For the #GilmoreGirls fan who doesn’t know what to read next…

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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