The Rory Gilmore Book Club
All 408 Books Referenced in Gilmore Girls (Seasons 1-7 + A Year in the Life)
฀ 1984 by George Orwell
฀ Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn by Mark Twain
฀ Adventures of Tom
Sawyer by Mark Twain
฀ Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland by Lewis
Carroll
฀ All the President’s Men by
Carl Bernstein and Bob
Woodward
฀ The Amazing Adventures
of Kavalier & Clay by
Michael Chabon
฀ An American Tragedy by
Theodore Dreiser
฀ And Then There Were
None by Agatha Christie
฀ Angela’s Ashes by Frank
McCourt
฀ Anna Karenina by Leo
Tolstoy
฀ The Archidamian War by
Donald Kagan
฀ The Armies of the Night:
History as a Novel, the
Novel as a History by
Norman Mailer
฀ The Art of Fiction by Henry
James
฀ The Art of Living by
Epictetus
฀ The Art of War by Sun Tzu
฀ As I Lay Dying by William
Faulkner
฀ Atonement by Ian
McEwan
฀ Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy
฀ The Awakening by Kate
Chopin
฀ Babe by Dick King-Smith
฀ Backlash: The Undeclared
War Against American
Women by Susan Faludi
฀ Balzac and the Little
Chinese Seamstress by Dai
Sijie
฀ Bambi: A Life in the
Woods by Felix Salten
฀ Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
฀ The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
฀ Beloved by Toni Morrison
฀ Beowulf by Anonymous
฀ The Bhagavad Gita by
Anonymous
฀ The Bielski Brothers: The
True Story of Three Men
Who Defied the Nazis,
Built a Village in the
Forest, and Saved 1200
Jews by Peter Duffy
฀ Bitch: In Praise of Difficult
Women by Elizabeth
Wurtzel
฀ A Bolt from the Blue and
Other Essays by Mary
McCarthy
฀ Brave New World by
Aldous Huxley
฀ Brick Lane by Monica Ali
฀ Bridgadoon by Alan Jay
Lerner
฀ Candide by Voltaire
฀ The Canterbury Tales by
Geoffrey Chaucer
฀ Carrie by Stephen King
฀ Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
฀ The Catcher in the Rye by
J.D. Salinger
฀ The Celebrated Jumping
Frog by Mark Twain
฀ Charlotte's Web by E.B.
White
฀ The Children's Hour by
Lillian Hellman
฀ Christine by Stephen King
฀ A Christmas Carol by
Charles Dickens
฀ Cinderella by Brothers
Grimm
฀ A Clockwork Orange by
Anthony Burgess
฀ The Code of the Woosters
by P.G. Wodehouse
฀ The Collected Stories by
Eudora Welty
฀ A Comedy of Errors by
William Shakespeare
฀ Compact Oxford English
Dictionary
฀ Complete Novels by Dawn
Powell
฀ The Complete Poems by
Anne Sexton
฀ Complete Stories by
Dorothy Parker
฀ A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
฀ A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court by
Mark Twain
฀ Consider the Lobster: And
Other Essays by David
Foster Wallace
฀ Contact by Carl Sagan
฀ The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
฀ Cousin Bette by Honore de
Balzac
฀ Crime and Punishment by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
฀ The Crimson Petal and the
White by Michel Faber
฀ The Crucible by Arthur
Miller
฀ Cujo by Stephen King
฀ The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
฀ Cyrano De Bergerac by
Edmond Rostand
฀ Daughter of Fortune by
Isabel Allende
฀ David Copperfield by
Charles Dickens
฀ The Da Vinci Code by Dan
Brown
฀ Dead Souls by Nikolai
Gogol
฀ Death of a Salesman by
Arthur Miller
฀ Deenie by Judy Blume ฀ Everything Is Illuminated
฀ Demons by Fyodor by Jonathan Safran Foer
Dostoyevsky ฀ The Executioner's Song by
฀ The Devil in the White Norman Mailer
City: Murder, Magic, and ฀ Extravagance by Gary Krist
Madness at the Fair that ฀ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray
Changed America by Erik Bradbury
Larson ฀ Fahrenheit 9/11 by
฀ The Diary of a Young Girl Michael Moore
by Anne Frank ฀ The Fall of the Athenian
฀ The Dirt: Confessions of Empire by Donald Kagan
the World's Most ฀ Fat Land: How Americans
Notorious Rock Band by Became the Fattest People
Tommy Lee, Vince in the World by Greg
Neil, Mick Mars & Nikki Critser
Sixx ฀ Fear and Loathing in Las
฀ The Divine Comedy by Vegas by Hunter S.
