just so we don't fall into toxic self comparison, everyone should keep in mind that she is a fictional character and, as you said, there is probably several people involved into making her "read" all these books. Besides, taking into acount that she is living within a very high academic environment, I think it is pretty logical that she reads that much classics, internet content was not a thing yet, and if there is so many books it is also because the show follows her through her young and adult life. So, too everyone who feel like they red nothing comparing to her, just keep in mind: it is not realistic !! ;)
Also we seen her have barley any friends til lane is introduced so tbh maybe she did that growing up but high school she stops and reads a couple of books. Her mother can be neglecting at times so rori probably read those books to take her mind off things. Also personal experience is that you can probably finish reading a book everyday. It sounds crazy but books that are 300 pages can be read in one day if you do nun but read it. I read one over the span of like 1 month then finally read it though and it took me 3 days after one month of reading til like chapter 5
@@leopardtree2249 True, also classics are different in different parts of the world, if you are from a diffrent culture - like me - your probably only familliar with the big names. So, no stress
yeah she read like 50 books a year, while graduating as valedictorian from an elite private high school and then going off to yale. That's way beyond simple bookworm territory. It's about as realistic as the apartments in Friends or HIMYM.
Don't know if anyone else has already siad this, but this list is all the books mentioned in Gilmore Girls, not necessarily read by Rory. But also 100% a comfort show!
Exactly! Not only books, even movies and tv shows talked about in the show. “The yearling” was not a book she read, it’s a movie that Taylor picks for the town to watch every year. “Tuesdays with Morrie” and “Who moved my cheese” are books that Lorelai told Rory not to read and yet they are included. Bambi and Rapunzel were talked about as shows not books.
even as a comp lit student, i only got 56 😔 also, if you love max medina, wait till you see jess mariano in season 2. some of the books that you like or seem to be interested in are actually books that rory read with/because of jess lol
These kind of videos NEVER get old! 🍁The sheer warmth and comfort washed over us all hanging out with our fave booktubers! Loving this Leo, GG is AUTUMN/FALL🍂 Also loving this “faux” fireplace with the salt lamp! 😂🔥
I ticked off 31 books, but this is targeted towards english speaking countries. When i was her age i read french and Arabic books mostly so i'm not mad
I’m not sure if somebody already commented but the books on this list are all of the books seen or referenced on the show, so it’s not just books that Rory’s read but any of the characters seen reading or referencing. :)
Leo as a philosophy major I figured I would weigh in on philosophers writing fiction! One of the most known ones are Jean-Paul Sartre! Outside of philosophy, he was also a playwrite. He wrote No Exit, The Flies, and The Devil and the Good Lord (all that came to mind) There's also The Stranger by Albert Camus that grapples the concept of absurdity. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche is ideas of good and evil, and a lot of Kafka has a lot of philosophical undertones. Philosophy-Fiction is actually such an interesting genre, I hope you're able to look into more! There's a lot of existentialism in the genre, and I actually read a lot of them during my existentialism courses!
Congratulations on joining fans like myself to this Gilmore World. I’ve been rewatching the series plus the 4 seasonal ones on netflix every fall. I’ve never heard of this cool challenge. The theme song is catchy and when fall times begins, I sing along to it. This show made me a fan of Melissa McCarthy.
After 30 years of life as a bookworm, I got 48. I haven't even heard of so many books on that list! But I think many of them are really specific to the English-speaking countries (like children's books), so I'm not gonna give my English degree away :D
Rory has like the most unrealistic taste in books for a teenager. If I read half of these books when I was 15 I would not have had a clue what was happening 😂
I was one of those bookworm weirdos as a young kid and would read anything I could get my hands on, including reading my parents' copies of Catcher in the Rye and Breakfast of Champions in third grade. It happens, and it's funny because no, you don't fully "get" what you're reading, even if you know all the vocabulary. But we are out there. 😀
We read most of these books as teenagers in class and really loved them. Books like the wind in the willows were read in primary (elementary) school in Kenya. I think it depends on how children are raised and what they are surrounded by.
I read many of these books and really didn't understand what was happening, but I thought the words sounded so pretty... But yeah I also read straight trash off the internet like anyone else lol
Not really classics are really popular in my country one publishing had a series of "X books to read before you die" i collected them and because of that i literally started reading classics when i was 10. for full experience it's better to read as an adult tho
@@MusclesandBooks lol i may be just like u then in this case as a young kid i adored the classics and other books that technically weren’t for my age level lol XD still like that till this day as a teen!
I did what most people did following this video and jumped straight to the challenge. I’ve read 71 and this was helped by my English schooling/university education (lots of Shakespeare and the kids books). Quite a few are on my tbr too, so this is my sign to get reading 😁
85 - which was much more than I expected. I remember seeing this list years ago and thinking I had no hope. There are still loads I hadn't even heard of ...
