Books Referenced in OITNB

If you love Orange Is The New Black, you are no doubt familiar with the bookish-ness of the show. Not only is the show based on the published memoir of Piper Kerman, but the characters consistently reference and are shown reading modern books from the real world. Often the books hold significance, either to the plot line or to the development of the characters – either way, the books are significant.

With the release of the 5th season of OITNB (June 9th), we revisited the first four seasons and compiled a list of the books mentioned throughout the show.

Find our commentary comparing the memoir Orange Is The New Black to the Netflix Original series here.  Visit the Books of Orange is the New Black tumblr account, or BookRiot, for more on the books read and referenced in the show.

1. The Diary of a Young Girl 
   by Anne Frank
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) 
   by J.K. Rowling
   
3. Atonement 
   by Ian McEwan
4. The Fault in Our Stars 
   by John Green
5. The Glass Castle 
   by Jeannette Walls
6. Gone Girl 
   by Gillian Flynn
7. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
   by Anne Lamott
8. Americanah 
   by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9. Emma 
   by Jane Austen
10. Fighting for Air – the Unknown Adventures of Young Doc Holliday 
    by Jack Kincade
11. Alice in Wonderland 
    by Jane Carruth
12. The Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2) 
    by Patrick Rothfuss
13. Anna Karenina 
    by Leo Tolstoy
14. Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen
15. The Help 
    by Kathryn Stockett
16. It 
    by Stephen King
17. Fraidyzoo 
    by Thyra Heder
18. The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) 
    by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Freshman Year & Other 
20. Unnatural Disasters 
    by Meredith Zeitlin
21. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 
    by Karen Joy Fowler
22. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) 
    by Stieg Larsson
23. Charlotte’s Web 
    by E.B. White
24. 1984 
    by George Orwell
25. Romeo and Juliet 
    by William Shakespeare
26. Arms and the Man 
    by George Bernard Shaw
27. The Goldfinch 
    by Donna Tartt
28. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1) 
    by Steven D. Levitt
    
29. Hamlet 
    by William Shakespeare
30. Eat, Pray, Love 
    by Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
31. Oliver Twist 
    by Charles Dickens
32. Holy Bible: King James Version 
    by Anonymous
33. Les Misérables 
    by Victor Hugo
34. State of Wonder 
    by Ann Patchett
35. Outlander (Outlander #1) 
    by Diana Gabaldon
36. Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up 
    by Christopher Noxon
37. The End of Men: And the Rise of Women 
    by Hanna Rosin
38. Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood 
    by Leah Vincent
39. Hand-me-downs 
    by Rhea Kohan
40. Sinful Chocolate 
    by Adrianne Byrd
41. We Are the Goldens 
    by Dana Reinhardt
42. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief 
    by Lawrence Wright
43. The Mist 
    by Stephen King
44. Orlando  by Virginia Woolf
45. Successful Interview Skills: How to Present Yourself with Confidence 
    by Rebecca Corfield
46. Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) 
    by E.L. James
47. City of Thieves 
    by David Benioff
48. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen 
    by Christopher McDougall
49. The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet 
    by Tom Woloshyn
50. Night Shift 
    by Stephen King
51. The Tao of Pooh 
    by Benjamin Hoff
52. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die 
    by Patricia Schultz
53. Measure for Measure 
    by William Shakespeare
54. Coriolanus 
    by William Shakespeare
55. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair 
    by Pablo Neruda
56. Ulysses 
    by James Joyce
57. Briefing and Arguing Federal Appeals 
    by Frederick Bernays Wiener
58. This is Where I Leave You 
    by Jonathan Tropper
59. The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman 
    by Timothy Ferriss
60. Ukrainian-English/English-Ukrainian Practical Dictionary 
    by Leonid Hrabovsky
61. Moby-Dick or, The Whale 
    by Herman Melville
62. Birds of America 
    by Lorrie Moore
63. The Practice of Deceit 
    by Elizabeth Benedict
64. Betrayal (Dismas Hardy, #12) 
    by John Lescroart
65. Small Business for Dummies 
    by Eric Tyson
66. Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out 
    by Mike Gray
67. Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers 
    by Lois P. Frankel
68. The Essential Rumi 
    by Jalaluddin Rumi
69. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) 
    by C.S. Lewis
70. The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) 
    by Suzanne Collins
71. Stuart Little 
    by E.B. White
72. Lolita 
    by Vladimir Nabokov

If we have missed any, let us know in the comments below!