Any Gilmore Girls fan knows that Rory is the inspiration for living our bookish lives. She always had a book with her and inspired many watchers to start reading.

Throughout the show, Rory references many different books and authors. In honour of it being Autumn now and we all know that Autumn is Gilmore Girls season, I thought it would be fun to share a list of all the books Rory Gilmore mentions and references.

Whether you just want to read a few books from this list or set yourself the challenge of reading all of them, now there’s a list of all the books in one place.

Here is a list of all the books on the Rory Gilmore reading list.

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
7. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
8. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
9. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
11. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
12. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as a History by Norman Mailer
13. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
14. The Art of Living by Epictetus
15. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
16. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
17. Atonement by Ian McEwan
18. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
19. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
20. Babe by Dick King-Smith
21. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
22. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
23. Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
24. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
25. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
26. Beloved by Toni Morrison
27. Beowulf by Anonymous
28. The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous
29. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1200 Jews by Peter Duffy
30. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
31. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
32. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
33. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
34. Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
35. Candide by Voltaire
36. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
37. Carrie by Stephen King
38. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
39. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
40. The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
41. Charlotte’s Web by E B White
42. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
43. Christine by Stephen King
44. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
45. Cinderella by Brothers Grimm
46. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
47. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
48. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty
49. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
50. Compact Oxford English Dictionary
51. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
52. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
53. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
54. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
55. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
56. Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
57. Contact by Carl Sagan
58. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
59. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
61. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
62. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
63. Cujo by Stephen King
64. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
65. Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
66. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
67. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
68. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
69. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
70. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
71. Deenie by Judy Blume
72. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
73. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
74. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
75. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
76. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
77. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
78. Don Quixote by Cervantes
79. Dracula by Bram Stoker
80. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
81. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
82. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
83. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
84. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
85. Eloise at the Plaza by Kay Thompson
86. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
87. Emma by Jane Austen
88. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
89. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
90. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
91. Ethics by Spinoza
92. Europe through the Back Door: The Travel Skills Handbook by Rick Steves
93. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
94. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
95. The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
96. Extravagance by Gary Krist
97. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
98. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
99. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
100. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
101. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
102. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
103. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
104. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
105. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
106. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
107. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
108. Fodor’s Selected Hotels of Europe
109. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
110. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
111. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
112. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
113. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
114. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
115. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
116. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
117. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
118. A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
119. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
120. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
121. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
122. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
123. Goldilocks and the Three Bears/Bears Should Share! (Another Point of View) by Alvin Granowsky
124. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
125. Goodnight Spoon by Keith Richards
126. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
127. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
128. The Graduate by Charles Webb
129. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
130. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
131. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
132. The Group by Mary McCarthy
133. Haiku, Volume 2: Spring by R.H. Blyth
134. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
135. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
136. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
137. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
138. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
139. Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson
140. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
141. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare
142. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare
143. Henry V by William Shakespeare
144. Henry VI by William Shakespeare
145. He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
146. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
147. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
148. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris
149. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
150. Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss
151. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
152. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
153. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
154. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
155. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
156. How the Light Gets In by M.J. Hyland
157. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
158. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
159. The Iliad by Homer
160. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres
161. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
162. Indiana by George Sand
163. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
164. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
165. Ironweed by William J. Kennedy
166. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
167. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
168. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
169. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
170. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
171. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
172. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
173. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
174. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony
175. Bourdain
176. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
177. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D.H. Lawrence
178. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
179. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by
180. William Manchester
181. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume II: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester
182. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester
183. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
184. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
185. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
186. Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
187. Letters of Edith Wharton by R.W.B. Lewis
188. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
189. The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
190. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
191. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
192. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
193. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
194. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
195. Lisa and David by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
196. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
197. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
198. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
199. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
200. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
201. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
202. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
203. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
204. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
205. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
206. Love Story by Erich Segal
207. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
208. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
209. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
210. Marathon Man by William Goldman
211. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
212. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
213. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
214. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
215. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray, Ph.D.
216. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
217. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
218. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
219. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
220. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
221. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
222. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
223. Misery by Stephen King
224. Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt
225. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
226. The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time by Jim Irvin
227. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
228. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
229. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
230. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
231. A Month of Sundays: Searching for The Spirit and My Sister by Julie Mars
232. Motley Crue by Seamus Craic
233. The Mourning Bride by William Congreve
234. A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
235. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
236. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
237. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
238. My Life as Author and Editor by H.L. Mencken
239. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
240. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe by Myra Waldo
241. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
242. My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
243. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
244. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
245. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
246. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
247. Nancy Drew and The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene
248. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
249. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
250. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
251. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
252. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
253. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
254. Night by Elie Wiesel
255. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
256. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, et al.
257. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
258. Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic
259. Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
260. Oedipus Rex by Sophicles
261. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
262. Old School by Tobias Wolff
263. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
264. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
265. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
266. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
267. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
268. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan
269. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
270. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
271. Othello by William Shakespeare
272. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
273. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
274. Out of Africa by Isak Dineson
275. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
276. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
277. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
278. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
279. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
280. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
281. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
282. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
283. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and
284. Gillian McCain
285. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
286. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
287. The Portable Nietzsche by Fredrich Nietzsche
288. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind
289. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
290. Primary Colors by Joe Klein
291. Property by Valerie Martin
292. The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe
293. The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford
294. Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
295. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
296. Quattrocento by James McKean
297. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
298. Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm
299. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
300. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
301. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
302. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
303. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
304. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
305. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
306. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
307. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
308. Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem
309. Richard III by William Shakespeare
310. R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
311. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
312. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
313. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
314. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
315. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
316. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
317. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
318. The Rough Guide to Europe by Various Authors
319. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
320. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
321. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
322. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
323. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
324. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum
325. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
326. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
327. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
328. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
329. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
330. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
331. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
332. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
333. Sexus by Henry Miller
334. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
335. Shane by Jack Shaefer
336. The Shining by Stephen King
337. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
338. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
339. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
340. Small Island by Andrea Levy
341. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
342. Snow White and Rose Red by Brothers Grimm
343. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore
344. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
345. Songbook by Nick Hornby
346. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
347. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
348. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
349. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
350. Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
351. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
352. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
353. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
354. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
355. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
356. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
357. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
358. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
359. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
360. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
361. Stuart Little by E.B. White
362. Summer of Fear by T. Jefferson Parker
363. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
364. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
365. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
366. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
367. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
368. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
369. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
370. Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
371. Tevya The Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem
372. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
373. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
374. Time and Again by Jack Finney
375. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
376. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
377. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
378. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
379. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
380. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
381. The Trial by Franz Kafka
382. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
383. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
384. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
385. Ulysses by James Joyce
386. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
387. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
388. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
389. Unless by Carol Shields
390. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
391. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers
392. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
393. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (33 1/3 Book 11) by Joe Harvard
394. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
395. Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
396. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
397. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
398. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
399. We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker
400. What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
401. What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
402. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
403. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
404. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
405. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory
406. Maguire
407. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
408. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
409. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
410. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
411. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
412. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
413. Yoga for Dummies by Georg Feuerstein and Larry Payne

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Have you read any of these books? Which of these books would you like to read?