Mad Men Reading List

Season 7

Episode 14 - "Person to Person"

The Goodbye Look / Ross MacDonald (click here for more details)

Conversations on Living: 2nd Series / Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality / Frederick S. Perls (click here for more details)

Episode 13 - "The Milk and Honey Route" (click here for more details)

The Godfather / Mario Puzo

The Woman of Rome / Alberto Moravia

Hawaii / James Michener, The Andromeda Strain / Michael Crichton

Episode 12 - "Lost Horizon"

Dora, An Analysis of A Case of Hysteria / Sigmond Freud

On the Road / Jack Kerouac (click here for more details)

Episode 8 - "Severance" 

Mildred Pierce / James M. Cain, U.S.A. Trilogy / John Dos Passos (click here for more details)

Episode 6 - "The Strategy"

Katie Mulholland / Catherine Cookson (click here for more details)

The Ceremony of Innocence / Ronald Ribman

Episode 4 - "The Monolith"

Portnoy's Complaint / Philip Roth

From the Earth to the Moon / Jules Verne (click here for more details)

Listen to the Warm / Rod McKuen (click here for more details)

The Detective / Roderick Thorp, Shadow of a Bull / Maia Wojciechowska (click here and herefor more details)

Episode 3 - "Field Trip"

The American Way of Death / Jessica Mitford

Frankenstein / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Dracula / Bram Stoker (click here for more details)

Better Homes and Gardens Junior Cook Book: For the Hostess and Host of Tomorrow

Episode 1 - "Time Zones"

A Small Town in Germany / John Le Carré (click here for more details)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain (click here for more details)

Season 7 Promotional Cast Photo

 The Penny Wars / Elliott Baker (click here for more information)

 

 

Season 6

Episode 12 - "The Quality of Mercy" (click here for more details)

Evolution / Ruth E. Moore (click here for more details) 

Episode 11 - "Favors"

Nicholas and Alexandra / Robert K. Massie (click here for more details)

Episode 10 - "A Tale of Two Cities" (click here for more details)

Bhagavad Gita (click here for more details)

How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success In Selling / Frank Bettger (click here for more details)

Episode 8 - "The Crash"

Rosemary's Baby / Ira levin

I Ching : The Book of Change / John Blofeld

Valley of the Dolls /  Jacqueline Susann (click here for more details)

Episode 7 - "Man With a Plan"

The Last Picture Show / Larry McMurtry

Episode 6 - "For Immediate Release"

Something / Ralph Waldo Emerson (click here for more details)

Sterling's Gold / Roger Sterling

Episode 5 - "The Flood"

Topaz / Leon Uris

Episode 1 and 2- "The Doorway"

The Inferno / Dante Alighieri, translated by John Ciardi (click here for more details)

 

Julius Caesar / William Shakespeare

 

 

Season 5

Episode 13 - "The Phantom"

    Third Girl / Agatha Christie (click here for more details)

Twice 22 / Ray Bradbury, Tai-Pan / James Clavell, The Smokejumpers / Randle M. Hurst, The Sunday Gentleman / Irving Wallace (click here for more details)

Episode 12 - "Commissions and Fees"

Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion / Herbert Aptheker (click here for more details)

Episode 11 - "The Other Woman"

Goodnight Moon / Margaret Wise Brown

Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson (Click here for more details)

Episode 9 - "Dark Shadows"

The Black Cauldron / Lloyd Alexander (Click here for more details)

Odds Against / Dick Francis

"Ozymandias" / Percy Bysshe Shelley (click here for more details)

Episode 8 - "Lady Lazarus"

The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon

Episode 7 - "At the Codfish Ball"

The Fixer / Bernard Malamud (click here for more details)

The Berlitz Self-Teacher: French

Episode 6 - "Far Away Places"

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

The Life of Greece / Will Durant (click here for more details)

Episode 4 - "Mystery Date"

Where Love Has Gone / Harold Robbins (click here for more details)

