Friday Night Readers: Book Club That Reads Like Gilmore Girls

Welcome to Gilmore Girls Season 1, Episode 7, "Kiss and Tell": Pop Culture Rewatch ! In this podcast episode, I share the books and pop culture referenced when Dean kisses Rory in Doose's Market, and she, Dean, and Lorelai have a movie night together.

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Books, Pop Culture, and Other Mentions:

• Love For Love by William Congreve
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe
• Shaft by Ernest Tidyman
• General Hospital
• 9 1/2 Weeks
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• Cinderella
• Sleeping Beauty
• Ice Castles
• The Way We Were
• Boogie Nights
• Magnolia

Full Show Notes For Gilmore Girls Season 1, Episode 7, "Kiss and Tell": Pop Culture Rewatch

Time Stamps:

• 00:30 What Happened in Stars Hollow
• 07:54 The Gilmores' World of Books
• 10:55 Oy With the Pop Culture Already
• 20:03 Book Tease

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About Friday Night Readers: Pop Culture Rewatch of Gilmore Girls :

This is an unofficial pop culture rewatch of Gilmore Girls hosted by Friday Night Readers. We dive deep into each episode,...

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Welcome to Gilmore Girls Season 1, Episode 6, "Rory's Birthday Parties": Pop Culture Rewatch ! In this podcast episode, I share the books and pop culture referenced when Rory celebrates her Sweet 16 in Hartford and Stars Hollow.

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Books, Pop Culture, and Other Mentions:

• Autumn makeup recs
• Cinderella by Charles Perrault
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
• pink feather boa and "happy birthday" crown
• Star Trek
• I Love Lucy
• The Waltons
• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

Full Show Notes For Gilmore Girls Season 1, Episode 6, "Rory's Birthday Parties": Pop Culture Rewatch

Time Stamps:

• 00:32 What Happened in Stars Hollow
• 06:31 The Gilmores' World of Books
• 09:11 Oy With the Pop Culture Already
• 15:45 Book Tease

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Subscribe to Friday Night Readers on Substack to read and live like the Gilmore Girls in our virtual book club community. You'll instantly get a free printable checklist of 500+ books from the show.

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About Friday Night Readers: Pop Culture Rewatch of Gilmore Girls :

This is an unofficial pop culture rewatch of Gilmore Girls hosted by Friday Night Readers. We dive deep into each episode, featuring the Gilmores’ world of books, as well as their fast talk. Oy, with the pop culture already! Learn what the Gilmores are actually talking about, so you can read and live more like them as you rewatch. Life’s short; read fast!

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Welcome to Gilmore Girls Season 1, Episode 5, "Cinnamon's Wake": Pop Culture Rewatch ! In this podcast episode, I share the books and pop culture referenced when Cinnamon dies, and the town of Stars Hollow attends the wake. Max Medina and Lorelai also have their first date.

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Books, Pop Culture, and Other Mentions:

• The Gilmore Girls Companion
• Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Books Taylor Swift Referenced
• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
• Rory's Chilton Uniform Costume
• The Sixth Sense
• Gilmore Girls playlist

Full Show Notes For Gilmore Girls Season 1, Episode 5, "Cinnamon's Wake": Pop Culture Rewatch

Time Stamps:

• 00:30 What Happened in Stars Hollow
• 06:41 The Gilmores' World of Books
• 10:19 Oy With the Pop Culture Already
• 15:08 Book Tease

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Subscribe to Friday Night Readers on Substack to read and live like the Gilmore Girls in our virtual book club community. You'll instantly get a free printable checklist of 500+ books from the show.

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About Friday Night Readers: Pop Culture Rewatch of Gilmore Girls :

This is an unofficial pop culture rewatch of Gilmore Girls hosted by Friday Night Readers. We dive deep into each episode, featuring the Gilmores’ world of books, as well as their fast talk. Oy, with the pop culture already! Learn what...

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fridaynightreaders.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Friday Night Readers, a virtual book club inspired by Gilmore Girls, hosted by Julianne Buonocore, who has run a Rory Gilmore reading challenge since 2021 and wrote the Unofficial Guide to the Books on Gilmore Girls. Fueled by coffee, we help you read, live, and write like Rory.

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04:16 Carrie

07:05 The Crucible

11:22 Frankenstein (MinaLima edition)

13:18 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

14:52 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (MinaLima edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)

17:42 Macbeth

21:29 Rebecca

23:34 The Secret History

27:10 Something Wicked This Way Comes

29:17 The Witches of Eastwick

31:33 Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, or The Tell-Tale Heart.

32:28 The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller

32:42 The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn by Valerie Bowman

33:09 If It Makes You Happy by Julie Olivia

33:33 The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore

33:59 Something About September by Julia McKay

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Welcome to 15 Aesthetic Fall Books For Fans of Gilmore Girls ! In this podcast episode, I share Fall books on the Gilmore Girls reading list, that feel like Gilmore Girls, that Rory should read, and that Lorelai should read.

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Books:

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
• The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller
• Well Met by Jen DeLuca
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
• The Only One Left by Riley Sager
• Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Full Show Notes For 15 Aesthetic Fall Books For Fans of Gilmore Girls

Time Stamps:

• 01:23 Fall books on Gilmore Girls
• 05:13 Fall books that feel like Gilmore Girls
• 06:11 Fall books Rory should read
• 08:41 Fall books Lorelai should read

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Welcome to Gilmore Girls Season 1, Episode 4, "The Deer Hunters": Pop Culture Rewatch ! In this podcast episode, I share the books and pop culture referenced when Rory gets hit by a deer and misses her Shakespeare test.

