''Reader's Digest Condensed Books'' was a series of hardcover

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collections, published by the American general interest monthly family magazine ''

Reader's Digest ''Reader's Digest'' is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in midtown Manhattan. The magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and his wi ...

'' and distributed by

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. 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''. The series was published from 1950 until 1997, when it was renamed ''

Reader's Digest Select Editions The ''Reader's Digest Select Editions'' are a series of hardcover fiction anthology books, published bi-monthly and available by subscription, from ''Reader's Digest''. Each volume consists of four or five current bestselling novels selected by '' ...

''. The series was popular; a 1987 ''New York Times'' article estimated annual sales of 10 million copies. Despite this popularity, old copies are notoriously difficult to sell. Despite the series' ubiquity, scholarly attention has been sparse. 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 ''

''. (''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 ''The Leopard'' ( it, Il Gattopardo ) is a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the ''Risorgimento''. Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the ...

'' (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

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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 ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' is a novella about the life of a school teacher, Mr. Chipping, written by English writer James Hilton and first published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 1934. It has been adapted into two feature films and two tele ...

'', published originally in 1934 (Summer 1961)) were also among the condensed selections.

1950s

1950

Volume 1 - Spring * ''The Show Must Go On'' -

Elmer Rice Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, September 28, 1892 – May 8, 1967) was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays ''The Adding Machine'' (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, '' Street Sce ...

* ''

The Cry and the Covenant ''The Cry and the Covenant'' is a novel by Morton Thompson written in 1949 and published by Doubleday (publisher), Doubleday. The novel is a fictionalized story of Ignaz Semmelweis, an Austria-Hungary, Austrian-Hungarian physician known for his r ...

'' - Morton Thompson * ''Autobiography of

Will Rogers William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma ...

'' - Donald Day, editor * ''

Cry, the Beloved Country ''Cry, the Beloved Country'' is a 1948 novel by South African writer Alan Paton. Set in the prelude to apartheid in South Africa, it follows a black village priest and a white farmer who must deal with news of a murder. American publisher Benn ...

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Alan Paton Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels ''Cry, the Beloved Country'' and '' Too Late the Phalarope''. Family Paton was born in Pietermaritzbu ...

Volume 2 - Summer * ''

The Wooden Horse ''The Wooden Horse'' is a 1950 British Second World War war film directed by Jack Lee and starring Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steel. It is based on the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay. The f ...

'' –

Eric Williams Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician who is regarded by some as the "Father of the Nation", having led the then British Trinidad and Tobago, British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to m ...

* ''Home Town'' –

Cleveland Amory Cleveland Amory (September 2, 1917 – October 14, 1998) was an American author, reporter, television critic, commentator and animal rights activist. He originally was known for writing a series of popular books poking fun at the pretensions an ...

* ''Visibility Unlimited'' –

Dick Grace Richard Virgil Grace (October 1, 1898 – June 25, 1965), known as Dick Grace, was an American stunt pilot who specialized in crashing planes for films. Films that he appeared in include ''Sky Bride'', ''The Lost Squadron'', '' Lilac Time'', and '' ...

* ''

The Way West ''The Way West'' is a 1949 western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1950 and became the basis for a film starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark. The novel is one in the sequence o ...

'' – A. B. Guthrie Jr. Volume 3 - Autumn * ''The Cardinal'' –

Henry Morton Robinson Henry Morton Robinson (September 7, 1898 – January 13, 1961) was an American novelist, best known for '' A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake'' written with Joseph Campbell and his 1950 novel ''The Cardinal'', which ''Time'' magazine reported w ...

* ''Long the Imperial Way'' – Hanama Taski * ''Roosevelt in Retrospect'' –

John Gunther John Gunther (August 30, 1901 – May 29, 1970) was an American journalist and writer. His success came primarily by a series of popular sociopolitical works, known as the "Inside" books (1936–1972), including the best-selling ''Insid ...

* '' Young Man with a Horn'' – Dorothy Baker

1951

Volume 4 - Winter * ''Anybody Can Do Anything'' -

Betty MacDonald Betty MacDonald (born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard; March 26, 1907 – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book '' The Egg and I''. She also wrote the '' Mrs. Piggl ...

* ''Elephant Bill'' - Lt. Col. J. H. Williams * ''Signal Thirty-Two'' -

MacKinlay Kantor MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded th ...

* ''German Faces'' - Ann Stringer and

Henry Ries Henry Ries (September 22, 1917 – May 24, 2004) was a photographer who worked for ''New York Times''. His most famous photo was of "The Berlin Air Lift" which was later made into a U.S. Postage Stamp commemorative. Ries was born in Berlin and ...

* ''Mischief'' -

Charlotte Armstrong Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905, in Vulcan, Michigan – July 18, 1969 in Glendale, California) was an American writer. Under the names Charlotte Armstrong and Jo Valentine she wrote 29 novels, as well as short stories, plays, and screenp ...

Volume 5 - Spring *''Blandings' way'' -

Eric Hodgins Eric Francis Hodgins (March 2, 1899 – January 7, 1971) was the American author of the popular novel '' Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House'', illustrated by William Steig. Biography Hodgins was born in Detroit, Michigan to the Episcopa ...

*''Operation Cicero'' -

Ludwig Carl Moyzisch Ludwig Carl Moyzisch (born 1905) was a diplomatic attaché of the Nazi Germany, Nazi German Embassy in Ankara, Turkey in 1943. Under this cover, he led the work of the German secret services in Turkey, including Elyesa Bazna, codename 'Cicero'. Moyz ...

*''Two Soldiers / from collected stories'' -

William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of ...

*''The Nymph and the Lamp'' -

Thomas H. Raddall Thomas Head Raddall (13 November 1903 – 1 April 1994) was a Canadian writer of history and historical fiction.The Caine Mutiny ''The Caine Mutiny'' is a 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard two destroyer-minesweepers in the Pacific Theater in World War II. Among its themes, it deals with the moral ...

'' -

Herman Wouk Herman Wouk ( ; May 27, 1915 – May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1951) for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. His other major works include ''The Winds of War'' and ' ...

*''Neither Five nor Three'' -

Helen MacInnes Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7, 1907 – September 30, 1985) was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels. Life She and her husband emigrated to the United States in 1937, when he took an academic position at Columbia University in New Y ...

*''Old Herbaceous'' -

Reginald Arkell Reginald Arkell (14 October 1881 – 1 May 1959) was a British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre. The most popular of those was an adaptation of the spoof history book ''1066 and All That'': ''10 ...

*''See How They Run'' - Don M. Mankiewicz Volume 7 - Autumn * ''Fallen Away'' -

Margaret Culkin Banning Margaret Frances Culkin Banning (March 18, 1891 – January 4, 1982) was a best-selling American writer of thirty-six novels and an early advocate of women's rights. Early life Banning was born in Buffalo, Minnesota on March 18, 1891. She ...

* '' 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 John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for '' ...

* '' The Cruel Sea'' -

Nicholas Monsarrat Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR (22 March 19108 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly '' The Cruel Sea'' (1951) and ''Three Corvettes'' (1942–45), but perhaps known best i ...

* ''A Genius in the Family'' -

Hiram Percy Maxim Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936) was an American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder (with Clarence D. Tuska) of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Hiram Percy Maxim is credited with inventing and sellin ...

* "Monarch of Goddess Island" (''The Plunderers'') -

Georges Blond Georges Blond (''Jean-Marie Hoedick'', 11 July 1906 in Marseille – 16 March 1989 in Paris), was a French writer. A prolific writer of mostly history but also other topics including fiction, Blond was also involved in far right political activity. ...

* ''

To Catch a Thief '' To Catch a Thief'' is a 1955 American romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge. The film stars Cary Grant as a retired cat burgl ...

