Bookin' It with Mad Men: Season One Books

Below is the season one list for the Bookin' It with Mad Men reading group on Shelfari. The list below is compiled from my observations and comparisons to The Definitive ‘Mad Men’ Reading List by Judy Berman (Flavorwire) and the Mad Men Reading List by Billy Parrott (Mid-Manhattan Library).

If I've I missed a book, please let me know.

Season one opens in March 1960 with advertising executive Don Draper meeting his new secretary, Peggy Olson. What other books were Americans reading in 1960?

Episode 1 -  Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

• The Crisis of the Old Order, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.



• The View from Chivo, H. Allen Smith




• The Peking Man Is Missing, Claire Taschdjian



La Presidenta, Lois Gould

LA Presidenta

Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form, Frank N. Magill

Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form

Episode 3 - Marriage of Figaro

• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Episode 4 — New Amsterdam

• Nursery Friends from France translated by Olive Beaupre Miller; illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham

Nursery Friends from France

• Italy by Herbert Kubly and the editors of Life

 

Episode 6 - Babylon

• The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe




• Exodus by Leon Uris

Episode 8 - The Hobo Code

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand