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Reader's Digest Condensed Books was a series of hardcover anthology collections, published by the American general interest monthly family magazine Reader's Digest and distributed by direct mail . Most volumes contained five (although a considerable minority consisted of three, four, or six) current best-selling novels and nonfiction books which were abridged (or "condensed") specifically for Reader's Digest .[1] [2] The series was published from 1950 until 1997, when it was renamed Reader's Digest Select Editions .[3]
The series was popular; a 1987 New York Times article estimated annual sales of 10 million copies.[4] Despite this popularity, old copies are notoriously difficult to sell.[5] [6]
For much of their publication schedule, the volumes were issued four times each year. Each year the company produced a Volume 1 (winter), Volume 2 (spring), Volume 3 (summer), and Volume 4 (autumn). In later years they added a Volumes 5, and then a Volume 6, going to a bi-monthly schedule by the early 1990s. The series was produced for 47 years (1950–1997), until being renamed Reader's Digest Select Editions . (Note : UK editions seem to have been somewhat different from USA editions. Pre-1992 Canadian editions also contain different titles.)
Occasional books such as The Leopard (Summer 1960), The Days Were Too Short (Autumn 1960), and Papillon (Autumn 1970) were not published in English originally but were abridgments of translations. In some cases, advanced copies of the hardcover edition were printed in paperback form. In a few cases, new editions of older works (Up from Slavery , published originally in 1901 (Autumn 1960), A Roving Commission: My Early Life , published originally in 1930 (Autumn 1951) or Goodbye Mr. Chips , published originally in 1934 (Summer 1961)) were also among the condensed selections.
1950s [ ]
1950 [ ]
Volume 1 - Spring
The Show Must Go On - Elmer Rice
The Cry and the Covenant - Morton Thompson
Autobiography of Will Rogers - Donald Day, editor
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Volume 2 - Summer
Volume 3 - Autumn
1951 [ ]
Volume 4 - Winter
Anybody Can Do Anything - Betty MacDonald
Elephant Bill - Lt. Col. J. H. Williams
Signal Thirty-Two - MacKinlay Kantor
German Faces - and Henry Ries
Mischief - Charlotte Armstrong
Volume 5 - Spring
Blandings' way - Eric Hodgins
Operation Cicero - Ludwig Carl Moyzisch
Two Soldiers / from collected stories - William Faulkner
The Nymph and the Lamp - Thomas H. Raddall
Volume 6 - Summer
The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
Neither Five nor Three - Helen MacInnes
Old Herbaceous - Reginald Arkell
See How They Run - Don M. Mankiewicz
Volume 7 - Autumn
Fallen Away - Margaret Culkin Banning
Return to Paradise - James A. Michener
A Roving Commission: My Early Life - Winston S. Churchill
The Southwest Corner - Mildred Walker
The Arms of Venus - John Appleby
1952 [ ]
Volume 8 - Winter
Melville Goodwin, USA - John P. Marquand
The Cruel Sea - Nicholas Monsarrat
A Genius in the Family - Hiram Percy Maxim
"Monarch of Goddess Island" (The Plunderers ) - Georges Blond
To Catch a Thief - David Dodge
Volume 9 - Spring
Adventures in Two Worlds - A. J. Cronin
The Gabriel Horn -
Duveen - S. N. Behrman
"Kamante and Lulu" (Out of Africa ) - Isak Dinesen
East Side General - Frank G. Slaughter
Volume 10 - Summer
Volume 11 - Autumn
Matador - Barnaby Conrad
Witness - Whittaker Chambers
"The Law of the Jungle" (My India ) - Jim Corbett
The President's Lady - Irving Stone
1953 [ ]
Volume 12 - Winter
Hunter - J.A. Hunter
- Edna Ferber
Through Charley's Door - Emily Kimbrough
The Best Cartoons from Punch - Marvin Rosenberg & William Cole, editors
Island Rescue: An Appointment with Venus - Jerrard Tickell
Spring 1953 Selections
Black Widow - Patrick Quentin
The Silent World - Jacques-Yves Cousteau with Frédéric Dumas
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Karen - Marie Killilea
The Curve and The Tusk - Stuart Cloete
Volume 14 - Summer
Our Virgin Island - Robb White
A Bargain with God - Thomas Savage
Annapurna - Maurice Herzog
A Good Man -
The Intruder -
Volume 15 - Autumn
1954 [ ]
Volume 16 - Winter
Call Me Lucky: Bing Crosby's Own Story - Bing Crosby with Pete Martin
Too Late the Phalarope - Alan Paton
Time and Time Again - James Hilton
Heather Mary - J. M. Scott
Volume 17 - Spring
The Night of the Hunter - Davis Grubb
God and My Country - MacKinlay Kantor
Not as a Stranger - Morton Thompson