'' - David Dodge
Volume 9 - Spring * '' Adventures in Two Worlds'' -

A. J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is ''The Citadel'' (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achievi ...

* ''The Gabriel Horn'' -

Felix Holt ''Felix Holt, the Radical'' (1866) is a social novel written by George Eliot about political disputes in a small English town at the time of the First Reform Act of 1832. In January 1868, Eliot penned an article entitled "Address to Working M ...

* ''Duveen'' - S. N. Behrman * "Kamante and Lulu" (''Out of Africa'') -

Isak Dinesen Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countrie ...

* ''East Side General'' -

Frank G. Slaughter Frank Gill Slaughter (February 25, 1908 – May 17, 2001), pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels drew on his own experience as a doctor a ...

Volume 10 - Summer * ''The Hidden Flower'' -

Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for ''The Good Earth'' a bestselling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, Pulitze ...

* '' The Dam Busters'' -

Paul Brickhill Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 191623 April 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war, and author who wrote '' The Great Escape'', '' The Dam Busters'', and ''Reach for the Sky''. Early life Brickhill was born in Melbou ...

* '' The City Boy'' -

* ''

My Cousin Rachel ''My Cousin Rachel'' is a Gothic novel written by English author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Bearing thematic similarities to her earlier and more famous novel '' Rebecca'', it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in ...

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Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather was Geor ...

Volume 11 - Autumn * ''Matador'' -

Barnaby Conrad Barnaby Conrad, Jr. (March 27, 1922 – February 12, 2013) was an American artist, author, nightclub proprietor, bullfighter and boxer. Born in San Francisco, California to an affluent family, Conrad was raised in Hillsborough. He spent a year ...

* ''Witness'' -

Whittaker Chambers Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer-editor, who, after early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), defected from the Soviet underground (1938), ...

* "The Law of the Jungle" (''My India'') -

Jim Corbett Edward James Corbett (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author who hunted a number of man-eating tigers and leopards in the Indian subcontinent. He held the rank of colonel in the British Indian ...

* ''The President's Lady'' -

Irving Stone Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, July 14, 1903 – August 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are '' Lust for Life'' (1934), about the l ...

1953

Volume 12 - Winter * ''Hunter'' -

J.A. Hunter John Alexander Hunter (30 May 1887 – 29 March 1963) was a white hunter in Africa from the early 1900s through the 1950s who led many notable safaris. Biography John Alexander Hunter was born on 30 May 1887 near Shearington, Dumfries-shi ...

* ''

Giant In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: '' gigas'', cognate giga-) are beings of human-like appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word ''giant'' is first attested in 1297 fr ...

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Edna Ferber Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning '' So Big'' (1924), ''Show Boat'' (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), '' Ci ...

* ''Through Charley's Door'' -

Emily Kimbrough Emily Kimbrough (October 23, 1899 – February 10, 1989) was an American author and journalist. Biography Emily Kimbrough was born in Muncie, Indiana. In 1921 she graduated from Bryn Mawr College and went on a trip to Europe with her friend Co ...

* ''The Best Cartoons from

Punch Punch commonly refers to: * Punch (combat), a strike made using the hand closed into a fist * Punch (drink), a wide assortment of drinks, non-alcoholic or alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice Punch may also refer to: Places * Pun ...

'' - Marvin Rosenberg & William Cole, editors * '' Island Rescue: An Appointment with Venus'' -

Jerrard Tickell Edward Jerrard Tickell (14 February 1905 – 27 March 1966) was an Irish writer, known for his novels and historical books on the Second World War. Biography Jerrard Tickell was born in Dublin and educated in Tipperary and, from 1919 until 1922 a ...

Spring 1953 Selections *''Black Widow'' -

Patrick Quentin Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Wheeler, Hugh Callingham Wheeler (19 March 1912 – 26 July 1987), Richard Wilson Webb (August 1901 – December 1966), Martha Mott Kelley (30 April 1906 – 2005) an ...

*''The Silent World'' -

Jacques-Yves Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (, also , ; 11 June 191025 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful Aqua-Lung, open-circuit SCUBA (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus). Th ...

with

Frédéric Dumas Frédéric Dumas (14 January 1913 – 26 July 1991) was a French writer. He was part of a team of three, with Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe Tailliez, who had a passion for diving, and developed the diving regulator with the aid of the enginee ...

*'' East of Eden'' -

John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social ...

*''Karen'' - Marie Killilea *''The Curve and The Tusk'' - Stuart Cloete Volume 14 - Summer * ''Our Virgin Island'' -

Robb White Robb White III (June 20, 1909 – November 24, 1990) was an American writer of screenplays, television scripts, and adventure novels. Most of the latter had a maritime setting, often the Pacific Navy during World War II. White was best ...

* ''A Bargain with God'' - Thomas Savage * ''

Annapurna Annapurna (; ne, अन्नपूर्ण) is a mountain situated in the Annapurna mountain range of Gandaki Province, north-central Nepal. It is the tenth highest mountain in the world at above sea level and is well known for the difficu ...

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Maurice Herzog Maurice André Raymond Herzog (15 January 191913 December 2012) was a French mountaineer and administrator who was born in Lyon, France. He led the 1950 French Annapurna expedition that first climbed a peak over 8000m, Annapurna, in 1950, and ...

* ''A Good Man'' - Jefferson Young * ''The Intruder'' - Helen Fowler
Volume 15 - Autumn * ''

The Bridges at Toko-Ri ''The Bridges at Toko-Ri'' is a 1954 American war film about the Korean War and stars William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, and Robert Strauss. The film, which was directed by Mark Robson, was produced by Paramount Pictur ...

'' - James A. Michener * '' Beyond This Place'' -

* ''

Life Among the Savages ''Life Among the Savages'' is a collection of short stories edited into novel form, written by Shirley Jackson. Originally these stories were published individually in women's magazines such as ''Good Housekeeping'', ''Woman's Day'', '' Mademois ...

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Shirley Jackson Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two me ...

* ''My Crowded Solitude'' - Jack McLaren * ''Digby'' - David Walker

1954

Volume 16 - Winter * ''Call Me Lucky: Bing Crosby's Own Story'' -

Bing Crosby Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, musician and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwide. He was a ...

with Pete Martin * '' Too Late the Phalarope'' -

* ''Time and Time Again'' - James Hilton * ''Heather Mary'' - J. M. Scott
Volume 17 - Spring * '' The Night of the Hunter'' -

Davis Grubb Davis Alexander Grubb (July 23, 1919 – July 24, 1980) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for his 1953 novel '' The Night of the Hunter'', which was adapted as a film in 1955 by Charles Laughton. Biography Born in M ...

* ''God and My Country'' -

* ''

Not as a Stranger ''Not as a Stranger'' is a 1955 American film noir drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra and Gloria Grahame. It is based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Morton Thomp ...

'' - 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 William Frishe Dean Sr. (August 1, 1899August 24, 1981) was a United States Army Major general (United States), major general during World War II and the Korean War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on July 20 and 21, 1950, during ...

with William L. Worden * '' Mr. Hobbs' Vacation'' -

Edward Streeter Edward Streeter (August 1, 1891 – March 31, 1976), sometimes credited as E. Streeter, was an American novelist and journalist, best known for the 1949 novel '' Father of the Bride'' and his ''Dere Mable'' series. Biography Streeter was ...

* ''The Power and the Prize'' -

Howard Swiggett Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probabl ...

* "The Duchess and the Smugs" (''A Wreath for the Enemy'') -

Pamela Frankau Pamela Sydney Frankau (3 January 1908 – 8 June 1967) was a popular English novelist from a prominent artistic and literary family. She was abandoned by her novelist father Gilbert Frankau at an early age, and she became a prolific writer. S ...

