All 339 Books Referenced In "Gilmore Girls"

“I live in two worlds, one is a world of books.” According to Australian writer Patrick Lenton , these are all the books that were mentioned in the entire Gilmore Girls series.

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Anyone who's watched an episode of Gilmore Girls knows that Rory is something of a book lover and aren't surprised to find out that nearly 339 different texts were either read or mentioned throughout all seven seasons. From Rory's time at Chilton to her graduation from Yale and everything in between — including her oh, so literary relationship with Jess — it's abundantly clear to viewers that loving Rory also means loving her infatuation with literature.

A lot of us grew up watching Rory grow up and were unintentionally influenced by the books she read and talked about. They played a role in shaping the adult she became, and they also impacted viewers in a way that helped us become the people we are, too. When she graduated from high school, Rory eloquently addressed her love for books in her valedictorian speech.

"I live in two worlds, one is a world of books," she said. "I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann's Way. It's a rewarding world."

Last year, Australian writer Patrick Lenton compiled a massive list of every single book that was referenced in the Gilmore Girls series, and set out to read each one in an attempt to complete what's known as the "Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge." Lenton's currently on book number 18 — Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress — and estimates if he reads one book every two weeks, it'll take him two more years to complete the challenge.

Here is the full list of all 339 books:

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1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

13. Atonement by Ian McEwan

14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

16. Babe by Dick King-Smith

17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

21. Beloved by Toni Morrison

22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

23. The Bhagava Gita

24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

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