100+ Books From Season 2 of Gilmore Girls

10 Iconic Books From Season 2 of Gilmore Girls

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand: Rory recommends this classic book about a nonconventional architect to Jess at the Stars Hollow Picnic Basket Auction, saying she read it at age ten. (2.13 “A-Tisket, A-Tasket”)

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger: Jess looks for this short book of short stories in Rory’s room when her bracelet from Dean is lost. (2.15 “Lost and Found”)

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg: Jess “borrows” this nonconformist poetry banned book (think: the Beat Generation) and writes in the margins during their first meeting. (2.05 “Nick and Nora/Sid and Nancy”)

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens: Rory retaliates to Jess’s book borrowing by calling him “Dodger,” a thief in this classic. (2.05 “Nick and Nora/Sid and Nancy”)

Othello by William Shakespeare: Rory says she’ll read this tragedy about jealousy to Jess when she’s tutoring him. (2.19 “Teach Me Tonight”)

“Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A poem Revolutionary War reenactors refer to. It’s based on a true story about the arrival of the British. (2.17 “Dead Uncles and Vegetables”)

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Rory’s Chilton class reenacts this Shakespearean tragedy of ill-fated love, and it’s not without all kinds of added drama. (2.09 “Run Away, Little Boy”)

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving: The entire Bracebridge Dinner is inspired by the Christmas celebrations at Bracebridge Hall in this collection. (2.10 “The Bracebridge Dinner”)

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom: Outside the Harvard library, Lorelai tells Rory to skip this memoir about a dying teacher. (2.04 “Road Trip to Harvard”)

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson: Outside the Harvard library, Lorelai tells Rory to skip this nonfiction book about pivoting. (2.04 “Road Trip to Harvard”)

The Full List of 108 Books From Gilmore Girls Season 2

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
4. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5. The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher
6. Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
7. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
8. Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
9. The Brothers Karamazov by Leo Tolstoy
10. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
11. Candide by Voltaire
12. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
13. The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
14. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
15. Cinderella by the Brothers Grimm
16. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
17. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
18. Contact by Carl Sagan
19. Cujo by Stephen King
20. Dawn Powell: Novels 1944-1962
21. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, et al.
22. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
23. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
24. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
25. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
26. “Eve of Waterloo” by Lord Byron
27. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
28. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
29. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
30. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
31. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
32. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
33. Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards
34. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
35. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
36. Harvey by Mary Chase
37. Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
38. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
39. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
40. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
41. The Iliad by Homer
42. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
43. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
44. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
45. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
46. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
47. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by
    William Manchester
48. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester
49. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester
50. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
51. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
52. Lisa and David by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
53. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
54. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
55. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
56. Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
57. The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
58. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
59. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
60. A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
61. Midnight Express by Billy Hayes
62. The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time by Jim Irvin
63. The Mourning Bride by William Congreve
64. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
65. New Poems of Emily Dickinson
66. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
67. The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
68. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
69. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
70. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
71. Othello by William Shakespeare
72. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
73. “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
74. Personal History by Katherine Graham
75. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and
    Gillian McCain
76. The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
77. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
78. Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm
79. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
80. Richard III by William Shakespeare
81. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
82. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
83. The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
84. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
85. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
86. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965
87. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
88. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving
89. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
90. Snow White by the Brothers Grimm
91. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
92. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
93. Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan
94. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
95. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
96. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
97. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
98. Ulysses by James Joyce
99. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
100. Unfinished Business by John Houseman
101. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
102. What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
103. What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
104. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
105. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
106. “The Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr
107. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
108. The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

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