* ''Tomorrow!'' -

Philip Wylie Philip Gordon Wylie (May 12, 1902 – October 25, 1971) was an American writer of works ranging from pulp science fiction, mysteries, social diatribes and satire to ecology and the threat of nuclear holocaust. Early life and career Born in Beve ...

Volume 19 - Autumn * ''

The Dollmaker ''The Dollmaker'' is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film starring Jane Fonda and based on the 1954 novel of the same title written by Harriette Arnow. It was originally broadcast on ABC on May 13, 1984. Fonda was awarded the Pr ...

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Harriette Arnow Harriette Simpson Arnow (July 7, 1908 – March 22, 1986) was an American novelist and historian, who lived in Kentucky and Michigan. Arnow has been called an expert on the people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, but she herself loved citie ...

* ''The Anatomy of a Crime'' - Joseph F. Dinneen * ''Love is Eternal'' -

* ''Around a Rusty God'' - Augusta Walker * '' The High and the Mighty'' -

Ernest K. Gann Ernest Kellogg Gann (October 13, 1910 – December 19, 1991) was an American aviator, author, sailor, and conservationist. He is best known for his novels and memoirs about early aviation and nautical adventures. Some of his more famous aviation ...

1955

Volume 20 - Winter * ''The Reason Why'' - Cecil Woodham-Smith * ''The China I Knew (My Several Worlds)'' -

* ''My Brother's Keeper'' -

Marcia Davenport Marcia Davenport (born Marcia Glick; June 9, 1903 – January 16, 1996) was an American writer and music critic. She is best known for her 1932 biography of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the first American published biography of Mozart. Dave ...

* ''Good Morning, Miss Dove'' -

Frances Gray Patton Mrs. Frances Gray Patton (March 19, 1906 – March 28, 2000) was an American short story writer and novelist. She is best known for her 1954 novel ''Good Morning Miss Dove.'' Biography She was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to Mr. Robert Lily, ...

* ''The Darby Trial'' - Dick Pearce Volume 22 - Summer * ''Man-Eater'' -

* ''The Actor'' -

Niven Busch Niven Busch (April 26, 1903 – August 25, 1991) was an American novelist and screenwriter of movies such as the acclaimed '' The Postman Always Rings Twice''. His novels included ''Duel in the Sun'' (1944) and ''California Street'' (1959). H ...

* ''Onions in the Stew'' -

* ''The Captive City'' - John Appleby * ''The Missing Macleans'' - Geoffrey Hoare * ''The Searchers'' -

Alan Le May Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, ''The Searchers'' (1954) and ''The Unforgiven'' (1957).Herzberg, Bob (2008). ''Savages an ...

Volume 21 - Spring * '' Good-bye, My Lady'' - James Street * ''The Dowry'' -

* ''The Day Lincoln Was Shot'' -

Jim Bishop James Alonzo Bishop (November 21, 1907 – July 26, 1987) was an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book ''The Day Lincoln was Shot''. Early life Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he dropped out of school after eighth gra ...

* ''

The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant ''The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant'' is a 1954 novel by Douglass Wallop. It adapts the Faust theme of a deal with the Devil to the world of American baseball in the 1950s. Plot summary The novel's protagonist, mild-mannered, middle-aged J ...

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Douglass Wallop John Douglass Wallop III (March 8, 1920 – April 1, 1985) was an American novelist and playwright. Early life On March 8, 1920, Wallop was born as John Douglass Wallop III in Washington, D.C. to Marjorie Ellis Wallop and insurance agent Jo ...

* ''Flamingo Feather'' -

Laurens van der Post Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, (13 December 1906 – 15 December 1996) was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist. He was noted for his interest in Jun ...

Volume 23 - Autumn * ''This is Goggle, or the Education of a Father'' - Bentz Plagemann * ''

Run Silent, Run Deep ''Run Silent, Run Deep'' is a novel by Commander (later Captain) Edward L. Beach Jr. published in 1955 by Henry Holt & Co. The story describes World War II submarine warfare in the Pacific Ocean, and deals with themes of vengeance, endurance, c ...

'' - Commander Edward L. Beach, USN * '' Marjorie Morningstar'' -

* '' Last of the Curlews'' -

Fred Bodsworth Charles Frederick (Fred) Bodsworth (October 11, 1918 – September 15, 2012) was a Canadian writer, journalist and amateur naturalist. Born in Port Burwell, Ontario, Bodsworth worked as a journalist for the ''St. Thomas Times-Journal'', ''The T ...

* ''First Train to Babylon'' -

Max Ehrlich Max Michaelis Ehrlich (7 December 1892 – 1 October 1944) was a German actor, screenwriter, and director on the German theater, comedy and cabaret scene of the 1930s. Ehrlich began his career in the 1920s at various theatres, including leadin ...

1956

Volume 24 - Winter * "The Secret of the Swamp" (''Andersonville'') -

* ''Island in the Sun'' -

Alec Waugh Alexander Raban Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981) was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh, uncle of Auberon Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher. His first wife was Bar ...

* '' An Episode of Sparrows'' -

Rumer Godden Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably ''Black Narcissus'' in 1947 and '' The River'' in ...

* ''Minding Our Own Business'' - Charlotte Paul * ''The Long Ride Home'' - Bonner McMillion
Volume 25 - Spring * ''Captain of the Queens'' - Captain Harry Grattidge with Richard Collier * ''Beloved'' -

Viña Delmar Viña Delmar (born Alvina Louise Croter; January 29, 1903 – January 19, 1990) was an American short story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who worked from the 1920s to the 1970s. She rose to fame in the late 1920s with the publ ...

* ''In My Father's House'' - Grace Nies Fletcher * ''

The Last Hurrah ''The Last Hurrah'' is a 1956 novel written by Edwin O'Connor. It is considered the most popular of O’Connor's works, partly because of a 1958 movie adaptation starring Spencer Tracy. The novel was immediately a bestseller in the United Stat ...

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Edwin O'Connor Edwin Greene O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel '' The Edge of Sadness'' (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his no ...

* ''Boon Island'' - Kenneth Roberts Volume 26 - Summer * ''

Old Yeller ''Old Yeller'' is a 1956 children's literature, children's novel written by Fred Gipson and illustrated by Carl Burger. It received a Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor in 1957. The title is taken from the name of the yellow dog who is the center of t ...

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Fred Gipson Frederick Benjamin "Fred" Gipson (February 7, 1908 – August 14, 1973) was an American writer and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 1956 novel ''Old Yeller'', which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film. Gipson was born on a farm ...

* ''Harry Black'' - David Walker * ''The Greer Case'' - David W. Peck * ''

A Thing of Beauty ''A Thing of Beauty'' is a novel by author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1956, with the alternate title of ''Crusader's Tomb''. It tells the story of Stephen Desmonde, an English painter who struggles for recognition in a conventional wo ...

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* ''A Single Pebble'' -

John Hersey John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to n ...

Volume 27 - Autumn * '' The Nun's Story'' -

Kathryn Hulme Kathryn Hulme (July 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel '' The Nun's Story''. The book is often misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical. Writing Her 1956 book ''The Nun's Story'' wa ...

* '' Merry Christmas, Mr. Baxter'' -

* ''The Success'' -

Helen Howe Helen Howe (January 11, 1905 – February 1, 1975) was an American novelist, biographer and monologist. Early life and education Helen Huntington Howe was born to Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe and Fanny Huntington Quincy Howe on January 11, 1905. H ...

* ''The Diamond Hitch'' - Frank O'Rourke * ''The Sleeping Partner'' -

Winston Graham Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary ...

