Books From Gilmore Girls

Books from Gilmore Girls



In the episode in which Rory fills out her application for Harvard,she is reading Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol.Later in the same episode when they go visit Richard and Emily's friends, Rory and Lorerai discuss the Russian authors with the host.

Jess and Rory discuss The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and Hemingway while sitting by the bridge.I think it was in season2(episode where there was the basket auction).

In another episode....Emily is making an excuse to Lorelei for some reason and mentions that she has to read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold for her book club.

I solemnly swear
Lorelai makes a reference to The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald when she finds out that Joe was pining for Sookie for ten years

Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller
Rorymade a reference to daisy miller by henry james when she was being sent off to europe.


Episode 1.01 - Pilot
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
One of Rory's last -assign-ments at Stars Hollow High.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Rory's first Melville.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Dean saw Rory reading this (under a tree, after school) a week before they actually met andspoke.
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Rory is cleaning her locker at Stars Hollow High and drops this book.
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
One of the books Rory was moving from her locker.

The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles D i c kens
GreatExpectations by Charles D i c kens
The Shining by Stephen King

Episode 1.03 - Kill Me Now
Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
Rory and Richard discussed this book and then Rory borrowed it from him.

Episode: Forgiveness and Stuff
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

episode 1.05
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf.
Rory is reading this when she is waiting for the bus to go to Chilton and Deangets on the bus with her.

Episode 1.08 Love and War and Snow
Emma by Jane Austen
Hunter Thompson
Charlotte Bronte
Dean returned Emma to Rory and admitted liking it. He suggested Hunter Thompson to Rory who then suggested Charlotte Bronte to him.


Episode 1.09 - Rory's Dance
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Rory is reading this while she waits in line to buy tickets to the dance.

Episode1.11 - Paris is Burning
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Lorelai borrows it from Max. Rory mentions she had to renew it 10 times from the library to get it finished.
Episode: Paris is Burning
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Episode 1.12 - Double Date
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Rory sitting on a bench reading this while waiting for Dean.

Episode 1.16Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Rory has borrowed Anna Karenina to Dean and they discuss it. Rory says it is one of her favorite books.

Episode 1.17: The Breakup, Part 2
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Lorelai to Rory-"You're going to a Chilton party? Why not just stay home and read The Bell Jar? It'll have the same effect."

1.20 - P.S. I Lo...
Out of Africa byIsak Denisen
Lorelai buys the book for Luke to give to Rachel for her birthday. She also mentions that Rory told her the book was amazing.

episode 2.03 Red Light on the Wedding Night
biography of Colette
Swimming With Giants by Anne Collet

Episode 2.04 The Road Trip to Harvard
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Rory is reading this on the couch at her grandparent's house.

Episode 2.04 TheRoad Trip to Harvard
Ulysses by James Joyce
Jess is reading it
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Rory is freaking out that she hasn't read enough books, and Lorelai tells her to skip Tuedays with Morrie.
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
The other book that Lorelai tells Rory to skip, "Who Moved My Cheese?" Just stuff you already know."
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward...