Check out these great reads about television and the books that inspired popular TV shows!
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community by Saul Austerlitz
The Platinum Age of Television by David Bianculli
Breaking Bad: I Am The Danger edited by Jennifer Leczkowski
American Pickers Guide to Picking by Libby Callaway
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by Fiona Carnarvon
Desperate Housewives: Behind Closed Doors
Wise Words from Across Space and Time: The Official Quotable Doctor Who by Cavan Scott
Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary by Jason Loborik
Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey by Emma Rowley
A Love That Multiplies by Michelle & Jim Bob Duggar
Women in Game of Thrones: Power, Conformity, and Resistance by Valerie Estelle Franke
Ace of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes by Duff Goldman
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek by Edward Gross
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman
The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman
The Crown: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen by Robert Lacey
Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV by Warren Littlefield
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeffry Lindsay
Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution by Brett Martin
Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of EPSN by James A. Miller
The Place to Be by Roger Mudd
Stealing the Show: How Women are Revolutionizing Television by Joy Press
M*A*S*H: The Exclusive Inside Story of TV’s Most Popular Show by David S. Reiss
American Idol: The Untold Story by Richard Rushfield
Dimensions Behind the Twilight Zone: A Backstage Tribute to Television’s Groundbreaking Series by Stewart T. Stanyard
Impresario: The Life and Times of Ed Sullivan by James Maguire
Trading Spaces: Behind the Scenes
Baking with the Cake Boss: 100 of Buddy’s Best Recipes and Decorating Secrets by Buddy Valastro
The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines
Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander by Phil Robertson
13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Vampire Diaries by LJ Smith
Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Nevermore by Keith R. A. DeCandido
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snickett