1957

Volume 28 - Winter * '' Bon Voyage'' - Marrijane & Joseph Hayes * ''The Tribe That Lost Its Head'' -

* ''The Philadelphian'' - Richard Powell * ''A Family Party'' - John O'Hara * ''Stopover: Tokyo'' -

Volume 29 - Spring * ''

The Scapegoat A scapegoat is a goat used in a religious ritual or the victim of scapegoating, the singling out of a party for unmerited blame. Scapegoat or The Scapegoat may also refer to: Places * Scapegoat Wilderness, a Wilderness Area in Montana ** Scapeg ...

'' -

* ''The Last Angry Man'' -

Gerald Green Gerald Green (born January 26, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He was drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 18th overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. Know ...

* '' The Muses Are Heard'' -

Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, ...

* ''The Fruit Tramp'' - Vinnie Williams * ''

The Enemy Below ''The Enemy Below'' is a 1957 DeLuxe Color war film in CinemaScope about a battle between an American destroyer escort and a German U-boat during World War II. Produced and directed by Dick Powell, the movie stars Robert Mitchum and Curt J� ...

'' - Commander D.A. Rayner Volume 30 - Summer * ''The Lady'' - Conrad Richter * ''

A Houseful of Love ''A Houseful of Love'' is a novel by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, published in 1957 by Random House, that tells the story of an extended family of Armenian-Americans in 1929. It was a ''New York Times'' and ''New York Herald Tribune'' bestseller a ...

'' -

Marjorie Housepian Marjorie Anaïs Housepian Dobkin () was an author and an English professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Her books include the novel '' A Houseful of Love'' (a '' New York Times'' and '' New York Herald Tribune'' bestseller) ...

* ''

The Three Faces of Eve ''The Three Faces of Eve'' is a 1957 American film noir mystery drama film presented in CinemaScope, based on the book of the same name about the life of Chris Costner Sizemore, which was written by psychiatrists Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. ...

'' - Dr. Corbett H. Thigpen, MD & Dr. Hervey M. Cleckley, MD * '' Letter from Peking'' -

* ''The FBI Story'' -

Don Whitehead Don Whitehead (April 8, 1908 in Inman, Virginia - January 12, 1981) was an American journalist. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom. He won the 1950 George Polk Award for wire service reporting. He was awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Int ...

* "Mission to Borneo" (''The Spiral Road'') -

Jan de Hartog Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Biography Early years Jan de Hartog was born to a Dut ...

Volume 31 - Autumn * ''Lobo'' -

* ''The Century of the Surgeon'' -

Jürgen Thorwald Jürgen Thorwald (born Heinz Bongartz, October 28, 1915; died April 4, 2006) was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his works describing the history of forensic medicine and of World War II. Thorwald was a native of Solingen, Rhe ...

* '' By Love Possessed'' -

James Gould Cozzens James Gould Cozzens (August 19, 1903 – August 9, 1978) was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer whose work enjoyed an unusual degree of popular success and critical acclaim for more than three decades. His 1949 Pulitzer win was for the WWI ...

* "Duel with a Witch Doctor" (''The Spiral Road'') -

* ''Warm Bodies'' - Donald R. Morris

1958

Volume 32 - Winter * ''The Green Helmet'' -

Jon Cleary Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 191719 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including '' The Sundowners'' (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and '' The ...

* ''Dunbar's Cove'' -

Borden Deal Borden Deal ( – ) was an American novelist and short story writer. Biography Born Loysé Youth Deal in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Deal attended Macedonia Consolidated High School, after which he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and fought f ...

* ''The Twentieth Maine'' - John J. Pullen * ''Life at Happy Knoll'' -

* ''The Horsecatcher'' -

Mari Sandoz Mari Susette Sandoz (May 11, 1896 – March 10, 1966) was a Nebraska novelist, biographer, lecturer, and teacher. She became one of the West's foremost writers, and wrote extensively about pioneer life and the Plains Indians.Bristow, Dav ...

* ''Sharks and Little Fish'' -

Wolfgang Ott Wolfgang Ott (born 1957) is an Austrian sex offender, murderer and alleged serial killer, whose actions are considered some of the most spectacular criminal cases in his home country. Offenses and alleged crimes Wolfgang Ott was sentenced to 15 ...

Volume 33 - Spring * ''Big Caesar'' - Charlton Ogburn Jr. * ''

The Winthrop Woman ''The Winthrop Woman'' is Anya Seton's 1958 historical novel about Elizabeth Fones, a settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a founder of Greenwich, Connecticut. Plot summary ''The Winthrop Woman'' begins with young Elizabeth Fones and her ...

'' -

Anya Seton Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990), born Ann Seton, was an American author of historical fiction, or as she preferred they be called, "biographical novels". Career Seton published her first novel, '' My Theodosia'', in 1941. Seto ...

* ''The Counterfeit Traitor'' -

Alexander Klein Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

* ''The Man Who Broke Things'' - John Brooks * ''Murder on My Street'' -

Edwin Lanham Edwin Moultrie Lanham was born in Weatherford, Texas on October 11, 1904, in the north central part of Texas where his family settled in the 1868. His family included his grandfather S. W. T. Lanham, the former Governor of Texas. His father Edw ...

Volume 34 - Summer * ''

Seidman and Son ''Seidman and Son'' is a bestselling 1958 novel by Elick Moll, adapted by Moll into a 1962 play. The story centers on Morris Seidman, a Jewish garment manufacturer in New York City, and his relationships with his wife, son, and daughter.Graham, ...

'' - Elick Moll * '' The Northern Light'' -

* ''Rough Road Home'' - Melissa Mather * ''A Friend in Power'' - Carlos H. Baker * ''Sun in the Hunter's Eyes'' - Mark Derby Volume 35 - Autumn * ''Preacher's Kids'' - Grace Nies Fletcher * ''The Steel Cocoon'' - Bentz Plagemann * ''Women and Thomas Harrow'' -

* ''

Green Mansions ''Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest'' (1904) is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest-dwelling girl named Rima. The principa ...

'' -

W. H. Hudson William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) – known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson – was an English Argentines, Anglo-Argentine author, natural history, naturalist and ornithology, ornithologist. Life Hudson was the ...

* ''Tether's End'' -

Margery Allingham Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. Alli ...

1959

Volume 36 - Winter * ''The Admen'' -

Shepherd Mead Shepherd Mead, born Edward Mead (April 26, 1914 – August 15, 1994) was an American writer and is best known as the author of ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,'' which was adapted into a hit Broadway show and motion picture. ...

* ''

The Rainbow and the Rose ''The Rainbow and the Rose'' is a novel by Nevil Shute. It was first published in England in 1958 by William Heinemann. Title The title is taken from a sonnet "The Treasure" by Rupert Brooke, which is quoted in full as a preface: When colour ...

'' -

Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name, in order to protect h ...

* '' Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris'' -

Paul Gallico Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer.Ivins, Molly,, ''The New York Times'', July 17, 1976. Retrieved Oct. 25, 2020. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictu ...

* ''

The Ugly American ''The Ugly American'' is a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer that depicts the failures of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Southeast Asia. The book caused a sensation in diplomatic circles and had major political implic ...

'' - William J. Lederer &

Eugene Burdick Eugene Leonard Burdick (December 12, 1918 – July 26, 1965) was an American political scientist, novelist, and non-fiction writer, co-author of '' The Ugly American'' (1958), ''Fail-Safe'' (1962), and author of '' The 480'' (1965). Early life H ...

* ''The White Room'' -

Elizabeth Coatsworth Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31, 1893 – August 31, 1986) was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizing '' The Cat Who Went to ...

