Every piece of classic literature that had been referenced by any character or episode name in ‘Gilmore Girls’, in alphabetical order.

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• 1984 by George Orwell
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
• A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
• A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• ⟡ Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Atonement by Ian McEwan 
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• ⟡ Candide by Voltaire
• ⟡ Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Daisy Miller by Henry James
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
• Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• ⟡ Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• ⟡ Emma by Jane Austen
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
• Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
• ⟡ Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• ⟡ In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
• Indiana by George Sand
• Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir
• ⟡ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
• Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
• ⟡ Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Molloy by Samuel Beckett
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
• Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
• ⟡ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• ⟡ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• ⟡ Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
• ⟡ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
• Sanctuary by William Faulkner
• ⟡ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Sexus by Henry Miller
• Shane by Jack Shaefer
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
• Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholom Aleichem
• ⟡ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• ⟡ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
• The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
• The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
• The Complete Novels of Dawn Powell by Dawn Powell
• ⟡ The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• ⟡ The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
• The Manticore by Robertson Davies
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• ⟡ The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Mourning Bride by William Congreve
• The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
• The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
• The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
• ⟡ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• ⟡ The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• ⟡ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• ⟡ The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• ⟡ Ulysses by James Joyce
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
• ⟡ War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy
• ⟡ Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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