Read Like a Gilmore Girl
It’s officially autumn, prime time for a Gilmore Girls rewatch. As you curl into Stars Hollow, add these Rory-approved books to your TBR list.
Gilmore Girls is known for its rapid-fire pop culture references—and books are no exception. Here are 25 books that Rory Gilmore, one of the series’ bookish protagonists, was seen reading or mentioned (per this list). Let’s just ignore that time she stole a yacht and dropped out of Yale. Cue the Jess Mariano speech!
A Rory Gilmore-Approved Reading List
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
- Candide by Voltaire
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Secret of the Old Clock by Nancy Drew
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Group by Mary McCarthy
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
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