* ''Woman of Straw'' - Catherine Arley
Volume 37 - Spring * ''The Secret Project of Sigurd O'Leary'' - Martin Quigley * ''Dear and Glorious Physician'' -

Taylor Caldwell Janet Miriam Caldwell (September 7, 1900August 30, 1985) was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction under the pen names Taylor Caldwell, Marcus Holland and Max Reiner. She was also known by a variation of her mar ...

* ''Collision Course'' - Alvin Moscow * ''Jungle Girl'' - John Moore * ''Epitaph for an Enemy'' - George Barr Volume 38 - Summer * '' The Lion'' -

Joseph Kessel Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898 – 23 July 1979), also known as "Jef", was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Biography Kessel was born to a Jewish family in ...

* ''The Light Infantry Ball'' -

Hamilton Basso Joseph Hamilton Basso (September 5, 1904 – May 13, 1964) was an American novelist and journalist. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Basso worked as reporter for several newspapers in New Orleans, wrote 11 novels, primarily about the South, and was ...

* ''A Rockefeller Family Portrait'' -

William Manchester William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the ...

* "Trail to Abilene" (''Born of the Sun'') - John H. Culp * ''The Big X'' -

Hank Searls Henry Hunt Searls (August 10, 1922 – February 17, 2017) was an American author and screenwriter. His novels included ''The Crowded Sky'' (1960), which was adapted as the 1960 movie of the same name; ''The Pilgrim Project'' (1964), which was ad ...

Volume 39 - Autumn * "West Wind to Hawaii" (''

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...

'') - James A. Michener * ''

Advise and Consent Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts. It describes either of two situations: where a weak executive branch of a government enacts something previ ...

'' - Allen Drury * ''The Miracle of Merriford'' -

* ''Act One (book), Act One: An Autobiography'' - Moss Hart * ''Flight from Ashiya'' - Elliott Arnold

1960s

1960

Volume 40 - Winter * ''Jeremy Todd'' - Hamilton Maule * "From the Farm of Bitterness" (''

'') - James A. Michener * ''Pioneer, Go Home!'' - Richard Powell * ''The City That Would Not Die'' - Richard Collier (author), Richard Collier * ''King Solomon's Ring (book), King Solomon's Ring'' - Konrad Lorenz, Konrad Z. Lorenz * ''The Triumph of Surgery'' -

Volume 41 - Spring * ''The Final Diagnosis'' - Arthur Hailey * ''Mrs. 'Arris Goes to New York'' -

* ''Strangers in the Forest'' - Carol Brink * ''The Haunting of Hill House'' -

* ''Wolfpack'' - William M. Hardy Volume 42 - Summer * ''The Lovely Ambition'' - Mary Ellen Chase * ''Trustee from the Toolroom'' -

* ''

'' - Giuseppe di Lampedusa * ''Village of Stars'' - Paul Stanton (author), Paul Stanton * ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' - Harper Lee Volume 43 - Autumn * ''Surface at the Pole'' - Commander James F. Calvert, USN * ''The Devil's Advocate (West novel), 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 * ''The Light in the Piazza (novel), The Light in the Piazza'' - Elizabeth Spencer (writer), Elizabeth Spencer * ''Half Angel'' - Barbara Jefferis * ''A Sense of Values'' - Sloan Wilson * "Warpath" (''Northwest Passage (novel), Northwest Passage'') - Kenneth Roberts * ''Marnie'' -

Volume 45 - Spring * ''Fate Is the Hunter'' -

* ''Peaceable Lane'' - Keith Wheeler (novelist), Keith Wheeler * ''Madame Curie'' - Ève Curie * ''Evil Come, Evil Go'' - Whit Masterson * ''The 'Mozart' Leaves at Nine'' - Harris Greene Volume 46 - Summer * ''The Winter of Our Discontent'' -

* ''The Agony and the Ecstasy (novel), The Agony and the Ecstasy'' -

* ''The Making of the President, 1960'' - Theodore H. White * "A Lodging for the Emperor" (''Japanese Inn'') - Oliver Statler * ''Goodbye, Mr. Chips'' - James Hilton
Volume 47 - Autumn * ''Ring of Bright Water'' - Gavin Maxwell * ''The Judas Tree'' -

* ''The Edge of Sadness'' -

* ''A Fall of Moondust'' - Arthur C. Clarke * ''A Christmas Carol'' - Charles Dickens * ''Summer of Pride'' - Elizabeth Savage (writer), Elizabeth Savage

1962

Volume 48 - Winter * ''Spencer's Mountain'' - Earl Hamner Jr. * ''A Prologue to Love'' -

* ''A Time to Stand'' - Walter Lord * ''Give It Back to the Lemongrowers!'' - Willard Temple * ''Kirkland Revels'' - Victoria Holt
Volume 49 - Spring * ''Captain Newman, MD'' - Leo Rosten * ''Devil Water'' -

* ''The Story of San Michele'' - Axel Munthe * ''Nine Hours to Rama'' - Stanley Wolpert * ''Watchers at the Pond'' - Franklin Russell Volume 50 - Summer * ''The Tuntsa'' - Teppo Turen with Elizabeth Maddox McCabe * ''Youngblood Hawke'' -

* "Carol" (''The Blood of the Lamb'') - Peter De Vries * ''Since You Ask Me'' - Ann Landers * ''Star-Raker'' - Donald Gordon (writer), Donald Gordon
Volume 51 - Autumn * ''Dearly Beloved (novel), Dearly Beloved'' - Anne Morrow Lindbergh * "Brickie" (''To Love and Corrupt'') - Joseph Viertel * ''Seven Days in May'' - Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II * "The Wonderful World of School" (''The World Is Young'') - Wayne Miller (author), Wayne Miller * ''Microbe Hunters'' - Paul de Kruif * ''The Golden Rendezvous'' - Alistair MacLean

1963

Volume 52 - Winter * ''Second Growth'' - Ruth Moore * ''To Catch an Angel: Adventures in the World I Cannot See'' - Robert Russell (writer), Robert Russell * ''I Take This Land'' - Richard Powell * ''America, America'' - Elia Kazan * "Hell Creek Crossing" (''The Reivers'') -

* ''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'' -

* ''To Sir, With Love (novel), To Sir, With Love'' - E. R. Braithwaite * ''...and presumed dead'' - Lucille Fletcher Volume 54 - Summer * ''The Artist'' -

* ''The Shoes of the Fisherman (novel), 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'' -

* ''When the Legends Die'' - Hal Borland * ''The Battle of the Villa Fiorita'' -

1964

Volume 56 - Winter * ''Naked Came I, Naked Came I: A Novel of Rodin'' - David Weiss (novelist), David Weiss * ''Joy in the Morning (Smith novel), Joy in the Morning'' - Betty Smith * ''The Peregrine Falcon'' - Robert William Murphy, Robert Murphy * ''Careful, He Might Hear You (novel), Careful, He Might Hear You'' - Sumner Locke Elliott * ''The Cincinnati Kid'' - Richard Jessup
Volume 57 - Spring * ''Too Young to Be a Grandfather'' - Willard Temple * ''When the Cheering Stopped'' - Gene Smith (historian), Gene Smith * ''I Was Dancing'' -

* ''Alone'' - Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd * ''The Hand of Mary Constable'' -

* ''Nerve (Francis novel), Nerve'' - Dick Francis Volume 58 - Summer * ''Father to the Man'' - Bentz Plagemann * ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'' - John le Carré * "Gold Fever" (''When the Lion Feeds'') - Wilbur Smith, Wilbur A. Smith * ''The Vine and the Olive'' -

* ''The Flight of the Phoenix (novel), 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 and Other Stories, Three Blind Mice'' - Agatha Christie * ''Episode'' -