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Books, Pop Culture, and Other Mentions:

• Happy Planner's Gilmore Girls-themed planner
• magic risotto recipe
• Official Gilmore Girls Cookbook
• The Oxford Complete Works of William Shakespeare 
• No Fear editions of Shakespeare
• Sonnet 116
• The Comedy of Errors 
• The Sonnets
• Richard III
• Who’s Who and What’s What in Shakespeare
• Kitchen Confidential

Full Show Notes For Gilmore Girls Season 1, Episode 4, "The Deer Hunters": Pop Culture Rewatch

Time Stamps:

• 00:39 What Happened in Stars Hollow
• 08:50 The Gilmores' World of Books
• 14:03 Oy With the Pop Culture Already
• 18:52 Book Tease

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Subscribe to Friday Night Readers on Substack to read and live like the Gilmore Girls in our virtual book club community. You'll instantly get a free printable checklist of 500+ books from the show.

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About Friday Night Readers: Pop Culture Rewatch of Gilmore Girls :

This is an unofficial pop culture rewatch of Gilmore Girls hosted by Friday Night Readers. We dive deep into each episode, featuring the Gilmores’ world of...

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fridaynightreaders.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Gilmore Girls Season 1, Episode 3, "Kill Me Now": Pop Culture Rewatch ! In this podcast episode, I share the books and pop culture referenced when Rory went golfing with Richard.

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As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This post may contain affiliate links that earn me commissions at no extra cost to you.

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Books, Pop Culture, and Other Mentions:

• Peyton Place
• A Mencken Chrestomathy
• The Days Trilogy, including Happy Days, Newspaper Days, and Heathen Days
• Charlie Brown
• "Man, I Feel Like a Woman!" by Shania Twain

Full Show Notes For Gilmore Girls Season 1, Episode 3, "Kill Me Now": Pop Culture Rewatch

Time Stamps:

• 01:30 What Happened in Stars Hollow
• 03:54 The Gilmores' World of Books
• 06:55 Oy With the Pop Culture Already
• 12:36 Book Tease

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Subscribe to Friday Night Readers on Substack to read and live like the Gilmore Girls in our virtual book club community. You'll instantly get a free printable checklist of 500+ books from the show.

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About Friday Night Readers: Pop Culture Rewatch of Gilmore Girls :

This is an unofficial pop culture rewatch of Gilmore Girls hosted by Friday Night Readers. We dive deep into each episode, featuring the Gilmores’ world of books, as well as their fast talk. Oy, with the pop culture already! Learn what the Gilmores are actually talking about, so you can read and live more like them as you rewatch. Life’s short; read fast!

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Welcome to Gilmore Girls S1, E2, "The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton": Pop Culture Rewatch ! In this podcast episode, I share the books and pop culture referenced when Rory started at Chilton.

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As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This post may contain affiliate links that earn me commissions at no extra cost to you.

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Books, Pop Culture, and Other Mentions:

• Books like Gilmore Girls on What To Read Next
• Me On Meg's Reading Room podcast
• Pillow with the Luke's logo and the jumbo coffe quote (If it's sold out, try eBay!)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• War and Peace
• Anna Karenina
• David Copperfield
• Great Expectations
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Little Dorrit
• Demon Copperhead
• Oprah’s Book Club edition of Anna Karenina
• Keira Knightley version of Anna Karenina
• Anna K
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Lorelai Gilmore costume
• Luke's disposable coffee cups
• The Dukes of Hazzard
• Schindler’s List / book by Thomas Keneally
• The Shining

Full show notes for Gilmore Girls S1, E2, "The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton": Pop Culture Rewatch

Time Stamps:

• 01:46 What Happened in Stars Hollow
• 04:20 The Gilmores' World of Books
• 08:17 Oy With the Pop Culture Already
• 13:28 Book Tease

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Welcome to Gilmore Girls S1, E1, "Pilot": Pop Culture Rewatch ! In this podcast episode, I share the books and pop culture referenced when Gilmore Girls started.

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Books, Pop Culture, and Other Mentions:

On the Road

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Madame Bovary

Moby Dick

The Little Match Girl

Mommie Dearest

Rosemary’s Baby

West Side Story

Full show notes for Gilmore Girls S1, E1, "Pilot": Pop Culture Rewatch

Time Stamps:

00:39 What Happened in Stars Hollow

02:27 The Gilmores' World of Books

05:23 Oy With the Pop Culture Already

09: 04 Book Tease

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Subscribe to Friday Night Readers on Substack to read and live like the Gilmore Girls in our virtual book club community. You'll instantly get a free printable checklist of 500+ books from the show.

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Listen on your favorite platform.

About Friday Night Readers :

Friday Night Readers is an unofficial pop culture rewatch of Gilmore Girls hosted by Friday Night Readers. We dive deep into each episode, featuring the Gilmores’ world of books, as well as their fast talk. Oy, with the pop culture already! Learn what the Gilmores are actually talking about, so you can read and live more like them as you rewatch. Life’s short; read fast!

Advertise:

Do you have a book, product, or service you'd like to share with our engaged audience? Learn more and contact us.