Someone posted this awesome list of books mentioned on the tv show "Gilmore Girls."  How many have you read?
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 ** indicates the ones I've read
 (A) indicates the ones I've started but abandoned
 
 (A) 1984 by George Orwell
 **The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 
 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
 An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
 **Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
 **Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
 Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
 The Art of Fiction by Henry James
 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
 **Atonement by Ian McEwan
 **Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
 The Awakening by Kate Chopin
 Babe by Dick King-Smith
 Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
 **Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
 (A actually had to return it to the library)Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
 **The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 
 **Beloved by Toni Morrison
 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
 **The Bhagavad Gita
 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
 Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
 A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
 Brick Lane by Monica Ali
 Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
 Candide by Voltaire 
 The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
 Carrie by Stephen King
 (A)  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
 **The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 
 **Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
 The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
 Christine by Stephen King
 (A) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 
 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
 The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
 The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
 A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
 Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
 **The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
 Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père
 Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac
 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 
 **The Crucible by Arthur Miller
 Cujo by Stephen King
 **The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 
 Daisy Miller by Henry James
 Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
 David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
 **The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown 
 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
 Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 **Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
 **Deenie by Judy Blume
 The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
 The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
 The Divine Comedy by Dante
 The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
 Don Quijote by Cervantes
 Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
 (A) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 
 Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
 Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
 (A) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
 Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
 Eloise by Kay Thompson
 Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
 ** Emma by Jane Austen 
 ** Empire Falls by Richard Russo
 ** Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
 ** Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
 Ethics by Spinoza
 Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
 Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
 Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
 Extravagance by Gary Krist
 (A) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
 Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
 The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
 Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
 (A) The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
 Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 
 Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
 Fletch by Gregory McDonald
 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
 The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
 (A) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
 ** Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
 Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
 Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
 Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
 George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
 Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
 ** Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
 The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
 The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 
 Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 
 The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
 The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
 The Graduate by Charles Webb
 ** The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
 The Group by Mary McCarthy
 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 
 ** Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 
 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 
 Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 
 Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
 Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
 Henry V by William Shakespeare
 High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
 Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
 The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
 House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 
 (A) The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
 How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
 ** How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
 How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland
 ** Howl by Allen Gingsburg
 The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
 ** The Iliad by Homer
 ** I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres
 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
 Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
 It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
 ** Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 
 ** The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
 Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
 The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
 (A) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
 Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
 The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
 ** The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 
 Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence
 The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
 ** Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
 The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
 ** Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
 ** Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
 Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
 ** Life of Pi by Yann Martel
 ** The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
 Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
 The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
 The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
 ** Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 
 Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
 ** Lord of the Flies by William Golding
 The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
 ** The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 
 The Love Story by Erich Segal
 ** Macbeth by William Shakespeare 
 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
 The Manticore by Robertson Davies
 Marathon Man by William Goldman
 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
 Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
 Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
 ** Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
 The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
 Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken
 The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare
 (A) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
 The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
 Moby Dick by Herman Melville
 The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
 Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
 A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
 Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
 A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
 A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
 Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
 My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
 My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken
 My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
 My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult – read
 The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
 ** The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
 The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
 Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
 New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
 The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
 ** Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
 ** Night by Elie Wiesel
 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 
 The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan
 Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
 ** Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
 ** Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
 Old School by Tobias Wolff
 (A) Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
 ** On the Road by Jack Kerouac
 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
 (A) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
 Oracle Night by Paul Auster
 Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
 Othello by Shakespeare 
 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
 The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
 Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
 ** The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
 A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
 The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
 ** The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
 Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
 ** The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
 Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
 Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
 Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
 ** The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 
 The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
 The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
 The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
 ** Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 
 Property by Valerie Martin
 Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
 Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
 Quattrocento by James Mckean
 A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
 Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 
 ** The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
 The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
 (A) Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 
 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
 (A) The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
 Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
 (A) The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien 
 R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
 Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
 Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
 Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
 (A) A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
 (A) A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
 Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
 Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
 Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
 The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
 ** The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
 Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
 The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
 ** The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 
 Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
 Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
 ** Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 
 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
 Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
 Sexus by Henry Miller
 ** The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
 Shane by Jack Shaefer
 The Shining by Stephen King
 ** Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
 S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
 ** Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
 Small Island by Andrea Levy
 Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
 Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 
 Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
 The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
 Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
 The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
 Songbook by Nick Hornby
 The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
 Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
 Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
 ** Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
 The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
 A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams
 ** Stuart Little by E. B. White
 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
 Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
 Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
 Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
 (A) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
 Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 ** Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
 Time and Again by Jack Finney
 ** The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 
 To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
 ** To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
 The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
 ** A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
 The Trial by Franz Kafka
 The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
 ** Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 
 Ulysses by James Joyce
 ** The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe – started and not finished
 Unless by Carol Shields
 Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
 The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 
 Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard
 ** The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
 ** Walden by Henry David Thoreau
 Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten
 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
 We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
 What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
 What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
 When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
 Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 
 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 
 The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
 ** Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
 ** The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
 **The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
How neat! I had no idea The Gilmore Girls mentioned so many books. I used to love that show. Hmmmm.... think I'll see which ones I've read!
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