The fifth season of the Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning drama debuts on AMC, with a 2 hour premiere Sunday, March 25 at 9pm ET/PT. On Sunday, April 1 Mad Men will return to its regular timeslot at 10pm ET/PT. It made history last September as the first basic cable series ever to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in four consecutive years.
The series is set in the 1960s, what were Americans reading back then? Some of the bestsellers were:
Fiction
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Reivers by William Faulkner
Dearly Beloved by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L. West
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carre
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
The Adventurers by Harold Ribbins
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Airport by Arthur Hailey
The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes
The Tower of Babel by Morris L. West
Preserve and Protect by Allen Drury
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann
Christy by Catherine Marshall
Nonfiction
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
In His Own Write by John Lennon
Reminiscences by General Douglas MacArthur
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The Making of the President, 1964 by Theordore H. White
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Death of a President by William Manchester
Edgar Cayce-The Sleeping Prophet by Jess Stearn
The Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter
My Life and Prophecies by Jean Dixon
