Reading Challenge: Gilmore Girls Season 2

I previously posted a book list for Gilmore Girls Season 1. Below is my book list for Season 2. This book list was compiled by watching the show and researching other people’s book lists found online. On this list, the book and the episode it was in are included. Gilmore Girls was on for seven seasons, so I’ll do a book list for each season instead of one really long list. My book lists leave off reference books, travel guides, and cookbooks. I added these books to my “to read” or “read” lists on Goodreads.

11/2/2016 UPDATE:
I did create a Goodreads list for this book list. If you’re interested, click on over to Gilmore Girls: Season 2 Books.

3/29/2017 UPDATE:
I finished reading the books on this list!

Gilmore Girls: Season 2

Book	Episode
A Mencken Chrestomathy H.L. Mencken	Episode 1 Richard gave Rory a first edition.
Personal History Katharine Graham	Episode 2 Rory read it at home.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain	Episode 2 Lane referenced it “He likes me. He’s perfect. I’ll never see him again. You’ll read about it in my novel, A Connecticut Yankee in Pusan.”
The Optimist’s Daughter Eudora Welty	Episode 3 Rory read it at home.
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette Judith Thurman	Episode 3 Lorelai asked Rory for “that Colette biography” to read.
Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom	Episode 4 Lorelai told Rory she didn’t need to read it – “Tuesday’s with Morrie? Skip that.”
Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson	Episode 4 Lorelai told Rory she didn’t need to read it – “Who Moved My Cheese? Just stuff you already know.”
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf	Episode 4 Rory read it at Friday night dinner.
On the Road Jack Kerouac	Episode 5 Jess took it with him when he left Luke’s apartment.
Selected Letters, 1913-1965 Dawn Powell	Episodes 5 Rory read it at school.
Howl and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg	Episode 5 Rory offered to loan it to Jess.
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens	Episode 5 Rory called Jess ‘Dodger’.
Savage Beauty Nancy Milford	Episode 7 Rory’s bus book.
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner	Episode 7 Rory’s bus book.
The Collected Stories Eudora Welty	Episode 7 Rory’s bus book.
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 Gore Vidal	Episode 7 Rory’s lunch book.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Simone de Beauvoir	Episode 7 Rory read it at lunch.
Snow White and Rose Red The Brothers Grimm	Episode 7 Ivy mentioned it when Francie said the Puffs were folklore.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells	Episode 7 Rory referenced it – “I end up here with the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Victor Hugo	Episode 7 Lorelai referenced it – “Who do you think you are, the hunchback of Notre Dame?”
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger	Episode 8 Rory called Jess Holden Caulfield.
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	Episode 8 Jess referenced it “You actually went to that bizarro town meeting? Those things are so To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Macbeth William Shakespeare	Episode 9 Mentioned in Rory’s class.
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare	Episode 9 Mentioned in Rory’s class.
Richard III William Shakespeare	Episode 9 Mentioned in Rory’s class.
Unfinished Business: Memoirs: 1902-1988 John Houseman	Episode 9 Paris made copies of Houseman’s memoirs.
The Iliad Homer	Episode 10 Paris read it.
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan	Episode 10 Lorelai referenced it – “The Joy-less Luck Club”.
The Fountainhead Ayn Rand	Episode 13 Rory and Jess discussed it.
The Children’s Hour Lillian Hellman	Episode 13 Rory bought it for Lorelai.
Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence	Episode 15 Rory bought it at town book sale.
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke	Episode 15 Rory bought it at town book sale.
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel	Episode 15 Kirk and Gypsy haggled over it at the town book sale.
Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger	Episode 15 Jess mentioned it – “I wanted to see if she had Franny and Zooey.”
James Joyce’s Ulysses Stuart Gilbert	Episode 16 Jess read it at the diner.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain	Episode 18 Lorelai mentioned it – “Pilot a steamboat, write Huckleberry Finn?”
The Bhagavad Gita Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa	Episode 18 Paris mentioned it – “It’s not The Bhagavad Gita, Madeline. It’s simple instructions for the business fair.”
The Dirt Tommy Lee	Episode 18 Lorelai read it at home.
Candide Voltaire	Episode 18 Rory finished reading it.
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut	Episode 19 Jess read it in Luke’s apartment.
Please Kill Me Legs McNeil	Episode 19 Jess asked Rory if she’s read it.
Othello William Shakespeare	Episode 19 Rory and Jess studied it.
The Little Locksmith Katharine Butler Hathaway	Episode 20 Lorelai gave it to Rory.
Novels, 1930-1942 Dawn Powell	Episode 20 Rory loaned it to Lane.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain	Episode 21 Lorelai referenced it – “I don’t know, didn’t they feed it to our jumping frog or something?”
The Lottery Shirley Jackson	Episode 21 Rory referenced it – “Oh yeah, right after they stoned the woman who won the lottery.”
What Color is Your Parachute? Richard N. Bolles	Episode 21 Chris gave it to Lorelai.
The Portable Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche	Episode 21 Chris gave it to Lorelai.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe	Episode 21 Jess read it in the park.
Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen	Episode 22 Rory mentioned it – “Still melodic, but not quite as Girl, Interrupted.”

0 thoughts on “Reading Challenge: Gilmore Girls Season 2”

Beverly Smith says:

September 29, 2016 at 6:51 am

This took some work to set up, but such a good idea! Also, I like getting ideas on book to read….

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1. Darinda says:
  
  September 29, 2016 at 8:05 am
  
  Thanks!
  
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