The fall television schedule features South Orange resident Andre Braugher in "Last Resort," a new drama on Thursdays at 8 p.m. on ABC.

In the show, Braugher stars as a U.S. ballistic missile submarine commander whose vessel is stranded after he refused to attack Pakistan.

Early reviews have been raves, lauding Braugher's "smoldering intensity."

Braugher told The New York Times that he prepared for the role by reading. A partial list of the works Braugher read is below.

Odyssey, by Homer

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, by Caroline Alexander

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, by Caroline Alexander

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick

Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party, by George R. Stewart