* ''The Island'' - Robert Merle

1965

Volume 60 - Winter * ''The Sea Flower'' - Ruth Moore * ''The Man (1964 novel), 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 (Hailey novel), Hotel'') - Arthur Hailey * ''A Pillar of Iron'' -

* ''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 (novel), The Source'' - James A. Michener * ''Night of Camp David'' - Fletcher Knebel * ''A House of Many Rooms'' - Rodello Hunter
Volume 63 - Autumn * ''Airs Above the Ground (novel), Airs Above the Ground'' - Mary Stewart (novelist), Mary Stewart * ''Up the Down Staircase'' - Bel Kaufman * ''Those Who Love (novel), Those Who Love'' -

* ''The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, Kon-Tiki'' - Thor Heyerdahl * ''How Far to Bethlehem?'' - Norah Lofts

1966

Volume 64 - Winter * ''Outpost of Freedom'' - Captain Roger H. C. Donlon with Warren Rogers * ''The Double Image'' -

* ''The Yearling'' - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings * ''The Century of the Detective'' -

* "The Way of the Eagle" (''The Last Eagle'') - Daniel P. Mannix * ''So This Is What Happened to Charlie Moe'' -

Volume 65 - Spring * ''Hall of Mirrors'' - John Rowan Wilson * ''Avalon (novel), Avalon'' -

* ''Children of Hope'' - Elsie E. Vignec * ''Congo Kitabu'' - Jean-Pierre Hallet with Alex Pelle * ''Power Play'' - The Gordons (writers), The Gordons Volume 66 - Summer * ''Rafe'' - Weldon Hill * ''Churchill: The Struggle for Survival'' - Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran, Lord Moran * ''Here Come the Brides'' - Geraldine Napier * ''The Ninety and Nine'' - William Brinkley * ''Menfreya in the Morning'' - Eleanor Hibbert, Victoria Holt
Volume 67 - Autumn * ''Don Quixote, U.S.A.'' - Richard Powell * ''All in the Family'' -

* ''Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry'' - Harry Kemelman * ''The Gift of the Deer'' - Helen Hoover * ''Brothers of the Sea'' - D.R. Sherman

1967

Volume 68 - Winter * ''The Town and Dr. Moore'' - Agatha Young * ''The Captain (novel), The Captain'' -

* ''Flight from a Firing Wall'' - Baynard Kendrick * ''The Headmaster (book), The Headmaster'' - John McPhee * ''I Start Counting (novel), I Start Counting'' - Audrey Erskine Lindop
Volume 69 - Spring * ''My Boy John That Went to Sea'' - Donald G. Payne, James Vance Marshall * ''One Summer in Between'' - Melissa Mather * ''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'' -

* ''Currahee!'' - Donald R. Burgett * ''The Walking Stick'' -

Volume 71 - Autumn * ''Christy (novel), Christy'' - Catherine Marshall * ''Life with Father'' - Clarence Day * ''The Fox and the Hound (novel), The Fox and the Hound'' - Daniel P. Mannix * ''Nicholas and Alexandra (book), Nicholas and Alexandra'' - Robert K. Massie * ''The Gabriel Hounds'' - Mary Stewart (novelist), Mary Stewart

1968

Volume 72 - Winter * ''Edge of Glass'' - Catherine Gaskin * ''Great Elephant'' - Alan Scholefield * ''Color from a Light Within'' - Donald Braider * ''The Kitchen Madonna'' -

* ''Vanished'' - Fletcher Knebel
Volume 73 - Spring * ''The New Year'' -

* ''The Tower of Babel'' - Morris L. West * ''Airport (novel), 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'' - Eleanor Hibbert, Victoria Holt * ''Leafy Rivers'' - Jessamyn West (writer), Jessamyn West * ''The Crossbreed'' - Allan W. Eckert
Volume 75 - Autumn * ''The Johnstown Flood (book), The Johnstown Flood'' - David G. McCullough * ''Once an Eagle'' - Anton Myrer * ''Ammie, Come Home'' - Barbara Michaels * ''Gone: A Trio of Short Stories'' -

* ''Sarang'' - Roger A. Caras

1969

Volume 76 - Winter * ''Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms'' - John Ball (novelist), John Ball * ''The Hurricane Years'' - Cameron Hawley * ''The Wine and the Music'' - William Edmund Barrett, William E. Barrett * ''On Reflection'' - Helen Hayes with Sandford Dody * ''The Black Ship'' - Paul & Sheila Mandel Volume 77 - Spring * ''The Two of Us (1967 film), The Two of Us'' - Claude Berri * ''Bichu the Jaguar'' - Alan Caillou * ''The Minister'' - Charles Mercer (author), Charles Mercer * ''Mayo: The Story of My Family and My Career'' - Dr. Charles William Mayo, Charles W. Mayo * ''Torregreca'' - Ann Cornelisen * ''April Morning'' - Howard Fast Volume 78 - Summer * ''A Place in the Woods'' - Helen Hoover * ''The Death Committee'' - Noah Gordon (novelist), Noah Gordon * ''The Man from Monticello: An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson'' - Thomas Fleming (historian), Thomas Fleming * ''The Three Daughters of Madame Liang'' -

* ''Snatch'' - Rennie Airth
Volume 79 - Autumn * ''The King's Pleasure'' - Norah Lofts * ''The Day the World Ended'' - Gordon Thomas (author), Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts * ''My Life with Martin Luther King Jr.'' - Coretta Scott King * ''In This House of Brede'' -

* ''The Black Camels'' - Ronald Johnston

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'' - Paul Marttin * ''The Witness'' - Dorothy Uhnak Volume 81 - Spring * ''Kim: A Gift from Vietnam'' - Frank W. Chinnock * ''Bless the Beasts and Children (novel), Bless the Beasts & Children'' - Glendon Swarthout * ''Great Lion of God'' -

* ''I Chose Prison'' - James V. Bennett * ''Fiona'' - Catherine Gaskin Volume 82 - Summer * ''Operation Sippacik'' -

* ''The Secret Woman'' - Victoria Holt * ''Christiaan Barnard - One Life'' - Christiaan Barnard & Curtis Bill Pepper * ''The Song of Bernadette (novel), The Song of Bernadette'' - Franz Werfel * ''The Shattered Dream'' - Gene Smith (author), Gene Smith
Volume 83 - Autumn * ''Lone Woman'' - Dorothy Clarke Wilson * ''The Waltons, The Homecoming'' - Earl Hamner Jr. * '' Papillon'' - Henri Charrière * ''Whitewater'' - Paul Horgan * ''Mrs. Pollifax, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax'' - Dorothy Gilman

1971

Volume 84 - Winter * ''The Crossing'' - Howard Fast * ''Kinds of Love'' - May Sarton * ''The Antagonists'' -

* ''Love Story (novel), Love Story'' - Erich Segal * ''Another Part of the House'' - Winston M. Estes
Volume 85 - Spring * ''Halic: The Story of a Gray Seal'' - Ewan Clarkson * ''Time and Again (Finney novel), Time and Again'' - Jack Finney * ''Six-Horse Hitch'' - Janice Holt Giles * ''Bomber (novel), Bomber'' - Len Deighton * ''A Woman in the House'' - William Edmund Barrett, Wm. E. Barrett Volume 86 - Summer * ''The White Dawn'' - James Archibald Houston, James Houston * ''Risk'' - Rachel MacKenzie * ''Lifeboat Number Two'' -

* ''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'' - Ellen Bromfield Geld * ''The San Francisco Earthquake'' - Gordon Thomas (author), Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts * ''Wheels (novel), Wheels'' - Arthur Hailey * ''People I Have Loved, Known or Admired'' - Leo Rosten * ''Summer of the Red Wolf'' - Morris West

