Who else is a Gilmore Girls fan?! From the charming setting of Stars Hollow to its quirky characters, Gilmore Girls never ceases to bring a particular kind of comfort. As you may know, reading is a major part of the show. Rory is an avid book lover and over 300 books were referenced throughout Seasons 1-7. So, grab a cup a coffee as we explore the Gilmore Girls Reading List below! I’ve also created this reading list as a printable so that we can track our progress 📚

The Gilmore Girls Reading List

338 books read and/or referenced throughout Gilmore Girls Seasons 1-7. Note: if you’ve seen this list elsewhere, it may include an additional book called “The Gospel According to Judy Blume.” This was referenced in an episode but is not a real book. 

• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
• The Art of Fiction by Henry James
• 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
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
• Bhagavad Gita
• The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 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 Huxle
• Brick Lane by Monica Ali
• Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
• Candide by Voltaire
• The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
• Carrie by Stephen King
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
• The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
• Christine by Stephen King
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dicken
• 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
• Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
• The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
• Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• 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
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
• David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogo
• Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Deenie by Judy Blume
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
• The Divine Comedy by Dante
• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
• Don Quixote by Cervantes
• Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
• Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
• Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
• Eloise by Kay Thompson
• Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• Ethics by Spinoza
• Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
• Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Extravagance by Gary Krist
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
• The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
• Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
• Fletch by Gregory McDonald
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
• Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgersg
• Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

• Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
• George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
• Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
• The Godfather: Book 1 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
• The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
• The Graduate by Charles Webb
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Group by Mary McCarthy
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
• Howl by Allen Ginsberg
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• The Iliad by Homer
• I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Inferno by Dante
• Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
• Iron Weed 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 Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• 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
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
• Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
• 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 Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Love Story by Erich Segal
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• The Manticore by Robertson Davies
• Marathon Man by William Goldman
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
• Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
• Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken
• The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

• The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
• Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
• A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
• Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
• A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
• My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
• My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
• My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
• Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
• Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
• New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
• The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
• 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 by Charles Bukowski
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Old School by Tobias Wolff
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
• Oracle Night by Paul Auster
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Othello by Shakespeare
• Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
• The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
• Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
• The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
• Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
• The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
• The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
• The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Property by Valerie Martin
• Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
• Quattrocento by James Mckean
• A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
• The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
• R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
• Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
• Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
• Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
• Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
• The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
• Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
• Sanctuary by William Faulkner
• Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
• Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
• The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
• Selected Hotels of Europe
• Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
• Sexus by Henry Miller
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Shane by Jack Shaefer
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
• Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Small Island by Andrea Levy
• Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
• Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
• Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
• 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
• Songbook by Nick Hornby
• The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
• Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
• A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
• Stuart Little by E. B. White
• 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 Schreiber
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
• Time and Again by Jack Finney
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
• To Kill a Mockinbird by Harper Lee
• The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
• Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Unless by Carol Shields
• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
• The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
• What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles (2005)
• What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
• Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
• The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didio