Dante Alighieri Thompson
฀ The Divine Secrets of the ฀ The Fellowship of the Ring
Ya-Ya Sisterhood by by J.R.R. Tolkien
Rebecca Wells ฀ Fiddler on the Roof by
฀ Don Quixote by Cervantes Joseph Stein
฀ Dracula by Bram Stoker ฀ Finnegan's Wake by James
฀ Driving Miss Daisy by Joyce
Alfred Uhrv ฀ The Five People You Meet
฀ Edgar Allan Poe: Complete in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Tales & Poems by Edgar ฀ Fletch by Gregory
Allan Poe McDonald
฀ Eleanor Roosevelt by ฀ Flowers for Algernon by
Blanche Wiesen Cook Daniel Keyes
฀ The Electric Kool-Aid Acid ฀ Fodor's Selected Hotels of
Test by Tom Wolfe Europe
฀ Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel ฀ The Fortress of Solitude by
in Letters by Mark Dunn Jonathan Lethem
฀ Eloise at the Plaza by Kay ฀ The Fountainhead by Ayn
Thompson Rand
฀ Emily the Strange by ฀ Frankenstein by Mary
Roger Reger Shelley
฀ Emma by Jane Austen ฀ Franny and Zooey by J.D.
฀ Empire Falls by Richard Salinger
Russo ฀ Freaky Friday by Mary
฀ Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Rodgers
Detective by Donald J ฀ Galapagos by Kurt
Sobol Vonnegut
฀ Ethan Frome by Edith ฀ Gender Trouble by Judith
Wharton Butler
฀ Ethics by Spinoza ฀ George W. Bushism: The
฀ Europe through the Back Slate Book of the
Door: The Travel Skills Accidental Wit and
Handbook by Rick Steves Wisdom of our 43rd
฀ Eva Luna by Isabel Allende President by Jacob
Weisberg
฀ Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
฀ A Girl from Yamhill by
Beverly Cleary
฀ Girl, Interrupted by
Susanna Kaysen
฀ The Gnostic Gospels by
Elaine Pagels
฀ The Godfather by Mario
Puzo
฀ The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
฀ Goldilocks and the Three
Bears by Alvin Granowsky
฀ Gone with the Wind by
Margaret Mitchell
฀ Goodnight Spoon by Keith
Richards
฀ The Good Soldier by Ford
Maddox Ford
฀ The Gospel According to
Jesus Christ by José
Saramago
฀ The Graduate by Charles
Webb
฀ The Grapes of Wrath by
John Steinbeck
฀ Great Expectations by
Charles Dickens
฀ The Great Gatsby by F.
Scott Fitzgerald
฀ The Group by Mary
McCarthy
฀ Haiku, Volume 2: Spring
by R.H. Blyth
฀ Hamlet by William
Shakespeare
฀ Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire by J.K.
Rowling
฀ Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone by J.K.
