908

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath · 2005

Lettere sulla creatività

Fëdor Dostoevskij

Delitto e castigo

Fëdor Dostoevskij · 2014

Il signore delle mosche

William Golding · 1992

The Scarlett Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee · 2014

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Las Flores del Mal

Charles Baudelaire

The Great Gatsby

Francis Scott Fitzgerald · 1995

1984

George Orwell · 1950

<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)

Emily Brontë, Pauline Nestor · 2002

<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.

the stranger

Albert Camus · 2022

guerra e pace

Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj · 2006