The Best Cartoons from France - Edna Bennett, collector
The Young Elizabeth - Jennette & Francis Letton
Volume 18 - Summer
The Desperate Hours - Joseph Hayes
General Dean's Story - William F. Dean with William L. Worden
Mr. Hobbs' Vacation - Edward Streeter
The Power and the Prize -
"The Duchess and the Smugs" (A Wreath for the Enemy ) - Pamela Frankau
Tomorrow! - Philip Wylie
Volume 19 - Autumn
1955 [ ]
Volume 20 - Winter
The Reason Why - Cecil Woodham-Smith
The China I Knew (My Several Worlds) - Pearl S. Buck
My Brother's Keeper - Marcia Davenport
Good Morning, Miss Dove - Frances Gray Patton
The Darby Trial -
Volume 22 - Summer
Man-Eater - Jim Corbett
The Actor - Niven Busch
Onions in the Stew - Betty MacDonald
The Captive City - John Appleby
The Missing Macleans -
The Searchers - Alan Le May
Volume 21 - Spring
Volume 23 - Autumn
1956 [ ]
Volume 24 - Winter
"The Secret of the Swamp" (Andersonville ) - MacKinlay Kantor
Island in the Sun - Alec Waugh
An Episode of Sparrows - Rumer Godden
Minding Our Own Business -
The Long Ride Home -
Volume 25 - Spring
Captain of the Queens - Captain Harry Grattidge with Richard Collier
Beloved - Viña Delmar
In My Father's House -
The Last Hurrah - Edwin O'Connor
Boon Island - Kenneth Roberts
Volume 26 - Summer
Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
Harry Black - David Walker
The Greer Case - David W. Peck
A Thing of Beauty - A. J. Cronin
A Single Pebble - John Hersey
Volume 27 - Autumn
1957 [ ]
Volume 28 - Winter
- Marrijane & Joseph Hayes
The Tribe That Lost Its Head - Nicholas Monsarrat
The Philadelphian - Richard Powell
A Family Party - John O'Hara
Stopover: Tokyo - John P. Marquand
Volume 29 - Spring
Volume 30 - Summer
The Lady - Conrad Richter
A Houseful of Love -
The Three Faces of Eve - Dr. Corbett H. Thigpen , MD & Dr. Hervey M. Cleckley , MD
Letter from Peking - Pearl S. Buck
The FBI Story - Don Whitehead
"Mission to Borneo" (The Spiral Road ) - Jan de Hartog
Volume 31 - Autumn
1958 [ ]
Volume 32 - Winter
The Green Helmet - Jon Cleary
Dunbar's Cove - Borden Deal
The Twentieth Maine -
Life at Happy Knoll - John P. Marquand
The Horsecatcher - Mari Sandoz
Sharks and Little Fish - Wolfgang Ott
Volume 33 - Spring
Big Caesar - Charlton Ogburn, Jr.
The Winthrop Woman - Anya Seton
The Counterfeit Traitor -
The Man Who Broke Things - John Brooks
Murder on My Street - Edwin Lanham
Volume 34 - Summer
Volume 35 - Autumn
Preacher's Kids -
The Steel Cocoon -
Women and Thomas Harrow - John P. Marquand
Green Mansions - W. H. Hudson
Tether's End - Margery Allingham
1959 [ ]
Volume 36 - Winter
Volume 37 - Spring
The Secret Project of Sigurd O'Leary -
Dear and Glorious Physician - Taylor Caldwell
Collision Course -
Jungle Girl - John Moore
Epitaph for an Enemy -
Volume 38 - Summer
The Lion - Joseph Kessel
The Light Infantry Ball - Hamilton Basso
A Rockefeller Family Portrait - William Manchester
"Trail to Abilene" (Born of the Sun ) -
The Big X - Hank Searls
Volume 39 - Autumn
"West Wind to Hawaii" (Hawaii ) - James A. Michener
Advise and Consent - Allen Drury
The Miracle of Merriford - Reginald Arkell
Act One: An Autobiography - Moss Hart
Flight from Ashiya - Elliott Arnold
1960s [ ]
1960 [ ]
Volume 40 - Winter
Volume 41 - Spring
The Final Diagnosis - Arthur Hailey
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to New York - Paul Gallico
Strangers in the Forest - Carol Brink
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Wolfpack -
Volume 42 - Summer
The Lovely Ambition - Mary Ellen Chase
Trustee from the Toolroom - Nevil Shute
The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Village of Stars - Paul Stanton
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Volume 43 - Autumn
Surface at the Pole - Commander James F. Calvert , USN
The Devil's Advocate - Morris L. West
Up from Slavery - Booker T. Washington
"Hook" (The Watchful Gods and Other Stories ) - Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Mistress of Mellyn - Victoria Holt
The Days Were Too Short - Marcel Pagnol
1961 [ ]
Volume 44 - Winter
Volume 45 - Spring
Fate Is the Hunter - Ernest K. Gann
Peaceable Lane -
Madame Curie - Ève Curie
Evil Come, Evil Go - Whit Masterson
The 'Mozart' Leaves at Nine -
Volume 46 - Summer
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
The Making of the President, 1960 - Theodore H. White
"A Lodging for the Emperor" (Japanese Inn ) -
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton
Volume 47 - Autumn
1962 [ ]
Volume 48 - Winter
Spencer's Mountain - Earl Hamner, Jr.
