New York Public Library's 'Mad Men' Reading List

1.
Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls 3.86 avg rating — 75,319 ratings
2.
The Group
The Group 3.68 avg rating — 16,964 ratings
3.
The Best of Everything
The Best of Everything 3.83 avg rating — 7,609 ratings
4.
The Miracle Worker: A Play
The Miracle Worker: A Play 4.19 avg rating — 35,077 ratings
5.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,553 ratings
6.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,323 ratings
7.
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating — 402,811 ratings
8.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover 3.50 avg rating — 134,642 ratings
9.
Exodus
Exodus
by: Leon Uris
4.34 avg rating — 100,895 ratings
10.
Meditations in an Emergency
Meditations in an Emergency 4.13 avg rating — 4,376 ratings
11.
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories 3.98 avg rating — 5,786 ratings
12.
Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools 3.67 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
13.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume V (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire #5)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume V (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire #5) 4.05 avg rating — 308 ratings
14.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 122,084 ratings
15.
Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon 4.32 avg rating — 389,676 ratings
16.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 3.69 avg rating — 93,758 ratings
17.
Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #40)
Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #40) 3.69 avg rating — 36,281 ratings
17.
Inferno
Inferno 4.03 avg rating — 200,535 ratings
19.
The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20,488 ratings
20.
The American Way of Death
The American Way of Death 3.98 avg rating — 570 ratings
21.
Portnoy’s Complaint
Portnoy’s Complaint 3.71 avg rating — 72,180 ratings
22.
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol 1)
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol 1) 4.18 avg rating — 433 ratings
23.
The View from Chivo
The View from Chivo 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
24.
Peking Man Is Missing
Peking Man Is Missing 3.26 avg rating — 58 ratings
25.
La Presidenta
La Presidenta 2.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
26.
Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form
Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
27.
Nursery Friends from France
Nursery Friends from France 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
27.
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness 4.04 avg rating — 7,055 ratings
29.
Italy
Italy 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
30.
The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience
The Americans, Vol. 1: The Colonial Experience 4.01 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
31.
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Agony and the Ecstasy 4.09 avg rating — 93,736 ratings
32.
Marjorie Morningstar
Marjorie Morningstar 3.99 avg rating — 9,175 ratings
33.
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #11)
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #11) 4.16 avg rating — 6,135 ratings
34.
Fairy Tales and Fables (The New Junior Classics: The Young Folks Shelf of Books #1)
Fairy Tales and Fables (The New Junior Classics: The Young Folks Shelf of Books #1) 4.21 avg rating — 78 ratings
35.
The Animal Book (The New Junior Classics: The Young Folks Shelf of Books #7)
The Animal Book (The New Junior Classics: The Young Folks Shelf of Books #7) 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
36.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury 3.86 avg rating — 192,291 ratings
37.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3.92 avg rating — 996,809 ratings
38.
Be My Guest
Be My Guest 3.85 avg rating — 525 ratings
39.
Confessions of an Advertising Man
Confessions of an Advertising Man really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,895 ratings
40.
Helping Yourself With Psychiatry
Helping Yourself With Psychiatry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
41.
Set Theory and Logic (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Set Theory and Logic (Dover Books on Mathematics) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 59 ratings
42.
Ore giapponesi
Ore giapponesi 4.44 avg rating — 227 ratings
43.
The Corps Set
The Corps Set 4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
44.
Horse That Liked Sandwiches
Horse That Liked Sandwiches 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
45.
Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture 3.86 avg rating — 4,038 ratings
46.
The Twenty-One Balloons
The Twenty-One Balloons 3.95 avg rating — 25,764 ratings
47.
The Clue of the Black Keys (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #28)
The Clue of the Black Keys (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #28) 3.90 avg rating — 5,642 ratings
48.
Games People Play
Games People Play 3.73 avg rating — 40,206 ratings
49.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,319,032 ratings
50.
You Are Not The Target
You Are Not The Target 4.09 avg rating — 80 ratings
51.
Gazella
Gazella 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
52.
The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles 4.26 avg rating — 2,490 ratings
53.
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House 4.16 avg rating — 6,975 ratings
54.
Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun 4.21 avg rating — 47,427 ratings
55.
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf 3.17 avg rating — 43,178 ratings
56.
Where Love Has Gone
Where Love Has Gone 3.70 avg rating — 1,016 ratings
57.
The Life of Greece (The Story of Civilization, #2)
The Life of Greece (The Story of Civilization, #2) 4.37 avg rating — 2,337 ratings
58.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Tibetan Book of the Dead 3.90 avg rating — 5,749 ratings
59.
The Fixer
The Fixer 3.98 avg rating — 11,822 ratings
60.
Ozymandias
Ozymandias 4.28 avg rating — 2,762 ratings
61.
Odds Against (Sid Halley, #1)
Odds Against (Sid Halley, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 6,835 ratings
62.
The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain, #2)
The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain, #2) 4.12 avg rating — 66,291 ratings
63.
Nature
Nature 3.79 avg rating — 6,305 ratings
64.
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions"
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions" 3.55 avg rating — 66 ratings
65.
Twice 22: The Golden Apples of the Sun / A Medicine for Melancholy
Twice 22: The Golden Apples of the Sun / A Medicine for Melancholy 4.25 avg rating — 280 ratings
66.
Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2) 4.31 avg rating — 57,467 ratings
67.
The Smokejumpers
The Smokejumpers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
68.
SUNDAY GENTLEMAN
SUNDAY GENTLEMAN 3.70 avg rating — 61 ratings
69.
Topaz
Topaz
by: Leon Uris
3.86 avg rating — 5,602 ratings
70.
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by: Ira Levin
4.05 avg rating — 153,685 ratings
71.
Taoist I Ching
Taoist I Ching 4.16 avg rating — 319 ratings
72.
Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita 4.19 avg rating — 78,230 ratings
73.
How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling
How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling 4.27 avg rating — 17,023 ratings
74.
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty 4.23 avg rating — 29,466 ratings
75.
Evolution
Evolution 3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings
76.
The Penny Wars
The Penny Wars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
77.
A Small Town in Germany
A Small Town in Germany 3.77 avg rating — 9,011 ratings
78.
The Detective
The Detective 3.01 avg rating — 298 ratings
79.
Shadow of a Bull
Shadow of a Bull 3.58 avg rating — 5,208 ratings
80.
Listen to the Warm
Listen to the Warm 3.93 avg rating — 726 ratings
81.
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon 3.75 avg rating — 38,338 ratings
82.
The Ceremony of Innocence
The Ceremony of Innocence 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
83.
Katie Mulholland
Katie Mulholland 4.19 avg rating — 1,343 ratings