Full list of books from Gilmore Girls TV series available, check the ultimate Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge Book List. If you’re a fan of the hit TV series Gilmore Girls, you’ll know that Rory Gilmore is an avid reader who has a passion for books. In fact, throughout the show’s 7 seasons, she is seen carrying a book with her wherever she goes. But have you ever wondered what books Rory actually read?
We’ve compiled the Rory Gilmore Reading List with ultimate books that she read throughout the show. From classic literature to contemporary novels, this comprehensive guide of books in Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge has it all. Whether you’re a bookworm yourself or just looking for some inspiration for your next read, this list is sure to have something for everyone.
So, sit back, grab a cup of coffee, and join us as we delve into the world of books that inspired Rory Gilmore.
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge Book List
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
6. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
7. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
8. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
9. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
10. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
11. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
12. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
13. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
14. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
15. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
16. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
17. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
18. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
19. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
20. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
21. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
22. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
23. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
24. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
25. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
26. Atonement by Ian McEwan
27. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
28. Babe by Dick King-Smith
29. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
30. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
31. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
32. Beloved by Toni Morrison
33. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
34. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
35. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
36. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
37. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
38. Candide by Voltaire
39. Carrie by Stephen King
40. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
41. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
42. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
43. Christine by Stephen King
44. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
46. Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac
47. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
48. Cujo by Stephen King
49. Daisy Miller by Henry James
50. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
51. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
52. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
53. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
54. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
55. Deenie by Judy Blume
56. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
57. Don Quijote by Cervantes
58. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
59. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
60. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
61. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
62. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
63. Eloise by Kay Thompson
64. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
65. Emma by Jane Austen
66. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
67. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
68. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
69. Ethics by Spinoza
70. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
71. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
72. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
73. Extravagance by Gary Krist
74. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
75. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
76. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
77. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
78. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
79. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
80. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
81. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
82. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
83. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
84. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
85. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
86. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
87. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
88. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
89. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
90. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
91. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
92. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
93. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
94. Harold and the Purple Crayon
95. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
96. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
97. He’s Just Not That Into You
98. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
99. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
100. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
101. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
102. Henry V by William Shakespeare
103. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
104. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
105. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr)
106. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
107. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
108. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
109. Howl by Allen Gingsburg
110. I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres
111. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
112. Inferno by Dante
113. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
114. Ironweed by William J. Kennedy
115. It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
116. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
117. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
118. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
119. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
120. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
121. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
122. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
123. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
124. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
125. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
126. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
127. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
128. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
129. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
130. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
131. Marathon Man by William Goldman
132. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
133. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
134. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh
135. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken
136. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
137. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
138. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
139. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
140. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
141. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
142. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
143. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
144. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
145. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
146. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
147. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
148. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
149. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
150. Night by Elie Wiesel
151. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
152. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
153. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
154. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
155. Old School by Tobias Wolff
156. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
158. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
159. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
160. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
161. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
162. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
163. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
164. Pipi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
165. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
166. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
167. Property by Valerie Martin
168. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
169. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
170. Quattrocento by James Mckean
171. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
172. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers –
173. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
174. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
175. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
176. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
177. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
178. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
179. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
180. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
181. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
182. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
183. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
184. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
185. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
186. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
187. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
188. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
189. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
190. Sexus by Henry Miller
191. Shane by Jack Shaefer
192. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
193. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
194. Small Island by Andrea Levy
195. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
196. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
197. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
198. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
199. Songbook by Nick Hornby
200. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
201. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
202. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
203. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
204. Stuart Little by E. B. White
205. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
206. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
207. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
208. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
209. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
210. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
211. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
212. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
213. The Art of Eating by M.E.K. Fisher
214. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
215. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
216. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
217. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
218. The Bhagava Gita
219. The Bible
220. 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
221. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
222. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
223. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
224. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
225. The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
226. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
227. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
228. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
229. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
230. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
231. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
232. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
233. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
234. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee,
235. The Divine Comedy by Dante
236. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
237. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
238. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
239. The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R.
240. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
241. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
242. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
243. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
244. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
245. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
246. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
247. The Graduate by Charles Webb
248. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
249. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
250. The Group by Mary McCarthy
251. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
252. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
253. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
254. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
255. The Iliad by Homer
256. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
257. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
258. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
259. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
260. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
261. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
262. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
263. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
264. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
265. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
266. The Love Story by Erich Segal
267. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
268. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
269. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
270. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
271. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
272. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
273. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
274. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
275. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
276. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
277. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
278. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
279. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
280. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
281. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
282. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
283. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
284. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
285. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
286. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
287. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
288. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
289. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
290. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
291. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
292. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe –
293. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
294. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
295. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
296. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
297. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
298. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
299. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
300. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
301. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
302. The Shining by Stephen King
303. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
304. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
305. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
306. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
307. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
308. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
309. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
310. The Trial by Franz Kafka
311. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
312. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
313. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
314. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
315. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
316. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
317. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
318. Time and Again by Jack Finney
319. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
320. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
321. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
322. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
323. Ulysses by James Joyce
324. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
325. Unless by Carol Shields
326. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
327. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
328. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
329. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
330. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
331. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
332. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
333. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
334. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
335. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
336. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
338. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence
339. Larousse Wine
340. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
341. Othello by Shakespeare
342. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
343. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
344. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester; The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester; The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester
345. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
346. The Oddssey by Homer
347. Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
348. Who’s Who and What’s What in Shakespeare
349. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
350. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
351. Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People by Michael Heinl, nancy Gordon Heinl, Robert Debs Heinl
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