I absolutely love Gilmore Girls and have probably seen every episode a million times. For those of you who haven’t seen the show, Rory Gilmore is one of the main characters and she is always reading in the show. This is a list of all the books she has read during the seven seasons of the show. Because I love the show and Rory, I have decided to tackle this long list of books, 339 to be exact.
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1984 – George Orwell
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
- An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
- Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
- Archidamian War – Donald Kagen
The Art of Fiction – Henry James
- The Art of War – Sun Tzu
- As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- The Awakening – Kate Chopin
- Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
- Babe – Dick King-Smith
- Backlash – Susan Faludi
- Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- Beloved – Toni Morrison
Beowulf – Seamus Heaney
- The Bhagavad Gita
- The Bielski Brothers – Peter Duffy
- Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women – Elizabeth Wurtzel
- A Bolt From the Blue & other Essays – Mary McCarthy
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Brick Lane – Monica Ali
- Brigadoon – Alan Jay Lerner
Candide – Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
- Carrie –Stephen King
- Catch – 22 – Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog – Mark Twain
- Charlotte’s Web – EB White
- The Children’s Hour – Lilian Hellman
- Christine – Stephen King
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
- The Code of the Woosters – PG Wodehouse
- The Collected Short Stories – Eudora Welty
- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- A Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare
- Complete Novels – Dawn Powell
- The Complete Poems – Anne Sexton
- Complete Stories – Dorothy Parker
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- Cousin Bette – Honore de Balzac
- Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Crimson Petal & the White – Michael Faber
- The Crucible – Arthur Miller
- Cujo – Stephen King
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
- Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
- David and Lisa – Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
- Deal Souls – Nikolai Gogol
- Demons – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Deenie – Judy Blume
- The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
- The Dirt – Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mark, & Nikki Sixx
- The Divine Comedy – Dante
- The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
- Don Quijote – Cervantes
- Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhrv
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Complete Tales & Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
- Eleanor Roosevelt – Blanche Wiesen Cook
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
- Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn
- Eloise – Kay Thompson
- Emily the Strange – Roger Reger
- Emma – Jane Austen
- Empire Falls – Richard Russo
- Encyclopedia Brown – Donald J. Sobol
- Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
- Ethics – Spinoza
- Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
- Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Foer
- Extravagance – Gary Kist
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- Fahrenheit 911 – Michael Moore
- The Fall of the Athenian Empire – Donald Kagan
- Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World – Greg Critser
- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
- The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien
- Fiddler on the Roof – Joseph Stein
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
- Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
- Fletch – Gregory McDonald
Flowers of Algernon – Daniel Keyes
- The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathon Lethem
- The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger
- Freaky Friday – Mary Rodgers
- Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
- Gender Trouble – Judith Baker
- George W. Bushism – Jacob Weisberg
- Gidget – Fredrick Kohner
- Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
- The Ghostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels
- The Godfather – Mario Puzo
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- Goldilocks & the Three Bears – Alvin Granowsky
- Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford
- The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
- The Graduate – Charles Webb
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- The Group – Mary McCarthy
Hamlet – Shakespeare
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
- Genius – Dave Eggers
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi
- Henry IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare
- Henry IV, Part 2 – Shakespeare
- Henry V – Shakespeare
- High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbons
- Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
- The Holy Barbarians – Lawrence Lipton
- House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III
- The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
- How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
- How the Light Gets In – MJ Hyland
- Howl – Alan Ginsburg
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
- The Illiad – Homer
- I’m With the Band – Pamela des Barres
- In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
- Inferno – Dante
- Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
- Iron Weed – William J. Kennedy
- It Takes a Village – Hilary Clinton
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
- Just a Couple of Days – Tony Vigorito
- The Kitchen Boy – Robert Alexander
- Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover – DH Lawrence
- The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 – Gore Vidal
- Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
- The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield
- Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
- Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel
- Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
- The Little Locksmith – Katharine Butler Hathaway
- The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Anderson
- Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
- Living History – Hillary Clinton
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- The Lottery & Other Stories – Shirley Jackson
- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
- The Love Story – Eric Segal
Macbeth – Shakespeare
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- The Manticore – Robertson Davies
- Marathon Man – William Goldman
- The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
- Memoirs of Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir
