mm-s1-facebook-timeline-nologo-270 Mad Men is a television series set in the 1960s that follows characters working in advertising on Madison Avenue. Literature is often referenced or appears in the series and fans have been taking note. There is even a Twitter hashtag #MadMenReading so anyone can tag literature seen or referenced on the show. Many public libraries keep track of this list and have created companion Òyou might also likeÓ lists of books that were influential in the 60s or help fans appreciate the culture depicted in ÒMad MenÓ. A lot of work is put into making the television series historically accurate from the costumes to the soda in the vending machines (there has been great debate about the actual date Dr. Pepper was released in New York City). The literature on the show is certainly not there by accident. There are even a few made-up titles like SterlingÕs Gold by Roger Sterling and Something by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Many of the titles give insight into the characterÕs lives or historical events. Billy Parrot, a librarian at the New York Public Library, has been meticulously documenting every reference to and sighting of literature in the series: http://www.nypl.org/blog/2012/02/27/mad-men-reading-list. In addition to stills from episodes where a book was sighted or referenced, this link will also lead you to a ÒSally Draper reading listÓ and a list of books ÒYou Might Also LikeÓ if you are interested in Mad Men. Here is ParrotÕs list, including links to copies in WittenbergÕs EZRA catalog or in OhioLINKÕs catalog (if there is no link, the book is unavailable from EZRA and OhioLINK): 1. The View from Chivo / H. Allen Smith OhioLINK 2. The Peking Man is Missing / Claire Taschdjian OhioLINK 3. La Presidenta / Lois Gould OhioLINK 4. Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form / Frank Magill OhioLINK 5. The Crisis of the Old Order / Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (Volume 1 of The Age of Roosevelt) EZRA 6. Lady Chatterley's Lover / D. H. Lawrence OhioLINK 7. Italy / Herbert Kubly and the editors of Life EZRA 8. Nursery Friends from France / translated by Olive Beaupre Miller OhioLINK 9. Exodus / Leon Uris EZRA 10. The Best of Everything / Rona Jaffe OhioLINK 11. Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand EZRA 12. The Americans: The Colonial Experience / Daniel Boorstin EZRA 13. Meditations in an Emergency / Frank OÕHara OhioLINK 14. The Agony and the Ecstasy / Irving Stone EZRA 15. Marjorie Morningstar / Herman Wouk EZRA 16. ÒA Diamond as Big as the RitzÓ from Babylon Revisited and Other Stories / F. Scott Fitzgerald EZRA 17. Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies / C. S. Forester OhioLINK 18. Ship of Fools / Katherine Anne Porter EZRA 19. Junior Classics Volume One (Fairy Tales And Fables) and Volume Seven (The Animal Book) OhioLINK 20. The Sound and the Fury / William Faulkner EZRA 21. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary OhioLINK 22. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon EZRA 23. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain EZRA 24. Be My Guest / Conrad Hilton OhioLINK 25. Confessions of an Advertising Man / David Ogilvy EZRA 26. The Bible EZRA 27. Helping Yourself with Psychiatry / Frank Caprio OhioLINK 28. Set Theory and Logic / Robert Stoll OhioLINK 29. Meeting with Japan / Fosco Maraini EZRA 30. The Corps / W.E.B. Griffin [Note: ParrotÕs blog explains this is an anachronism; although not published until 1994, Òa compilation of the first three books in the Corps seriesÓ in the episode ÒThe Color BlueÓ 3.10.]

a. Book I, Semper Fi (1986) b. Book II, Call to Arms (1987) c. Book III, Counterattack (1990)OhioLINK d. Book IV, Battleground (1991)EZRA e. Book V, Line of Fire (1992)OhioLINK f. Book VI, Close Combat (1993)OhioLINK g. Book VII, Behind the Lines (1996)OhioLINK h. Book VIII, In Danger's Path (1999)OhioLINK i. Book IX, Under Fire (2002)OhioLINK j. Book X, Retreat, Hell! (2004)OhioLINK

31. The Group / Mary McCarthy EZRA 32. The Horse That Liked Sandwiches / Vivian L. Thompson 33. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword / Ruth Benedict EZRA 34. The Clue of the Black Keys / Carolyn Keene OhioLINK 35. The Miracle Worker / William Gibson EZRA 36. Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships / Eric Berne EZRA 37. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain EZRA 38. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold / John Le CarrŽ EZRA 39. You Are Not the Target: A Practical Manual of How to Cope with a World of Bewildering Change / Laura Archera Huxley OhioLINK 40. Gazella / Stuart Cloete OhioLINK 41. The Sand Pebbles / Richard McKenna EZRA 42. A Thousand Days / John F. Kennedy in the White House / Arthur Schlesinger EZRA 43. Johnny Got His Gun / Dalton Trumbo OhioLINK 44. Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler EZRA 45. Where Love Has Gone / Harold Robbins OhioLINK 46. The Life of Greece / Will Durant (Volume 2 of The Story of Civilization) EZRA 47. The Tibetan Book of the Dead EZRA 48. The Berlitz Self-Teacher: French OhioLINK 49. The Fixer / Bernard Malamud EZRA 50. The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon EZRA 51. "Ozymandias" / Percy Bysshe Shelley EZRA 52. Odds Against / Dick Francis OhioLINK 53. The Black Cauldron / Lloyd Alexander EZRA 54. Nature / Ralph Waldo Emerson Online (Gutenberg) OhioLINK 55. Goodnight Moon / Margaret Wise Brown EZRA 56. Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion / Herbert Aptheker OhioLINK 57. Twice 22 / Ray Bradbury OhioLINK 58. Tai-Pan / James Clavell EZRA 59. The Smokejumpers / Randle M. Hurst 60. The Sunday Gentleman / Irving Wallace OhioLINK 61. Third Girl / Agatha Christie OhioLINK 62. Julius Caesar / William Shakespeare EZRA 63. The Inferno / Dante Alighieri EZRA 64. Topaz / Leon Uris OhioLINK 65. The Last Picture Show / Larry McMurtry OhioLINK 66. Valley of the Dolls / Jacqueline Susann OhioLINK 67. I Ching : The Book of Change / John Blofeld EZRA 68. Rosemary's Baby / Ira Levin EZRA 69. How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success In Selling / Frank Bettger OhioLINK 70. Bhagavad Gita EZRA 71. Nicholas and Alexandra / Robert K. Massie EZRA 72. Evolution / Ruth E. Moore EZRA 73. The Penny Wars / Elliott Baker OhioLINK 74. A Small Town in Germany / John Le CarrŽ EZRA 75. Better Homes and Gardens Junior Cook Book: For the Hostess and Host of Tomorrow EZRA 76. Frankenstein / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley EZRA 77. Dracula / Bram Stoker EZRA 78. The American Way of Death / Jessica Mitford EZRA 79. The Detective / Roderick Thorp OhioLINK 80. Listen to the Warm / Rod McKuen OhioLINK 81. From the Earth to the Moon / Jules Verne EZRA 82. Portnoy's Complaint / Philip Roth EZRA