The Reading List
Season One
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
Episode: Pilot
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Episode: Pilot
Rosemary's Baby
by Ira Levin
Episode: Pilot
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Episode: Pilot
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Episode: The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Episode: The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
Episode: The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
Episode: The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Episode: The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Episode: The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
The Shining
by Stephen King
Episode: The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
Mencken Chrestomathy
by H. L. Mencken
Episode: Kill Me Now
Emma
by Jane Austen
Episode: Love and War and Snow
Portable Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy Parker
Episode: Rory's Dance
The Group
by Mary McCarthy
Episode: Rory's Dance
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
Episode: Forgiveness and Stuff
Swann's Way
by Marcel Proust
Episode: Paris is Burning
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
Episode: Paris is Burning
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
by Sylvia Plath
Episode: Double Date
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
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pisode: Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
Episode: The Breakup, Part 2
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Episode: P.S. I Lo...
Season Two
Swimming With Giants
by Anne Collet
Episode: Red Light on the Wedding Night
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
Episode: Road Trip to Harvard
Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg
Episode: Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965
by Dawn Powell
Episode: Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Episode: Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Episode: Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
Episode: Like Mother, Like Daughter
The Last Empire Essays 1992-2000
by Gore Vidal
Episode: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
by Eudora Welty
Episode: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Savage Beauty
by Nancy Milford
Episode: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Episode: Run Away, Little Boy
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
Episode: Lorelai's Graduation Day
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
Episode: A-Tisket, A-Tasket
Season Three
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Episode: Application Anxiety
Season Four
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
Episode: The Hobbit, the Sofa, and Digger Stiles
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
Episode: Chicken or Beef?