- Memoirs of General WT Sherman – William Tecumseh Sherman
- Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
- The Meaning of Consuelo – Judith Ortiz Cofer
- Mencken’s Chrestomathy – HR Mencken
- The Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare
- The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Miracle Worker – William Gibson
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- The Mojo Collection – Jim Irvin
- Moliere – Hobart Chatfield Taylor
- A Monetary History of the US – Milton Friedman
- Monsieur Proust – Celeste Albaret
- A Month of Sundays – Julie Mars
- A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
- Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
- Mutiny on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
- My Lai 4 – Seymour M Hersh
- My Life as Author and Editor – HR Mencken
- My Life in Orange – Tim Guest
- My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
- The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
- The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
- The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin
- Nervous System – Jan Lars Jensen
- New Poems of Emily Dickinson
- The New Way Things Work – David Macaulay
- Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
- Night – Elie Wiesel
- Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
- The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism – William E Cain
- Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man – Charles Bukowski
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- Old School – Tobias Wolff
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- On the Road – Jack Keruac
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life – Amy Tan
- Oracle Night – Paul Auster
- Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
- Othello – Shakespeare
- Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
- The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War – Donald Kagan
- Out of Africa – Isac Dineson
The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton
- A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
- The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition – Donald Kagan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
- Peyton Place – Grace Metalious
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- Pigs at the Trough – Arianna Huffington
- Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
- Please Kill Me – Legs McNeil & Gilliam McCain
- The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
- The Portable Dorothy Parker
- The Portable Nietzche
- The Price of Loyalty – Ron Suskind
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Property – Valerie Martin
- Pushkin – TJ Binyon
- Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
- Quattrocento – James McKean
- A Quiet Storm – Rachel Howzell Hall
- Rapunzel – Grimm Brothers
- The Razor’s Edge – W Somerset Maugham
- Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
- Rebecca – Daphne de Maurier
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin
- The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
- Rescuing Patty Hearst – Virginia Holman
- The Return of the King – JRR Tolkien
- R is for Ricochet – Sue Grafton
- Rita Hayworth – Stephen King
- Robert’s Rules of Order – Henry Robert
- Roman Fever – Edith Wharton
- Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
- A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
- A Room with a View – EM Forster
- Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
- The Rough Guide to Europe
- Sacred Time – Ursula Hegi
- Sanctuary – William Faulkner
- Savage Beauty – Nancy Milford
- Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller – Henry James
- The Scarecrow of Oz – Frank L. Baum
The Scarlet Letter – Nathanial Hawthorne
- Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand
- The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvior
- The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
- Secrets of the Flesh – Judith Thurman
- Selected Letters of Dawn Powell (1913-1965)
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- A Separate Place – John Knowles
- Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
- Sexus – Henry Miller
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron
- Shane – Jack Shaefer
- The Shining – Stephen King
- Siddartha – Hermann Hesse
- S is for Silence – Sue Grafton
- Slaughter-House 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
- Small Island – Andrea Levy
- Snows of Kilamanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
- Snow White and Red Rose – Grimm Brothers
- Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy – Barrington Moore
- The Song of Names – Norman Lebrecht
- Song of the Simple Truth – Julia de Burgos
- The Song Reader – Lisa Tucker
- Songbook – Nick Hornby
- The Sonnets – Shakespeare
- Sonnets from the Portuegese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
- The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
- Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabakov
- Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
- The Story of my Life – Helen Keller
- A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
- Stuart Little – EB White
- Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
- Swimming with Giants – Anne Collett
- Sybil – Flora Rheta Schreiber
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald
- Term of Endearment – Larry McMurty
- Time and Again – Jack Finney
- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffeneggar
- To Have and to Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The Tragedy of Richard III – Shakespeare
- Travel and Motoring through Europe – Myra Waldo
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- The Trial – Franz Kafka
- The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters – Elisabeth Robinson
- Truth & Beauty – Ann Patchett
- Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (1950-1962)
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Unless – Carol Shields
- Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
- The Vanishing Newspaper – Philip Meyers
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Velvet Underground – Joe Harvard
- The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
- Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
- Walden – Henry David Thoreau
- Walt Disney’s Bambi – Felix Salten
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- We Owe You Nothing – Daniel Sinker
- What Colour is Your Parachute – Richard Nelson Bolles
- What Happened to Baby Jane – Henry Farrell
- When the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka
- Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee
- Wicked – Gregory Maguire
- The Wizard of Oz – Frank L Baum
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
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