A Prologue to Love - Taylor Caldwell
A Time to Stand - Walter Lord
Give It Back to the Lemongrowers! -
Kirkland Revels - Victoria Holt
Volume 49 - Spring
Captain Newman, MD - Leo Rosten
Devil Water - Anya Seton
The Story of San Michele - Axel Munthe
Nine Hours to Rama - Stanley Wolpert
Watchers at the Pond -
Volume 50 - Summer
The Tuntsa - with Elizabeth Maddox McCabe
Youngblood Hawke - Herman Wouk
"Carol" (The Blood of the Lamb ) - Peter De Vries
Since You Ask Me - Ann Landers
Star-Raker - Donald Gordon
Volume 51 - Autumn
1963 [ ]
Volume 52 - Winter
Second Growth - Ruth Moore
To Catch an Angel: Adventures in the World I Cannot See -
I Take This Land - Richard Powell
America, America - Elia Kazan
"Hell Creek Crossing" (The Reivers ) - William Faulkner
Two Hours to Darkness - Antony Trew
Volume 53 - Spring
A River Ran Out of Eden - James Vance Marshall
Escape from Red China - Robert Loh with Humphrey Evans
The Surgeon - W. C. Heinz
Smith and Jones - Nicholas Monsarrat
To Sir, With Love - E. R. Braithwaite
...and presumed dead - Lucille Fletcher
Volume 54 - Summer
The Artist - Jan de Hartog
The Shoes of the Fisherman - Morris L. West
The Moonflower Vine - Jetta Carleton
Florence Nightingale - Cecil Woodham-Smith
The Wild Grapes - Barbara Jefferis
Volume 55 - Autumn
The Tilsit Inheritance - Catherine Gaskin
Stranger to the Ground - Richard Bach
Of Good and Evil - Ernest K. Gann
When the Legends Die - Hal Borland
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita - Rumer Godden
1964 [ ]
Volume 56 - Winter
Volume 57 - Spring
Too Young to Be a Grandfather -
When the Cheering Stopped -
I Was Dancing - Edwin O'Connor
Alone - Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
The Hand of Mary Constable - Paul Gallico
Nerve - Dick Francis
Volume 58 - Summer
Father to the Man -
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carré
"Gold Fever" (When the Lion Feeds ) - Wilbur A. Smith
The Vine and the Olive - Margaret Culkin Banning
The Flight of the Phoenix - Elleston Trevor
Volume 59 - Autumn
A Song of Sixpence - A.J. Cronin
Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel, Soviet Master Spy - James B. Donovan
Three Blind Mice - Agatha Christie
Episode - Eric Hodgins
The Island - Robert Merle
1965 [ ]
Volume 60 - Winter
The Sea Flower - Ruth Moore
The Man - Irving Wallace
A Ship Called Hope - William B. Walsh , MD
The Third Day - Joseph Hayes
The Land Breakers - John Ehle
Volume 61 - Spring
A Journey to Boston - Mary Ellen Chase
"Hotel St. Gregory" (Hotel ) - Arthur Hailey
A Pillar of Iron - Taylor Caldwell
Eighth Moon - Sansan with Bette Lord
The Ashes of Loda - Andrew Garve
Volume 62 - Summer
May You Die in Ireland - Michael Kenyon
Intern - Dr. X
The Source - James A. Michener
Night of Camp David - Fletcher Knebel
A House of Many Rooms -
Volume 63 - Autumn
1966 [ ]
Volume 64 - Winter
Outpost of Freedom - Captain Roger H. C. Donlon with Warren Rogers
The Double Image - Helen MacInnes
The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Century of the Detective - Jürgen Thorwald
"The Way of the Eagle" (The Last Eagle ) - Daniel P. Mannix
So This Is What Happened to Charlie Moe - Douglass Wallop
Volume 65 - Spring
Hall of Mirrors -
Avalon - Anya Seton
Children of Hope -
Congo Kitabu - Jean-Pierre Hallet with
Power Play - The Gordons
Volume 66 - Summer
Rafe -
Churchill: The Struggle for Survival - Lord Moran
Here Come the Brides -
The Ninety and Nine - William Brinkley
Menfreya in the Morning - Victoria Holt
Volume 67 - Autumn
Don Quixote, U.S.A. - Richard Powell
All in the Family - Edwin O'Connor
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry - Harry Kemelman
The Gift of the Deer - Helen Hoover
Brothers of the Sea -
1967 [ ]
Volume 68 - Winter
Volume 69 - Spring
My Boy John That Went to Sea - James Vance Marshall
One Summer in Between -
The Broken Seal - Ladislas Farago
Dibs in Search of Self - Virginia Axline
The Road - John Ehle
Sally - E. V. Cunningham
Volume 70 - Summer
The Princess - Gunnar Mattsson
At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends - Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Least One - Borden Deal
Currahee! - Donald R. Burgett
The Walking Stick - Winston Graham
Volume 71 - Autumn
1968 [ ]
Volume 72 - Winter
Edge of Glass - Catherine Gaskin
Great Elephant - Alan Scholefield
Color from a Light Within -
The Kitchen Madonna - Rumer Godden
Vanished - Fletcher Knebel
Volume 73 - Spring
The New Year - Pearl S. Buck
The Tower of Babel - Morris L. West
Airport - Arthur Hailey
To the Top of the World - Charles Kuralt
The Bait - Dorothy Uhnak
Volume 74 - Summer
Once Upon an Island - David Conover
Bush Baby - Martin Woodhouse
The Queen's Confession - Victoria Holt
Leafy Rivers - Jessamyn West
The Crossbreed - Allan W. Eckert
Volume 75 - Autumn
The Johnstown Flood - David G. McCullough
Once an Eagle - Anton Myrer
Ammie, Come Home - Barbara Michaels