Gilmore Girls was an excellent and very smart show. You are definitely very like Rory. I think it also turned into something of a tragedy with Rory experiencing the failure of the optimistic worldview of the mid to late 90s where gifted children were told if we worked hard, lived right and got good grades, we'd be world changers....Great video as always, Leonie! Have a great week! P.S. I've read 99 books off this list.
I was looking for a new show to start watching so this video couldn't come at a better moment! Already watched the first few episodes and loving it so far, makes me want to read a bunch of classics!
I just began watching this series a week ago. I heard about all the fall vibes from several booktubers. It's getting better and better with each episode! I've only read 26 on the list, sadly. I recognize so many of the books from seeing them in my mother's hands. If I could add the ones my mother has read to my list, it would be well over a hundred. Many of these were all the rage when they were published. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Rebecca, Emma, and Wuthering Heights are some of my faves.
i got 20 but i think it’s because the list’s target audience is native english speakers. i’m russian and i don’t like russian classics (so no crime and punishment or war and peace for me though i do adore master and margarita) so its kind of a surprise i even got that many tbh great video as always, leonie !!🤍
Master and margarita is the superior russian lit book, it's just so fun. I've tried reading dead souls by gogol once and omg it was so annoying I gave up by page 20 or sth, absolutely nothing fun about that one
@@ana-maria.c i think we had to read dead souls for school and tbh i don’t remember much of it except i didn’t enjoy it but that is applicable to pretty much every russian classic we had to read expect master and margarita obviously it’s so weird and crazy every time i reread it it feels like i’m doing it all over again
@@oushan24 I tried several times. When I told my daughter I was reading it again, she said, "Let me know where you stop this time." I took some time and broke it up into chunks of around 7 chapters a day. They're pretty short. Also, my library has the audiobook and the narrator was great. So, I listened some at night before falling asleep and then reading some. It took A WHILE, but I was bound and determined to cross that book off my list.
I got 37%, but I also was a bookseller in the early 2000s and some of these are indeed books that were popular back then. Also it does gear heavily towards things you read in American high school. Funnily enough, I've never watched Gilmore Girls
I‘m surprised but I’ve read 10 books 😂 because I’m really into contemporary literature and fantasy. A few books from the list I’m currently reading 😅 thank you for this cozy video 🌸💖
yesss gilmore girls is the absolute fall comfort show. Rory is such an interesting and a bit of a controversial character, she is a person whom everyone is very opinionated about. Of course i do agree with a lot of the criticisms people have about her, but i will always also have the love for her that i had since season one.
I totally agree with Gilmore girls being a very cozy and comforting autumn show! I first watched it when I was at uni during the pandemic. Let me tell you though, that the mini series after did not feel comforting at all but sent me into an existential crisis about my studies and my prospects of being employed after... Maybe you're more stable in that regard but if you're not I really can't recommend that last part!
Ohh this is such perfect timing! I wanted to start the Rory Gilmore challenge for a while and was really thinking about it today, and then saw you uploaded a video! 😊❤
I've read 49, mostly thanks to required reading in high school. I think 18 is pretty great, especially if you didn't suffer through American high school in the 2000s :)
I just started Gilmore girls this fall and I’m already obsessed! edit: I wrote this before I started the video and at 0:25 you said basically exactly what I said xD
I got 38 out of 339, mostly due to reading a lot of Shakespeare's plays for theatre class and recently reading a lot of classics 😁 Gilmore Girls is such a great show. I've just started rewatching it because of the autumn vibes
I feel I've read somewhere that these list challenges are books mentioned in the show, not necessarily read by Rory. I took the challenge and got 33/339 (mostly because of Harry Potter, Lotr and Shakespeare). But I'm with you, there are several books on the list I have no interest in reading, so I think it's good to read after your own interests :D
I'm piggybacking on an earlier comment but trying to read like Rory Gilmore almost killed my love for reading. I stopped trying to read classics and became a huge fantasy reader over the past 8 years. I've finally circled back to classics again.
