worldstudies:

i noticed y’all have been enjoying my novel masterposts. so im just going to keep posting because im obsessed with books like that T.T

for my study-like-rory studyblr friends who want to read all the books mentioned in gilmore girls (because hello?? who doesn’t??), here’s a list! pls let me know if i missed a book, but i think it’s quite a complete list! enjoy!!

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• 1984 – George Orwell
  

A

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  
• Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
  
• An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
  
• Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
  
• Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  
• Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
  
• Archidamian War – Donald Kagen
  
• The Art of Fiction  – Henry James
  
• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
  
• As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
  
• Atonement – Ian McEwan
  
• The Awakening – Kate Chopin
  
• Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
  

B

• Babe – Dick King-Smith
  
• Backlash – Susan Faludi
  
• Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
  
• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  
• Beloved – Toni Morrison
  
• Beowulf – Seamus Heaney
  
• The Bhagava Gita
  
• The Bielski Brothers – Peter Duffy
  
• Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women – Elizabeth Wurtzel
  
• A Bolt From the Blue & other Essays – Mary McCarthy
  
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  
• Brick Lane – Monica Ali
  
• Brigadoon – Alan Jay Lerner
  

C

• Candide – Voltaire
  
• The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
  
• Carrie –Stephen King
  
• Catch – 22 – Joseph Heller
  
• The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
  
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog – Mark Twain
  
• Charlotte’s Web – EB White
  
• The Children’s Hour – Lilian Hellman
  
• Christine – Stephen King
  
• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  
• A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
  
• The Code of the Woosters – PG Wodehouse
  
• The Collected Short Stories – Eudora Welty
  
• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
  
• A Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare
  
• Complete Novels – Dawn Powell
  
• The Complete Poems – Anne Sexton
  
• Complete Stories – Dorothy Parker
  
• A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  
• The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  
• Cousin Bette – Honore de Balzac
  
• Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
• The Crimson Petal & the White – Michael Faber
  
• The Crucible – Arthur Miller
  
• Cujo – Stephen King
  
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
  

D

• Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
  
• David and Lisa – Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin
  
• David Coperfield – Charles Dickens
  
• The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
  
• Deal Souls – Nikolai Gogol (Season 3, episode 3)
  
• Demons – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
• Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
  
• Deenie – Judy Blume
  
• The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
  
• The Dirt – Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mark, & Nikki Sixx
  
• The Divine Comedy – Dante
  
• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
  
• Don Quijote – Cervantes
  
• Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhrv
  
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ­– Robert Louis Stevenson
  

E

• Complete Tales & Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt – Blanche Wiesen Cook
  
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
  
• Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn
  
• Eloise – Kay Thompson
  
• Emily the Strange – Roger Reger
  
• Emma – Jane Austen
  
• Empire Falls – Richard Russo
  
• Encyclopedia Brown – Donald J. Sobol
  
• Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
  
• Ethics – Spinoza
  
• Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
  
• Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Foer
  
• Extravagance – Gary Kist
  

F

• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  
• Fahrenheit 911 – Michael Moore
  
• The Fall of the Athenian Empire – Donald Kagan
  
• Fat Land:How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World – Greg Critser
  
• Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
  
• The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien
  
• Fiddler on the Roof – Joseph Stein
  
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
  
• Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
  
• Fletch – Gregory McDonald
  
• Flowers of Algernon – Daniel Keyes
  
• The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathon Lethem
  
• The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
  
• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  
• Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger
  
• Freaky Friday – Mary Rodgers
  

G

• Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
  
• Gender Trouble – Judith Baker
  
• George W. Bushism – Jacob Weisberg
  
• Gidget – Fredrick Kohner
  
• Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
  
• The Ghostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels
  
• The Godfather – Mario Puzo
  
• The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  
• Goldilocks & the Three Bears – Alvin Granowsky
  
• Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  
• The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford
  
• The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
  
• The Graduate – Charles Webb
  
• The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
• Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  
• The Group – Mary McCarthy
  

H

• Hamlet – Shakespeare
  
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
  
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
  
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
  
• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  
• Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi
  
• Henry IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare
  
• Henry IV, Part 2 – Shakespeare
  
• Henry V – Shakespeare
  
• High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
  
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbons
  
• Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
  
• The Holy Barbarians – Lawrence Lipton
  
• House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III
  
• The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
  
• How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer
  
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
  
• How the Light Gets In – MJ Hyland
  
• Howl – Alan Ginsburg
  
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
  

I

• The Illiad – Homer
  
• I’m With the Band – Pamela des Barres
  
• In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  
• Inferno – Dante
  
• Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
  
• Iron Weed – William J. Kennedy
  
• It Takes a Village – Hilary Clinton
  

J

• Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  
• The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
  
• Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
  
• The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
  
• Just a Couple of Days – Tony Vigorito
  

K

• The Kitchen Boy – Robert Alexander
  
• Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
  
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  

L

• Lady Chatterley’s Lover – DH Lawrence
  
• The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 – Gore Vidal
  
• Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
  
• The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield
  
• Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
  
• Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
  
• Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken
  
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  
• Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
  
• The Little Locksmith – Katharine Butler Hathaway
  
• The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Anderson
  
• Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
  
• Living History – Hillary Clinton
  
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  
• The Lottery & Other Stories – Shirley Jackson
  
• The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
  
• The Love Story – Eric Segal
  

M

• Macbeth – Shakespeare
  
• Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  
• The Manticore – Robertson Davies (Season 3, episode 3)
  
