Season Two
The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner (1929)
You want to know how good sex with Don Draper is? Well, when he’s in bed with Joy in Los Angeles, she’s reading The Sound and the Fury. When he asks her how she likes Faulkner’s masterpiece, she replies that it’s just OK compared to their roll in the hay.
Read: A free hypertext version of the novel
Meditations in an Emergency — Frank O’Hara (1957)
Perhaps the most visible book to appear on the show, Meditations in an Emergency is also the title of Mad Men‘s second season finale. Way back in the first episode of that series, Don Draper meets a bohemian reading it in a bar where O’Hara happens to have composed much of the book who suggests that he’s too square to appreciate it. That, of course, is good enough to sell Don on the book. The New York School poet’s pieces, like the chaotic episode, are fraught with personal crisis.
Read: “Meditations in an Emergency”
Watch: Don reading from O’Hara’s “Mayakovsky”
Ship of Fools — Katherine Ann Porter (1962)
Betty Draper is no lightweight reader, either. In the midst of her season two marriage collapse (not to be confused with her season three marriage collapse), she hunkers down with this cheery Nazi allegory. It was the year’s bestselling novel.
The Agony and the Ecstasy — Irving Stone (1961)
What better book for Peggy’s devoutly Catholic mother to be reading than Stone’s Michelangelo novel? Knowing Katherine Olson, she probably chose it explicitly to make her daughter feel guilty for having a baby out of wedlock.
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How about the poetry of Anne Sexton?
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Another book mentioned was “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”, during the episode where Sterling Cooper was trying to get the Honda account and had that delightful scene of Betty riding the motorscooter.
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