Season 1 Pilot (1.1)

• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
• The Shining by Stephen King

The Lorelais’ First Day at Chilton (1.2)

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• ✔ Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
• Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Kill Me Now (1.3)

• Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H.R. Mencken
• My Life As Author And Editor by H.R. Mencken
• Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

The Deer-Hunters (1.4)

• A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
• Richard III by William Shakespeare
• The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Cinnamon’s Wake (1.5)

• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
• Valley of the Dolls by Susann Jacqueline

Kiss and Tell (1.7)

• ✔ The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Love and War and Snow (1.8)

• Emma by Jane Austen
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• ✔ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Rory’s Dance (1.9)

• Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
• The Group by Mary McCarthy
• ✔ The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

Forgiveness and Stuff (1.10)

• ✔ The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

Paris is Burning (1.11)

• Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
• The Divine Comedy by Dante
• The New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Double Date (1.12)

• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

Concert Interruptus (1.13)

• Carrie by Stephen King
• ✔ Macbeth by William Shakespeare

That Damn Donna Reed (1.14)

• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• Don Quixote by Cervantes

Christopher Returns (1.15)

• The Compact Oxford English Dictionary

Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers (1.16)

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Christine by Stephen King
• Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Breakup, Pt. 2 (1.17)

• ✔ The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

The Third Lorelai (1.18)

• The Art of Fiction by Henry James

Emily in Wonderland (1.19)

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

P.S. I Lo… (1.20)

• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Out of Africa by Isac Denison

Love, Daisies, and Troubadours (1.21)

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Season 2 Sadie, Sadie (2.1)

• Cujo by Stephen King
• Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H.R. Mencken

Red Light on the Wedding Night (2.3)

• Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
• Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

The Road Trip to Harvard (2.4)

• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Album
• Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy (2.5)

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• Howl by Allen Ginsburg
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
• Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
• The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
• The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

Presenting Lorelai Gilmore (2.6)

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Like Mother, Like Daughter (2.7)

• Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
• Savage Beauty:The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
• Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
• The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
• The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
• The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Ins and Outs of Inns (2.8)

• Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
• ✔ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Run Away, Little Boy (2.9)

• ✔ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Shining by Stephen King
• The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

The Bracebridge Dinner (2.10)

• The Iliad by Homer
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Secrets and Loans (2.11)

• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Nancy Dres Mysteries by Carolyn Keene
• The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

Richard in Stars Hollow (2.12)

• Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
• Several biographies of Winston Churchill
• The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum

A-Tisket, A-Tasket (2.13)

• The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

It Should’ve Been Lorelai (2.14)

• The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

Lost and Found (2.15)

• ✔ Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• Howl by Allen Ginsburg
• Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
• Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
• ✔ The Return of the King: Lord Of The Rings – Book 3 by J.R.R.Tolkien

There’s the Rub (2.16)

• Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
• ✔ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Howl by Allen Ginsburg

Dead Uncles and Vegetables (2.17)

• David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D.
• Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
• Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm

Back in the Saddle Again (2.18)

• Candide by Voltaire
• The Bhagava Gita
• The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Teach Me Tonight (2.19)

• Fletch by Gregory McDonald
• Othello by William Shakespeare
• Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
• ✔ Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
• Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
• The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell

Help Wanted (2.20)

• Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
• Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/ Angels on Toast/ A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell

Lorelai’s Graduation Day (2.21)

• Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Woolf
• The Graduate by Charles Webb
• The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
• The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
• What Color is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

I Can’t Get Started (2.22)

• Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
• Inferno by Dante

Season 3 Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days (3.1)

• A Bolt From The Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

The Haunted Leg (3.2)

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• ✔ Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
• Shane by Jack Shaefer
• The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

Application Anxiety (3.3)

• Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
• Fiddler of the Roof by Joesph Stein
• ✔ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Harry Potter – Book 1 by J. K. Rowling
• Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
• Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
• Henry V by William Shakespeare
• The Manticore by Robertson Davies
• The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

One’s Got Class and the Other One Dyes (3.4)

• We Owe You Nothing- Punk Planet: the Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker

Eight O’Clock at the Oasis (3.5)

• Marathon Man by William Goldman

Take The Deviled Eggs… (3.6)

• Deenie by Judy Blume

They Shoot Gilmores, Don’t They? (3.7)

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Let The Games Begin (3.8)

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Love Story by Erich Segal
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving (3.9)

• How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

That’ll Do, Pig (3.10)

• Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
• Babe by Dick King- Smith
• Gidget by Frederick Kohner
• ✔ Stuart Little by E. B. White
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
• The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
• The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

I Solemnly Swear (3.11)

• Eloise by Kay Thompson
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
• Mutiny On The Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
• ✔ The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

Dear Richard and Emily (3.13)

• Europe Through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
• Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Selected Hotels of Europe
• The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

Swan Song (3.14)

• Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
• The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
• Walt Disney’s Bambi (Based on Original Story by Felix Salten) by Felix Salten

Face-Off (3.15)

• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
• Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
• Othello by Shakespeare
• The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

The Big One (3.16)

• I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres

Tales of Poes and Fire (3.17)

• ✔ The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Say Goodnight, Gracie (3.20)

• Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pinocchio, Those are Strings (3.22)

• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Season 4 The Hobbit, The Sofa and Digger Stiles (4.3)

• Atonement by Ian McEwan

Chicken or Beef (4.4)

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Fundamental Things Apply (4.5)

• Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Festival of Living Art (4.7)

• 1984 by George Orwell

Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels (4.13)

• Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Reigning Lorelai (4.16)

• The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin’ the Twist (4.17)

• The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind

Afterboom (4.19)

• The Trial by Franz Kafka

Season 5 Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller (5.1)

• Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

A Messenger, Nothing More (5.2)

• A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
• Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

We Got Us a Pippi Virgin (5.5)

• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Norman Mailer, I’m pregnant! (5.6)

• The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

Emily Says Hello (5.9)

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

Come Home (5.12)

• My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

Jews and Chinese Food (5.15)

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

So…Good Talk (5.16)

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
• Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon

How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod? (5.20)

• Ethics by Spinoza

Season 6

He’s Slippin’ ‘Em Bread…Dig? (6.10)

• Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

The Perfect Dress (6.11)

• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• Deenie by Beverly Cleary
• It takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

You’ve Been Gilmored (6.14)

• Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert

Valentine, The Destroyer (6.17)

• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Super Cool Party People (6.20)

• Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
• The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

Season 7 The Long Morrow (7.1)

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Lorelai's First Cotillion (7.3)

Knit, People, Knit! (7.9)

• The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan, Jeffrey L. Williams, Vincent B. Leitch

Santa’s Secret Stuff (7.11)

• R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
• S is for Silence by Sue Grafton

I’d Rather Be In Philadelphia (7.13)

• A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

Farewell, My Pet (7.14)

• Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
• Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

I’m a Kayak, Hear Me Roar (7.15)

• The Vanishing Newspaper by Phillip Meyers

Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore? (7.16)

• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Gilmore Girls Only (7.17)

• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Bitch In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
• George W. Bushisms : The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
• Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
• Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
• New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
• Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
• Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• Sanctuary by William Faulkner
• Sexus by Henry Miller
• Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
• The Canterbery Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
• The Good Soilder by Ford Maddox Ford
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard