As promised, here is the list I will be using for The Black, White & Read Book Challenge. I will be reviewing each episode prior to beginning the books associated with it... to ensure accuracy (and to be honest, it gives me another reason to spend many hours watching Gilmore girls... not like I've ever NEEDED a reason).
If you would like to join me in this adventure, I'd love to hear other's experiences! All you need to do is take a left at Luke's and make a stop at The Black, White & Read Bookstore (the deserving namesake of this blog) and start filling your arms!
Now it's time to turn off the DVD player, give Rory and Lorelai a break and get to reading! Wish me luck!
You jump I jump, Jack! (that's Gilmore for "See the list after the jump!")
SEASON ONE
Now it's time to turn off the DVD player, give Rory and Lorelai a break and get to reading! Wish me luck!
You jump I jump, Jack! (that's Gilmore for "See the list after the jump!")
SEASON ONE
Pilot (1.1)
The Lorelai's First Day at Chilton (1.2)
Kill Me Now (1.3)
The Deer-Hunters (1.4)
Cinnamon's Wake (1.5)
Rory's Birthday Parties (1.6)
· Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton *bonus*
BW&R Review
· The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Kiss and Tell (1.7)
· Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton *bonus*
BW&R Review
· The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Kiss and Tell (1.7)
Love and War and Snow (1.8)
Rory's Dance (1.9)
Forgiveness and Stuff (1.10)
Paris is Burning (1.11)
Double Date (1.12)
Concert Interruptus (1.13)
That Damn Donna Reed (1.14)
· Don Quixote by Cervantes *repeat*
Christopher Returns (1.15)
· None
Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers (1.16)
· Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
· Christine by Stephen King
· Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Breakup, Pt. 2 (1.17)
· The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
· The Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene
· Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
The Third Lorelai (1.18)
· The Art of Fiction by Henry James
Emily in Wonderland (1.19)
· The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
· To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
P.S. I Lo... (1.20)
· Ulysses by James Joyce
· Out of Africa by Isac Denison
· The Art of Fiction by Henry James
Love, Daisies, and Troubadours (1.21)
· Walden by Henry David Thoreau
SEASON TWO
Sadie, Sadie (2.1)
· Cujo by Stephen King
· Mencken's Chrestomathy by H.R. Mencken
Red Light on the Wedding Night (2.3)
· Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
· Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne
Collett
Collett
The Road Trip to Harvard (2.4)
· Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
· Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
· Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett
· The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
· Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Album
· Ulysses by James Joyce
· Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
· Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy (2.5)
· Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
· Howl by Allen Ginsberg
· Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
· On the Road by Jack Kerouac
· Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
· Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
· The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
· The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
· The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin
Presenting Lorelai Gilmore (2.6)
· The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
· Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
· Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Like Mother, Like Daughter (2.7)
· Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
· Savage Beauty:The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
· Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers
· The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty
· The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
· The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
· The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
· The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Ins and Outs of Inns (2.8)
· Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
· The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
· To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Run Away, Little Boy (2.9)
· Macbeth by William Shakespeare
· Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
· The Shining by Stephen King
· The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Bracebridge Dinner (2.10)
· The Iliad by Homer
· The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
· The Shining by Stephen King
Secrets and Loans (2.11)
· Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
· Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
· Nancy Dres Mysteries by Carolyn Keene
· The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
Richard in Stars Hollow (2.12)
· Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
· Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
· Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
· Several biographies of Winston Churchill
· The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
A-Tisket, A-Tasket (2.13)
· The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
· The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
· To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
It Should've Been Lorelai (2.14)
· The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
Lost and Found (2.15)
· Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
· Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
· Howl by Allen Ginsburg
· Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
· Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
· Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
· Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
· The Return of the King: Lord Of The Rings - Book 3 by J.R.R.Tolkien
There's the Rub (2.16)
· Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
· Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
· Hamlet by Shakespeare
· Howl by Allen Ginsburg
· On the Road by Jack Kerouac
· The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
Dead Uncles and Vegetables (2.17)
· David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D.
· Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
· Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm
Back in the Saddle Again (2.18)
· Candide by Voltaire
· The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
· The Bhagavad Gita
· The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
· Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
· Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Teach Me Tonight (2.19)
· Fletch by Gregory McDonald
· Othello by William Shakespeare
· Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
· Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
· Sophie's Choice by William Styron
· Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
· The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
· The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
· The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
· What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell
Help Wanted (2.20)
· Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
· Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/ Angels on Toast/ A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell
· The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
Lorelai's Graduation Day (2.21)
· Emily the Strange by Roger Reger
· High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby
· Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
· The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Woolf
· The Graduate by Charles Webb
· The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
· The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche
· What Color is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
I Can't Get Started (2.22)
· Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
· Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
· Inferno by Dante
SEASON THREE
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days (3.1)
· A Bolt From The Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
· The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Haunted Leg (3.2)
· A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
· Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
· Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky
· Shane by Jack Shaefer
· The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo
· The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
Application Anxiety (3.3)
· Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
· Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
· Fiddler of the Roof by Joesph Stein
· Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Harry Potter - Book 1 by J. K. Rowling
· Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
· Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
· Henry V by William Shakespeare
· Macbeth by William Shakespeare
· The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
· The Manticore by Robertson Davies
· The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
· The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
One's Got Class and the Other One Dyes (3.4)
· The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
· To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
· We Owe You Nothing- Punk Planet: the Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker
Eight O'Clock at the Oasis (3.5)
· Marathon Man by William Goldman
· The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Take The Deviled Eggs... (3.6)
· Deenie by Judy Blume
· The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Woolf
· To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They? (3.7)
· A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
· The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Let The Games Begin (3.8)
· A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
· Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
· Love Story by Erich Segal
· Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
· Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
· The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
· The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving (3.9)
· How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
· The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
That'll Do, Pig (3.10)
· Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
· Babe by Dick King- Smith
· Gidget by Frederick Kohner
· Stuart Little by E. B. White
· The Art of War by Sun Tzu
· The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
· The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
· The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
· The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
I Solemnly Swear (3.11)
· Eloise by Kay Thompson
· Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
· Mutiny On The Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
· The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Lorelai Out Of Water (3.12)
· Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Dear Richard and Emily (3.13)
· Europe Through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves
· Moby Dick by Herman Melville
· Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
· Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
· Selected Hotels of Europe
· The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition
Swan Song (3.14)
· Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
· Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
· The Fellowship Of The Ring: Lord Of The Ring - Book 1 by J.R.R. Tolkien
· The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
· Walt Disney's Bambi (Based on Original Story by Felix Salten) by Felix Salten
Face-Off (3.15)
· Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
· Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor
· Othello by Shakespeare
· The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
· The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain
The Big One (3.16)
· I'm With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
Tales of Poes and Fire (3.17)
· The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Say Goodnight, Gracie (3.20)
· Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook
· One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pinocchio, Those are Strings (3.22)
· Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
SEASON FOUR
The Hobbit, The Sofa and Digger Stiles (4.3)
· Atonement by Ian McEwan
Chicken or Beef (4.4)
· Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Fundamental Things Apply (4.5)
· Cujo by Stephen King
· Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
· Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
· The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
· Wurthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Festival of Living Art (4.7)
· 1984 by George Orwell
The Nanny and the Professor (4.10)
· Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
· Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels (4.13)
· Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
· The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Reigning Lorelai (4.16)
· Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
· The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist (4.17)
· The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind
Afterboom (4.19)
· The Trial by Franz Kafka
SEASON FIVE
Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller (5.1)
· Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James
A Messenger, Nothing More (5.2)
· A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
· Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
· The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
We Got Us a Pippi Virgin (5.5)
· The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Norman Mailer, I'm pregnant! (5.6)
· The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Emily Says Hello (5.9)
· A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
· Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Come Home (5.12)
· My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
· The Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene
Jews and Chinese Food (5.15)
· A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
So...Good Talk (5.16)
· Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
· Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
· Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon
How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod? (5.20)
· Ethics by Spinoza
SEASON SIX
Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out (6.8)
· Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
He's Slippin' 'Em Bread...Dig? (6.10)
· Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
The Perfect Dress (6.11)
· Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
· Deenie by Beverly Cleary
· It takes a Village by Hillary Clinton
· Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
· The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
You've Been Gilmored (6.14)
· Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert
Valentine, The Destroyer (6.17)
· Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
· The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Real Paul Anka (6.18)
· The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Super Cool Party People (6.20)
· Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
· The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay
SEASON SEVEN
The Long Morrow (7.1)
· In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
That's What You Get, Folks, For Makin' Whoopee (7.2)
· The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Lorelai's First Cotillion (7.3)
· Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Knit, People, Knit! (7.9)
· The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan, Jeffrey L. Williams, Vincent B. Leitch
Santa's Secret Stuff (7.11)
· R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
· S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
I'd Rather Be In Philadelphia (7.13)
· A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman
Farewell, My Pet (7.14)
· Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
· Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
I'm a Kayak, Hear Me Roar (7.15)
· Hamlet by William Shakespeare
· Richard III by William Shakespeare
· The Vanishing Newspaper by Phillip Meyers
Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore? (7.16)
· Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Gilmore Girls Only (7.17)
· Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Lorelai? Lorelai? (7.20)
§ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Additional
· A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
· A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
· As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
· Bitch In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
· Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
· Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
· Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
· Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
· George W. Bushisms : The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd
President by Jacob Weisberg
President by Jacob Weisberg
· House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
· Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
· Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
· Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
· Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
· Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
· New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
· Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
· Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
· Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
· Sanctuary by William Faulkner
· Sexus by Henry Miller
· Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the
Modern World by Barrington Moore
Modern World by Barrington Moore
· The Canterbery Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
· The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
· The Good Soilder by Ford Maddox Ford
· The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
· The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
· The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
· The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
· Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third
series) by Joe Harvard
series) by Joe Harvard
Wow! They're are so many books on here I want to read. And I had no idea the list would be so long. Congrats on doing this, that sounds weird. Whatever. I just love it. You're an original. Even though you say it's not your idea, well, you made it your own and I love you, haha. Oh and I joined a blogging community to post here, my first. This is fun though.
ReplyDeleteI can only guess how long it took you to compile this list! I tried watching each episode to jot down the titles, but some just went by in a big blur. I hope you won't mind if I sneak some of your titles onto my own Rory Gilmore Booklist. Its fantastic how much the show is still loved years after it went off the air.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the additional books? Are these one viewed only and not mentioned? Great list!
ReplyDeleteHi Rachel! The additional books are, for the most part, references to the movie version of a book. Technically they're speaking of the movie, not the book... But those are just kind of addendum to the list. I review each episode before I begin it, and then I update the list based on my opinion as to whether or not the reference was legit. I found this list on the Internet as a starting point and update it as I go along.
ReplyDeleteThis is perfect! Now, if there was only a comprehensive list of the music mentioned....but I feel like that would be a Herculean task!
ReplyDeleteI might be wrong about this, but I thought that "Deenie" was written by Judy Blume, not Beverly Cleary. And "the gospel according to Judy Blume" is just Anna describing "Deenie;" it's not the title of a book. This website is awesome by the way.. I stumbled upon it accidentally while doing homework for my literature class (and watching Gilmore Girls actually)but now it's on my favorites tab. Thanks for going through the trouble of creating this list!
ReplyDeleteWelcome Sara! Thanks for your wonderful compliments.
DeleteAs for the points you made, you are most likely correct. I got this list off the web and I reevaluate each episode's list right before I start it. That's when I fix the sequence, add or remove any references based on their legitimacy (for example: if they're specifically referencing the movie version in the episode) and edit any inaccuracies. I'll definitely keep your points in mind when I get to that episode!
Thanks for reading! :)
Someone on Goodreads has gone through every episode and made lists. They're organized by season, though, not by episode. But I think watching each episode as you go is probably more fun!
Deletelove your blog. do u think u could upload ur collection of gilmore approved ebooks here? its so hard to find most of them.
ReplyDeleteI'm watching Season 7's 'I'd Rather be in Philadelphia" right now... Emily mentions Cormac McCarthy--add him to your list! :)
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ReplyDeletein The Breakup, Pt. 2 (1.17) rory is in her room, preparing to go to the party, and she put a book in her bag.
ReplyDeleteat the party she pulls out of her bag that book and tries to read it. although looking at the covers you can tell that they are two diferent books. does anyone knows which is which?
here a pic of those moments: http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r606/elArqui22/1x17_zps0278da44.jpg
In season 1 episode 17, the book Rory puts in her bag is The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher, but I'm not sure which book she is reading at the party.
DeleteI was looking through your archives to find your list (seriously considering doing a Lori version of this project--cherry-picking the classics and selected non-fiction) and realized something: damn! You've been at this for quite a while! I'm in no way commenting on your progress; I mean that I thought you'd been around for less than a year. The more I talk, the more I feel myself digging a hole...Um, congrats on your progress. I admire your ability to push through some of these and so quickly. Wasn't it two weeks on War and Peace? Amazing! (I hope I redeemed myself, if I needed to redeem myself...)
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