Recs if you like The Canterbury Tales...

A list of every book Rory Gilmore is seen reading in the series ‘Gilmore Girls’

Books not included on the list

• various biographies by Winston Churchill

books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”

size matters for this list, all these classics are more than 400 pages long. they are THICK. suggestions welcome, i am a very generous interpreter of the term "classic" normally but i'm starting with the golden oldies

As much medieval-era literature as I can possibly gather into one list! Largely focused on romances, lais, Arthuriana, &c.

well, this is all the books read by rory in the gilmore girls tv show.

it happens to the best of us, you start reading a series that sounds so good and then at some point it just…stops, there’s no final book, no satisfying conclusion, nothing. sometimes this is a deliberate choice an author is making (cough, cough George!) or simply they could not complete the series due to life-altering circumstances.

as always, please drop any suggestions in the comments!!!

This list gathers over 300 books mentioned or read on the show so you can sip coffee, order in, and read along with Rory Gilmore and the other Stars Hollow residents.

A challenge to read all books mentioned or referenced in the American TV Show, Gilmore Girls. Books are referenced by all characters in the show. The Mojo Collection, dictionaries, instructional books, and travel books will not be included in the list.

Happy reading!

Your pre-1900 British & Irish lit starter pack from a bonafide English PhD

an assortment of secondary and primary sources 🧑‍🏫 📚

A collection of books that are banned or challenged. Dive into these controversial works and explore what has been pushed for you to not discover.

All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.

Rory gilmores reading list

A collection of books that impacted the future of their own genre. ✨️please make recommendations✨️ (Picking emojis for this was hard)

A list of medieval classics for those who are new to the genre. This list isn’t fully finished; recommendations welcome!

I tried to find the latest version (2026).

This isn't MY list. These are the foundational texts of the Western Canon. Up until the early 1900s, these were unquestionably part of any educated person's background. Austen, Lewis, Twain, James, Sayers, Tolkien....what do you think they grew up reading that informed the genius works they created? Their masterpieces didn't materialize out of thin air. This list is by no means comprehensive, but you'll be off to a solid start.

(almost) every book in the game: tiny bookshop

works referenced in the chapter heads of cornelia funke's inkworld books