1972

Volume 88 - Winter * ''Mrs. Pollifax, The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax'' - Dorothy Gilman * ''The Winds of War'' -

* ''The Runaways'' - Victor Canning
Volume 89 - Spring * ''Wild Goose, Brother Goose'' - Mel Ellis * ''Event 1000'' - David Lavallee * ''Bring Me a Unicorn'' - Anne Morrow Lindbergh * ''Hearts'' - Thomas Thompson (author), Thomas Thompson * ''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'' -

* ''The Shape of Illusion'' - William Edmund Barrett, Wm. E.Barrett * ''Duel in the Snow'' - Hans Meissner
Volume 91 - Autumn * ''The Waltz Kings: Johann Strauss, Johann Strauss I, Father & Johann Strauss II, Son, and Their Romantic Age'' - Hans Fantel * ''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 * ''The Stepford Wives'' - Ira Levin * ''The Odessa File'' - Frederick Forsyth * ''A Day No Pigs Would Die'' - Robert Newton Peck * ''Stanfield Harvest'' - Richard Martin Stern * ''P.S. Your Not Listening'' - Eleanor Craig Volume 93 - #2 * ''Mrs. Pollifax, A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax'' - Dorothy Gilman * ''The Camerons'' - Robert Crichton (novelist), Robert Crichton * ''The Japanese'' - Jack Seward (author), Jack Seward * ''Green Darkness'' -

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 (novel), 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'' - Florence 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 (author), Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts

1974

Volume 97 - #1 * ''The Tower (Stern novel), 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'' - Mary Carter (author), Mary Carter * ''The Kappillan of Malta'' -

* ''In Darkness'' - Roger Bourgeon * ''Jaws (novel), Jaws'' - Peter Benchley
Volume 99 - #3 * ''The Will of Magda Townsend'' -

* ''Forever Island'' - Patrick D. Smith * ''Thirty-Four East'' - Alfred Coppel * ''The Diddakoi'' -

* ''Lion in the Evening'' - Alan Scholefield Volume 100 - #4 * ''The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun'' -

* ''The Good Shepherd'' - Thomas Fleming (historian and novelist), Thomas Fleming * ''The Property of a Gentleman'' - Catherine Gaskin * ''His Majesty's U-Boat'' - Douglas Reeman Volume 101 - #5 * ''The Other Room'' -

* ''The Dogs of War (novel), The Dogs of War'' - Frederick Forsyth * ''All Things Bright and Beautiful'' - James Herriot * ''Malevil'' - Robert Merle * ''A Daughter of Zion'' - Rodello Hunter

1975

Volume 102 - #1 * ''Our John Willie'' - Catherine Cookson * ''Centennial (novel), Centennial'' - James A. Michener * ''Harlequin'' - Morris West * ''Eric'' - Doris Lund (nonfiction), Doris Lund Volume 103 - #2 * ''Lost!'' - Thomas Thompson (American author), Thomas Thompson * ''Baker's Hawk'' - Jack Bickham * ''The Physicians'' - Henry Denker * ''God and Mr. Gomez'' - Jack Smith (author), Jack Smith * ''Eagle in the Sky'' - Wilbur Smith
Volume 104 - #3 * ''Mrs. 'arris Goes to Moscow'' -

* ''The Moneychangers'' - Arthur Hailey * ''The Massacre at Fall Creek'' - Jessamyn West (writer), Jessamyn West * ''Collision'' - Spencer Dunmore Volume 105 - #4 * ''Where are the Children?'' - Mary Higgins Clark * ''Earthsound'' - Arthur Herzog * ''The Eagle Has Landed (novel), 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 * ''The Great Train Robbery (novel), The Great Train Robbery'' - Michael Crichton * ''I Take Thee, Serenity'' - Daisy Newman * ''Bill W.'' - Robert Thomsen * ''A Town Like Alice'' -

Volume 108 - #2 * ''The Hostage Heart'' -

* ''They Came to Stay'' - Marjorie Margolies & Ruth Gruber * ''The Tide of Life'' - Catherine Cookson * ''Swan Watch'' - Budd Schulberg * ''Drummer in the Dark'' - Francis Clifford (author), Francis Clifford
Volume 109 - #3 * ''Liberty Tavern'' - Thomas Fleming (historian and novelist), Thomas Fleming * ''The Pilot'' - Robert Davis (authot), Robert Davis * ''Touch Not the Cat'' - Mary Stewart (novelist), Mary Stewart * ''The Boys from Brazil (novel), The Boys from Brazil'' - Ira Levin Volume 110 - #4 * ''The Distant Summer'' - Sarah Patterson (author), Sarah Patterson * ''The Olmec Head'' - David Westheimer * ''The Matthew Tree'' - H. T. Wright * ''The Splendid Torments'' -

* ''Harry's Game'' - Gerald Seymour
Volume 111 - #5 * ''The Pride of the Peacock'' - Victoria Holt * "Bobbitt" - Thomas Tryon (novelist), Thomas Tryon * ''The Experiment'' - Henry Denker * ''Ordinary People (Guest novel), Ordinary People'' - Judith Guest * ''Storm Warning (Higgins novel), Storm Warning'' - Jack Higgins

1977

Volume 112 - #1 * ''Mrs. Pollifax, Mrs. Pollifax on Safari'' - Dorothy Gilman * ''The R Document'' - Irving Wallace * ''Home Before Dark'' - Sue Ellen Bridgers * ''The Glory Boys'' - Gerald Seymour * ''The Spuddy'' - Lillian Beckwith
Volume 113 - #2 * ''The Slow Awakening'' - Catherine Marchant * ''Who Are the Debolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, 19 Steps Up the Mountain'' - Joseph P. Blank * ''Ghost Fox'' - James Archibald Houston, James Houston * ''In the Frame'' - Dick Francis
Volume 114 - #3 * ''Tisha'' - Robert Specht (author), Robert Specht * ''The Dragon'' - Alfred Coppel * ''Oliver's Story'' - Erich Segal * ''Majesty'' - Robert Lacey * ''Overboard'' -

Volume 115 - #4 * ''The Stone Bull'' - Phyllis Whitney * ''Enola Gay'' - Gordon Thomas (author), Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan Witts * ''Sadie Shapiro in Miami'' - 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'' - Bob Randall (author), Bob Randall

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 (Australian author), Alan Marshall
Volume 118 - #2 * ''Jaws 2'' -

* ''The Education of Little Tree'' - Asa Earl Carter, Forrest Carter * ''The Practice'' - Dr. Alan E. Nourse * ''Excellency'' - David Beaty (author), David Beaty
Volume 119 - #3 * ''A Stranger is Watching'' - Mary Higgins Clark * ''The Miracle of Dommatina'' - Ira Avery * ''The Last Convertible'' - Anton Myrer * ''Such a Life'' - Edith LaZebnik 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'' - Judith Richards * ''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 * ''Eye of the Needle (novel), Eye of the Needle'' - Ken Follett * ''Orphan Train'' - James Magnuson & Dorothea Petrie * ''Overload (novel), Overload'' - Arthur Hailey * ''A Dangerous Magic'' - Frances Lynch Volume 123 - #2 * ''Dinah, Blow Your Horn'' - Jack Bickham * ''War and Remembrance'' -

* ''How I Got to be Perfect'' - Jean Kerr
Volume 124 - #3 * ''Sunflower'' - Marilyn Sharp * ''Running Proud'' -