Rowling
฀ A Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius by Dave
Eggers
฀ Heart of Darkness by
Joseph Conrad
฀ Hell's Angels: The Strange
and Terrible Saga of the
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
by Hunter S. Thompson
฀ Helter Skelter: The True
Story of the Manson
Murders by Vincent
Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
฀ Henry IV, part I by William
Shakespeare
฀ Henry IV, part II by William
Shakespeare
฀ Henry V by William
Shakespeare
฀ Henry VI by William
Shakespeare
฀ He's Just Not That Into
You by Greg Behrendt and
Liz Tuccillo
฀ High Fidelity by Nick
Hornby
฀ The History of the Decline
and Fall of the Roman
Empire by Edward Gibbon
฀ Holidays on Ice: Stories by
David Sedaris
฀ The Holy Barbarians by
Lawrence Lipton
฀ Horton Hears a Who! by
Dr. Seuss
฀ House of Sand and Fog by
Andre Dubus III
฀ The House of the Spirits by
Isabel Allende
฀ How to Breathe
Underwater by Julie
Orringer
฀ How the Grinch Stole
Christmas by Dr. Seuss
฀ Howl and Other Poems by
Allen Ginsberg
฀ How the Light Gets In by
M.J. Hyland
฀ The Hunchback of Notre
Dame by Victor Hugo
฀ I Feel Bad About My Neck
by Nora Ephron
฀ The Iliad by Homer
฀ I'm With the Band by
Pamela des Barres
฀ In Cold Blood by Truman
Capote
฀ Indiana by George Sand
฀ The Inferno by Dante
Alighieri
฀ Inherit the Wind by
Jerome Lawrence and
Robert E. Lee
฀ Ironweed by William J.
Kennedy
฀ It Takes a Village by Hillary
Rodham Clinton
฀ Jane Eyre by Charlotte
Bronte
฀ The Joy Luck Club by Amy
Tan
฀ Julius Caesar by William
Shakespeare
฀ The Jungle by Upton
Sinclair
฀ Jurassic Park by Michael
Crichton
฀ Just a Couple of Days by
Tony Vigorito
฀ The Kitchen Boy: A Novel
of the Last Tsar by Robert
Alexander
฀ Kitchen Confidential:
Adventures in the Culinary
Underbelly by Anthony
Bourdain
฀ The Kite Runner by Khaled
Hosseini
฀ Lady Chatterleys' Lover by
D.H. Lawrence
฀ The Last Empire: Essays
1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
฀ The Last Lion: Winston
Spencer Churchill, Volume
I: Visions of Glory, 1874-
1932 by
William Manchester
฀ The Last Lion: Winston
Spencer Churchill, Volume
II: Alone, 1932-1940 by
William
Manchester
฀ The Last Lion: Winston
Spencer Churchill, Volume
III: Defender of the Realm,
1940-1965 by
William Manchester
฀ Leaves of Grass by Walt
Whitman
฀ The Legend of Bagger
Vance by Steven Pressfield
฀ Less Than Zero by Bret
Easton Ellis
฀ Letters of Ayn Rand by
Ayn Rand
฀ Letters of Edith Wharton
by R.W.B. Lewis
฀ Letters to a Young Poet by
Rainer Maria Rilke
฀ The Libation Bearers by
Aeschylus
฀ Lies and the Lying Liars
Who Tell Them by Al
Franken
฀ The Life-Changing Magic
of Tidying Up by Marie
Kondo
฀ Life of Pi by Yann Martel
฀ Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
฀ The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe by C.S.
Lewis
฀ Lisa and David by Dr.
Theodore Isaac Rubin,
M.D.
฀ Little Dorrit by Charles
Dickens
฀ Little House in the Big
Woods by Laura Ingalls
Wilder
฀ The Little Locksmith by
Katharine Butler
Hathaway
฀ The Little Match Girl by
Hans Christian Andersen
฀ Little Women by Louisa
May Alcott
฀ Living History by Hillary
Rodham Clinton
฀ Lord of the Flies by
William Golding
฀ The Lord of the Rings by
J.R.R. Tolkien
฀ The Lottery: And Other
Stories by Shirley Jackson
฀ The Lovely Bones by Alice
Sebold
฀ Love Story by Erich Segal
฀ Macbeth by William
Shakespeare
฀ Madame Bovary by
Gustave Flaubert
฀ The Manticore by and My Sister by Julie ฀ Nickel and Dimed: On
Robertson Davies Mars (Not) Getting by in
฀ Marathon Man by William ฀ Motley Crue by Seamus America by Barbara
Goldman Craic Ehrenreich
฀ The Master and Margarita ฀ The Mourning Bride by ฀ Nicholas Nickleby by
by Mikhail Bulgakov William Congreve Charles Dickens
฀ The Meaning of Consuelo ฀ A Moveable Feast by ฀ Night by Elie Wiesel
by Judith Ortiz Cofer Ernest Hemingway ฀ Northanger Abbey by Jane
฀ Memoirs of a Dutiful ฀ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Austen
Daughter by Simone de Woolf ฀ The Norton Anthology of
Beauvoir ฀ Mutiny on the Bounty by Theory and Criticism by
฀ Memoirs of General Charles Nordhoff and William E. Cain, et al.
