Every non-fiction work that had been referenced by any character or episode name in ‘Gilmore Girls’, in alphabetical order.

⟡: read

• A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
• A Briefer History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking
• A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• A Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
• A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
• A Month of Sundays: Searching for the Spirit and My Sister by Julie Mars
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
• American Steel by Richard Preston
• Apocalyptics — Cancer and the Big Lie : How Environmental Politics Controls What We Know About Cancer by Edith Efron
• Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
• Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
• Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
• Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
• Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
• Europe through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves
• Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
• Fodor’s Selected Hotels of Europe
• Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
• George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
• He’s Just Not That into You by Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo
• Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson
• Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry
• Hockey For Dummies by John Davidson
• I’m with the Band by Pamela Des Barres
• I Feel Bad about My Neck by Nora Ephron
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
• It Takes A Village by Hillary Clinton
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
• Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
• Letters of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
• Lisa and David by Theodore Isaac Rubin
• Living History by Hillary Clinton
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Memoirs of A Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
• Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
• Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray
• Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
• Monsieur Proust by Céleste Albaret
• Motley Crue by Seamus Craic
• Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
• My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
• My Life as Author and Editor by H. L. Mencken
• My Life in Orange: Growing up with the Guru by Tim Guest
• My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
• Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe by Myra Waldo
• Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Out of Africa by Isak Dineson
• Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
• Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
• Primary Colors by Joe Klein
• Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
• Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
• Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem
• Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry M. Robert
• Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
• Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
• Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913–1965 by Dawn Powell
• Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
• Songbook by Nick Hornby
• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collet
• Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
• The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol
• The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
• The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as a History by Norman Mailer
• The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher
• The Art of Fiction by Henry James
• The Art of Living by Epictetus
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
• The Collected Works of Grey Owl by Grey Owl
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
• The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
• The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
• The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
• The Last Empire: Essays 1992–2000 by Gore Vidal
• The Last Lion — Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932 by William Manchester
• The Last Lion — Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II: Alone, 1932–1940 by William Manchester
• The Last Lion — Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III: Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965 by William Manchester
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
• The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
• The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time by Jim Irvin
• The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
• The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Jeffrey J. Williams
• The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader by Michael Moore
• The Opposite of Fate: Memories of A Writing Life by Amy Tan
• The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
• The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
• The Portable Nietzsche by Fredrich Nietzsche
• The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
• The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe
• The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age by Philip Meyer
• The Velvet Underground and Nico by Joe Harvard
• The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill by James C. Humes
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• We Owe You Nothing — Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker
• What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
• Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People 1492-1995 by Robert Debs Heinl
• Yoga for Dummies by Georg Feuerstein & Larry Payne

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