Recs if you like Elmer Gantry...

Stories that traded chapters for showtunes! From literary classics to contemporary novels these books found a second life under the Broadway lights! Please let me know any that I've missed!! (Note on curation: I've been cross checking titles with Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) which is Broadway's official archive)

books that have been adapted into successful movies and have also won an oscar for their screenplay

IN PROGRESS AS OF MAY 2026 (I'm rewatching it and trying to put everything in chronological order of the show T.T) - Every single book directly mentioned, referenced in a joke, or clearly seen in the show Gilmore Girls, because I'm obsessed and challenging myself to read them all. I'm also including if they mentioned a movie that's based on a book.

Below are the #1 bestselling fictional novels in the United States for each year from 1900 to 1999, based on annual sales data (traditionally compiled by The Bookman and later Publishers Weekly).