All The Books Read by Audrey Hope So Far In HBO Max’s "Gossip Girl"!

Audrey Hope, played by Emily Alyn Lind, is quickly becoming everyone's favorite Upper East Sider in HBO Max’s "Gossip Girl" reboot! She has a radiant Blair Waldorf energy with her classy fashion and sassy personality, and she also has GREAT taste in books. Audrey is less interested in power or drama than Miss Blair and more interested in living life and enjoying literature!

If you look closely, in every episode, Audrey is seen reading while everyone else is dealing with Gossip Girl or some sort of scandal -- except for when she is engaged in a love triangle with Aki and Max, that is.  

Her choice of books have one main thing in common: they are all written by women about women! An elite Upper East Sider who is also a feminist bookworm is just what we needed (sorry, Dan Humphrey, you might have been replaced).

Here are all the books read by Audrey Hope in "Gossip Girl" so far:

1. Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives From Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer by Kennedy Fraser

Fourteen essays by Kennedy Fraser that focus on women (some famous and some unknown) and their love affairs, marriages, friendship, and families.

2. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Her Body and Other Parties is hard to describe using only the known genres and literary styles, because it is written through one of the most unique and genre-bending voices. Maria Machado writes a collection of stories about the "realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies."

3. Black Swans by Eve Babitz

In a collection of nine stories, Eve Babitz, known as the voice of a generation and a feminist icon, writes about the changing world and the birth of a new generation in the 1980s and early-1990s — "decades of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican."

4. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

An Italian novel about a woman whose husband unexpectedly leaves her with two kids after 15 years of marriage. The story follows the woman’s trapped state of mind after feeling abandoned and lost. Incidentally, this novel will soon be adapted into a movie of the same name by HBO Films, starring Natalie Portman and Mary-Louise Parker.

5. Complete Poems by Anna Sexton

A collection of intimate, raw, and confessional poems by Anna Sexton, one of the most brilliant American women poets.

New goal for the summer: 

Step 1: Add all of Audrey’s books to your reading list + Buy a copy

Step 2: Sit on The Met steps (don’t forget to bring your book!)

Step 3: Read like an Upper East Sider