Thanks to Chrystal from Snowdrop Dreams for posting about the Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge. I had never heard of it until now!
Here is the list in alphabetical order: https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/all-339-books-referenced-in-gilmore-girls?utm_term=.rp194RpVyR#.imgZA9Kd49
The Gilmore Girls Wiki Page has a complete list of books talked about or seen in every single episode. Choose a season, click on episode, then you’ll find the list of literature, music, and other trivia.
Here are the first few episodes 🙂
Season 1: Episode 1
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Stephen King (referenced by Lorelai to Sookie)
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
- The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
- Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt (Rory is seen holding this book)
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Season 1: Episode 2
- Harry Potter
- War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens
- Dostoevsky
- Balzac
- George Sand
- Shakespeare
Season 1: Episode 3
- Mencken’s Chrestomathy, by H.L. Mencken
- My Life As Author And Editor by H.L. Mencken
- Plato
- Mark Twain (quoted by Rory, “Golf is a good walk spoiled”)
- Peyton Place
Season 1: Episode 4
- The Comedy of Errors, by William Shakespeare
- The Oxford Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare (Rory is holding this book)
- Richard III, by William Shakespeare
- Also referenced: Shakespeare, Marlowe, wikipedia:Francis_Bacon Bacon, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Sonnet 116, Sonnet 126, Sonnet 145
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