Episode 3 - "Tea Leaves"

Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler (click here for more details)

Sterling’s Gold / Roger Sterling (click here for more details)

Episode 1 and 2 - "A Little Kiss"

Johnny Got His Gun / Dalton Trumbo

 

 

 

The Sand Pebbles / Richard McKenna

A Thousand Days / John F. Kennedy in the White House / Arthur Schlesinger

 

Season 4

Episode 13 — "Tomorrowland" 

   You Are Not the Target: A Practical Manual of How to Cope with a World of Bewildering Change / Laura Archera Huxley, Gazella / Stuart Cloete (See 1/21/12  update for more details)

  

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold / John Le Carré

   

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain 

Episode 11 — "Chinese Wall"

Meeting with Japan / Fosco Maraini

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships / Eric Berne

Sterling’s Gold / Roger Sterling

Episode 10 - "Hands and Knees"

The Miracle Worker / William Gibson 

Episode 9 — "The Beautiful Girls"

The Clue of the Black Keys / Carolyn Keene
(See The Sally Draper reading list for more details) 

Episode 5 — "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword"

The Twenty-One Balloons / William Pène DuBois
(See "A Mad Men Mystery Solved" for more details) 

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword / Ruth Benedict

The Horse That Liked Sandwiches / Vivian L. Thompson

Season 3

Episode 10 — "The Color Blue"

The Group / Mary McCarthy

Helping Yourself with Psychiatry / Frank Caprio, Set Theory and Logic / Robert Stoll, Meeting with Japan / Fosco Maraini, The Corps / W.E.B. Griffin
(See 10/23/10 update for more details) 

Episode 9 — "Wee Small House"

The Bible

Episode 7 — "Seven Twenty Three"

Confessions of an Advertising Man / David Ogilvy

Be My Guest / Conrad Hilton
(See 10/23/10 update for more details)

Episode 6 — "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency"

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain
(See 10/23/10 update for more details)

Episode 3 — "My Old Kentucky Home"

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon

Episode 2 — "Love Among the Ruins"

The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
(See 10/20/10 update #2 for more details)

Season 2

Episode 11 — "Jet Set"

The Sound and the Fury / William Faulkner

Episode 10 — "The Inheritance"

Junior Classics Volume One (Fairy Tales And Fables) and Volume Seven (The Animal Book)

Episode 9 — "Six Month Leave"

Ship of Fools / Katherine Anne Porter

Episode 8 — "A Night to Remember"

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies / C. S. Forester
(See 1/22/12 update for more details)

Episode 4 — "Three Sundays"

“A Diamond as Big as the Ritz” from Babylon Revisited and Other Stories / F. Scott Fitzgerald
(See "A Mad Men Mystery Solved" for more details) 

  

Episode 3 — "The Benefactor"

Marjorie Morningstar / Herman Wouk

Episode 2 — "Flight 1"

The Agony and the Ecstasy / Irving Stone (click here for more details)

Episode 1 — "For Those Who Think Young"

Meditations in an Emergency / Frank O’Hara

Season 1

Episode 8 — "The Hobo Code"

Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand

The Crisis of the Old Order / Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
The Americans: The Colonial Experience / Daniel Boorstin 

Episode 6 — "Babylon"

The Best of Everything / Rona Jaffe

  

Exodus / Leon Uris

Episode 4 — "New Amsterdam"

Nursery Friends from France / translated by Olive Beaupre Miller

   

Italy / Herbert Kubly and the editors of Life

Episode 3 — "Marriage of Figaro"

Lady Chatterley's Lover / D. H. Lawrence

Episode 1 — "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"

The Crisis of the Old Order / Arthur Schlesinger Jr.   

  

The View from Chivo / H. Allen Smith, The Peking Man is Missing / Claire Taschdjian
La Presidenta / Lois Gould, Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form / Frank Magill

             

Multiple episodes

Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

Betty Crocker's Hostess Cookbook