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Overview
All 400+ books (plus some poems), that are referenced or make appearances in Gilmore Girls or Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. No time limit.
Challenge Books
The Collected Stories
Eudora Welty
Season 2, Episode 7. Rory reads this when she sits on the couch and waits for her "kidnappers" to arrive.
Season 4, Episode 2. Seen on Rory's shelf as she's unpacking at Yale.
Season 4, Episode 2. Seen on Rory's shelf as she's unpacking at Yale.
The Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare
Season 1, Episode 4. Lorelai is helping Rory study for her upcoming English test. She asks Rory what year The Comedy of Errors was published and Rory provides the wrong answer, but Lorelai tells her she was close.
The Complete Stories Of Dorothy Parker
Barbara Rosenblat, Dorothy Parker
A Year In The Life - Spring.
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Season 3, Episode 2. Jess reads this in the diner before school.
Season 5, Episode 9.
Season 5, Episode 9.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
Season 2, Episode 2. This book title is parodied by Lane as she says Rory can read about her and Henry in her novel A Connecticut Yankee in Busan.
Consider the Lobster And Other Essays
David Foster Wallace
Season 6, Episode 16. Rory is editing an article for the Yale Daily News and tells the writer to cut down their prose so she doesn’t have to publish a newspaper the size of a David Foster Wallace novel.
A Year In The Life - Spring.
A Year In The Life - Spring.
Contact
Carl Sagan
Season 2, Episode 12. Rory shows her grandfather her room noting that books are everywhere – even under the bed and in the drawers. When she opens her drawers we can spot a few book titles including Contact.