The revised Mad Men Reading List is now available here.

If you follow The Battery Park City Library on Twitter then you've seen our tweets linking to books that have appeared in the hit television show Mad Men. These titles are a great way to gain insight into the episodes and the social and cultural times in which the series is set. Like the set and costume design, the literary choices of the show really add a stamp of authenticity. Dipping into these classics is also a great way to help with withdrawals while waiting for new episodes to air.

Some of the titles are featured prominently in the series and others are mentioned in passing. Remember the book Sally read with her grandfather at bedtime? The book on Japanese culture the agency was told to read? The scandalous book the ladies passed between each other in secret? You can find all these and more! Search #MadMen #Reading on Twitter to stay up-to-date. Older tweets might temporarily be unavailable.

Also included at the end of the list is a "You might also like" section of related books and movies.

Do you have any favorite Mad Men books or literary quotes from the show? Please share!

For those of you who are not on Twitter here is the current book list:

Meditations in an Emergency - Frank O’Hara

The Best of Everything - Rona Jaffe

Confessions of an Advertising Man - David Ogilvy

Babylon Revisited and Other Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword - Ruth Benedict

Exodus - Leon Uris

Ship of Fools - Katherine Ann Porter

Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone

The Group - Mary Mccarthy

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon

You might also like:

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor - Jerry Della Femina

Advertising in America: The First 200 Years - Charles Goodrum and Helen Dalrymple

Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates (also check out this great post).

Revolutionary Road - DVD

The 1960s - John Peacock

The Male Mystique: Men's magazine Ads of the 1960s and '70s - Jacques Boyreau

A Double Scotch: How Chivas Regal and the Glenlivet Became Global Icons - F. Paul Pacult

Bye Bye Birdie - DVD

Furniture & Interiors of the 1960s - Anne Bony

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - Sloane Wilson

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - DVD

Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers - edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Pour yourself a scotch and enjoy!

Update: 9/19/10 episode: The Clue of the Black Keys - Carolyn Keene

9/22/10 update to "You might also like": The John Cheever short story "The Swimmer," and the movie based on the same, especially in relation to season 4 episode 8 (4.8), "The Summer Man."

10/1/10 update: I am rewatching everything with audio commentary. In the pilot episode Peggy is seen reading an "It's Your Wedding Night" pamphlet in her doctor's office. The subtitles of the publication: "What Every Bride Should Know" and "How to be a Good Wife." The episode takes place in March 1960.

10/1/10 update #2: Rosemarie DeWitt, who plays Midge Daniels in the first season, mentions in the audio commentary that Matt Weiner suggested she read Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane di Prima.

10/2/10 update to "You might also like": three films from 1960: From the Terrace, The Apartment, Strangers When We Meet

10/3/10 update: What does Don Draper read at work? Here are some of the spot on period and subject titles that have appeared on the shelf behind his desk:

The Hidden Persuaders - Vance Packard

The Lonely Crowd - David Riesman

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America - David Boorstin

The Hucksters - Frederick Wakeman

10/4/10 update: In the 10/3/10 episode "Chinese Wall" (4.11) the book Meeting with Japan by Fosco Maraini is seen on the bookshelf behind Peggy's bed. The book Faye is reading while waiting in Don's apartment is Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric Berne.

10/12/10 update: Literary references in the 10/10/10 episode “Blowing Smoke” (4.12) : Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan.

10/18/10 update: In the season four finale "Tomorrowland" (4.13) Don is reading John Le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

10/20/10 update: Literary references: "Our worst fears lie in anticipation." - Balzac. The actual quote is "Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation." The line was used in two episodes in season 3. In "Out of Town" (3.1), when Salvatore Romano is speaking to the executives at London Fog he says "Our worst fears lie in anticipation. That's not me. That's Balzac." Don repeats the same line to another expecting father in the hospital waiting room in "The Fog" (3.5). The other father replies, "Are you so sure about that?"

Also in "Out of Town": Lane Pryce: "There is no fog in London. There is no London fog." Bert Cooper: "Are you sure about that?" Lane: "Quite. There never was. It was the coal dust from the industrial era. Charles Dickens and whatnot."

10/20/10 update #2: anachronism: The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is shown behind Lane Pryce's desk in "Love Among the Ruins" (3.2). The Compact Edition wasn't published until 1971 and the 3-volume set shown wasn't published until 1987.

10/23/10 update: "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency" (3.6): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain. Lane Pryce says he has been reading a lot of American literature, Tom Sawyer, and feels like he just went to his own funeral and didn't like the eulogy. Earlier in the same episode Powell mentions Agatha Christie

In the episode "Seven Twenty Three" (3.7) Peggy says that her mother gave her Conrad Hilton's book. This is likely Hilton's Be My Guest , which was released in 1958. Hilton's Inspirations of an Innkeeper was released in 1963 and though this episode takes place July 20-23, 1963, Inspirations of an Innkeeper was printed in a limited edition of 312 copies so it is unlikely that Peggy's mom would have given her a copy of that book.

10/25/10 update: Literary reference in the episode "Ladies Room" (1.2): Midge says to Don, "It's 7:30. I have to go to Roy's reading. I have to be there to act surprised when Jack Kerouac doesn't show."

12/22/11 update: In a promotional still for the episode "Tomorrowland" (4.13) Henry Francis is shown reading Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , illustrated by Jo Polseno.

1/10/12 update: In a promotional still for the episode "The Chrysanthemum And The Sword" (4.5) Carla is shown reading Vivian L. Thompson 's The Horse That Liked Sandwiches.

1/19/12 update: William Pène Du Bois meets F. Scott Fitzgerald, or a Mad Men Mystery solved: The Twenty-One Balloons .

The book's subtitle is A Practical Manual of How to Cope With a World of Bewildering Change and it offers 33 "recipes" for " how to cope with stress, anxiety, competition, and the uncertainty of the times without going to pieces mentally or physically." It is only appropriate that this book is on Don Draper's bookshelf. 1/21/12 update: In this scene from the season four finale "Tomorrowland" (4.13) Don Draper breaks the news to Faye Miller that he is engaged to his secretary Megan. There are four books on Don's shelf but only one of them is right side up. Would this be intentional? A way to say that book is more important to Don? Or was it done to make the viewers take note? Incidentally one of the upside down books, the second from the left, is Stuart Cloete's Gazella from 1958. The first book on the left is the only one that is right side up: 1963's You Are Not the Target , by Laura Archera Huxley book's subtitle is A Practical Manual of How to Cope With a World of Bewildering Change and it offers 33 "recipes" for "