Gone: A Trio of Short Stories - Rumer Godden
Sarang - Roger A. Caras
1969 [ ]
Volume 76 - Winter
Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms - John Ball
The Hurricane Years - Cameron Hawley
The Wine and the Music - William E. Barrett
On Reflection - Helen Hayes with Sandford Dody
The Black Ship - Paul & Sheila Mandel
Volume 77 - Spring
The Two of Us - Claude Berri
Bichu the Jaguar - Alan Caillou
The Minister -
Mayo: The Story of My Family and My Career - Dr. Charles W. Mayo
Torregreca -
April Morning - Howard Fast
Volume 78 - Summer
A Place in the Woods - Helen Hoover
The Death Committee - Noah Gordon
The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson - Thomas Fleming
The Three Daughters of Madame Liang - Pearl S. Buck
Snatch - Rennie Airth
Volume 79 - Autumn
The King's Pleasure - Norah Lofts
The Day the World Ended - Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. - Coretta Scott King
In This House of Brede - Rumer Godden
The Black Camels -
1970s [ ]
1970 [ ]
Volume 80 - Winter
Waiting for Willa - Dorothy Eden
A Walk to the Hills of the Dreamtime - James Vance Marshall
T.R. - Noel B. Gerson
Heartsblood -
The Witness - Dorothy Uhnak
Volume 81 - Spring
Kim: A Gift from Vietnam -
Bless the Beasts & Children - Glendon Swarthout
Great Lion of God - Taylor Caldwell
I Chose Prison - James V. Bennett
Fiona - Catherine Gaskin
Volume 82 - Summer
Operation Sippacik - Rumer Godden
The Secret Woman - Victoria Holt
Christiaan Barnard - One Life - Christiaan Barnard & Curtis Bill Pepper
The Song of Bernadette - Franz Werfel
The Shattered Dream -
Volume 83 - Autumn
Lone Woman - Dorothy Clarke Wilson
The Homecoming - Earl Hamner, Jr.
Papillon - Henri Charrière
Whitewater - Paul Horgan
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman
1971 [ ]
Volume 84 - Winter
The Crossing - Howard Fast
Kinds of Love - May Sarton
The Antagonists - Ernest K. Gann
Love Story - Erich Segal
Another Part of the House -
Volume 85 - Spring
Halic: The Story of a Gray Seal - Ewan Clarkson
Time and Again - Jack Finney
Six-Horse Hitch - Janice Holt Giles
Bomber - Len Deighton
A Woman in the House - Wm. E. Barrett
Volume 86 - Summer
The White Dawn - James Houston
Risk -
Lifeboat Number Two - Margaret Culkin Banning
Because I Loved Him: The Life and Loves of Lillie Langtry - Noel B. Gerson
The Sea of Grass - Conrad Richter
The Possession of Joel Delaney - Ramona Stewart
Volume 87 - Autumn
A Timeless Place -
The San Francisco Earthquake - Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts
Wheels - Arthur Hailey
People I Have Loved, Known or Admired - Leo Rosten
Summer of the Red Wolf - Morris West
1972 [ ]
Volume 88 - Winter
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman
The Winds of War - Herman Wouk
The Runaways - Victor Canning
Volume 89 - Spring
Wild Goose, Brother Goose -
Event 1000 -
Bring Me a Unicorn - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Hearts -
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
Volume 90 - Summer
A Falcon for a Queen - Catherine Gaskin
Meeting With a Great Beast - Leonard Wibberley
Blockbuster - Gerald Green
The Shape of Illusion - Wm. E.Barrett
Duel in the Snow -
Volume 91 - Autumn
The Waltz Kings: Johann Strauss, Father & Son , and Their Romantic Age -
The Terminal Man - Michael Crichton
The Dwelling Place - Catherine Cookson
A World to Care For - Howard A. Rusk , MD
The Hessian - Howard Fast
1973 [ ]
Volume 92 - #1
Volume 93 - #2
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman
The Camerons - Robert Crichton
The Japanese -
Green Darkness - Anya Seton
Volume 94 - #3
Sadie Shapiro's Knitting Book - Robert Kimmel Smith
The Years of the Forest - Helen Hoover
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three - John Godey
The Curse of the Kings - Victoria Holt
Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian - Richard Hough
Volume 95 - #4
La Balsa: The Longest Raft Voyage in History - Vital Alsar with Enrique Hank Lopez
The Sunbird - Wilbur Smith
State Trooper - Noel B. Gerson
The Search for Anna Fisher -
Mrs. Starr Lives Alone - Jon Godden
Volume 96 - #5
All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot
The Salamander - Morris West
A Thousand Summers - Garson Kanin
Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle - Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
1974 [ ]
Volume 97 - #1
The Tower - Richard Martin Stern
Incident at Hawk's Hill - Allan W. Eckert
Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir - Stewart Alsop
The Mountain Farm - Ernest Raymond
The Thirteenth Trick - Russell Braddon
Volume 98 - #2
A Member of the Family -
The Kappillan of Malta - Nicholas Monsarrat
In Darkness -
Jaws - Peter Benchley
Volume 99 - #3
The Will of Magda Townsend - Margaret Culkin Banning
Forever Island - Patrick D. Smith
Thirty-Four East - Alfred Coppel
The Diddakoi - Rumer Godden
Lion in the Evening - Alan Scholefield
Volume 100 - #4
