Loving Succession? Read This!

By Kat La Mantia | May 5 2023 | AdultsGeneralAllPop CultureBlog

It’s impossible to look away from Succession‘s final season. The dramedy about a power struggle between a manipulative, media mogul father and his dysfunctional, ambitious, always scheming children is better than ever. From Kendall’s mastery of empty corporate jargon to Greg naïvely stumbling to the top amidst his cousins’ high-dollar backstabbing, Succession is a masterfully plotted tale about family politics, big media, and the absurd lives of billionaires.

Though this season is the show’s last, we have books to keep you in the Succession mood long after the last episode airs. Read the dirty details behind infamous corporate families, battles for big media empires, and compelling fiction about money-hungry, status-seeking hopefuls.

Unscripted
The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
978-1-9848-7942-4
The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control of Paramount, the multibillion entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who first broke the news
$32.00 US
Feb 14, 2023
6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Hardcover
416 Pages
Penguin Press

Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
978-1-9848-9901-9
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing.
$18.00 US
Oct 18, 2022
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
640 Pages
Vintage

It's Not TV
The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
978-0-593-29619-6
“A read so riveting, it's not hard to imagine watching it unfold on Sunday nights.” —The Associated Press“An incisive account that is more than a rosy victory lap for one of TV’s most influential channels.” —Eric Deggans, NPR’s “Books We Love”“It’s Not TV proves to be a lively companion to all these shows.” —Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of BooksThe inside story of HBO, the start-up company that reinvented television—by two veteran media reporters
$28.00 US
Nov 01, 2022
6 x 9
Hardcover
416 Pages
Viking

The Cult of We
WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
978-0-593-23713-7
The acclaimed bestseller, a “juicy guided tour” (New York Times) of the epic unraveling of WeWork and what it exposes about Silicon Valley's delusions and the financial system's hunger to cash in—from the reporters whose scoops hastened the company's downfall
$18.00 US
Mar 15, 2022
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
464 Pages
Crown

The Fox Effect
How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
978-0-307-27958-3
From the news watchdog organization, Media Matters for America, a comprehensive and shocking exposé of how FoxNews, under its president Roger Ailes, has consciously transformed itself from a right-leaning news network into a full-throated partisan advocate for the Republican Party.
$19.00 US
Feb 21, 2012
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
336 Pages
Anchor

The Heirs
A Novel
978-1-101-90473-2
The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Divorce Papers, about a wealthy, pedigreed Manhattan family that comes undone after the death of their patriarch, now in paperback
$16.00 US
Feb 06, 2018
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
288 Pages
Crown

Rich People Problems
978-0-525-43237-1
The biting and hilarious conclusion to the bestselling Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, in which the quest for money and status turns one family into a couture-clad battle royal.
$18.00 US
May 01, 2018
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
560 Pages
Anchor

The Darlings
A Novel
978-0-14-312275-3
A Bonfire of the Vanities for our times, by an author who “knows her way around 21st-century wealth and power” (The Wall Street Journal).Since he married Merrill Darling, daughter of billionaire financier Carter Darling, attorney Paul Ross has grown accustomed to all the luxuries of Park Avenue. But a tragic event is about to catapult the Darling family into the middle of a massive financial investigation and a red-hot scandal. Suddenly, Paul must decide where his loyalties really lie.Debut novelist Cristina Alger is a former analyst at Goldman Sachs, an attorney, and the daughter of a Wall Street financier. Drawing on her unique insider's perspective, Alger gives us an irresistible glimpse into the highest echelons of New York society—and a fast-paced thriller of epic proportions that powerfully echoes Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children and reads like a fictional Too Big to Fail.
$16.00 US
Dec 24, 2012
5-1/2 x 8-7/16
Paperback
352 Pages
G.P. Putnam's Sons

The Assistants
978-0-399-18517-5
Now in paperback, the debut novel that J. Courtney Sullivan calls "addictive, hilarious, and smart" and "the 9 to 5 for the student loan generation."
$16.00 US
May 02, 2017
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
304 Pages
G.P. Putnam's Sons

We That Are Young
A novel
978-0-525-56334-1
A stunning debut novel, a modern-day King Lear set in contemporary India--a battle for power, status, and the love of a megalomaniac father.
$18.00 US
Jul 30, 2019
5-3/16 x 8
Paperback
496 Pages
Vintage

King Lear
978-0-14-312855-7
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in dazzling new covers in time for the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death
$10.00 US
Mar 29, 2016
5-1/16 x 7-3/4
Paperback
192 Pages
Penguin Classics