Hello friends and fellow bookworms!
For those who have just recently joined me, I decided a couple of weeks ago that I would complete a challenge in 2017 called The Gilmore Girls Book Challenge on The Book Wench Blog .
Based on the lists of books referenced in Gilmore Girls, my goal is to read at least 15 books ( 12 from the original series and 3 from the Netflix revival) in 2017.
I have shortened the massive list to 30 books to choose from: 26 from the original series and 4 from the revival. While my goal is 15 (no need to start off crazy since I will be reading a ton of other books as well) I would love to read all 30 of my choices.
I just wanted to check in with every since 2017 is looming ever closer and share my list of 30 books. I am listing them in no particular order. I will read them as fancy strikes.
1: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
2: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
3: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
4: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
5: Atonement by Ian McEwan
6: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
7: Beloved by Toni Morrison
8: Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
9: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
10: The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
11: Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
12: Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
13: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
14: Howl by Allen Ginsburg
15: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
16: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
17: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
18: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
19: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
20: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
21: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi ( I will read Lolita first, of course)
22: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
23: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
24: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch by Gregory McGuire
25: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
26: Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
27: I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
28: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
29: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
30: Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Any thoughts on my list? As always, I would love to have anyone join me! If you join, feel free to use the image above and the hashtag #thebookwenchgilmorebookchallenge
Will you be reading any of these books next year? Have you already read some of these books? What did you think?
If you just want to follow along, be sure to check back in on the blog regularly and feel free to follow my Goodreads account!
xTheBookWench
That’s awesome! I’m going to attempt to do season one Gilmore Girls books in 2017. Good Luck!!
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Do it!! And good luck to you too!
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So glad you’re joining me! Going to go see which books you chose!
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I like that we’ll both be reading “Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy” and “Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.” It’s nice when books bring people together. That’s why I’m looking forward to this challenge so much. ❤
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We’ll definitely have to talk about it!!
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