The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun - Paul Gallico
The Good Shepherd - Thomas Fleming
The Property of a Gentleman - Catherine Gaskin
His Majesty's U-Boat - Douglas Reeman
Volume 101 - #5
The Other Room - Borden Deal
The Dogs of War - Frederick Forsyth
All Things Bright and Beautiful - James Herriot
Malevil - Robert Merle
A Daughter of Zion -
1975 [ ]
Volume 102 - #1
Our John Willie - Catherine Cookson
Centennial - James A. Michener
Harlequin - Morris West
Eric -
Volume 103 - #2
Lost! - Thomas Thompson
Baker's Hawk - Jack Bickham
The Physicians - Henry Denker
God and Mr. Gomez -
Eagle in the Sky - Wilbur Smith
Volume 104 - #3
Mrs. 'arris Goes to Moscow - Paul Gallico
The Moneychangers - Arthur Hailey
The Massacre at Fall Creek - Jessamyn West
Collision -
Volume 105 - #4
Where are the Children? - Mary Higgins Clark
Earthsound - Arthur Herzog
The Eagle Has Landed - Jack Higgins
Daylight Must Come - Alan Burgess
The Wind at Morning - James Vance Marshall
Volume 106 - #5
Lord of the Far Island - Victoria Holt
Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulag - Alexander Dolgun with Patrick Watson
Minnie Santangelo's Mortal Sin - Anthony Mancini
A Sporting Proposition - James Aldridge
Power - Richard Martin Stern
1976 [ ]
Volume 107 - #1
Volume 108 - #2
The Hostage Heart - Gerald Green
They Came to Stay - Marjorie Margolies & Ruth Gruber
The Tide of Life - Catherine Cookson
Swan Watch - Budd Schulberg
Drummer in the Dark - Francis Clifford
Volume 109 - #3
Volume 110 - #4
The Distant Summer -
The Olmec Head - David Westheimer
The Matthew Tree -
The Splendid Torments - Margaret Culkin Banning
Harry's Game - Gerald Seymour
Volume 111 - #5
The Pride of the Peacock - Victoria Holt
"Bobbitt" - Thomas Tryon
The Experiment - Henry Denker
Ordinary People - Judith Guest
Storm Warning - Jack Higgins
1977 [ ]
Volume 112 - #1
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari - Dorothy Gilman
The R Document - Irving Wallace
Home Before Dark -
The Glory Boys - Gerald Seymour
The Spuddy - Lillian Beckwith
Volume 113 - #2
The Slow Awakening - Catherine Marchant
19 Steps Up the Mountain -
Ghost Fox - James Houston
In the Frame - Dick Francis
Volume 114 - #3
Tisha -
The Dragon - Alfred Coppel
Oliver's Story - Erich Segal
Majesty - Robert Lacey
Overboard - Hank Searls
Volume 115 - #4
- Phyllis Whitney
Enola Gay - Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan Witts
- Robert Kimmel Smith
The Scofield Diagnosis - Henry Denker
Volume 116 - #5
The Melodeon - Glendon Swarthout
Full Disclosure - William Safire
Bel Ria - Sheila Burnford
Chase the Wind - E. V. Thompson
The Fan -
1978 [ ]
Volume 117 - #1
Snowbound Six - Richard Martin Stern
The Summer of the Spanish Woman - Catherine Gaskin
Elephants in the Living Room, Bears in the Canoe - Earl & Liz Hammond with Elizabeth Levy
Arrest Sitting Bull - Douglas C. Jones
I Can Jump Puddles - Alan Marshall
Volume 118 - #2
Jaws 2 - Hank Searls
The Education of Little Tree - Forrest Carter
The Practice - Dr. Alan E. Nourse
Excellency - David Beaty
Volume 119 - #3
A Stranger is Watching - Mary Higgins Clark
The Miracle of Dommatina -
The Last Convertible - Anton Myrer
Such a Life -
Volume 120 - #4
My Enemy the Queen - Victoria Holt
The Good Old Boys - Elmer Kelton
By the Rivers of Babylon - Nelson DeMille
Breakpoint - William Brinkley
Volume 121 - #5
Summer Lightning -
Tara Kane - George Markstein
Flight into Danger - Arthur Hailey & John Castle
Raquela; A Woman Of Israel - Ruth Gruber
The Snake - John Godey
1979 [ ]
Volume 122 - #1
Volume 123 - #2
Dinah, Blow Your Horn - Jack Bickham
War and Remembrance - Herman Wouk
How I Got to be Perfect - Jean Kerr
Volume 124 - #3
Sunflower -
Running Proud - Nicholas Monsarrat
Error of Judgment - Henry Denker
A Walk Across America - Peter Jenkins
Volume 125 - #4
Sphinx - Robin Cook
Cold is the Sea - Capt. Edward L. Beach
Words by Heart -
The North Runner - R. D. Lawrence
Intruder -
Volume 126 - #5
Hungry as the Sea - Wilbur Smith
The Tightrope Walker - Dorothy Gilman
The Passing Bells - Phillip Rock
Flesh and Spirit -
1980s [ ]
1980 [ ]
Volume 127 - #1
Domino - Phyllis Whitney
Passage West -
Horowitz and Mrs. Washington - Henry Denker
To Catch a King - Harry Patterson
Volume 128 - #2
Emma and I - Sheila Hocken
The Devil's Alternative - Frederick Forsyth
The Capricorn Stone - Madeleine Brent
Flood - Richard Martin Stern
Volume 129 – M
Amanda/Miranda - Richard Peck
Ice Brothers - Sloan Wilson
The Small Outsider -
The Silver Falcon - Evelyn Anthony
Volume 130 - #3
Thursday's Child -
Random Winds - Belva Plain
A Very Private War - Jon Cleary
Control Tower - Robert P. Davis
Volume 131 - #4
Sadie Shapiro, Matchmaker - Robert Kimmel Smith
The Cradle Will Fall - Mary Higgins Clark
Man, Woman and Child - Erich Segal
Bess and Harry : An American Love Story -
The Wolf and the Buffalo - Elmer Kelton
Volume 132 - #5
No Job for a Lady - , V.M.D.
