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How It Works (Updated 7/31/25)
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Welcome to the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge group! Whether you’re here to complete the full list of books mentioned in Gilmore Girls, casually dip in and out, or just hang out with fellow bookish fans of the show — you’re in the right place.
📝 Start Here
Take a minute to introduce yourself in our Introductions Thread:
👉 Introductions: Pull Up a Chair at Luke’s
📖 The Reading List
This group uses the most accurate and community-curated version of the Rory Gilmore Reading List, at this time we have 2 lists that we are drawing from:
Books, Beans, and Botany | https://booksbeansandbotany.com/rory-...
Pretty Opinionated | https://www.prettyopinionated.com/201...
A Year in the Life | https://bookriot.com/book-references-...
We are also introducing a copyable spreadsheet, if that's easier for you!
📄 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
🗳 Monthly Group Reads
We're reviving the monthly group reads! Here’s how it works:
1. Nominations: Members can suggest up to 3 titles from Rory’s list.
2. Voting: The most nominated titles will go into a poll.
3. Reading: The winner becomes our monthly group read!
(We'll post a new nomination thread and voting thread near the end of each month.)
🔁 Re-Reads (Optional)
Interested in revisiting books already read in past group reads? We’re looking at ways to revive the quarterly re-read format. Stay tuned!
💬 Discussion Threads
Every group read will include a discussion thread. Some will be hosted by volunteer discussion leaders (or mods) with prompts and guided questions; others will be open-forum style chats. You can find the Official Group Book Discussions here!
Want to lead a discussion? We’d love your help!
👉 Discussion Leader Sign-Up *2025*
🧹 Thread Clean-Up Policy
To help keep the group organized and easy to navigate, inactive threads are typically archived after about 3 months of no activity. This helps make sure active discussions don’t get buried.
If there’s an old thread you’d like to revisit or revive, feel free to start a fresh one anytime — especially for books or topics that still spark conversation!
🎯 Mini Challenges
From themed prompts to time-based reading goals, we’ll be adding some fun mini-challenges to help keep motivation up. You don’t have to participate — but we hope you will!
You can find them all in the Mini-Challenges Section:
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
🗨 General Chat
This group is also a place to connect about anything Gilmore Girls–adjacent (or not!). Feel free to start a new thread anytime — whether it’s about a book, an episode, a reread, or just bookish life in general.
General Chat folder
Gilmore Girls Show folder
🧁 Final Thoughts
We’re here to make this challenge fun, flexible, and welcoming. Whether you’re a die-hard completing the list or a casual fan reading along at your own pace, we’re glad you’re here.
Welcome to Stars Hollow 🏡 — bring coffee.
— Ashley (Moderator)