Leonie, I'd suggest reading House of Spirits by Isabel Allende if you wanna get into magical realism but on the 'lighter' side before reading 100 years of solitude by GGM. Actually House of Spirits has its own movie featuring Winona Ryder and Meryl Streep. I really enjoyed both the book and movie, tho some ppl say Allende's style is a failed attempt to write like GGM hehee but I hope you like it! ❤
Video idea: make a list of books you think should be on the list and make it modern, add all the current popular non fiction books she would read if the show was taking place now. You could also switch up here taste make it fantasy and which books she would have read if she were into fantasy or scifi.. Love your content by the way!! ❤️
Ah, Gilmore Girls! I used to watch it on tv as a child and in my teens and I loved it, but it also made me feel anxious at times because parts of the Gilmore family dynamic mirrored the dynamics within my own extended family haha. I do think it truly is a comfort show overall, though. Happy watching! I'd love to see more Gilmore Girls related videos from you as well. A lot of the books on Rory's list sound intriguing, and this video made me consider setting the list as a reading challenge for myself in a very relaxed manner - no time limit, and so on. Also, 6:43 exactly!? I'd be really interested to hear the thought process behind choosing these particular books for Rory. Part of it is probably required readings at North American schools etc. but I'm curious about how these books may have been chose based on, for example, Rory's personality and interests (such as the books on feminism). + 21:46 aw, that fairy tale was one of my favourites as a child! I read a Finnish translation with lovely illustrations.
Seing all the really contemporary fiction and nonfiction books on the list, it would be really interesting to think which ones that would be today… like what books from the last decades would make it onto Rory‘s shelf? ❤
Oh, Leo, I’m so happy you are enjoying Gilmore Girls! It’s definitely my favorite show ever. I’ve watched it 7 times, and it’s literally the only tv show with the power to make me feel happy whenever I’m down. It’s perfect exactly because it’s not. Once you finish it, can you make a review video? 🥺 oh btw, my score was 13 LMAO In Brazil most of those books are not “obligatory”, and Rory didn’t read the Brazilian classics, so well… In my defense, I do want to read at least 50 of the books on the list, most of them are on my wishlist/tbr 🥹
Fellow Dutch book lover here - soo jealous that you are seeing Gilmore Girls for the first time! I’ve seen it few times over already and it still is my fall comfort show - I just started this years rewatch few days ago! ENJOY 🤩 PS: Luke IS the one, you’ll see 🤓
I read 65 of them. But then I had a literature loving grandpa who pushed some Dickens my way, I read all of Austen's books, and a lot of the books I read I did when I studied to become an English teacher (I never did become one btw, although I still do love to read). Also I was a teenager around the same time as Rory and already an avid reader when certain books (like The Kite Runner) were big. As others said, the list is completely all over the place and what's read by others than Rory too. It's very fun to compare a bit, but in no way does this thing say a lot about how well read you are.
So glad you’re watching Gilmore Girls!!! I didn’t watch this until the pandemic hit in 2020 when I finished all seasons haha. It really is such a cozy autumn indulgence! And enjoy Jane Eyre! I’ve only read it this year but I’m glad I did ❤
Haha like you, I just discovered the cozy comfort of Gilmore Girls and it came out when I was just a little younger than Rory was…it’s so nostalgic! I never watched back then because I was more into books and worked a lot when not at school …I’m surprised I have read so many of the same books as Rory, however! Many of which were contemporary fiction of that time, so you’re on to something with that theory! This was fun! 😁
Omg i got so excited to see this!! Gilmore Girls was my fave show when i was younger and i still love it! Also i totally understand the max thing aha i still love luke though aha
First, because you mentioned the Yellow Wallpaper, I wanted to note Charlotte Wessels (Dutch singer, but English language song) recently released an amazing song called The Phantom Touch about that story. And now some fun insight about two titles you flagged in the video. The Manticore is book 2 in the Deptford trilogy and the most technical one to read in the trilogy IMO, though personally I think each book in the trilogy can be read as standalone books. Fifth Business is the first book in the trilogy (and if you pick one book in the trilogy, I’d pick this one) and the whole trilogy is full of magicians, mysteries and a really cool depiction of Jungian psychology and analysis (the trilogy is among my fav books, a modernish (1970s) Canadian classic). The Master and Margarita is another fav of mine and I’d describe it as a Russian gothic comedy, which includes fun things like characters who are writers, the devil causing mayhem on earth and a giant talking cat named Behemoth. Would be cool if you read these books, would love to hear your perspective on them.
I don't consider myself a super prolific reader, but I still got 63. Helps that Stephen King, Shakespeare, and Austen were on the list. Many more were required reading in school, or on Summer reading lists. There might be as many as 25 more that I'd even be interested in reading . It's a very eclectic list.
Kept putting off finishing Gilmore Girls (currently in season 6) because it just warms my heart and gives all the nostalgia and cozy fall atmosphere and I dont want it to end 🥺 watching it the 2nd time is tbh a totally diff experience compared to the first. On the other hand, pls read Kite Runner! It’s a great one
So, I devoted my senior year of high school in 2008 to binging all of Gilmore Girls, which did inspire me to pick up a few of the classics 😂. But when going through the list, I gave myself a little leeway because I've read portions of a lot of books/collections in a lot of my lit classes that I remember, and there are a couple where I can't remember if I only read the kid's abridged versions or if I picked up the real copy. But in total, I checked off 83 books (or 24% of the list). I definitely want to read more of these, but I also know there's at least 100 that I have no interest in or have already DNF'd, lol. And I agree, it's a little surprising which classics made it on the list, and which didn't! Especially by the same authors. Like, I feel like it's a safe assumption that had she liked some of them, she would have read more, but these are jus the ones that get referenced.