• Marathon Man – William Goldman
  
• The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
  
• Memoirs of  Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir
  
• Memoirs of General WT Sherman – William Tecumseh Sherman
  
• Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
  
• The Meaning of Consuelo – Judith Ortiz Cofer
  
• Mencken’s Chrestomathy – HR Mencken
  
• The Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare
  
• The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
  
• Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
  
• The Miracle Worker – William Gibson
  
• Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  
• The Mojo Collection – Jim Irvin
  
• Moliere – Hobart Chatfield Taylor
  
• A Monetary History of the US – Milton Friedman
  
• Monsieur Proust – Celeste Albaret
  
• A Month of Sundays – Julie Mars
  
• A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
  
• Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  
• Mutiny on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
  
• My Lai 4 – Seymour M Hersh
  
• My Life as Author and Editor – HR Mencken
  
• My Life in Orange – Tim Guest
  
• My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
  

N

• The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
  
• The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
  
• The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
  
• The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin
  
• Nervous System – Jan Lars Jensen
  
• New Poems of Emily Dickinson
  
• The New Way Things Work – David Macaulay
  
• Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
  
• Night – Elie Wiesel
  
• Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
  
• The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism – William E Cain
  
• Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
  
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man – Charles Bukowski
  

O

• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  
• Old School – Tobias Wolff
  
• Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  
• On the Road – Jack Keruac
  
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  
• One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
• The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life – Amy Tan
  
• Oracle Night – Paul Auster
  
• Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
  
• Othello – Shakespeare
  
• Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
  
• The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War – Donald Kagan
  
• Out of Africa – Isac Dineson
  
• The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton
  

P

• A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
  
• The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition – Donald Kagan
  
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
  
• Peyton Place – Grace Metalious
  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  
• Pigs at the Trough – Arianna Huffington
  
• Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
  
• Please Kill Me – Legs McNeil & Gilliam McCain
  
• The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
  
• The Portable Dorothy Parker
  
• The Portable Nietzche
  
• The Price of Loyalty – Ron Suskind
  
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  
• Property – Valerie Martin
  
• Pushkin – TJ Binyon
  
• Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
  

Q

• Quattrocento – James McKean
  
• A Quiet Storm – Rachel Howzell Hall
  

R

• Rapunzel – Grimm Brothers
  
• The Razor’s Edge – W Somerset Maugham
  
• Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
  
• Rebecca – Daphne de Maurier
  
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin
  
• The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
  
• Rescuing Patty Hearst – Virginia Holman
  
• The Return of the King – JRR Tolkien
  
• R is for Ricochet – Sue Grafton
  
• Rita Hayworth – Stephen King
  
• Robert’s Rules of Order – Henry Robert
  
• Roman Fever – Edith Wharton
  
• Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
  
• A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
  
• A Room with a View – EM Forster
  
• Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
  
• The Rough Guide to Europe
  

S

• Sacred Time – Ursula Hegi
  
• Sanctuary – William Faulkner
  
• Savage Beauty – Nancy Milford
  
• Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller – Henry James
  
• The Scarecrow of Oz – Frank L. Baum
  
• The Scarlet Letter – Nathanial Hawthorne
  
• Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand
  
• The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvior
  
• The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
  
• Secrets of the Flesh – Judith Thurman
  
• Selected Letters of Dawn Powell (1913-1965)
  
• Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
  
• A Separate Place – John Knowles
  
• Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
  
• Sexus – Henry Miller
  
• The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron
  
• Shane – Jack Shaefer
  
• The Shining – Stephen King
  
• Siddartha – Hermann Hesse
  
• S is for Silence – Sue Grafton
  
• Slaughter-House 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
  
• Small Island – Andrea Levy
  
• Snows of Kilamanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
  
• Snow White and Red Rose – Grimm Brothers
  
• Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy – Barrington Moore
  
• The Song of Names – Norman Lebrecht
  
• Song of the Simple Truth – Julia de Burgos
  
• The Song Reader – Lisa Tucker
  
• Songbook – Nick Hornby
  
• The Sonnets – Shakespeare
  
• Sonnets from the Portuegese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  
• Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
  
• The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  
• Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabakov
  
• Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
  
• The Story of my Life – Helen Keller
  
• A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
  
• Stuart Little – EB White
  
• Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
  
• Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
  
• Swimming with Giants – Anne Collett
  
• Sybil – Flora Rheta Schreiber
  

T

• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  
• Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald
  
• Term of Endearment – Larry McMurty
  
• Time and Again – Jack Finney
  
• The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffeneggar
  
• To Have and to Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  
• The Tragedy of Richard III – Shakespeare
  
• Travel and Motoring through Europe – Myra Waldo
  
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
  
• The Trial – Franz Kafka
  
• The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters – Elisabeth Robinson
  
• Truth & Beauty – Ann Patchett
  
• Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
  

U

• Ulysses – James Joyce
  
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (1950-1962)
  
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
• Unless – Carol Shields
  

V

• Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
  
• The Vanishing Newspaper – Philip Meyers
  
• Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  
• Velvet Underground – Joe Harvard
  
• The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
  

W

• Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
  
• Walden – Henry David Thoreau
  
• Walt Disney’s Bambi – Felix Salten
  
• War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  
• We Owe You Nothing – Daniel Sinker
  
• What Colour is Your Parachute – Richard Nelson Bolles
  
• What Happened to Baby Jane – Henry Farrell
  
• When the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka
  
• Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
  
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee
  
• Wicked – Gregory Maguire
  
• The Wizard of Oz – Frank L Baum
  
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  

Y

• The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  
• The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
  

OTHER RESOURCES

• 19th Century Novels Masterpost
  
• 20th Century Novels Masterpost
  
• 21st Century Novels Masterpost
• Rory Gilmore’s Reading List

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