Required reading: Mad Men
Every book seen in Mad Men, in order of appearance.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence, 1928Lawrence's 1928 novel about an aristocrat's affair with her gamekeeper, kept out of U.S. stores uncut until a 1959 court ruling let Grove Press publish it.
Seen in S1 E3, Joan HollowayBuyThe Best of Everything
Rona Jaffe, 1958Jaffe's 1958 novel follows young women working at a New York publishing house, which makes it the Sterling Cooper secretarial floor with better book deals.
Seen in S1 E6, Don DraperBuyExodus
Leon Uris, 1958Leon Uris's 1958 novel about the founding of Israel, a number one bestseller that Otto Preminger filmed in 1960 with Paul Newman.
Seen in S1 E6, Don DraperBuyAtlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand, 1957Ayn Rand's 1957 novel, more than 1,000 pages of industrialists walking off the job.
Seen in S1 E8, Bert CooperBuyMeditations in an Emergency
Frank O'Hara, 1957Frank O'Hara's 1957 collection.
Seen in S2 E1, Don DraperBuyThe Agony and the Ecstasy
Irving Stone, 1961Irving Stone's 1961 novel about Michelangelo, which became a 1965 film with Charlton Heston as the sculptor.
Seen in S2 E2, Peggy's motherBuyBabylon Revisited and Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1960Scribner's 1960 collection of Fitzgerald stories, named for the one about a father trying to win his daughter back from her aunt and uncle.
Seen in S2 E4, Betty DraperBuyThe Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner, 1929Faulkner's 1929 novel about the Compson family, told in four sections, the first narrated by Benjy.
Seen in S2 E11, JoyBuyThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon, 1776Edward Gibbon published the six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
Seen in S3 E3, Sally DraperBuyThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain, 1876Mark Twain's 1876 novel, best known for a boy who talks his friends into whitewashing a fence and calls it a privilege.
Seen in S3 E6, Lane PryceBuyConfessions of an Advertising Man
David Ogilvy, 1963Ogilvy's 1963 memoir, from the founder of Ogilvy & Mather and the man who put an eye patch on the Hathaway shirt guy.
Seen in S3 E7, Roger SterlingBuyThe Group
Mary McCarthy, 1963McCarthy's 1963 novel follows eight Vassar women from the class of 1933, her own class, through bad marriages and worse advice.
Seen in S3 E10, Betty DraperBuyThe Twenty-One Balloons
William Pène du Bois, 1947Du Bois won the 1948 Newbery Medal for this one, about a retired teacher who sets off in a balloon and lands on Krakatoa, where the islanders are sitting on a secret diamond mine.
Seen in S4 E5, Sally DraperBuyThe Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Ruth Benedict, 1946Benedict wrote it at the invitation of the U.S. Office of War Information, and it came out in 1946.
Seen in S4 E5, Don DraperBuyThe Clue of the Black Keys
Carolyn Keene, 1951Book 28 in the series, first published in 1951.
Seen in S4 E9, Sally DraperBuyThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré, 1963Le Carré's 1963 novel follows Alec Leamas, a worn-out British agent sent on one last job against East Germany.
Seen in S4 E13, Don DraperBuyAdventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain, 1884Mark Twain's 1884 novel.
Seen in S4 E13, Henry FrancisBuyThe Fixer
Bernard Malamud, 1966Malamud's 1966 novel is based on Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Jewish worker in Kiev put on trial for a blood libel charge in 1913.
Seen in S5 E7, Don DraperBuyThe Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon, 1966Pynchon's 1966 novel, his shortest, in which Oedipa Maas is named executor of an ex-lover's estate and stumbles onto an underground mail network called the Tristero.
Seen in S5 E8, Pete CampbellBuyThe Black Cauldron
Lloyd Alexander, 1965The second of Alexander's five Prydain books and a 1966 Newbery Honor.
Seen in S5 E9, Sally DraperBuyOdds Against
Dick Francis, 1965Francis was a champion jump jockey before he wrote, including for the Queen Mother.
Seen in S5 E9, Don DraperBuyGoodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, 1947Margaret Wise Brown's 1947 picture book, illustrated by Clement Hurd.
Seen in S5 E11, Pete CampbellBuyInferno
Dante Alighieri, 1320The first part of the Divine Comedy, written around 1320, in which Dante is led through nine circles of the damned.
Seen in S6 E1, Don DraperBuyThe Last Picture Show
Larry McMurtry, 1966McMurtry's 1966 novel about teenagers in a dying Texas town, filmed in black and white by Peter Bogdanovich in 1971.
Seen in S6 E7, Don DraperBuyRosemary's Baby
Ira Levin, 1967Levin's 1967 novel about a young wife in a Manhattan building whose neighbors take a very close interest in her pregnancy.
Seen in S6 E8, Sally DraperBuyPortnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth, 1969Roth's 1969 novel is one long confession from Alexander Portnoy to his psychiatrist, Dr. Spielvogel, who gets the last line.
Seen in S7 E4, Don DraperBuy
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