I did 103 of 339 and did better than 95% of other users ! and yes, i did watched girlmore girls growing up and yes, i read most of those books while watching the show cause i wanted to be like rory.
I have read 63 of her books, but I have also seen adaptations and not read the book. Some of her books I have tried but DNFed. It is fun to go through this list and I still to want to read some of the ones on her reading list, because I bought them.
I have read 15 of the books, and DNF two more. I did watch many movie adaptations of the books on her list though, and have several of the classics on my want to read list.
Darling Desi has a gilmore girls themed readathon! Idk if she still hosts it but maybe you could do it in a video anyway as more of a themed reading list/activity week vlog??
I think you would love Heart of Darkness! It has some mystery and darkness that i feel you would appreciate. Btw Conrad is my favorite ever so maybe I am a little biased haha
I've read 48 out of 339. I didn't watch Gilmore Girls when I was young either but I feel the same as you. I feel if I did watch it growing up I'd be obsessed and probably would have read more of the books on the list.
I got 19. I also thought I'd have scored slightly higher, but in my "defense" my brazilian's school required readings didn't have many English classics in the list
I've read 49, so I'm right around the average. I think the fact that I've read almost every Shakespeare play gave me a lot of things to check off that I wouldn't have had otherwise, because I still haven't read many of these books all things considered. I think you're way more well read than I am, so it is interesting what you'll end up reading just due to exposure and where/how you've grown up.
just so we don't fall into toxic self comparison, everyone should keep in mind that she is a fictional character and, as you said, there is probably several people involved into making her "read" all these books. Besides, taking into acount that she is living within a very high academic environment, I think it is pretty logical that she reads that much classics, internet content was not a thing yet, and if there is so many books it is also because the show follows her through her young and adult life. So, too everyone who feel like they red nothing comparing to her, just keep in mind: it is not realistic !! ;)
Also we seen her have barley any friends til lane is introduced so tbh maybe she did that growing up but high school she stops and reads a couple of books. Her mother can be neglecting at times so rori probably read those books to take her mind off things. Also personal experience is that you can probably finish reading a book everyday. It sounds crazy but books that are 300 pages can be read in one day if you do nun but read it. I read one over the span of like 1 month then finally read it though and it took me 3 days after one month of reading til like chapter 5
@@leopardtree2249 True, also classics are different in different parts of the world, if you are from a diffrent culture - like me - your probably only familliar with the big names. So, no stress
okay i needed this. thank you 💜
Ahem… it’s a show 🤔 it’s a fictional character. Somebody’s imagination. Don’t feel bad for not being able to fly like Superman.
yeah she read like 50 books a year, while graduating as valedictorian from an elite private high school and then going off to yale. That's way beyond simple bookworm territory. It's about as realistic as the apartments in Friends or HIMYM.
You know you're getting older when you start noticing the ENGLISH TEACHER instead of Rory's main love interests
Ha! Saw a tiktok of someone being more into Edward’s dad watching Twilight
@@hollyh.2744 I’m 27 and SAME
@@sebastian1416 That's me in a nutshell. Carlisle is just better than Edward 🤷🏻♀️
@@sebastian1416 Bellas dad tho
Lol I realized I was getting older when we named one of our kids after a character on the show 🤣
Don't know if anyone else has already siad this, but this list is all the books mentioned in Gilmore Girls, not necessarily read by Rory. But also 100% a comfort show!
Exactly! Not only books, even movies and tv shows talked about in the show. “The yearling” was not a book she read, it’s a movie that Taylor picks for the town to watch every year. “Tuesdays with Morrie” and “Who moved my cheese” are books that Lorelai told Rory not to read and yet they are included. Bambi and Rapunzel were talked about as shows not books.
This list is not at all accurate and Rory definitely did not read these. Whomever made it just included everything pop culture of the time.
I would love it if you picked 2-3 books from this list to read in a Rory Gilmore reading vlog!
Was just coming to comment this same thing!
Great idea!
@@WhileJenWasReading Yes!!!! I suggest Wuthering Heights, Things Fall Apart by Achebe and One Hundred Years of Solitude....
Gilmore girls is such a comfort show
I’m rewatching it for the 100th time 😅
@@itskuka05 no literally same
Not if your real life drama turns into Rory's TV drama
;-;
I read 34. It really helped that I was obsessed with the "Pride and Prejudice" movie as a teenager and read ALL Jane Austen books after seeing it.
