Mad Men Reading List

Enjoy AMC's Mad Men? Well, then maybe you'll want to check out some off the books that characters have read.

  1.  Leon Uris - Exodus
People from different backgrounds come to Palestine to help create the Jewish state of Israel after World War II.



Don reads this while researching for the Israeli Tourism Bureau account

2. Frank O'Hara - Meditations in an Emergency

O’Hara once described some of his work as his “I do this, I do that poems.” The most random and trivial events are related with a breathless excitement.

Don Draper meets a bohemian reading it in a bar where O’Hara happens tohave composed much of the book who suggests that he’s too square to appreciate it.

3. Katherine Ann Porter - Ship of Fools

The 48 first-class passengers and the 900 Spaniards in steerage on a passenger-freighter crossing from Mexico to Germany in 1931 are traveling on a voyage of life.

Betty takes the time, in the midst of her failing marriage, to sit down and read 1962's best selling novel.

4. D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

Trapped in a bad marriage to the invalidSir Clifford, Constance Chatterley seeks a release in a passionate loveaffair with her husband's gamekeeper.

This banned book in the 60s makes its way around the Advertising Firm of Sterling and Cooper.

5. Mary McCarthy - The Group

Depicts the unhappy experiences of eight Vassar graduates during the thirty years following their graduation.

Betty Draper reads this book as she surveys her own unhappy life.
 

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Rona Jaffe - The Best of Everything

David Ogilvy - Confessions of an Advertising Man

Natasha Vargas-Cooper - Mad Men Unbuttoned

Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing is as it Seems

Jerry Della Femina - From those Wonderful Folks that Brought you Pearl Harbor: Front-line Dispatches from the Advertising War

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 6:33pm