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

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