I adore the 3 books from Jane Austen that I have read.
I read 19 many of which were a result of my female written classics phase (which arguably isn't over)
"I wish I could take those books and just download them into my brain"
thank god i'm not the only one! 😂
I got 158 out of 339. Also, when you get to season 2, maybe do a reading vlog with all the books that the character Jess reads or Paris.
even as a comp lit student, i only got 56 😔
also, if you love max medina, wait till you see jess mariano in season 2. some of the books that you like or seem to be interested in are actually books that rory read with/because of jess lol
He has his own list, in Google
LOVED Gilmore Girls, especially the autumn episodes. Also, I'm a Paris Geller stan first, and a human second!
These kind of videos NEVER get old! 🍁The sheer warmth and comfort washed over us all hanging out with our fave booktubers! Loving this Leo, GG is AUTUMN/FALL🍂 Also loving this “faux” fireplace with the salt lamp! 😂🔥
I ticked off 31 books, but this is targeted towards english speaking countries. When i was her age i read french and Arabic books mostly so i'm not mad
"The Da Vinci Code, a classic,,, haven't read it" sobbing hahahahaha
I’m not sure if somebody already commented but the books on this list are all of the books seen or referenced on the show, so it’s not just books that Rory’s read but any of the characters seen reading or referencing. :)
Rory didn't read all of them, but all of them are mentioned in the show. Amy Palladino is responsible for all those references 💟
Possible future video topic: What BooTok famous books would Rory Gilmore be reading today?
I love the coziness of this video. Thank you, Leonie.
Just wanted to say that I love this channel, both Leonie and the community here, you guys are amazing
Leo as a philosophy major I figured I would weigh in on philosophers writing fiction!
One of the most known ones are Jean-Paul Sartre! Outside of philosophy, he was also a playwrite. He wrote No Exit, The Flies, and The Devil and the Good Lord (all that came to mind)
There's also The Stranger by Albert Camus that grapples the concept of absurdity.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche is ideas of good and evil, and a lot of Kafka has a lot of philosophical undertones.
Philosophy-Fiction is actually such an interesting genre, I hope you're able to look into more! There's a lot of existentialism in the genre, and I actually read a lot of them during my existentialism courses!
Yes!! Keep the Gilmore girls content! You could do a day Gilmore girls style maybe a day living like Rory and another one living like lorelei
Leonie and Rory Gilmore, I can’t think of a better pair with whom to spend my evening😊
Congratulations on joining fans like myself to this Gilmore World. I’ve been rewatching the series plus the 4 seasonal ones on netflix every fall. I’ve never heard of this cool challenge. The theme song is catchy and when fall times begins, I sing along to it. This show made me a fan of Melissa McCarthy.
After 30 years of life as a bookworm, I got 48. I haven't even heard of so many books on that list! But I think many of them are really specific to the English-speaking countries (like children's books), so I'm not gonna give my English degree away :D
I've read 18 too! don't stress about it, you are still valid as a booktuber
Rory has like the most unrealistic taste in books for a teenager. If I read half of these books when I was 15 I would not have had a clue what was happening 😂
I was one of those bookworm weirdos as a young kid and would read anything I could get my hands on, including reading my parents' copies of Catcher in the Rye and Breakfast of Champions in third grade. It happens, and it's funny because no, you don't fully "get" what you're reading, even if you know all the vocabulary. But we are out there. 😀
We read most of these books as teenagers in class and really loved them. Books like the wind in the willows were read in primary (elementary) school in Kenya. I think it depends on how children are raised and what they are surrounded by.
I read many of these books and really didn't understand what was happening, but I thought the words sounded so pretty... But yeah I also read straight trash off the internet like anyone else lol
Not really classics are really popular in my country one publishing had a series of "X books to read before you die" i collected them and because of that i literally started reading classics when i was 10. for full experience it's better to read as an adult tho
@@MusclesandBooks lol i may be just like u then in this case as a young kid i adored the classics and other books that technically weren’t for my age level lol XD still like that till this day as a teen!
I did what most people did following this video and jumped straight to the challenge. I’ve read 71 and this was helped by my English schooling/university education (lots of Shakespeare and the kids books). Quite a few are on my tbr too, so this is my sign to get reading 😁
85 - which was much more than I expected.
I remember seeing this list years ago and thinking I had no hope. There are still loads I hadn't even heard of ...
Gilmore Girls was an excellent and very smart show. You are definitely very like Rory. I think it also turned into something of a tragedy with Rory experiencing the failure of the optimistic worldview of the mid to late 90s where gifted children were told if we worked hard, lived right and got good grades, we'd be world changers....Great video as always, Leonie! Have a great week! P.S. I've read 99 books off this list.
girl your editing deserves more recognition like pop off darling
I was looking for a new show to start watching so this video couldn't come at a better moment! Already watched the first few episodes and loving it so far, makes me want to read a bunch of classics!
