Rory Gilmore Reading List

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What is the Rory Gilmore Reading List?

This list comprises 475 books referenced, mentioned, or showcased throughout the Gilmore Girls TV series. The list reflects Rory’s (and the other characters’) love of literature, including everything from the classics to modern novels, poetry, plays, and non-fiction. Fans often use this list as a personal reading challenge or literary goal.

In 2014, BuzzFeed highlighted 339 books mentioned across the episodes from all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls; however, the list is inaccurate and incomplete. More books were later mentioned in Netflix’s 2016 reboot, A Year in the Life. I have since discovered 100+ more books on my own and tracked them over several years, so my total list now exceeds 475 books, and the count is still growing.

The Full Rory Gilmore Reading List (in Alphabetical Order)

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. 72nd and Rodeo by Roz Avrett
3. Absolute Rage by Robert Tanenbaum
4. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
5. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
6. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
7. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Pead
8. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
9. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
10. Amanda/Miranda by Richard Peck
11. American Steel by Richard Preston
12. The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
13. Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
14. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
15. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
16. The Andy Warhol Diaries
17. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
18. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
19. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
20. Anne Bogart: Viewpoints by Michael Bigelow Dixon
21. Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson
22. The Apocalyptics by Edith Efron
23. The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
24. The Art Book by Phaidon Press
25. The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher
26. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
27. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
28. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
29. As They Were by M.K. Fisher
30. Atonement by Ian McEwan
31. The Automated Battlefield by Frank Barnaby
32. Babe by Dick King-Smith
33. Bad Dirt by Annie Proulx
34. Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
35. Barefoot Contessa Family Style by Ina Garten
36. Barefoot in Paris by Ina Garten
37. Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
38. Bauhaus 2000 edited by Jeannine Fiedler and Peter Feierabend
39. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
40. Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
41. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
42. Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
43. Beowulf by Anonymous/Seamus Heaney translation
44. The Best of Martha Stewart Living: Holidays
45. The Big Love by Sarah Dunn
46. Big Theories Revisited by Dennis M. McInerney
47. Billy Budd & Other Tales by Herman Melville
48. Blind Faith by Joe McGinniss
49. The Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope
50. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
51. The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. The Breaker by Minette Walters
54. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
55. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
56. The Brontes by Juliet Barker
57. The Brothers Karamazov by Leo Tolstoy
58. Butterfield 8 by John O’Hara
59. Call of the Wild by Jack London
60. Candide by Voltaire
61. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
62. Carrie by Stephen King
63. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
64. “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
65. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
66. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
67. The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
68. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson
69. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
70. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
71. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
72. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
73. Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
74. Cinderella by the Brothers Grimm
75. Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
76. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
77. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
78. Collected Short Stories of Aldous Huxley
79. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
80. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
81. The Complete History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
82. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
83. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
84. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
85. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
86. Contact by Carl Sagan
87. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
88. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
89. The Crisis by David Harris
90. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Wang Dulu
91. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
92. Cujo by Stephen King
93. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
94. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
95. Daisy Miller by Henry James
96. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
97. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
98. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
99. Dawn Powell: Novels 1944-1962
100. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
101. Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
102. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
103. Deenie by Judy Blume
104. Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
105. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
106. Devil’s Hole by Bill Branon
107. Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming
108. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 1-5
109. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
110. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, et al.
111. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
112. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
113. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
114. Elaine Slater’s Book of Needlepoint Projects
115. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
116. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
117. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
118. Elements by Euclid
119. Ellis Island by Fred Mustard Stewart
120. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
121. Eloise at the Plaza by Kay Thompson
122. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
123. Emma Who Saved My Life by Wilton Barnhardt
124. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
125. An Enquiry on the Principles of Morals by David Hume
126. “Essay on Criticism” by Alexander Pope
127. Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
128. Europe through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves
129. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
130. “Eve of Waterloo” by Lord Byron
131. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
132. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
133. The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe
134. Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Cameron Crowe
135. Fatal Terrain by Dale Brown
136. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
137. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
138. Firestarter by Stephen King
139. Firewall by Lawrence Walsh
140. First Folio by William Shakespeare
141. Flavor of the Month by Olivia Goldsmith
142. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
143. Footprint Thailand by Andrew Spooner
144. Fortune’s Favorites by Colleen McCullough
145. Forty Days by Bob Simon
146. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
147. The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer
148. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
149. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
150. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
151. Frida by Hayden Herrera
152. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
153. Geometry For Dummies
154. The Ghost of Mrs. Muir by Josephine Leslie
155. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
156. Gigi by Collette
157. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
158. Girls Only by Alex Witchel
159. A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
160. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
161. Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
162. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
163. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
164. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Robert Southey
165. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
166. Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards
167. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
168. The Graduate by Charles Webb
169. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
170. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
171. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
172. The Group by Mary McCarthy
173. Haiku, Volume 2: Spring by R.H. Blyth
174. Haiti: State Against Nation by Michel-Roph Trouillot
175. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
176. Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm
177. Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days by H.L. Mencken
178. Harold & the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
179. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
180. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
181. Harvey by Mary Chase
182. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
183. The Heart of Sicily by Anna Lanza
184. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
185. Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
186. Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare
187. Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare
188. Henry V by William Shakespeare
189. Henry VI by William Shakespeare
190. Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
191. He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
192. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
193. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
194. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
195. The History of Tom Thumb by Anonymous
196. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
197. Hockey for Dummies by  John Davidson and John Steinbreder
198. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
199. Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss
200. Hotels, Restaurants, and Inns of Great Britain and Ireland 1986 by Egon Ronay
201. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
202. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
203. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
204. How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler
205. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
206. Iacocca by Lee Iacocca
207. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
208. The Iliad by Homer
209. I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
210. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
211. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
212. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
213. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
214. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
215. Intentions by Oscar Wilde
216. Into What Far Harbor? by Allen Drury
217. The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
218. I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron
219. Ironweed by William J. Kennedy
220. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
221. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
222. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
223. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
224. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
225. Larousse Gastronomique by Librairie Larousse
226. Larousse Wine by David Cobbold
227. Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight
228. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
229. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by
     William Manchester
230. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester
231. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester
232. Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore
233. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
234. Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
235. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
236. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
237. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
238. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
239. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
240. Lisa and David by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
241. Literature of the Western World, Vol. 2: Neoclassicism Through the Modern Period by James Hurt
242. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
243. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
244. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
245. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
246. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
247. Little Red Riding Hood by the Brothers Grimm
248. Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
249. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
250. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
251. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
252. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
253. The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
254. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
255. Love For Love by William Congreve
256. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
257. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
258. Love Without Fear by Eustace Chesser
259. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
260. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
261. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
262. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
263. The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
264. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
265. Marathon Man by William Goldman
266. Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
267. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
268. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton
269. Matisse the Master by Hilary Spurling
270. McCall’s Cook Book
271. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
272. The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
273. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
274. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
275. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray, Ph.D.
276. A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
277. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
278. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
279. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
280. Midnight Express by Billy Hayes
281. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
282. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
283. Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
284. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
285. The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time by Jim Irvin
286. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
287. Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
288. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
289. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
290. The Mourning Bride by William Congreve
291. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
292. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
293. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
294. My Lai 4 by Seymour M. Hersh
295. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe
296. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
297. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
298. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
299. Nancy Drew and The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene
300. National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
301. Native Heart by Gabriel Horn
302. Native Son by Richard Wright
303. Nature’s Metropolis by William Cronon
304. New Poems of Emily Dickinson
305. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
306. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
307. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
308. No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
309. No Man is an Island by John Donne
310. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
311. Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. E.: The Victorian Age
312. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
313. November of the Heart by LaVyrle Spencer
