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. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
52. The Breaker by Minette Walters
53. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
54. Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
55. The Brontes by Juliet Barker
56. The Brothers Karamazov by Leo Tolstoy
57. Butterfield 8 by John O’Hara
58. Call of the Wild by Jack London
59. Candide by Voltaire
60. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
61. Carrie by Stephen King
62. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
63. “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe
64. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
65. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
66. The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
67. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson
68. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
69. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
70. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
71. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
72. Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
73. Cinderella by the Brothers Grimm
74. Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
75. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
76. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
77. Collected Short Stories of Aldous Huxley
78. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
79. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
80. The Complete History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
81. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
82. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
225. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
226. Larousse Gastronomique by Librairie Larousse
227. Larousse Wine by David Cobbold
228. Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight
229. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
230. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by
     William Manchester
231. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester
232. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester
233. Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore
234. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
235. Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
236. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
237. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
238. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
239. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
240. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
241. Lisa and David by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
242. Literature of the Western World, Vol. 2: Neoclassicism Through the Modern Period by James Hurt
243. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
244. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
245. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
246. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
247. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
248. Little Red Riding Hood by the Brothers Grimm
249. Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
250. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
251. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
252. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
253. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
254. The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
255. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
256. Love For Love by William Congreve
257. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
258. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
259. Love Without Fear by Eustace Chesser
260. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
261. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
262. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
263. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
264. The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
265. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
266. Marathon Man by William Goldman
267. Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
268. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
269. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton
270. Matisse the Master by Hilary Spurling
271. McCall’s Cook Book
272. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
273. The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
274. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
275. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
276. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray, Ph.D.
277. A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
278. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
279. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
280. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
281. Midnight Express by Billy Hayes
282. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
283. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
284. Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
285. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
286. The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time by Jim Irvin
287. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
288. Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
289. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
290. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
291. The Mourning Bride by William Congreve
292. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
293. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
294. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
295. My Lai 4 by Seymour M. Hersh
296. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe
297. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
298. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
299. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
300. Nancy Drew and The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene
301. National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
302. Native Heart by Gabriel Horn
303. Native Son by Richard Wright
304. Nature’s Metropolis by William Cronon
305. New Poems of Emily Dickinson
306. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
307. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
308. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
309. No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
310. No Man is an Island by John Donne
311. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
312. Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. E.: The Victorian Age
313. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
314. November of the Heart by LaVyrle Spencer
315. The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
316. The Odyssey by Homer
317. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
318. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
319. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
320. On the Contrary by Mary McCarthy
321. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
322. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
323. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
324. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
325. On Writing Well by William Zinsser
326. Open Net by George Plimpton
327. The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
328. Orations by American Orators
329. Othello by William Shakespeare
330. Out of Africa by Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen
331. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
332. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
333. The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
334. Paper Lion by George Plimpton
335. Paradise Lost by John Milton
336. “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
337. Pentagon by Allen Drury
338. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
339. The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth M. Pollack
340. Personal History by Katherine Graham
341. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
342. The Physics of Consciousness by Evan Harris Walker
343. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
344. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
345. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and
     Gillian McCain
346. Points of View by W. Somerset Maugham
347. Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith
348. Pomeranian: An Owner’s Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet by Happeth A. Jones
349. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
350. The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
351. Pregnancy Sucks by Joanne Kimes
352. The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind
353. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
354. Primary Colors by Anonymous/Joe Klein
355. P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
356. Psycho by Robert Bloch
357. Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution by Stephen Colegrave and Chris Sullivan
358. The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford
359. Pushkin by T.J. Binyon
360. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
361. Quiller Bamboo by Adam Hall
362. Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm
363. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
364. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
365. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
366. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
367. Return to the Chateau by Pauline Reage
368. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
369. Richard III by William Shakespeare
370. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
371. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
372. Rotten by John Lydon
373. The Rough Guide to Europe by Various Authors
374. R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
375. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Robert May
376. Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
377. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
378. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
379. Saving the Queen by William Frank Buckley, Jr.
380. The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
381. Scarface by Armitage Trail
382. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
383. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
384. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
385. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
386. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
387. Selected Hotels of Europe by Fodor’s
388. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965
389. Sexus by Henry Miller
390. Shadow Box by George Plimpton
391. Shaft by Ernest Tidyman
392. Shane by Jack Shaefer
393. Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
394. The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr
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 Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving
399. The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
400. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
401. Sleeping Beauty by The Brothers Grimm
402. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
403. Snow White by the Brothers Grimm
404. Snow White and Rose Red by the Brothers Grimm
405. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore
406. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
407. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
408. “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare
409. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
410. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
411. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
412. Stalin by Robert Service
413. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
414. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
415. Story of O by Pauline Reage
416. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
417. Stuart Little by E.B. White
418. Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan
419. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
420. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
421. Taken Hostage by David Farber
422. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
423. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
424. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
425. Terminal by Robin Cook
426. Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
427. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
428. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
429. This is America My Country by Donald H. Sheehan
430. Thunder by James Grady
431. Time Life’s Big Book of Flower Gardening
432. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
433. “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785” by Robert Burns
434. The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac
435. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
436. The Trial by Franz Kafka
437. Trouble in Our Backyard by Martin Diskin
438. True Grit by Charles Portis
439. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
440. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
441. Ulysses by James Joyce
442. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
443. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
444. Unfinished Business by John Houseman
445. Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
446. Un Petit Lapin by Matias
447. U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis by David Patrick Houghton
448. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
449. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
450. Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
451. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
452. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
453. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
454. The Watercolors for the Birds of America by John James Audubon
455. We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker
456. What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
457. What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff
458. What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
459. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
460. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
461. Who’s Who and What’s What in Shakespeare by Evangeline M. O’Connor
462. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
463. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
464. Wild Animus by Rich Shapero
465. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
466. “The Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr
467. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
468. Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
469. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
470. The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
471. Written in Blood by Robert Debs Heinl and Nancy Gordon Heinl
472. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
473. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
474. Yentl the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis
475. Yoga for Dummies by Georg Feuerstein and Larry Payne
476. Your Pregnancy Week by Week by Glade B. Curtis
477. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

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My Favorite Books From the Rory Gilmore Book List That Are Also Universally Popular

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