Not me, who started the show in September, being totally obsessed with the show and with this video.
I just began watching this series a week ago. I heard about all the fall vibes from several booktubers. It's getting better and better with each episode! I've only read 26 on the list, sadly. I recognize so many of the books from seeing them in my mother's hands. If I could add the ones my mother has read to my list, it would be well over a hundred. Many of these were all the rage when they were published. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Rebecca, Emma, and Wuthering Heights are some of my faves.
GIRL! I just started Gilmore Girls for the first time this past week, and absolutely yes to everything you said
i got 20 but i think it’s because the list’s target audience is native english speakers. i’m russian and i don’t like russian classics (so no crime and punishment or war and peace for me though i do adore master and margarita) so its kind of a surprise i even got that many tbh
great video as always, leonie !!🤍
I just finished Anna Karenina after trying several times. She was so annoying, I would have pushed her off the platform myself!
Master and margarita is the superior russian lit book, it's just so fun. I've tried reading dead souls by gogol once and omg it was so annoying I gave up by page 20 or sth, absolutely nothing fun about that one
@@mrswilbert that’s such an achievement omg! i never even tried it bcs big books by tolstoy still scare me, but maybe i need to give it a go
@@ana-maria.c i think we had to read dead souls for school and tbh i don’t remember much of it except i didn’t enjoy it but that is applicable to pretty much every russian classic we had to read expect master and margarita obviously
it’s so weird and crazy every time i reread it it feels like i’m doing it all over again
@@oushan24 I tried several times. When I told my daughter I was reading it again, she said, "Let me know where you stop this time." I took some time and broke it up into chunks of around 7 chapters a day. They're pretty short. Also, my library has the audiobook and the narrator was great. So, I listened some at night before falling asleep and then reading some. It took A WHILE, but I was bound and determined to cross that book off my list.
I got 37%, but I also was a bookseller in the early 2000s and some of these are indeed books that were popular back then. Also it does gear heavily towards things you read in American high school. Funnily enough, I've never watched Gilmore Girls
I‘m surprised but I’ve read 10 books 😂 because I’m really into contemporary literature and fantasy. A few books from the list I’m currently reading 😅 thank you for this cozy video 🌸💖
Ahh so fun to see you doing this challenge (and thank you so much for sharing my video too)✨
No problem 😊
I think we need more Gilmore girls themed videos from you now that we've got this!
yesss gilmore girls is the absolute fall comfort show. Rory is such an interesting and a bit of a controversial character, she is a person whom everyone is very opinionated about. Of course i do agree with a lot of the criticisms people have about her, but i will always also have the love for her that i had since season one.
I love hearing you share how you feel about Gilmore girls for the first time ❤
I totally agree with Gilmore girls being a very cozy and comforting autumn show! I first watched it when I was at uni during the pandemic. Let me tell you though, that the mini series after did not feel comforting at all but sent me into an existential crisis about my studies and my prospects of being employed after... Maybe you're more stable in that regard but if you're not I really can't recommend that last part!
Ohh this is such perfect timing! I wanted to start the Rory Gilmore challenge for a while and was really thinking about it today, and then saw you uploaded a video! 😊❤
I've read 49, mostly thanks to required reading in high school. I think 18 is pretty great, especially if you didn't suffer through American high school in the 2000s :)
I just started Gilmore girls this fall and I’m already obsessed!
edit: I wrote this before I started the video and at 0:25 you said basically exactly what I said xD
I got 38 out of 339, mostly due to reading a lot of Shakespeare's plays for theatre class and recently reading a lot of classics 😁 Gilmore Girls is such a great show. I've just started rewatching it because of the autumn vibes
I feel I've read somewhere that these list challenges are books mentioned in the show, not necessarily read by Rory. I took the challenge and got 33/339 (mostly because of Harry Potter, Lotr and Shakespeare). But I'm with you, there are several books on the list I have no interest in reading, so I think it's good to read after your own interests :D
I'm piggybacking on an earlier comment but trying to read like Rory Gilmore almost killed my love for reading. I stopped trying to read classics and became a huge fantasy reader over the past 8 years. I've finally circled back to classics again.
I got 71 and I honestly think it's just because my MA is in English literature and I had to read them for school haha
I read 72! …..and now my tbr will get so much bigger 🙈🧡📚
Leonie, I'd suggest reading House of Spirits by Isabel Allende if you wanna get into magical realism but on the 'lighter' side before reading 100 years of solitude by GGM. Actually House of Spirits has its own movie featuring Winona Ryder and Meryl Streep. I really enjoyed both the book and movie, tho some ppl say Allende's style is a failed attempt to write like GGM hehee but I hope you like it! ❤
Video idea: make a list of books you think should be on the list and make it modern, add all the current popular non fiction books she would read if the show was taking place now. You could also switch up here taste make it fantasy and which books she would have read if she were into fantasy or scifi..
