books from gilmore girls

[Hanna]

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende. I think it was in the episode where one of Michel's dogs died, and Rory said that she thought Eva Luna was the best Allende book.

[elyse]

She also mentioned that many people think that The House of the Spirits is Isabel Allende's best work so I added that to my list as well.

[Hanna]

In the episode Kill Me Now in season 1, Richard mentioned that the going on's at the club is almost like Peyton Place (written by Grace Metalious)

[Hazy]

To make things a little easier... here's the thread so far, in mostly alphabetical order



A

Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Beowulf by Anonymous : A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
Emma by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

B

I'm With the Band, by Pamela Des Barres
The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Pushkin : A Biography by T.J. Binyon
Deenie by Judy Blume
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
A clockwork orange by Burgess
Notes of a dirty old man by charles bukowski

C

The Canterbery Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Swimming With Giants by Anne Collet
Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby
The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby
The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby

D

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
The Manticore by Robertson Davie
Out of Africa by Isak Denisen
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Joan Didion's autobiography
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

E

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

F

The Crimson Petal and the White by Faber
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Light in August by William Faulkner
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer


G

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Gibbon
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Dead Souls by Gogol

H

The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
The Iliad by Homer
Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

I

The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

J

daisy miller by henry james
Ulysses - James Joyce

K

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Trial by Kafka
The Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Flowers for Algernon by Keyes
Cujo by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver


L

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Inherit the Wind by J. Lawrence
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, and Nikki Sixx
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
Jewel by Bret Lott

M

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain
The Group by Mary McCarthy
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Moby D-i-c-k by Herman Melville
Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Songs In Ordinary Time by Marry McGarry Morris
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Sula by Toni Morrison

N

The Portable Nietzsche

O

We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
1984 by George Orwell
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jailby Malika Oufkir

P

Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/a Time to Be Born/ by Dawn Powell
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust


Q

Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen

R

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

S

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Colette. A Biography by Sarde
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
We Owe You Nothing- Punk Planet: the Collected Interviews, edited by Daniel Sinker
Ethics by Spinoza
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Europe Through the Back Door by Rick Steves
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill -- by Ron Suskind

T

Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Art of War by Sun Tzu

U

V
The Rough Guide to Europe by Various Authors
The Last Empire : Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut


W

The Compact Oxford English Dictionary : in slipcase with reading glass by E. S. C. Weiner
George W. Bushisms : The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
B*tch In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

X

Y

Z

[Dominique]

Thanks, that's much neater

[hookedonphonics]

two from episode 5.02: A Messenger, Nothing More

A Room With a View E.M. Forster
Rory shows Lorelai home movies of her and Emily acting out scenes from the book.

Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
This is actually a short story by Wharton but it warrants mentioning (by the way, Wharton was also mentioned in episode 1.06 Rory's birthday parties. Lorelai enters the grandparents house before the party and when Emily asks what she thinks, Lorelai responds with "I think Edith Wharton would be proud, and taking notes!" This is significant becasue Wharton also wrote an extensive book on decorating)

Wow, that was longwinded :-P

[hookedonphonics]

I almost forgot!!! In season three the episode "Swan's Way"

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

In the morning after Rory talks to her mom on the phone from the grandparent's house Emily takes the phone to rant about what a horrible kid Jess is and says "Lord Jim has decided cell phones are beneath him!"

[hookedonphonics]

ok, seven more and I'm done (I checked and I don't think any of the ones I posted have been listed already)

season 3: Pinocchio, Those are Strings
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Besides the title, Lorelai actually says to Rory "Pinocchio, those are strings."

in season 4: Nag Hammadi is where they found the gnostic gospels.
I know they are talking about the original gnostic gospels, but there was also a book called "The Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels

In episode 1.04 The Deer Hunters
Shakespeare's Sonnet 116
Paris recites to Rory while Rory sits on a bench outside of Chilton, then Paris says "You're going down." (again, not a book by itself, but literature so I'm adding it)



season one (not sure which episode)
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Rory says to Lane "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" from the play. (It was also mentioned in the episode where Rory meets the Harvard alumnus in season three as the origin of the phrase "One Feld Swoop")

episode 3.15: Face-Off
Othello by Shakespeare
Rory and Lane are waiting in line at the hockey game concession stand when Dave runs to Lane to see how her "date" with her Korean decoy boyfriend is going. After Dave leaves, Lane realizes he was jealous. Rory then says "Just remember, there's cute jealous and there's Othello."

episode 2.16 There's the Rub
Hamlet by Shakespeare
This may be pushing it too much, but the saying "Aye, There's the rub" is from the famous 'to be or not to be' speech from Hamlet

episode 2.18: Back in the Saddle Again
The Bhagavad Gita
When everyone is reading the assignment description for the economics project, Madeline takes a long time because she "reads slow so she doesn't miss anything" and Paris replies with "It's not the Bhagavad Gita."

[Carma]

wow.... thats a lot..

[sagedautumn]

Great job! You have ben keeping busy

[Pilleriin]

In 1x03 Kill Me Now Richard said that he has found also first edition of his (H. L. Mencken) memoirs.

[bookworm]

In episode Help Wanted in the second season, Lorelai gives Rory The Little Locksmith to cheer her up. By the way, did anyone read it or hear anything about this book?

[frozeninside]

Thanks for posting these, I've been looking for a good list of books on GG.

[Pilleriin]

Richard reads a book by W.S.Maugham, in the episode where he and Emily heard about Lorelai and Jason relationship.

[ItalianLaneGirl]

I quickly get overwhelmed when I think of all the reading I want to do! But then I just have to sit back and remember... I have the rest of my life. I don't need to read ALL of these this year!