Mad Men Summer Reading List

Flavorwire compiles your literary guide to the AMC show

Flavorwire has compiled a definitive summer reading list in honour of AMC's 1960s television series, Mad Men.

Season One

• The Best of Everything — Rona Jaffe (1958)
• Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
• Exodus — Leon Uris (1958)
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover — D.H. Lawrence
• Babylon Revisited and Other Stories — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Season Two

• The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner (1929)
• Meditations in an Emergency — Frank O’Hara (1957)
• Ship of Fools — Katherine Ann Porter (1962)
• The Agony and the Ecstasy — Irving Stone (1961)

Season Three

• Confessions of an Advertising Man — David Ogilvy (1963)
• The Group — Mary McCarthy (1963)
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Edward Gibbon (1776-1789)

Read the article: Judy Berman, 'The Definitive Mad Men Summer Reading List', Flavorwire, 22 July 2010

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