Author susan collins biography of rory gilmore

We can all agree that Rory Gilmore is one of the biggest consumers of books in modern-day television. Her book list references in the original series of Gilmore Girls numbered  Inquiring minds want to know: what do you think she has been reading the past 9 years since we saw her last in the Gilmore Girls finale?  We ventured to guess the top 10 books that Rory will reference in this month’s revival series: Gilmore Girls Revival: “A Year in the Life.” Let’s see how many we guess correctly while we are on our treadmills working off all that turkey and apple pie on November 25th!

1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

We predict Donna Tartt and her Pulitzer Prize winning book will be a shoo-in for the upcoming series. London Review of Books calling it &#;a children&#;s book for adults&#; would have made it all the more appealing to well-known book snob, Rory.  I can picture Rory and her new British mates going to book readings in pubs. Rory would find this polarizing book akin to other book review snubbed books like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye.

2. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

I imagine Rory would have been waiting in the rain by the closest bookstore out of intellectual curiosity for this novel. She would certainly mourn Harper Lee&#;s untimely death. Even if disappointed with the book,  she would respect it as a &#;rough draft of the sequel to the classic.&#; I believe she will also have a few sassy quips about the people who returned the book for reasons of marketing manipulation. We&#;ll see if she mentions it in a few weeks.

3. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

This is my best guess for the book Emily is reading while sipping on scotch in the library and deeply missing Richard. 1Q84 is a bizarre love story set in an alternate reality where Tengo and Aomame search for each other on every page. After reading Murakami, &#;Readers emerge several hundred pages later as if from a trance,

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our couches), we&#;re re-running some of our favorite posts from the last several months. Enjoy our highlight reel, and we&#;ll be back with new stuff on Wednesday, July 8th.

This post originally ran June 17,
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Did you know that Rory Gilmore read books during 7 series of Gilmore Girls? At first glance that&#;s only 48 books a year, but let&#;s consider the fact that while doing all that reading Rory also graduated from Yale, began covering Barack Obama&#;s presidential campaign, and took part in various hilarious japes that separated her from the printed word (dance marathons will do that to you, as will descending into an abyss of ennui while living in your grandparents&#; pool house).

The girl was a machine and she wasn&#;t just reading 15 page-long novellas and adult coloring-in books. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Grapes of Wrath, Finnegan’s Wake, The Fountainhead, Swann&#;s Way, Rory was grappling with some hefty tomes and she wasn&#;t a book snob. Among all those Dead White Guys, Rory was also finding time to read bestsellers like The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Carrie, The Da Vinci-Code, Harry Potter, and The Godfather. Not only that but she was also pretty diverse with her reading. Obviously there&#;s always potential for improvement but she managed to venture quite far outside the white-is-right curriculum she was being taught at Chilton: The Kite Runner, Reading Lolita in Tehran, The God Of Small Things and The House Of Spirits are all standouts.

Rory was a fantastic reader and we should all bow down to her ability to, apparently, read the entire The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticismwithout turning into a gibbering wreck. There&#;s hours of fun to be had comparing reading lists with her, and then hours of bitter self-recriminations when you realize

I absolutely LOVED watching Gilmore Girls. Not when it was actually on TV &#; oh no, no &#; but YEARS after. I fell in love with it and then watched it over and over and over again.

Those were the days.

I loved Rory&#;s reading addiction and had previously joined the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge (back on my old blog) and thought it would be fun to join again.

Of course, I doubt I&#;ll ever get through all of these books, but it&#;s fun to try, right?

I&#;m going to mark the books I&#;ve read in BOLD. Here are the books:

1. by George Orwell
2. Absolute Rage by Robert Tanenbaum
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
5. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
6. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
7. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
8. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
9. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
10. American Steel by Richard Preston
11. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
12. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
13. The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett
14. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
15. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
16. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
17. The Apocalyptics – Cancer and the Big Lie: How Environmental Politics Controls What We Know About Cancer by Edith Efron
18. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
19. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as a History by Norman Mailer
20. The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher
21. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
22. The Art of Living by Epictetus
23. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
24. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
25. Atonement by Ian McEwan
26. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
27. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
28. Babe by Dick King-Smith
29. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
30. Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx
31. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
32. Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
33. Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
34. Bel Canto by