Much like Gilmore Girls is nothing without its rapid-fire pop culture references, Rory is nothing without her trusty booklist. Whether she's poring through Joan Didion or eye-rolling at Jess Mariano mansplaining Howl, Rory is literally never without a novel.
Seriously, guys, this was her graduation speech: "I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina, and strolled down Swann's Way."
So yeah, girl is obsessed with reading. A whopping 339 books appear throughout the course of Gilmore Girls' seven seasons, and literature is so central to Rory's character in particular that The WB (may it rest in peace) provided fans with her reading list. Due to the fact that she's the coolest teen ever, Rory's list spans everything from Bel Canto to The Bell Jar, and we're revisiting it below.
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
4. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
5. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
6. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
7. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
9. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
11. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
12. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
13. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
14. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
15. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
16. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
17. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
18. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
19. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
My books look sad. Can books look sad?
22. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
23. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
24. Flowers for Algernon by Keyes
25. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
26. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
27. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
28. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
29. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
31. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
32. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
33. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
35. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
36. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
37. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
38. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
39. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
40. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
Its a cool book, you've gotta admit.
41. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
42. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
43. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
47. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
48. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
49. Truth Beauty by Ann Patchett
50. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
51. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
52. Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
53. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
54.The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
56. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
57. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
58. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay by Michael Chabon
59. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
60. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
Oh, do you see the books?
61. The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy
62. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
63. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
64. Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
65. My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
66. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
67. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
68. Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
69. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
71. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
72. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
73. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Jensen
74. Extravagance by Gary Krist
75. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
76. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
77. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
78. Small Island by Andrea Levy
79. A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister by Julie Mars
80. Property by Valerie Martin
Nothing, nothing smells like that
81. Quattrocento by James McKean
82. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
83. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
84. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
87. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
88. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
89. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
90. The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
91. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
92. Old School by Tobias Wolff
93. Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac
94. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
95. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
96. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
97. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
98. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
99. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
100. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
101. Time and Again by Jack Finney
102. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
103. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
104. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
105. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
106. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
107. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
108. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
109. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
110. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
111. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
112.The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
113. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
114. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
115. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
116. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
117. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
118. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
119. The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
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