The Key to Rebecca - Ken Follett
The Old Neighborhood - Avery Corman
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino -
The Gold of Troy - Robert L. Fish
1981 [ ]
Volume 133 - #1
The Aviator - Ernest K. Gann
The Covenant - James A. Michener
Hope - Richard Meryman
Bullet Train - &
Volume 134 - #2
One Child - Torey Hayden
Banners of Silk -
The Gentle Jungle -
Reflex - Dick Francis
Volume 135 – M
Lincoln's Mothers: A Story of Nancy and Sally Lincoln - Dorothy Clarke Wilson
The Last Step - Rick Ridgeway
All the Days were Summer - Jack M. Bickham
Flight to Landfall - G.M. Glaskin
Volume 136 - #3
Still Missing - Beth Gutcheon
A Princess in Berlin - Arthur Solmssen
The Warfield Syndrome - Henry Denker
The Dam - Robert Byrne
Volume 137 - #4
- James Herriot
An Exceptional Marriage -
Texas Dawn -
Crossing in Berlin - Fletcher Knebel
Volume 138 - #5
Vermilion - Phyllis Whitney
Totaled - &
Ike and Mamie : The Story of the General and His Lady - &
The Dark Horse - Rumer Godden
Fortress - Gabrielle Lord
1982 [ ]
Volume 139 - #1
Through the Narrow Gate - Karen Armstrong
Noble House - James Clavell
The Judas Kiss - Victoria Holt
Volume 140 - #2
Alone Against the Atlantic - Gerry Spiess (with Marlin Bree)
A Green Desire - Anton Myrer
Going Wild: Adventures of a Zoo Vet - David Taylor
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz - A. E. Hotchner
Volume 141 - M
Fever - Robin Cook
The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2 - Peter Jenkins
Gilded Splendour -
Twice Shy - Dick Francis
Volume 142 - #3
Volume 143 - #4
Flanagan's Run - Tom McNab
A Parting Gift -
The Big Bridge - Richard Martin Stern
Last Quadrant - Meira Chand
Volume 144 - #5
Jane's House - Robert Kimmel Smith
China: Alive In The Bitter Sea - Fox Butterfield
Promises - Catherine Gaskin
Outrage - Henry Denker
1983 [ ]
Volume 145 - #1
A Cry in the Night - Mary Higgins Clark
Indian Summer of the Heart - Daisy Newman
Touch the Devil - Jack Higgins
The Winter of the White Seal - Marie Herbert
Volume 146 - #2
Pacific Interlude - Sloan Wilson
The Whip - Catherine Cookson
Open Heart -
Banker - Dick Francis
Volume 147 - M
The Girl of the Sea of Cortez - Peter Benchley
Jedder's Land -
Run Before the Wind - Stuart Woods
Impressionist: A Novel of Mary Cassatt -
Volume 148 - #3
Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station - Dorothy Gilman
The Brea File -
Growing Up - Russell Baker
Octavia's Hill - Margaret Dickson
Volume 149 - #4
The Secret Annie Oakley -
Talk Down -
Jewelled Path -
A Solitary Dance -
Volume 150 - #5
Godplayer - Robin Cook
The Suitcases -
The Time of the Hunter's Moon - Victoria Holt
Stalking Point - Duncan Kyle
1984 [ ]
Volume 151 - #1
The Children's Game - David Wise
Beyond All Frontiers - Emma Drummond
The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford
From This Day Forward -
Volume 152 - #2
Arnie, The Darling Starling - &
Night Sky - Clare Francis
The Canyon - Jack Schaefer
If We Could Hear the Grass Grow -
Volume 153 - M
The Cop and The Kid - William Fox with
Tiger, Tiger - Philip Caveney
Kincaid - Henry Denker
The Whale of the Victoria Cross - Pierre Boulle
Volume 154 - #3
Skyscraper - Robert Byrne
A Shine of Rainbows - Lillian Beckwith
The Reckoning -
Lady Washington - Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Volume 155 - #4
Nop's Trials - Donald McCaig
Lee and Grant -
Murder and the First Lady - Elliott Roosevelt
Jennie About To Be - Elisabeth Ogilvie
Volume 156 - #5
Hanna and Walter - &
Stormswift - Madeleine Brent
The Sound of Wings -
Surprise Party - William Katz
1985 [ ]
Volume 157 - #1
Lovestrong - , MD &
Stillwatch - Mary Higgins Clark
Crescent City - Belva Plain
The Wild Children -
Volume 158 - #2
Julie - Catherine Marshall
Strong Medicine - Arthur Hailey
Polsinney Harbour -
Proof - Dick Francis
Volume 159 - M
The State of Stony Lonesome - Jessamyn West
At The Going Down of the Sun -
Callanish - William Horwood
Find a Safe Place - &
Volume 160 - #3
In Love and War - Jim & Sybil Stockdale
Ringo, the Robber Raccoon -
This Giving Heart -
- Warren Adler
Volume 161 - #4
Robert, My Son - Henry Denker
The Bannaman Legacy - Catherine Cookson
The Cheetahs - Alan Caillou
This Shining Land -
Volume 162 - #5
Voices on the Wind - Evelyn Anthony
