Boks of various genres that had been referenced by any character or episode name in ‘Gilmore Girls’, in alphabetical order.

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• A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
• ⟡ A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
• Absolute Rage by Robert K. Tanenbaum
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• ⟡ And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 
• Brick Lane by Mónica Ali
• Carrie by Stephen King
• Christine by Stephen King
• Contact by Carl Sagan
• Cujo by Stephen King
• Damselfly by Chandra Prasad
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
• Dorothy by Benjamin Charles Stephenson
• Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Extravagance by Gary Krist
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Fletch by Gregory McDonald
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
• Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
• Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards
• Here Was a Man by Norah Lofts
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
• House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
• How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
• How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
• Ironweed by William Kennedy
• It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
• Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
• ⟡ Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Lisa & David/Jordi by Theodore Isaac Rubin
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• Love Story by Erich Segal
• Marathon Man by William Goldman
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Misery by Stephen King
• Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
• ⟡ My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Notes of A Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
• November 9 by Colleen Hoover
• Old School by Tobias Wolff
• Oracle Night by Paul Auster
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
• Property by Valerie Martin
• Quattrocento by James McKean
• R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
• Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
• Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
• S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
• Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
• Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
• Small Island by Andrea Levy
• Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
• Split Rock: A Martha's Vineyard Novel by Holly Hodder Eger
• Summer of Fear by T. Jefferson Parker
• Tevya the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
• The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• ⟡ The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
• The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
• The Graduate by Charles Webb
• The Group by Mary McCarthy
• ⟡ The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
• ⟡ The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
• ⟡ The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Nanny Diaries by Emma Mclaughlin
• ⟡ The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Prophecy by Angela Watson
• The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore
• The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford
• ⟡ The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Shining by Stephen King
• The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
• The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
• The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
• ⟡ The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy 
• Time and Again by Jack Finney
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Unless by Carol Shields
• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
• Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

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