books seen or mentioned on gilmore girls
Season 1
Pilot (1.1)
* On the Road by Jack Kerouac
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
* Moby Dick by Herman Melville
* Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
* The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
* Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
* The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
* The Shining by Stephen King
The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton (1.2)
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
* War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
* David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
* Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
* Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
* The Shining by Stephen King
* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
* Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
* Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
Kill Me Now (1.3)
* Mencken's Chresthonomy by H.R. Mencken
* My Life As Author And Editor by H.R. Mencken
* Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Deer-Hunters (1.4)
* A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
* Richard III by William Shakespeare
* The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Cinnamon's Wake (1.5)
* A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
* Valley of the Dolls by Susann Jacqueline
* Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Kiss and Tell (1.7)
* The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Love and War and Snow (1.8)
* Emma by Jane Austen
* Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rory's Dance (1.9)
* The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
* The Group by Mary McCarthy
* The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
* Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
Forgiveness and Stuff (1.10)
* The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
* The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Paris is Burning (1.11)
* Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
* The New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
* The Divine Comedy by Dante
Double Date (1.12)
* The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
Concert Interruptus (1.13)
* Macbeth by William Shakespeare
* Carrie by Stephen King
That Damn Donna Reed (1.14)
* A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
* Don Quixote by Cervantes
Christopher Returns (1.15)
* The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers (1.16)
* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
* Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
* Christine by Stephen King
The Breakup, Pt. 2 (1.17)
* The Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
* The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Third Lorelai (1.18)
* The Art of Fiction by Henry James
Emily in Wonderland (1.19)
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
P.S. I Lo... (1.20)
* Ulysses by James Joyce
* Out of Africa by Isac Denison
* The Art of Fiction by Henry James
Love, Daisies, and Troubadours (1.21)
* Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Season 2
Sadie, Sadie (2.1)
* Cujo by Stephen King
* Mencken's Chresthonomy by H.R. Mencken
Red Light on the Wedding Night (2.3)
* Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
* Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
The Road Trip to Harvard (2.4)
* Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
* Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Album
* Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
* Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
* Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
* Ulysses by James Joyce
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
* The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy (2.5)
* Howl by Allen Ginsburg
* Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
* Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
* Fear and Loathing: On the Campain Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
* Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
* The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
* On the Road by Jack Kerouac
* The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
* The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Presenting Lorelai Gilmore (2.6)
* Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
* The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
Like Mother, Like Daughter (2.7)
* Savage Beauty:The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
* The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
* The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
* The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
* The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
* The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
* Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
* Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
The Ins and Outs of Inns (2.8)
* The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
Run Away, Little Boy (2.9)
* The Shining by Stephen King
* Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
* The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
* Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Bracebridge Dinner (2.10)
* The Iliad by Homer
* The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
* The Shining by Stephen King
Secrets and Loans (2.11)
* Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
* Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
* Nancy Dres Mysteries by Carolyn Keene
* The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
Richard in Stars Hollow (2.12)
* Several biographies of Winston Churchill
* The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
* Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
* Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
* Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
A-Tisket, A-Tasket (2.13)
* The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
* The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
* To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
It Should've Been Lorelai (2.14)
* The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
Lost and Found (2.15)
* Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
* Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
* Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
* Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
* Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
* The Return of the King: Lord Of The Rings - Book 3 by J.R.R.Tolkien
* Howl by Allen Ginsburg
There's the Rub (2.16)
* Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
* Hamlet by Shakespeare
* The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
* Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
* Howl by Allen Ginsburg
* On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Dead Uncles and Vegetables (2.17)
* Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
* Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm
* David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D.
