Rory Gilmore, leitora voraz
Harry Potter seria o responsável por toda uma geração de novos leitores. Meninas e meninos que fizeram filas em livrarias, aguardando o início das vendas a cada sequência das aventuras do garoto-bruxo, seriam hoje os responsáveis pela explosão da literatura de fantasia e young adults. Era isso que eu pensava, dando crédito ainda para a saga Crespúsculo, que chegou oito anos depois como reforço do hábito de leitura para uma legião de jovens – ou não tão jovens.
Mas me dei conta de mais um elemento de cultura pop que deve ter alimentado o fenômeno: uma menina chamada Lorelai Gilmore, mesmo nome de sua mãe solteira, personagens centrais da série norte-americana de TV Gilmore Girls. Suas sete temporadas foram exibidas em TV paga e canais abertos no Brasil.
Não cheguei a ver a série, mas referências a ela estão com frequência presentes em blogs, vídeos e podcasts sobre livros e literatura. Isso porque Lorelai filha, que prefere ser chamada de Rory, é vista lendo ou falando sobre livros ao longo dos 152 episódios da série. Senão em todos, com certeza em boa parte, pois nada menos do que 339 títulos são mostrados nas mãos da menina ou mencionados em Gilmore Girls.
Isso deu origem ao que ganhou nomes, mundo agora, como Rory Book Project, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge ou Desafio de Leitura de Rory Gilmore. O nome diz tudo: ler os mesmo livros que ela. O bacana é que Rory Gilmore é muito diferente do estereótipo preconceituoso normalmente associado a leitores, de pessoas muito sérias, invariavelmente usando óculos.
Conheça os livros de Rory. Tem muita coisa que vale a pena (os títulos estão em inglês).
1. 1984 de George Orwell
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain
3. Alice in Wonderland de Lewis Carroll
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay de Michael Chabon
5. An American Tragedy de Theodore Dreiser
6. Angela’s Ashes de Frank McCourt
7. Anna Karenina de Leo Tolstoy
8. The Diary of a Young Girl de Anne Frank
9. The Archidamian War de Donald Kagan
10. The Art of Fiction de Henry James
11. The Art of War de Sun Tzu
12. As I Lay Dying de William Faulkner
13. Atonement de Ian McEwan
14. Autobiography of a Face de Lucy Grealy
15. The Awakening de Kate Chopin
16. Babe de Dick King-Smith
17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women de Susan Faludi
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress de Dai Sijie
19. Bel Canto de Ann Patchett
20. The Bell Jar de Sylvia Plath
21. Beloved de Toni Morrison
22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation de Seamus Heaney
23. The Bhagava Gita
24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who
Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200
Jews de Peter Duffy
25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women de Elizabeth Wurtzel
26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays de Mary McCarthy
27. Brave New World de Aldous Huxley
28. Brick Lane de Monica Ali
29. Bridgadoon de Alan Jay Lerner
30. Candide de Voltaire
31. The Canterbury Tales de Chaucer
32. Carrie de Stephen King
33. Catch-22 de Joseph Heller
34. The Catcher in the Rye de J. D. Salinger
35. Charlotte’s Web de E. B. White
36. The Children’s Hour de Lillian Hellman
37. Christine de Stephen King
38. A Christmas Carol de Charles Dickens
39. A Clockwork Orange de Anthony Burgess
40. The Code of the Woosters de P.G. Wodehouse
41. The Collected Stories de Eudora Welty
42. A Comedy of Errors de William Shakespeare
43. Complete Novels de Dawn Powell
44. The Complete Poems de Anne Sexton
45. Complete Stories de Dorothy Parker
46. A Confederacy of Dunces de John Kennedy Toole
47. The Count of Monte Cristo de Alexandre Dumas
48. Cousin Bette de Honore de Balzac
49. Crime and Punishment de Fyodor Dostoevsky
50. The Crimson Petal and the White de Michel Faber
51. The Crucible de Arthur Miller
52. Cujo de Stephen King
53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time de Mark Haddon
54. Daughter of Fortune de Isabel Allende
