Fans of books + Gilmore Girls welcome to my Rory Gilmore Book Club! This particular post contains all the Rory Gilmore book list tv shows or movies you can watch, either instead of reading the books or, as I prefer, as a companion to the books (this is a book pairing blog!).
You may also wish to visit my popular post with The FULL Rory Gilmore Book List — it’s my helpful list with shoppable links of the 400+ books mentioned by our favorite literary buff on Gilmore Girls (including the revival on Netflix).
The Gilmore Girls reading challenge first started when Buzzfeed posted all 339 books mentioned in seasons one through seven. Literary buffs like Rory (and me) became obsessed with reading the full Rory Gilmore book list.
I first thought about doing the Gilmore Girls reading challenge out of a desire to read more well written classics. But, at the same time, I had a back list of modern classics I wanted to read as well. The Rory Gilmore book list has both of these wrapped into one! And no one is more well read than Rory herself.
I mentioned it on my Instagram stories, and I got more direct messages than ever before. I knew I was onto something, and so this is this post marks the second in my series of posts for “The Rory Gilmore Book Club,” which I am hosting both on the blog and on Instagram (@TheRoryGilmoreBookClub). Be sure to follow along for all things bookish + Gilmore Girls.
So, without further do, below are all the books you can “watch” as movies (or tv shows) on the Rory Gilmore book list for your Gilmore Girls reading challenge. You can shop the books on Amazon by clicking the links.
Watch The Rory Gilmore Book List on TV Shows & Movies
- 1984
- Adventures of Huck Finn
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Alice in Wonderland
- All the President’s Men
- An American Tragedy
- And Then There Were None
- Angela’s Ashes
- Anna Karenina
- The Art of War
- As I Lay Dying
- Atonement
- The Awakening
- Babe
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Bambi
- Bel Canto
- Beloved
- The Bielski Brothers
- Beowulf
- Brave New World
- Brigadoon
- Carrie
- Catch 22
- Charlotte’s Web
- The Children’s Hour
- Cinderella
- Christine
- A Christmas Carol
- A Clockwork Orange
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Author’s Court
- Contact
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Cousin Bette
- Crime and Punishment
- The Crimson Petal and the White
- The Crucible
- Cujo
- Cyrano De Bergerac
- David Copperfield
- The Da Vinci Code
- Death of a Salesman
- The Diary of a Young Girl
- The Dirt
- The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Don Quixote
- Dracula
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Eloise at the Plaza
- Emma
- Empire Falls
- Eva Luna
- Everything Is Illuminated
- The Executioner’s Song
- Fahrenheit 451
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings)
- Fiddler on the Roof
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Flowers for Algernon
- The Fountainhead
- Frankenstein
- Freaky Friday
- Gidget
- Girl, Interrupted
- The Godfather
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Gone with the Wind
- The Good Soldier
- The Graduate
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Great Gatsby
- Great Expectations
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- He’s Just Not That Into You
- Heart of Darkness
- Henry IV
- Henry V
- Henry VI
- High Fidelity
- House of Sand and Fog
- House of the Spirits
- Horton Hears a Who!
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The Iliad
- In Cold Blood
- Inherit the Wind
- Ironweed
- Jane Eyre
- The Joy Luck Club
- Julius Caesar
- Jurassic Park
- The Kite Runner
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- The Legend of Bagger Vance
- Less Than Zero
- Life of Pi
- Like Water for Chocolate
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Little Dorrit
- Little Women
- Lord of the Flies
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Lovely Bones
- Love Story
- Macbeth
- Madame Bovary
- Marathon Man
- Merry Wives of Windsor
- The Metamorphosis
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- The Miracle Worker
- Misery
- Moby Dick
- Mrs. Dalloway
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- My Sister’s Keeper
- The Naked and the Dead
- Naked Lunch
- The Name of the Rose
- The Namesake
- The Nanny Diaries
- Nicholas Nickleby
- Northanger Abbey
- Oedipus Rex
- Of Mice and Men
- Oliver Twist
- On the Road
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Othello
- Our Mutual Friend
- Out of Africa
- The Outsiders
- A Passage to India
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Peyton Place
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Pinocchio
- Pride and Prejudice
- Primary Colors
- Pygmalion
- Rapunzel (Tangled)
- The Raven
- The Razor’s Edge
- Rebecca
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- The Red Badge of Courage
- The Red Tent
- The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings)
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Room with a View
- Rosemary’s Baby
- The Scarlet Letter
- Seabiscuit
- The Secret Life of Bees
- Sense and Sensibility
- A Separate Peace
- Shane
- The Shining
- Siddhartha
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Small Island
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones)
- The Song of Names
- Sophie’s Choice
- The Sound and the Fury
- The Stepford Wives
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Stuart Little
- Summer of Fear
- The Sun Also Rises
- Sybil
- A Tale of Two Cities
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- Tender is the Night
- Terms of Endearment
- The Thin Man
- The Time Traveler’s Wife
- To Have and Have Not
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Trainspotting
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- The Trial
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Valley of the Dolls
- Vanity Fair
- The Virgin Suicides
- War and Peace
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Wild
- The Witches of Eastwick
- The Wizard of Oz
- Wuthering Heights
- The Yearling
And, as mentioned earlier, if you like this list, check out the FULL Rory Gilmore Book List.
For all those little Gilmore Girls in training, I also have a list of all the children’s books on the Rory Gilmore Book List and a Gilmore Girls gift guide.
You can also get a free printable PDF of the Rory Gilmore book list when you sign up for my weekly email newsletter, where I share themed, recommended book pairings just like this post!
PHEW! That concludes the list of all the books the Rory Gilmore book list tv shows and movies you can watch.
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- 2021 Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
- Best Books to Read If You Like Gilmore Girls
- The FULL Rory Gilmore Book List
- All the Books You Can WATCH on the Rory Gilmore Book List
- All the Children’s Books on the Rory Gilmore Book List
- Gilmore Girls Gift Guide
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