314. The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
315. The Odyssey by Homer
316. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
317. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
318. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
319. On the Contrary by Mary McCarthy
320. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
321. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
322. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
323. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
324. On Writing Well by William Zinsser
325. Open Net by George Plimpton
326. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
327. Orations by American Orators
328. Othello by William Shakespeare
329. Out of Africa by Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen
330. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
331. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
332. The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
333. Paper Lion by George Plimpton
334. Paradise Lost by John Milton
335. “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
336. Pentagon by Allen Drury
337. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
338. The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth M. Pollack
339. Personal History by Katherine Graham
340. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
341. The Physics of Consciousness by Evan Harris Walker
342. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
343. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
344. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and
     Gillian McCain
345. Points of View by W. Somerset Maugham
346. Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith
347. Pomeranian: An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet by Happeth A. Jones
348. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
349. The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
350. Pregnancy Sucks by Joanne Kimes
351. The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind
352. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
353. Primary Colors by Anonymous/Joe Klein
354. P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
355. Psycho by Robert Bloch
356. Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution by Stephen Colegrave and Chris Sullivan
357. The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford
358. Pushkin by T.J. Binyon
359. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
360. Quiller Bamboo by Adam Hall
361. Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm
362. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
363. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
364. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
365. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
366. Return to the Chateau by Pauline Reage
367. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
368. Richard III by William Shakespeare
369. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
370. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
371. Rotten by John Lydon
372. The Rough Guide to Europe by Various Authors
373. R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
374. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Robert May
375. Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
376. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
377. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
378. Saving the Queen by William Frank Buckley, Jr.
379. The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
380. Scarface by Armitage Trail
381. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
382. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
383. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
384. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
385. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
386. Selected Hotels of Europe by Fodor’s
387. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965
388. Sexus by Henry Miller
389. Shadow Box by George Plimpton
390. Shaft by Ernest Tidyman
391. Shane by Jack Shaefer
392. Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
393. The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr
394. The Shining by Stephen King
395. The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
396. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
397. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
398. The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
399. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
400. Sleeping Beauty by The Brothers Grimm
401. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
402. Snow White by the Brothers Grimm
403. Snow White and Rose Red by the Brothers Grimm
404. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore
405. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
406. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
407. “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare
408. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
409. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
410. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
411. Stalin by Robert Service
412. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
413. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
414. Story of O by Pauline Reage
415. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
416. Stuart Little by E.B. White
417. Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan
418. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
419. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
420. Taken Hostage by David Farber
421. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
422. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
423. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
424. The Terminal by Robin Cook
425. Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
426. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
427. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
428. This is America My Country by Donald H. Sheehan
429. Thunder by James Grady
430. Time Life’s Big Book of Flower Gardening
431. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
432. “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785” by Robert Burns
433. The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac
434. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
435. The Trial by Franz Kafka
436. Trouble in Our Backyard by Martin Diskin
437. True Grit by Charles Portis
438. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
439. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
440. Ulysses by James Joyce
441. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
442. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
443. Unfinished Business by John Houseman
444. Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
445. Un Petit Lapin by Matias
446. U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis by David Patrick Houghton
447. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
448. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
449. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
450. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
451. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
452. The Watercolors for the Birds of America by John James Audubon
453. We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker
454. What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
455. What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff
456. What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
457. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
458. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
459. Who’s Who and What’s What in Shakespeare by Evangeline M. O’Connor
460. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
461. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
462. Wild Animus by Rich Shapero
463. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
464. “The Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr
465. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
466. Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
467. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
468. The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
469. Written in Blood by Robert Debs Heinl and Nancy Gordon Heinl
470. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
471. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
472. Yentl the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis
473. Yoga for Dummies by Georg Feuerstein and Larry Payne
474. Your Pregnancy Week by Week by Glade B. Curtis
475. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

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