i noticed y’all have been enjoying my novel masterposts. so im just going to keep posting because im obsessed with books like that T.T
for my study-like-rory studyblr friends who want to read all the books mentioned in gilmore girls (because hello?? who doesn’t??), here’s a list! pls let me know if i missed a book, but i think it’s quite a complete list! enjoy!!
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
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
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
Brigadoon – Alan Jay Lerner
The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
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
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
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
David and Lisa – Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin
David Coperfield – Charles Dickens
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
Deal Souls – Nikolai Gogol (Season 3, episode 3)
Demons – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
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
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
Emily the Strange – Roger Reger
Empire Falls – Richard Russo
Encyclopedia Brown – Donald J. Sobol
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Foer
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
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
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
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
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
I’m With the Band – Pamela des Barres
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
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
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
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
The Manticore – Robertson Davies (Season 3, episode 3)
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
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
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 Price of Loyalty – Ron Suskind
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Property – Valerie Martin
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
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron
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
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
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 True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters – Elisabeth Robinson
Truth & Beauty – Ann Patchett
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (1950-1962)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
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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