Trauma - &
The Donkey's Gift -
The Double Man - William Cohen & Gary Hart
1986 [ ]
Volume 163 - #1
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha - Dorothy Gilman
Wildfire - Richard Martin Stern
Arnie & a House Full of Company - &
Take Away One -
The Two Farms -
Volume 164 - #2
An Ark on the Flood -
The Seventh Secret - Irving Wallace
Come Spring -
Break In - Dick Francis
Volume 165 - M
Deep Lie - Stuart Woods
Bess W. Truman : An American Courtship - Margaret Truman
In A Place Dark and Secret -
The Summer of the Barshinskeys - Diane Pearson
Volume 166 - #3
Lie Down with Lions - Ken Follett
Tree of Gold -
The Deep End - Joy Fielding
Cry Wild - R. D. Lawrence
Volume 167 - #4
Volume 168 - #5
The Judgment -
Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
Unnatural Causes - Mark Olshaker
Queen Dolley - Dorothy Clarke Wilson
1987 [ ]
Volume 169 - #1
A Matter of Honor - Jeffrey Archer
The Golden Cup - Belva Plain
Stepping Down from the Star -
A Deadly Presence -
Volume 170 - #2
A Place To Hide - Evelyn Anthony
A Time For Heroes -
East and West - Gerald Green
Nightshade -
Volume 171 - M
Volume 172 - #3
Bolt - Dick Francis
The Night Lives On - Walter Lord
The Choice - Henry Denker
The Ladies of Missalonghi - Colleen McCullough
Night of the Fox - Jack Higgins
Volume 173 - #4
Volume 174 - #5
Patriot Games - Tom Clancy
Snow on the Wind - Hugh Miller
Memoirs of an Invisible Man - H. F. Saint
The Man Who Rode Midnight - Elmer Kelton
1988 [ ]
Volume 175 - #1
Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle - Dorothy Gilman
Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmoody with
The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall - Ridley Pearson
O Come Ye Back to Ireland - Niall Williams &
Volume 176 - #2
Hot Money - Dick Francis
Jenny's Mountain -
Trespass -
Sara Dane - Catherine Gaskin
Volume 177 - M
Wolf Winter - Clare Francis
Johnnie Alone - Elizabeth Webster
Man With a Gun - Robert Daley
Winner -
Volume 178 - #3
Mortal Fear - Robin Cook
Just Another Kid - Torey Hayden
Rockets' Red Glare -
Brownstone Facade -
Volume 179 - #4
Tsunami - Richard Martin Stern
The Harrogate Secret - Catherine Cookson
The Charm School - Nelson DeMille
A Walk in the Dark -
Volume 180 - #5
The India Fan - Victoria Holt
Mannequin - Robert Byrne
Lady of No Man's Land -
Wildtrack - Bernard Cornwell
1989 [ ]
Volume 181 - #1
A Gift of Life - Henry Denker
Daddy - Loup Durand
Norman Rockwell 's Greatest Painting -
Murder in the Oval Office - Elliott Roosevelt
Volume 182 - #2
Volume 183 - M
Doctors - Erich Segal
Gracie - George Burns
The Giant's Shadow -
The Toothache Tree -
Volume 184 - #3
Morning Glory - LaVyrle Spencer
Toy Soldiers -
Trail -
Prospect - Bill Littlefield
Volume 185 - #4
Volume 186 - #5
Killer's Wake - Bernard Cornwell
Blessings - Belva Plain
Grass Roots - Stuart Woods
Alice and Edith - Dorothy Clarke Wilson
1990s [ ]
1990 [ ]
Volume 187 - #1
Tiebreaker - Jack Bickham
What was Good About Today -
California Gold - John Jakes
Monkeys on the Interstate - Jack Hanna w/
Volume 188 - #2
Straight - Dick Francis
No Roof But Heaven -
The Evening News - Arthur Hailey
The Courtship of Peggy McCoy -
Volume 189 - M
The Lady of the Labyrinth -
The Himmler Equation -
Flying Free -
A Time to Love -
Volume 190 - #3
Harmful Intent - Robin Cook
The Flight of the Swan - Elizabeth Webster
The Estuary Pilgrim -
Manifest Destiny - Brian Garfield
Volume 191 - #4
Cold Harbour - Jack Higgins
Circle of Pearls -
The Bear - James Oliver Curwood
Finders Keepers -
Volume 192 - #5
harvest -
Purpose of Evasion -
Snare of Serpents - Victoria Holt
Coyote Waits - Tony Hillerman
1991 [ ]
Volume 193 - #1
Trial - Clifford Irving
September - Rosamunde Pilcher
The White Puma - R. D. Lawrence
Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish - Dorothy Gilman
Volume 194 - #2
Longshot - Dick Francis
The Women in His Life - Barbara Taylor Bradford
Crackdown - Bernard Cornwell
Something to Hide -
Volume 195 - #3
The Firm - John Grisham
Payment in Full - Henry Denker
Final Approach - John J. Nance
Home Ground -
Volume 196 - #4
As the Crow Flies - Jeffrey Archer
Home Mountain -
MacKinnon's Machine -
Seal Morning - Rowena Farre
Volume 197 - #5
Volume 198 - #6
Loves Music, Loves to Dance - Mary Higgins Clark