William T. Sherman by James Norman Hall ฀ Notes of a Dirty Old Man
William Tecumseh ฀ My Lai 4: A Report on the by Charles Bukowski
Sherman Massacre and Its ฀ Novels, 1930-1942: Dance
฀ Men Are from Mars, Aftermath by Seymour M. Night/Come Back to
Women Are from Venus Hersh Sorrento, Turn, Magic
by John Gray, Ph.D. ฀ My Life as Author and Wheel/Angels on Toast/A
฀ Mencken's Chrestomathy Editor by H.L. Mencken Time to be Born by Dawn
by H.L. Mencken ฀ My Life in Orange: Powell
฀ The Merry Wives of Growing Up with the Guru ฀ Oedipus Rex by Sophicles
Windsor by William by Tim Guest ฀ Of Mice and Men by John
Shakespeare ฀ Myra Waldo's Travel and Steinbeck
฀ Me Talk Pretty One Day by Motoring Guide to Europe ฀ Old School by Tobias Wolff
David Sedaris by Myra Waldo ฀ Oliver Twist by Charles
฀ The Metamorphosis by ฀ My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Dickens
Franz Kafka Picoult ฀ One Day in the Life of Ivan
฀ Middlesex by Jeffrey ฀ My Struggle by Karl Ove Denisovich by Aleksandr
Eugenides Knausgaard Solzhenitsyn
฀ A Midsummer Night's ฀ The Naked and the Dead ฀ One Flew Over the
Dream by William by Norman Mailer Cuckoo's Nest by Ken
Shakespeare ฀ Naked Lunch by William S. Kesey
฀ The Miracle Worker by Burroughs ฀ One Hundred Years of
William Gibson ฀ The Name of the Rose by Solitude by Gabriel Garcia
฀ Misery by Stephen King Umberto Eco Marquez
฀ Mistress of Mellyn by ฀ The Namesake by Jhumpa ฀ On the Road by Jack
Victoria Holt Lahiri Kerouac
฀ Moby Dick by Herman ฀ Nancy Drew and The ฀ The Opposite of Fate:
Melville Witch Tree Symbol by Memories of a Writing Life
฀ The Mojo Collection: The Carolyn Keene by Amy Tan
Greatest Albums of All ฀ The Nanny Diaries by ฀ Oracle Night by Paul
Time by Jim Irvin Emma McLaughlin Auster
฀ Moliere: A Biography by ฀ Nervous System: Or, ฀ Oryx and Crake by
Hobart Chatfield Taylor Losing My Mind in Margaret Atwood
฀ Molloy by Samuel Beckett Literature by Jan Lars ฀ Othello by William
฀ A Monetary History of the Jensen Shakespeare
United States by Milton ฀ New Poems of Emily ฀ Our Mutual Friend by
Friedman Dickinson by Emily Charles Dickens
฀ Monsieur Proust by Dickinson ฀ The Outbreak of the
Celeste Albaret ฀ The New Way Things Peloponnesian War by
฀ A Month of Sundays: Work by David Macaulay Donald Kagan
Searching for The Spirit
฀ Out of Africa by Isak ฀ Rapunzel by Brothers ฀ The Satanic Verses by
Dineson Grimm Salman Rushdie
฀ The Outsiders by S.E. ฀ The Raven by Edgar Allan ฀ Savage Beauty: The Life of
Hinton Poe Edna St Vincent Millay by
฀ A Passage to India by E.M. ฀ The Razor's Edge by W. Nancy Milford
Forster Somerset Maugham ฀ Say Goodbye to Daisy
฀ The Peace of Nicias and ฀ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Miller by Henry James
the Sicilian Expedition by Memoir in Books by Azar ฀ The Scarecrow of Oz by
Donald Kagan Nafisi Frank L. Baum
฀ The Perks of Being a ฀ Rebecca by Daphne du ฀ The Scarlet Letter by
Wallflower by Stephen Maurier Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chbosky ฀ Rebecca of Sunnybrook ฀ Seabiscuit: An American
฀ Peyton Place by Grace Farm by Kate Douglas Legend by Laura
Metalious Wiggin Hillenbrand
