Books and Boys in Year Two of Gilmore Girls
“My books look sad. Can books look sad?” – Rory Gilmore
Dean or Jess? Jess or Dean? That’s the dilemma for Rory in Season 2. But through all the boy drama she stays true to her love of books and continues reading. That might be because Jess is a book nerd also and that is the relationship that is beginning to develop.
Here is a list of everything mentioned or shown in the second season of the show.
Let me know what books you’ve read? Or are looking forward to reading?
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
- Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman – I read this back in 2017 and only because it is a book on this challenge. It’s definitely not a book I would ever choose for myself but this is one of the reasons why I love challenges like this. It opens me up to new books outside of my usual genres.
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – I enjoyed this so much more than I thought I would. I don’t remember reading this as a kid but I did see the Disney movie (and of course I’ve ridden the ride at Disneyland lots of times). It’s a great book. For most ages.
- Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom – I listened to this on audio back in 2018, and I highly recommend doing the audio. This was such a great book. I really enjoyed it.
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Howl by Allen Ginsberg
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens – I listened to this on audio back in 2020. Now I really enjoyed the audio because I like the British accents. It makes the book really come alive.
- The Iliad by Homer – So I read this in high school and got absolutely nothing from it. But then in college I read it again for a humanities course with an amazing professor and I LOVED it that time. So on this one I think it depends on who you read it with. Otherwise it’s a tough book to understand.
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan – I read this in 2018 and I really liked it. I thought the writing was very well done. I haven’t seen the film yet, which I need to do because I’m anxious to see if I enjoy it as much as the book.
- Summer of Fear by T Jefferson Parker
- The Scarecrow of Oz by L Frank Baum
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
- The Mourning Bride by William Congreve
- Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
- Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley – I believe I read this in college and once again I enjoyed it so much more than I thought I would. It has some great writing which is probably why its considered a classic.
- West Side Story
