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A list of books Daria Morgendorffer either read or talked about on MTV's Daria.
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message 1: by [deleted user] (new)

Marissa wrote: "she was also reading Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre at breakfast in one episode :)"

i added it, thanks!


message 2: by Snott (new)

Snott awesome - thanks for making this list!


message 3: by Phillip (new)

Phillip *gasp* this list is truly fantastic. But when did she read or mention Blood Meridian, I must know.


message 4: by [deleted user] (new)

Phillip wrote: "*gasp* this list is truly fantastic. But when did she read or mention Blood Meridian, I must know."

She reads it at the Camp Grizzly reunion!
http://www.dariawiki.org/wiki/index.p...


message 5: by H (new)

H In 'Of Human Bonding' she was reading Babbitt (at the start)


message 6: by [deleted user] (new)

Hdyk wrote: "In 'Of Human Bonding' she was reading Babbitt (at the start)"

added, thanks!


message 7: by Kevin (new)

Kevin Wasn't she also once reading a book on macroeconomics? But I guess it was no book in particular!


message 8: by Kevin (new)

Kevin Also in the episode Big House Daria is reading the Brothers Karamazov and offers Quinn a copy of the Iliad! And if I may mention, thanks a bunch for the list! It's great!


message 9: by [deleted user] (last edited Mar 25, 2012 12:46AM) (new)

Kevin wrote: "Also in the episode Big House Daria is reading the Brothers Karamazov and offers Quinn a copy of the Iliad! And if I may mention, thanks a bunch for the list! It's great!"

Just added it--thanks!


message 10: by Troy Dyer (new)

Troy Dyer Hello, I've spotted some other books she is seen reading:

Series 5 ep 8 "One J at a Time"
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Series 5 ep 10 "Aunt Nauseam"
Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor an 1858 play

and the last episode "Boxing Daria"
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner.

Cool list :)


message 11: by [deleted user] (new)

Troy Dyer wrote: "Hello, I've spotted some other books she is seen reading:

Series 5 ep 8 "One J at a Time"
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Series 5 ep 10 "Aunt Nauseam"
Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor an 1858 pl..."


I just added them to the list. Thanks!


message 12: by Bronte (new)

Bronte Hello! Great list - good thinking. I've been following it as I watch the series.

One thing I noticed ...

A boy in Mr O'Neill's class was reading The Bell Jar in episode 'The F Word'. After seeing the book, and a girl drawing a coffin, and Brittany crying, Jane and Daria make a few comments about the class being down. A little oblique perhaps, but anyway, up to you! Watch the scene to get what I mean. :)


message 13: by [deleted user] (new)

Bronte wrote: "Hello! Great list - good thinking. I've been following it as I watch the series.

One thing I noticed ...

A boy in Mr O'Neill's class was reading The Bell Jar in episode 'The F Word'. After seein..."


Yes, I definitely recall that scene, so I added The Bell Jar to the list. Thanks!


message 14: by Terry (new)

Terry O'shea Daria is reading The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the episode "It Happened One Nut." This is while she's working at the It's a Nutty Nutty Nutty World stand in the mall.


message 15: by [deleted user] (new)

Terry wrote: "Daria is reading The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the episode "It Happened One Nut." This is while she's working at the It's a Nutty Nutty Nutty World stand in the mall."

added, thanks!


message 16: by Nina (new)

Nina Thanks for the list.

Just to let you know that Sons and Lovers are on there twice :)


message 17: by [deleted user] (new)

Nina wrote: "Thanks for the list.

Just to let you know that Sons and Lovers are on there twice :)"


fixed, thanks!


message 18: by ayanami (last edited Sep 09, 2012 01:58PM) (new)

ayanami I spotted Rule of the Bone (at least, I'm pretty sure that's what it said) in season 2, episode 11 "See Jane Run".

Also, they discuss The Prince and the Pauper in Mr. O'Neill's class in "Through a Lens Darkly".


message 19: by Natalien (new)

Natalien Awesome list, good for you to put together!


message 20: by Danna (new)

Danna Thank you for the list!
I love Daria :)!


message 21: by Danna (last edited Mar 29, 2013 01:27AM) (new)


message 22: by philip (new)

philip In season two episode seven , the new kid, Daria's quasi-love interest Ted Dewitt-Clinton talks about Orpheus in the Underworld by Ovid and mentions a medieval manuscript on swordplay from the 11th-century. No historical manuscript on swordplay dates from that period . The earliest one is Fechtbücher Royal Armouries Ms. I.33, "The tower manuscript" its from 13th Century. it's my belief that this is the one to which Ted refers to during the arcade.


message 23: by Melissa (new)

Melissa Berman In "Boxing Daria," she is reading Black Beauty in a flashback.


message 24: by Paula (new)

Paula Mckinley In "The Misery Chick" Mr. O'Neill's class is reading 'In Memoriam' by Alfred Tennyson


message 25: by Annie (last edited Oct 01, 2014 06:32AM) (new)

Annie A friend of mine sent me this link from a blog posted on 9/30/14


message 26: by Doug (new)

Doug Haynes How is Henery and Glenn Forever on the list when it was not published until after the show as off the air?


message 27: by Sebastian (last edited May 06, 2016 10:16PM) (new)

Sebastian Mallory Quinn was reading "thrombocytopenia complications after stent placement coronary artery and angioplasty" in one episode, not sure if it's an actual book though!

Das Kapital was also read by Daria's dad in Sappy Anniversary


message 28: by Alexey (last edited Dec 17, 2016 01:14PM) (new)

Alexey Shakhnovich What bout The Old Man and the Sea?
Ms. Janet Barch read Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women in paintball episode..


message 29: by Lia (new)

Lia Thank you very much!


message 30: by ayanami (new)

ayanami Doug wrote: "How is Henery and Glenn Forever on the list when it was not published until after the show as off the air?"

I removed this from the list.


message 31: by M. (new)

M. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi, read by Mrs. Barch on the camping episode of the first season and John Gardner's On Moral Fiction in Write Where it Hurts, not sure if they're here


message 32: by Cris (new)

Cris Álvarez Fantastic! Love Daria's taste, however, someone should tell her that in Latin America we also do literature.


message 33: by Mark (new)

Mark Ricard What episode did Julius Caeser appear on Daria?


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