55. David and Lisa de Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 56. David Copperfield de Charles Dickens 57. The Da Vinci -Code de Dan Brown 58. Dead Souls de Nikolai Gogol 59. Demons de Fyodor Dostoyevsky 60. Death of a Salesman de Arthur Miller 61. Deenie de Judy Blume 62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America de Erik Larson 63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band de Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 64. The Divine Comedy de Dante 65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood de Rebecca Wells 66. Don Quixote de Cervantes 67. Driving Miss Daisy de Alfred Uhrv 68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde de Robert Louis Stevenson 69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems de Edgar Allan Poe 70. Eleanor Roosevelt de Blanche Wiesen Cook 71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test de Tom Wolfe 72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters de Mark Dunn 73. Eloise de Kay Thompson 74. Emily the Strange de Roger Reger 75. Emma de Jane Austen 76. Empire Falls de Richard Russo 77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective de Donald J. Sobol 78. Ethan Frome de Edith Wharton 79. Ethics de Spinoza 80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 de Rick Steves 81. Eva Luna de Isabel Allende 82. Everything Is Illuminated de Jonathan Safran Foer 83. Extravagance de Gary Krist 84. Fahrenheit 451 de Ray Bradbury 85. Fahrenheit 9/11 de Michael Moore 86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire de Donald Kagan 87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World de Greg Critser 88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas de Hunter S. Thompson 89. The Fellowship of the Ring de J. R. R. Tolkien 90. Fiddler on the Roof de Joseph Stein 91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven de Mitch Albom 92. Finnegan’s Wake de James Joyce 93. Fletch de Gregory McDonald 94. Flowers for Algernon de Daniel Keyes 95. The Fortress of Solitude de Jonathan Lethem 96. The Fountainhead de Ayn Rand 97. Frankenstein de Mary Shelley 98. Franny and Zooey de J. D. Salinger 99. Freaky Friday de Mary Rodgers 100. Galapagos de Kurt Vonnegut 101. Gender Trouble de Judith Butler 102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President de Jacob Weisberg 103. Gidget de Fredrick Kohner 104. Girl, Interrupted de Susanna Kaysen 105. The Gnostic Gospels de Elaine Pagels 106. The Godfather: Book 1 de Mario Puzo 107. The God of Small Things de Arundhati Roy 108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears de Alvin Granowsky 109. Gone with the Wind de Margaret Mitchell 110. The Good Soldier de Ford Maddox Ford 111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom112. The Graduate de Charles Webb 113. The Grapes of Wrath de John Steinbeck 114. The Great Gatsde de F. Scott Fitzgerald 115. Great Expectations de Charles Dickens 116. The Group de Mary McCarthy 117. Hamlet de William Shakespeare 118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire de J. K. Rowling 119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone de J. K. Rowling 120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius de Dave Eggers 121. Heart of Darkness de Joseph Conrad 122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders de Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 123. Henry IV, part I de William Shakespeare 124. Henry IV, part II de William Shakespeare 125. Henry V de William Shakespeare 126. High Fidelity de Nick Hornby 127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire de Edward Gibbon 128. Holidays on Ice: Stories de David Sedaris 129. The Holy Barbarians de Lawrence Lipton 130. House of Sand and Fog de Andre Dubus III 131. The House of the Spirits de Isabel Allende 132. How to Breathe Underwater de Julie Orringer 133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas de Dr. Seuss 134. How the Light Gets In de M. J. Hyland 135. Howl de Allen Ginsberg 136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame de Victor Hugo 137. The Iliad de Homer 138. I’m With the Band de Pamela des Barres 139. In Cold Blood de Truman Capote 140. Inferno de Dante 141. Inherit the Wind de Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 142. Iron Weed de William J. Kennedy 143. It Takes a Village de Hillary Rodham Clinton 144. Jane Eyre de Charlotte Bronte 145. The Joy Luck Club de Amy Tan 146. Julius Caesar de William Shakespeare 147. The Jumping Frog de Mark Twain 148. The Jungle de Upton Sinclair 149. Just a Couple of Days de Tony Vigorito 150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar de Robert Alexander 151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly de Anthony Bourdain 152. The Kite Runner de Khaled Hosseini 153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover de D. H. Lawrence 154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 de Gore Vidal 155. Leaves of Grass de Walt Whitman 156. The Legend of Bagger Vance de Steven Pressfield 157. Less Than Zero de Bret Easton Ellis 158. Letters to a Young Poet de Rainer Maria Rilke 159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them de Al Franken 160. Life of Pi de Yann Martel 161. Little Dorrit de Charles Dickens 162. The Little Locksmith de Katharine Butler Hathaway 163. The Little Match Girl de Hans Christian Andersen 164. Little Women de Louisa May Alcott 165. Living History de Hillary Rodham Clinton 166. Lord of the Flies de William Golding 167. The Lottery: And Other Stories de Shirley Jackson 168. The Lovely Bones de Alice Sebold 169. The Love Story de Erich Segal 170. Macbeth de William Shakespeare 171. Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert 172. The Manticore de Robertson Davies 173. Marathon Man de William Goldman 174. The Master and Margarita de Mikhail Bulgakov 175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter de Simone de Beauvoir 176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman de William Tecumseh Sherman 177. Me Talk Pretty One Day de David Sedaris 178. The Meaning of Consuelo de Judith Ortiz Cofer 179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy de H. R. Mencken 180. The Merry Wives of Windsor de William Shakespeare 181. The Metamorphosis de Franz Kafka 182. Middlesex de Jeffrey Eugenides 183. The Miracle Worker de William Gibson 184. Mode Dick de Herman Melville 185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion de Jim Irvin 186. Moliere: A Biography de Hobart Chatfield Taylor 187. A Monetary History of the United States de Milton Friedman 188. Monsieur Proust de Celeste Albaret 189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister de Julie Mars 190. A Moveable Feast de Ernest Hemingway 191. Mrs. Dalloway de Virginia Woolf 192. Mutiny on the Bounty de Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath de Seymour M. Hersh 194. My Life as Author and Editor de H. R. Mencken 195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru de Tim Guest 196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 de Myra Waldo 197. My Sister’s Keeper de Jodi Picoult 198. The Naked and the Dead de Norman Mailer 199. The Name of the Rose de Umberto Eco 200. The Namesake de Jhumpa Lahiri 201. The Nanny Diaries de Emma McLaughlin 202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature de Jan Lars Jensen 203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson de Emily Dickinson 204. The New Way Things Work de David Macaulay 205. Nickel and Dimed de Barbara Ehrenreich 206. Night de Elie Wiesel 207. Northanger Abbey de Jane Austen 208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism de William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born de Dawn Powell 210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man de Charles Bukowski 211. Of Mice and Men de John Steinbeck 212. Old School de Tobias Wolff 213. On the Road de Jack Kerouac 214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest de Ken Kesey 215. One Hundred Years of Solitude de Gabriel Garcia Marquez 216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life de Amy Tan 217. Oracle Night de Paul Auster 218. Oryx and Crake de Margaret Atwood 219. Othello de Shakespeare 220. Our Mutual Friend de Charles Dickens 221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War de Donald Kagan 222. Out of Africa de Isac Dineson 223. The Outsiders de S. E. Hinton 224. A Passage to India de E.M. Forster 225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition de Donald Kagan 226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower de Stephen Chbosky 227. Peyton Place de Grace Metalious 228. The Picture of Dorian Gray de Oscar Wilde 229. Pigs at the Trough de Arianna Huffington 230. Pinocchio de Carlo Collodi 231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain232. The Polysyllabic Spree de Nick Hornby 233. The Portable Dorothy Parker de Dorothy Parker 234. The Portable Nietzche de Fredrich Nietzche 235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill de Ron Suskind 236. Pride and Prejudice de Jane Austen 237. Property de Valerie Martin 238. Pushkin: A Biography de T. J. Binyon 239. Pygmalion de George Bernard Shaw 240. Quattrocento de James Mckean 241. A Quiet Storm de Rachel Howzell Hall 242. Rapunzel de Grimm Brothers 243. The Raven de Edgar Allan Poe 244. The Razor’s Edge de W. Somerset Maugham 245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books de Azar Nafisi 246. Rebecca de Daphne du Maurier 247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm de Kate Douglas Wiggin 248. The