25 Books: Mad Men Reading List

Introduction: 25 Books: Mad Men Reading List

I do not watch TV, I spend my time reading books, so I have never watched the series Mad Men, but I am a sucker for any reading list. This is the Mad Men Reading List. Some of the books I have read already, some are on my ever growing pile of books to read, and some I have never heard of before. Mad Men premiered on July 19, 2007 on the cable network AMC and is produced by Lionsgate Television.

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“The seventh and final season consists of 14 episodes that are split into two seven-episode installments, airing in 2014 and 2015. The second half of the final season premiered on April 5, 2015. The series finale is scheduled to air on May 17, 2015.”

It’s not unusual for someone to compile the reading list of a popular TV show, I have presented the reading list of all the books that were mentioned on Gilmore Girls. Summer is coming, so if you are a fan of Mad Men, perhaps you can choose a few books from the 25 books mentioned below. So why would anyone want to read any of the 25 books on the Mad Men Reading List? People read books for many reasons. From the interviews I conducted for my book, Tales of People Who Get It, these are some of the reasons why people read books:

• Gain insights
• Discover guidelines to live by
• Secure formulas and intellectual frameworks to use
• Gain a deeper understanding and heightened awareness
• Discover new ways of thinking
• Gain an understanding of cultures, civilization and the world
• Awake/Ignite something within
• Get words of comfort and hope during difficult times

Have you read?

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AMC and the New York Public Library compiled the Mad Men Reading List, which you can find below for your reading enjoyment. And they broke down the reading list by key characters on the show to make it more interesting.

The Mad Men Reading List

Don Draper’s Picks:

1. Exodus by Leon Uris (Episode 106 “Babylon”)
2. The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
3. Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O’Hara
4. The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner
5. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict
6. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels) by John Le Carre
7. The Fixer: A Novel by Bernard Malamud
8. Odds Against by Dick Francis
9. The Inferno (Signet Classics) by Dante Alighieri
10. The LAST PICTURE SHOW : A Novel by Larry McMurtry
11. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

Roger Sterling’s Pick:

12. Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy

Joan Harris’s Pick:

13. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Bantam Classics) by D. H. Lawrence

Pete Campbell’s Picks:

14. The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) by Thomas Pynchon
15. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Betty Draper’s Picks:

16. Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. The Group by Mary McCarthy

Lane Pryce’s Pick:

18. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Henry Francis’s Pick:

19. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Bert Cooper’s Pick:

20. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Sally Draper’s Picks:

21. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon
22. The Twenty-One Balloons (Puffin Modern Classics) by William Pene Du Bois
23. The Clue of the Black Keys (Nancy Drew #28) by Carolyn Keene
24. The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain) by Lloyd Alexander
25. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

 Exodus The Best of Everything Meditations in an Emergency The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text The Chrysanthemum and the Sword The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels) The Fixer: A Novel (FSG Classics) Odds Against The Inferno (Signet Classics) The Last Picture Show (Thalia) Portnoy's Complaint

Further Reading
11 books in ‘Mad Men' that represent each character
The Mad Men Reading List: 25 Revealing Books Read by the Characters on the Show
The “Mad Men” Reading List

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