Season one
The Official List
The books referenced on the show, placed in the order they were mentioned.
A reading marathon, not a sprint.
The Official List is subject to change upon review of each episode.
- 01On the Road — Jack Kerouac
- 02The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
- 03Rosemary’s Baby — Ira Levin
- 04Moby-Dick — Herman Melville
- 05Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
- 06The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Victor Hugo
- 07War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
- 08The Little Match Girl — Hans Christian Andersen
- 09David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
- 10Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
- 11A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
- 12Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — J. K. Rowling
- 13The Shining — Stephen King
- 14Peyton Place — Grace Metalious
- 15The Comedy of Errors — William Shakespeare
- 16Valley of the Dolls — Jacqueline Susann
- 17The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton
- 18The Crucible — Arthur Miller
- 19Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes
- 20Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen
- 21Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
- 22A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams
- 23The Outsiders — S. E. Hinton
- 24Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
- 25Carrie — Stephen King
- 26Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
- 27Hamlet — William Shakespeare
- 28To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
- 29The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck
- 30Walden — Henry David Thoreau