Love your content by the way!! ❤️
I read 37 of 339 books on the list, so far. Many of those are still on my tbr, or on my bookshelf, waiting to be read xD
Ah, Gilmore Girls! I used to watch it on tv as a child and in my teens and I loved it, but it also made me feel anxious at times because parts of the Gilmore family dynamic mirrored the dynamics within my own extended family haha. I do think it truly is a comfort show overall, though. Happy watching! I'd love to see more Gilmore Girls related videos from you as well. A lot of the books on Rory's list sound intriguing, and this video made me consider setting the list as a reading challenge for myself in a very relaxed manner - no time limit, and so on. Also, 6:43 exactly!? I'd be really interested to hear the thought process behind choosing these particular books for Rory. Part of it is probably required readings at North American schools etc. but I'm curious about how these books may have been chose based on, for example, Rory's personality and interests (such as the books on feminism). + 21:46 aw, that fairy tale was one of my favourites as a child! I read a Finnish translation with lovely illustrations.
Seing all the really contemporary fiction and nonfiction books on the list, it would be really interesting to think which ones that would be today… like what books from the last decades would make it onto Rory‘s shelf? ❤
I got 28 and I both shocked and impressed. Tbh, very few of the books that Rory's read interest me enough to pick them up 🙃
Oh, Leo, I’m so happy you are enjoying Gilmore Girls! It’s definitely my favorite show ever. I’ve watched it 7 times, and it’s literally the only tv show with the power to make me feel happy whenever I’m down.
It’s perfect exactly because it’s not.
Once you finish it, can you make a review video? 🥺
oh btw, my score was 13 LMAO
In Brazil most of those books are not “obligatory”, and Rory didn’t read the Brazilian classics, so well…
In my defense, I do want to read at least 50 of the books on the list, most of them are on my wishlist/tbr 🥹
Fellow Dutch book lover here - soo jealous that you are seeing Gilmore Girls for the first time! I’ve seen it few times over already and it still is my fall comfort show - I just started this years rewatch few days ago! ENJOY 🤩 PS: Luke IS the one, you’ll see 🤓
oh wow I've read 28/339, pretty pleased with that!
The way you say Charlotte and trough is so charming!
I read 65 of them. But then I had a literature loving grandpa who pushed some Dickens my way, I read all of Austen's books, and a lot of the books I read I did when I studied to become an English teacher (I never did become one btw, although I still do love to read). Also I was a teenager around the same time as Rory and already an avid reader when certain books (like The Kite Runner) were big.
As others said, the list is completely all over the place and what's read by others than Rory too. It's very fun to compare a bit, but in no way does this thing say a lot about how well read you are.
So glad you’re watching Gilmore Girls!!! I didn’t watch this until the pandemic hit in 2020 when I finished all seasons haha. It really is such a cozy autumn indulgence! And enjoy Jane Eyre! I’ve only read it this year but I’m glad I did ❤
Haha like you, I just discovered the cozy comfort of Gilmore Girls and it came out when I was just a little younger than Rory was…it’s so nostalgic! I never watched back then because I was more into books and worked a lot when not at school …I’m surprised I have read so many of the same books as Rory, however! Many of which were contemporary fiction of that time, so you’re on to something with that theory! This was fun! 😁
Omg i got so excited to see this!! Gilmore Girls was my fave show when i was younger and i still love it! Also i totally understand the max thing aha i still love luke though aha
Rory was a genius lol. I forget what season but in one of the episodes she said something like I remember everything I read.
This is so funny! I just started watching Gilmore Girls for the first time ever as well. I just finished the first season and I’m loving it.
First, because you mentioned the Yellow Wallpaper, I wanted to note Charlotte Wessels (Dutch singer, but English language song) recently released an amazing song called The Phantom Touch about that story. And now some fun insight about two titles you flagged in the video. The Manticore is book 2 in the Deptford trilogy and the most technical one to read in the trilogy IMO, though personally I think each book in the trilogy can be read as standalone books. Fifth Business is the first book in the trilogy (and if you pick one book in the trilogy, I’d pick this one) and the whole trilogy is full of magicians, mysteries and a really cool depiction of Jungian psychology and analysis (the trilogy is among my fav books, a modernish (1970s) Canadian classic). The Master and Margarita is another fav of mine and I’d describe it as a Russian gothic comedy, which includes fun things like characters who are writers, the devil causing mayhem on earth and a giant talking cat named Behemoth. Would be cool if you read these books, would love to hear your perspective on them.
