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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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