Wondering how you can immerse yourself more fully in the worlds of your favourite fictional characters? Try reading what they read, to see the world through their eyes.
Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls 2000-2007)
Rory Gilmore is one of the ultimate pop culture readers, always carrying a book and making literary references. Throughout the Gilmore Girls seasons, hundreds of books are mentioned. Let's take a look at what she’s reading and what the Gilmore Girls are talking about.
In Season One Episode One, 15 year old Rory is reading Moby Dick by Herman Melville, the week before she was reading Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, and in English class her teacher tells the class to finish Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; those are some classics!
Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
A sailor follows his captain in his endlessly pursuit of the white whale that stole his leg; a novel that has become synonymous with the idea of an obsessive goal that consumes someone’s life.
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
Emma is a provincial doctor’s wife in Normandy who becomes disillusioned with her simplistic existence. She yearns for a more exciting and luxurious life like the women in the novels she reads; however this leads her down a path of moral and financial ruin.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
One of the quintessential American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows the journey of a young boy named Huck and a runaway slave named Jim as they travel along the Mississippi River, in pre- Civil War South America.