฀ The Picture of Dorian Gray ฀ The Red Badge of Courage ฀ The Second Sex by Simone
by Oscar Wilde by Stephen Crane de Beauvoir
฀ Pigs at the Trough by ฀ The Red Tent by Anita ฀ The Secret Life of Bees by
Arianna Huffington Diamant Sue Monk Kidd
฀ Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi ฀ Rescuing Patty Hearst: ฀ Secrets of the Flesh: A Life
฀ Please Kill Me: The Memories from a Decade of Colette by Judith
Uncensored Oral History Gone Mad by Virginia Thurman
of Punk by Legs McNeil Holman ฀ Selected Letters of Dawn
and Gillian McCain ฀ The Return of the King by Powell: 1913-1965 by
฀ The Polysyllabic Spree by J.R.R. Tolkien Dawn Powell
Nick Hornby ฀ Revolution from Within: A ฀ Sense and Sensibility by
฀ The Portable Dorothy Book of Self-Esteem by Jane Austen
Parker by Dorothy Parker Gloria Steinem ฀ A Separate Peace by John
฀ The Portable Nietzsche by ฀ Richard III by William Knowles
Fredrich Nietzsche Shakespeare ฀ Sexus by Henry Miller
฀ The Price of Loyalty: ฀ R is for Ricochet by Sue ฀ The Shadow of the Wind
George W. Bush, the Grafton by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
White House, and the ฀ Rita Hayworth by Stephen ฀ Shane by Jack Shaefer
Education of Paul O'Neill King ฀ The Shining by Stephen
by Ron Suskind ฀ Robert's Rules of Order by King
฀ Pride and Prejudice by Henry Robert ฀ Siddhartha by Hermann
Jane Austen ฀ Roman Fever by Edith Hesse
฀ Primary Colors by Joe Wharton ฀ S Is for Silence by Sue
Klein ฀ Romeo and Juliet by Grafton
฀ Property by Valerie Martin William Shakespeare ฀ Slaughterhouse-Five by
฀ The Pump House Gang by ฀ A Room of One's Own by Kurt Vonnegut
Tom Wolfe Virginia Woolf ฀ Small Island by Andrea
฀ The Pursuit of Love & Love ฀ A Room with a View by Levy
in a Cold Climate: Two E.M. Forster ฀ Snows of Kilimanjaro by
Novels by Nancy Mitford ฀ Rosemary's Baby by Ira Ernest Hemingway
฀ Pushkin: A Biography by Levin ฀ Snow White and Rose Red
T.J. Binyon ฀ The Rough Guide to by Brothers Grimm
฀ Pygmalion by George Europe by Various Authors ฀ Social Origins of
Bernard Shaw ฀ Sacred Time by Ursula Dictatorship and
฀ Quattrocento by James Hegi Democracy: Lord and
McKean ฀ Sanctuary by William Peasant in the Making of
฀ A Quiet Storm by Rachel Faulkner the Modern World by
Howzell Hall Barrington Moore
฀ Something Wicked This
Way Comes by Ray
Bradbury
฀ Songbook by Nick Hornby
฀ A Song of Ice and Fire by
George R.R. Martin
฀ The Song of Names by
Norman Lebrecht
฀ Song of the Simple Truth:
The Complete Poems of
Julia de Burgos by Julia de
Burgos
฀ The Song Reader by Lisa
Tucker
฀ Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
฀ The Sonnets by William
Shakespeare
฀ Sonnets from the
Portuguese by Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
฀ Sophie's Choice by William
Styron
฀ The Sound and the Fury by
William Faulkner
฀ Speak, Memory by
Vladimir Nabokov
฀ The Stepford Wives by Ira
Levin
฀ Stiff: The Curious Lives of
Human Cadavers by Mary
Roach
฀ The Story of My Life by
Helen Keller
฀ The Strange Case of Dr
Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by
Robert Louis Stevenson
฀ A Streetcar Named
Desiree by Tennessee
Williams
฀ Stuart Little by E.B. White
฀ Summer of Fear by T.