Red Tent de Anita Diamant 249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad de Virginia Holman 250. The Return of the King de J. R. R. Tolkien 251. R Is for Ricochet de Sue Grafton 252. Rita Hayworth de Stephen King 253. Robert’s Rules of Order de Henry Robert 254. Roman Holiday de Edith Wharton 255. Romeo and Juliet de William Shakespeare 256. A Room of One’s Own de Virginia Woolf 257. A Room with a View de E. M. Forster 258. Rosemary’s Bade de Ira Levin 259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition260. Sacred Time de Ursula Hegi 261. Sanctuary de William Faulkner 262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay de Nancy Milford 263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller de Henry James 264. The Scarecrow of Oz de Frank L. Baum 265. The Scarlet Letter de Nathaniel Hawthorne 266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend de Laura Hillenbrand 267. The Second Sex de Simone de Beauvoir 268. The Secret Life of Bees de Sue Monk Kidd 269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette de Judith Thurman 270. Selected Hotels of Europe271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 de Dawn Powell 272. Sense and Sensibility de Jane Austen 273. A Separate Peace de John Knowles 274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill275. Sexus de Henry Miller 276. The Shadow of the Wind de Carlos Ruiz Zafon 277. Shane de Jack Shaefer 278. The Shining de Stephen King 279. Siddhartha de Hermann Hesse 280. S Is for Silence de Sue Grafton 281. Slaughter-house Five de Kurt Vonnegut 282. Small Island de Andrea Levy 283. Snows of Kilimanjaro de Ernest Hemingway 284. Snow White and Rose Red de Grimm Brothers 285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World de Barrington Moore 286. The Song of Names de Norman Lebrecht 287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos de Julia de Burgos 288. The Song Reader de Lisa Tucker 289. Songbook de Nick Hornby 290. The Sonnets de William Shakespeare 291. Sonnets from the Portuegese de Elizabeth Barrett Browning 292. Sophie’s Choice de William Styron 293. The Sound and the Fury de William Faulkner 294. Speak, Memory de Vladimir Nabokov 295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers de Mary Roach 296. The Story of My Life de Helen Keller 297. A Streetcar Named Desiree de Tennessee Williams 298. Stuart Little de E. B. White 299. Sun Also Rises de Ernest Hemingway 300. Swann’s Way de Marcel Proust 301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals de Anne Collett 302. Sybil de Flora Rheta Schreiber 303. A Tale of Two Cities de Charles Dickens 304. Tender Is The Night de F. Scott Fitzgerald 305. Term of Endearment de Larry McMurtry 306. Time and Again de Jack Finney 307. The Time Traveler’s Wife de Audrey Niffenegger 308. To Have and Have Not de Ernest Hemingway 309. To Kill a Mockingbird de Harper Lee 310. The Tragedy of Richard III de William Shakespeare 311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn de Betty Smith 312. The Trial de Franz Kafka 313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters de Elisabeth Robinson 314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship de Ann Patchett 315. Tuesdays with Morrie de Mitch Albom 316. Ulysses de James Joyce 317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 de Sylvia Plath 318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin de Harriet Beecher Stowe 319. Unless de Carol Shields 320. Valley of the Dolls de Jacqueline Susann 321. The Vanishing Newspaper de Philip Meyers 322. Vanity Fair de William Makepeace Thackeray 323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) de Joe Harvard 324. The Virgin Suicides de Jeffrey Eugenides 325. Waiting for Godot de Samuel Beckett 326. Walden de Henry David Thoreau 327. Walt Disney’s Bambi de Felix Salten 328. War and Peace de Leo Tolstoy 329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited de Daniel Sinker 330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 de Richard Nelson Bolles 331. What Happened to Bade Jane de Henry Farrell 332. When the Emperor Was Divine de Julie Otsuka 333. Who Moved My Cheese? de Spencer Johnson 334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf de Edward Albee 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West de Gregory Maguire 336. The Wizard of Oz de Frank L. Baum 337. Wuthering Heights de Emily Bronte 338. The Yearling de Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking de Joan Didion
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