Lost and Found - Marilyn Harris
Condition Black - Gerald Seymour
Escape Into Light - Elizabeth Webster
1992 [ ]
Volume 199 - #1
Night Over Water - Ken Follett
Doctor on Trial - Henry Denker
Beast - Peter Benchley
Dear Family -
Volume 200 - #2
Comeback - Dick Francis
Scarlett - Alexandra Ripley
The Deceiver - Frederick Forsyth
Volume 201 - #3
Acts of Faith - Erich Segal
Hard Fall - Ridley Pearson
Bygones - LaVyrle Spencer
The Stormy Petrel - Mary Stewart
Volume 202 - #4
Such Devoted Sisters -
Rules of Encounter -
The Love Child - Catherine Cookson
American Gothic -
Volume 203 - #5
The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
Treasures - Belva Plain
Eye of the Storm - Jack Higgins
The Island Harp -
Volume 204 - #6
Tangled Vines - Janet Dailey
Stalk -
Anna - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The Leading Lady - Betty White &
1993 [ ]
Volume 205 - #1
Every Living Thing - James Herriot
All Around the Town - Mary Higgins Clark
Colony - Anne Rivers Siddons
Death Penalty - William J. Coughlin
Volume 206 - #2
Driving Force - Dick Francis
Sotah - Naomi Ragen
The Doll's House - Evelyn Anthony
The Bears and I -
Volume 207 - #3
Mrs. Washington and Horowitz, Too - Henry Denker
Point of Impact - Stephen Hunter
November of the Heart - LaVyrle Spencer
Shooting Script -
Volume 208 - #4
The Client - John Grisham
Sweet Water - Christina Baker Kline
Slow Through Eden -
The Longest Road -
Volume 209 - #5
Thunder Point - Jack Higgins
The Venetian Mask -
Final Argument - Clifford Irving
Whispers - Belva Plain
Volume 210 - #6
- Lillian Jackson Braun
Homeland - John Jakes
Tell Me No Secrets - Joy Fielding
1994 [ ]
Volume 211 - #1
I'll Be Seeing You - Mary Higgins Clark
Honour Among Thieves - Jeffrey Archer
Alex Haley's Queen - Alex Haley with David Stevens
Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief - Dorothy Gilman
Volume 212 - #2
Without Remorse - Tom Clancy
The Old House at Railes -
Decider - Dick Francis
King of the Hill - A. E. Hotchner
Volume 213 - #3
A Dangerous Fortune - Ken Follett
The Select - F. Paul Wilson
Rivers of Gold -
Hardscape - Justin Scott
Volume 214 - #4
Volume 215 - #5
Volume 216 - #6
Hidden Riches - Nora Roberts
Phoenix Rising - John Nance
Roommates - Max Apple
White Harvest -
1995 [ ]
Volume 217 - #1
Volume 218 - #2
Tiger's Child - Torey Hayden
Heat - Stuart Woods
This Child is Mine - Henry Denker
Wall of Brass - Robert Daley
Volume 219 - #3
Prizes - Erich Segal
Secret Missions - Michael Gannon
Eyes of a Child - Richard North Patterson
More Than Meets the Eye - &
Volume 220 - #4
Acceptable Risk - Robin Cook
Local Rules -
Salem Street - Anna Jacobs
Fast Forward -
Volume 221 - #5
The Rainmaker - John Grisham
The Carousel - Belva Plain
Wedding Night -
Cloud Shadows - Elizabeth Webster
Volume 222 - #6
Let Me Call You Sweetheart - Mary Higgins Clark
Children of the Dust - Clancy Carlile
Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion-Killer - Dorothy Gilman
The Magic Bullet - Harry Stein
1996 [ ]
Volume 223 - #1
Volume 224 - #2
Come To Grief - Dick Francis
Coming Home - Rosamunde Pilcher
Blaze -
That Camden Summer - LaVyrle Spencer
Volume 225 - #3
The Final Judgment - Richard North Patterson
Nathan's Run - John Gilstrap
Dance of the Scarecrows -
Implant - F. Paul Wilson
Volume 226 - #4
Volume 227 - #5
The Zero Hour - Joseph Finder
Rose - Martin Cruz Smith
A Place For Kathy - Henry Denker
The Judge - Steve Martini
Volume 228 - #6
Moonlight Becomes You - Mary Higgins Clark
The Outsider - Penelope Williamson
Harvest - Tess Gerritsen
The Falconer -
1997 [ ]
Volume 229 - #1
The Runaway Jury - John Grisham
Critical Judgment - Michael Palmer
Icon - Frederick Forsyth
Capitol Offense - Senator Barbara Mikulski &
Volume 230 - #2
The Third Twin - Ken Follett
Small Town Girl - LaVyrle Spencer
To the Hilt - Dick Francis
The Burning Man - Phillip Margolin
Volume 231 - #3
Volume 232 - #4
The Escape Artist - Diane Chamberlain
Airframe - Michael Crichton
Weeding Out the Tears - with
Infinity's Child - Harry Stein
These 1997 volumes were also published as Reader's Digest Select Editions , and all succeeding volumes were published as Reader's Digest Select Editions.
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