I loved the show and learning more about rory’s readings
id LOVE 2 see u make a series where u try 2 complete this list
I don't consider myself a super prolific reader, but I still got 63. Helps that Stephen King, Shakespeare, and Austen were on the list. Many more were required reading in school, or on Summer reading lists. There might be as many as 25 more that I'd even be interested in reading . It's a very eclectic list.
Kept putting off finishing Gilmore Girls (currently in season 6) because it just warms my heart and gives all the nostalgia and cozy fall atmosphere and I dont want it to end 🥺 watching it the 2nd time is tbh a totally diff experience compared to the first. On the other hand, pls read Kite Runner! It’s a great one
ty for including the link to the challenge!!
Love Leonie and love Gilmore Girls! So glad you’re enjoying watching the show, it’s one of my faves 😊
PERFECT TIME FOR THIS VIDEOO
So, I devoted my senior year of high school in 2008 to binging all of Gilmore Girls, which did inspire me to pick up a few of the classics 😂. But when going through the list, I gave myself a little leeway because I've read portions of a lot of books/collections in a lot of my lit classes that I remember, and there are a couple where I can't remember if I only read the kid's abridged versions or if I picked up the real copy. But in total, I checked off 83 books (or 24% of the list). I definitely want to read more of these, but I also know there's at least 100 that I have no interest in or have already DNF'd, lol.
And I agree, it's a little surprising which classics made it on the list, and which didn't! Especially by the same authors. Like, I feel like it's a safe assumption that had she liked some of them, she would have read more, but these are jus the ones that get referenced.
Ahhh so exciting i should totally read that book list!!
I did 103 of 339 and did better than 95% of other users ! and yes, i did watched girlmore girls growing up and yes, i read most of those books while watching the show cause i wanted to be like rory.
love it!!! i read 83
What a cool video idea! Omg I read like 2 books out of them all! I am a huge thriller and romance reader!
I have read 63 of her books, but I have also seen adaptations and not read the book. Some of her books I have tried but DNFed. It is fun to go through this list and I still to want to read some of the ones on her reading list, because I bought them.
A Celebrated Jumping Frog, haha. Reach for the stars, little frog, you can do it 🌠
I really enjoyed Kavalier and Clay! Definitely recommend it if the premise sounds interesting to you.
I can tell you that I am in love with max medina as well, so dreamy!! Love the video!
I read 8 books in this list... OMG, I am wondering as well who the hell did the list of books for Rory. Thanks for sharing this challenge. But oups!
It was a fan that wrote down all books shown or mentioned.
I have read 15 of the books, and DNF two more. I did watch many movie adaptations of the books on her list though, and have several of the classics on my want to read list.
Yesssss! Another Max Medina fan!!
You are wearing Howl's earrings!! Love them
I was actually shocked at how many books I had read. I read 102
I'm sure that I'm not the only here that are mesmerized with leoni voice
I saw on someone else's channel who did this challenge, that Rory doesn't actually read all of them... It's a list of all books mentioned on the show
You should do a follow up video after you finish the series!!
I can proudly say, that I've read 31 of these books!!! I did not expect it and I'm very proud of myself 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😁😁😁
my friends loved Fahrenheit 451 so much and i just don’t get why!! i’m so happy to hear that you didn’t like it either; i thought it was just me
you should definitely make a video where you read some books of the list !!
My mother talks about the list of Rory's reads all the time!! We're both big fans of the show
I’ve read 73 of these and that’s probably all I will read. There’s so many I’d never be interested in 😂
Darling Desi has a gilmore girls themed readathon! Idk if she still hosts it but maybe you could do it in a video anyway as more of a themed reading list/activity week vlog??
I think you would love Heart of Darkness! It has some mystery and darkness that i feel you would appreciate. Btw Conrad is my favorite ever so maybe I am a little biased haha
Everyone should read that story. Reading Conrad, it's hard to believe that English was not his native language.
I tried this challenge right after I watched your video - I scored 28/339. There were many books on the list that I had started but ended up DNF'ing 🙈
oh, what a lovely video, I started the show today though, and your video pop up 🤩🤍🤍
I've read 48 out of 339.
I didn't watch Gilmore Girls when I was young either but I feel the same as you. I feel if I did watch it growing up I'd be obsessed and probably would have read more of the books on the list.
I got 19. I also thought I'd have scored slightly higher, but in my "defense" my brazilian's school required readings didn't have many English classics in the list
Good video with good food 😌 my reward after studying
I've read 49, so I'm right around the average. I think the fact that I've read almost every Shakespeare play gave me a lot of things to check off that I wouldn't have had otherwise, because I still haven't read many of these books all things considered. I think you're way more well read than I am, so it is interesting what you'll end up reading just due to exposure and where/how you've grown up.