Back in the Saddle Again (2.18)
* Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett * Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
* Candide by Voltaire
* The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
* The Bhagava Gita
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Teach Me Tonight (2.19)
* Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
* Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
* Othello by William Shakespeare
* The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
* Tears of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
* What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
* Fletch by Gregory McDonald
* Sophie's Choice by William Styron
* The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
* The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Help Wanted (2.20)
* The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
* Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
* Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/ Angels on Toast/ A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell
Lorelai's Graduation Day (2.21)
* The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Woolf
* What Color is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
* The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
* High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby
* Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
* Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
* The Graduate by Charles Webb
* The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
I Can't Get Started (2.22)
* Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
* Inferno by Dante
* Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
Season 3
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days (3.1)
* A Bolt From The Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
* The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Haunted Leg (3.2)
* A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
* Shane by Jack Shaefer
* Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
* Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
* The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
* The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
Application Anxiety (3.3)
* The Manticore by Robertson Davies
* Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Harry Potter - Book 1 by J. K. Rowling
* Henry V by William Shakespeare
* The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
* Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
* Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
* Fiddler of the Roof by Joesph Stein
* The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
* Macbeth by William Shakespeare
* The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
One's Got Class and the Other One Dyes (3.4)
* We Owe You Nothing- Punk Planet: the Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
* To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Eight O'Clock at the Oasis (3.5)
* Marathon Man by William Goldman
* The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Take The Deviled Eggs... (3.6)
* Deenie by Judy Blume
* The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Woolf
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They? (3.7)
* A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
* The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Let The Games Begin (3.8)
* Love Story by Erich Segal
* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
* Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
* The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
* Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
* The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
* Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving (3.9)
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
* How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
That'll Do, Pig (3.10)
* Babe by Dick King- Smith
* The Art of War by Sun Tzu
* Gidget by Frederick Kohner
* The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
* The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
* Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
* The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
* Stuart Little by E. B. White
I Solemnly Swear (3.11)
* Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
* The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
* Mutiny On The Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
* Eloise by Kay Thompson
Lorelai Out Of Water (3.12)
* Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Dear Richard and Emily (3.13)
* Europe Through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
* The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
* Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
* Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
* Selected Hotels of Europe
* Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Swan Song (3.14)
* The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
* Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
* Walt Disney's Bambi (Based on Original Story by Felix Salten) by Felix Salten
* Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective byDonald J. Sobol
* The Fellowship Of The Ring: Lord Of The Ring - Book 1 by J.R.R. Tolkien
Face-Off (3.15)
* Othello by Shakespeare
* Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
* Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
* The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Big One (3.16)
* I'm With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
Tales of Poes and Fire (3.17)
* The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Say Goodnight, Gracie (3.20)
* One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
* Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Pinocchio, Those are Strings (3.22)
* Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Season 4
The Hobbit, The Sofa and Digger Stiles (4.3)
* Atonement by Ian McEwan
Chicken or Beef (4.4)
* Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Fundamental Things Apply (4.5)
* Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
* Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
* Wurthering Heights by Emily Bronte
* Cujo by Stephen King
The Festival of Living Art (4.7)
* 1984 by George Orwell
The Nanny and the Professor (4.10)
* Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
* Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels (4.13)
* Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
* The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Reigning Lorelai (4.16)
* The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
* Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist (4.17)
* The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind
Afterboom (4.19)
* The Trial by Franz Kafka
Season 5
Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller (5.1)
* Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
A Messenger, Nothing More (5.2)
* A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
* Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
* The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
We Got Us a Pippi Virgin (5.5)
* The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Norman Mailer, I'm pregnant! (5.6)
* The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Emily Says Hello (5.9)
* A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
* Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Come Home (5.12)
* My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
* The Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene
Jews and Chinese Food (5.15)
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
So...Good Talk (5.16)
* Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
* Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
* Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod? (5.20)
* Ethics by Spinoza
Season 6
Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out (6.8)
* Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
He's Slippin' 'Em Bread...Dig? (6.10)
* Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
The Perfect Dress (6.11)
* The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
* Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
* It takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
* Deenie by Beverly Cleary
* Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
You've Been Gilmored (6.14)
* Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
Valentine, The Destroyer (6.17)
* The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
* Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
The Real Paul Anka (6.18)
* The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Super Cool Party People (6.20)
* Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
* The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
Season 7
The Long Morrow (7.1)
* In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
That's What You Get, Folks, For Makin' Whoopee (7.2)
* The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Lorelai's First Cotillion (7.3)
* Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Knit, People, Knit! (7.9)
* The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan, Jeffrey L. Williams, Vincent B. Leitch
Santa's Secret Stuff (7.11)
* R is for Ricochet, S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
I'd Rather Be In Philadelphia (7.13)
* A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
Farewell, My Pet (7.14)
* Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
* Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
I'm a Kayak, Hear Me Roar (7.15)
* The Vanishing Newspaper by Phillip Meyers * Hamlet by William Shakespeare
* Richard III by William Shakespeare
Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore? (7.16)
* Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Gilmore Girls Only (7.17)
* Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Lorelai? Lorelai? (7.20)
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
*****
* The Canterbery Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
* Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
* The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
* New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
* Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
* Sanctuary by William Faulkner
* A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
* The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
* The Good Soilder by Ford Maddox Ford
* Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
* Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
* Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
* Bitch In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
* The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
* George W. Bushisms : The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
* Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
* Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
* Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
* The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
* Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
* Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
* Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
* The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
* Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
* A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
* House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
* The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
* As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
* Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
* Sexus by Henry Miller
* Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