Jefferson Parker
฀ The Sun Also Rises by
Ernest Hemingway
฀ Swann's Way by Marcel
Proust
฀ Swimming with Giants: My
Encounters with Whales,
Dolphins and Seals by
Anne Collett
฀ Sybil by Flora Rheta ฀ The Vanishing Newspaper
Schreiber by Philip Meyers
฀ A Tale of Two Cities by ฀ Vanity Fair by William
Charles Dickens Makepeace Thackeray
฀ The Tell-Tale Heart by ฀ Velvet Underground's The
Edgar Allan Poe Velvet Underground and
฀ Tender Is the Night by F. Nico (33 1/3 Book 11) by
Scott Fitzgerald Joe Harvard
฀ Terms of Endearment by ฀ The Virgin Suicides by
Larry McMurtry Jeffrey Eugenides
฀ Tevya The Dairyman and ฀ Visions of Cody by Jack
the Railroad Stories by Kerouac
Sholem Aleichem ฀ Waiting for Godot by
฀ They Shoot Horses, Don't Samuel Beckett
They? by Horace McCoy ฀ Walden by Henry David
฀ The Thin Man by Dashiell Thoreau
Hammett ฀ War and Peace by Leo
฀ Time and Again by Jack Tolstoy
Finney ฀ We Owe You Nothing:
฀ The Time Traveler's Wife Punk Planet: The Collected
by Audrey Niffenegger Interviews by Daniel
฀ To Have and Have Not by Sinker
Ernest Hemingway ฀ What Color is Your
฀ To Kill a Mockingbird by Parachute? by Richard
Harper Lee Nelson Bolles
฀ The Tragedy of Richard III ฀ What Happened to Baby
by William Shakespeare Jane? by Henry Farrell
฀ Trainspotting by Irvine ฀ When the Emperor Was
Welsh Divine by Julie Otsuka
฀ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ฀ Who Moved My Cheese?
by Betty Smith by Spencer Johnson
฀ The Trial by Franz Kafka ฀ Who's Afraid of Virginia
฀ The True and Outstanding Woolf? by Edward Albee
Adventures of the Hunt ฀ Wicked: The Life and
Sisters by Elisabeth Times of the Wicked
Robinson Witch of the West by
฀ Truth & Beauty: A Gregory Maguire
Friendship by Ann ฀ Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Patchett ฀ The Witches of Eastwick
฀ Tuesdays with Morrie by by John Updike
Mitch Albom ฀ The Wonderful Wizard of
฀ Ulysses by James Joyce Oz by Frank L. Baum
฀ The Unabridged Journals ฀ Wuthering Heights by
of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Emily Bronte
Plath ฀ The Yearling by Marjorie
฀ The Unbearable Lightness Kinnan Rawlings
of Being by Milan Kundera ฀ The Year of Magical
฀ Uncle Tom's Cabin by Thinking by Joan Didion
Harriet Beecher Stowe ฀ Yoga for Dummies by
฀ Unless by Carol Shields Georg Feuerstein and
฀ Valley of the Dolls by Larry Payne
Jacqueline Susann