* ''Error of Judgment'' - Henry Denker * ''A Walk Across America'' - Peter Jenkins (travel author), Peter Jenkins Volume 125 - #4 * ''Sphinx (novel), Sphinx'' - Robin Cook (american novelist), Robin Cook * ''Cold is the Sea'' - Capt. Edward L. Beach Jr. * ''Words by Heart'' - Ouida Sebestyen * ''The North Runner'' - R. D. Lawrence * ''Intruder'' - Louis Charbonneau
Volume 126 - #5 * ''Hungry as the Sea'' - Wilbur Smith * ''The Tightrope Walker'' - Dorothy Gilman * ''The Passing Bells'' - Phillip Rock * ''Flesh and Spirit'' - Elizabeth Christman

1980s

1980

Volume 127 - #1 * ''Domino'' - Phyllis Whitney * ''Passage West'' - Dallas Miller * ''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 (writer), Richard Peck * ''Ice Brothers'' - Sloan Wilson * ''The Small Outsider'' - Joan Martin Hundley * ''The Silver Falcon'' - Evelyn Anthony Volume 130 - #3 * ''Thursday's Child '' - Victoria Poole * ''Random Winds'' - Belva Plain * ''A Very Private War'' -

* ''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 Truman, Bess and Harry Truman, Harry: An American Love Story'' - Jhan Robbins * ''The Wolf and the Buffalo'' - Elmer Kelton
Volume 132 - #5 * ''No Job for a Lady'' - Phyllis Lose, V.M.D. * ''The Key to Rebecca'' - Ken Follett * ''The Old Neighborhood'' - Avery Corman * ''A Piano for Mrs. Cimino'' - Robert Oliphant (author), Robert Oliphant * ''The Gold of Troy'' - Robert L. Fish

1981

Volume 133 - #1 * ''The Aviator'' -

* ''The Covenant (novel), The Covenant'' - James A. Michener * ''Hope'' - Richard Meryman * ''Bullet Train'' - Joseph Rance & Arei Kato
Volume 134 - #2 * ''One Child'' - Torey Hayden * ''Banners of Silk'' - Rosalind Laker * ''The Gentle Jungle'' - Toni Ringo Helfer * ''Reflex'' - Dick Francis
Volume 135 – M * ''Lincoln's Mothers: A Story of Nancy Lincoln, Nancy and Sally Lincoln'' - Dorothy Clarke Wilson * ''The Last Step'' - Rick Ridgeway * ''All the Days were Summer'' - Jack M. Bickham * ''Flight to Landfall'' - Gerald Glaskin, 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 (writer), Robert Byrne
Volume 137 - #4 * ''The Lord God Made Them All'' - James Herriot * ''An Exceptional Marriage'' - Jack Shepherd (writer), Jack Shepherd * ''Texas Dawn'' - Phillip Finch * ''Crossing in Berlin'' - Fletcher Knebel
Volume 138 - #5 * ''Vermilion'' - Phyllis Whitney * ''Totaled'' - Frances Rickett & Steven McGraw * ''Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ike and Mamie Eisenhower, Mamie: The Story of the General and His Lady'' - Lester David & Irene David * ''The Dark Horse'' -

* ''Fortress'' - Gabrielle Lord

1982

Volume 139 - #1 * ''Through the Narrow Gate'' - Karen Armstrong * ''Noble House (book), 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 (vet), David Taylor * ''The Man Who Lived at the Ritz'' - A. E. Hotchner
Volume 141 - M * ''Fever (Cook novel), Fever'' - Robin Cook (american novelist), Robin Cook * ''The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2'' - Peter Jenkins (travel author), Peter Jenkins * ''Gilded Splendour'' - Rosalind Laker * ''Twice Shy'' - Dick Francis Volume 142 - #3 * ''The Man from St. Petersburg'' - Ken Follett * ''Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier'' - Joanna Stratton * ''No Escape'' - Joseph Hayes * ''The Citadel (novel), The Citadel'' - A.J. Cronin
Volume 143 - #4 * ''Flanagan's Run'' - Tom McNab * ''A Parting Gift'' - Frances Sharkey, M.D. * ''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 (novel), 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'' - Mary Bringle * ''Banker'' - Dick Francis
Volume 147 - M * ''The Girl of the Sea of Cortez'' - Peter Benchley * ''Jedder's Land'' - Maureen O'Donoghue * ''Run Before the Wind'' - Stuart Woods * ''Impressionist: A Novel of Mary Cassatt'' - Joan King (author), Joan King Volume 148 - #3 * ''Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station'' - Dorothy Gilman * ''The Brea File'' - Louis Charbonneau * ''Growing Up (memoir), Growing Up'' - Russell Baker * ''Octavia's Hill'' - Margaret Dickson
Volume 149 - #4 * ''The Secret Annie Oakley'' - Marcy Heidish * ''Talk Down'' - Brian Lecomber * ''Jewelled Path'' - Rosalind Laker * ''A Solitary Dance'' - Robert Lane (author), Robert Lane
Volume 150 - #5 * ''Godplayer (novel), Godplayer'' - Robin Cook (american novelist), Robin Cook * ''The Suitcases'' - Anne Hall Whitt * ''The Time of the Hunter's Moon'' - Victoria Holt * ''Stalking Point'' - Duncan Kyle

1984

Volume 151 - #1 * ''The Children's Game'' - David Wise (journalist), David Wise * ''Beyond All Frontiers'' - Emma Drummond * ''The Incredible Journey'' - Sheila Burnford * ''From This Day Forward'' - Nancy Rossi
Volume 152 - #2 * ''Arnie, The Darling Starling'' - Margarete Sigl Corbo & Diane Marie Barras * ''Night Sky'' - Clare Francis * ''The Canyon'' - Jack Schaefer * ''If We Could Hear the Grass Grow'' - Eleanor Craig
Volume 153 - M * ''The Cop and The Kid'' - William Price Fox, William Fox with Noel Hynd * ''Tiger, Tiger'' - Philip Caveney * ''Kincaid'' - Henry Denker * ''The Whale of the Victoria Cross'' - Pierre Boulle Volume 154 - #3 * ''Skyscraper'' - Robert Byrne (author), Robert Byrne * ''A Shine of Rainbows'' - Lillian Beckwith * ''The Reckoning'' - Phillip Finch * ''Lady Washington'' - Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Volume 155 - #4 * ''Nop's Trials'' - Donald McCaig * ''Lee and Grant'' - Gene Smith (author), Gene Smith * ''Murder and the First Lady'' - Elliott Roosevelt (general), Elliott Roosevelt * ''Jennie About To Be'' - Elisabeth Ogilvie Volume 156 - #5 * ''Hanna and Walter'' - Hanna Kohner, Hanna & Walter Kohner * ''Stormswift'' - Madeleine Brent * ''The Sound of Wings'' - Spencer Dunmore * ''Surprise Party'' - William Katz

1985

Volume 157 - #1 * ''Lovestrong'' - Dorothy Greenbaum, MD & Deidre Laiken * ''Stillwatch'' - Mary Higgins Clark * ''Crescent City'' - Belva Plain * ''The Wild Children'' - Felice Holman
Volume 158 - #2 * ''Julie'' - Catherine Marshall * ''Strong Medicine (novel), Strong Medicine'' - Arthur Hailey * ''Polsinney Harbour'' - Mary E. Pearce * ''Proof'' - Dick Francis
Volume 159 - M * ''The State of Stony Lonesome'' - Jessamyn West (writer), Jessamyn West * ''At The Going Down of the Sun'' - Elizabeth Darrell (writer), Elizabeth Darrell * ''Callanish'' - William Horwood (novelist), William Horwood * ''Find a Safe Place'' - Alexander Lazzarino & E. Kent Hayes Volume 160 - #3 * ''In Love and War'' - Jim Stockdale, Jim & Sybil Stockdale * ''Ringo, the Robber Raccoon'' - Robert Franklin Leslie * ''This Giving Heart'' - Hugh Miller (author), Hugh Miller * ''Twilight Child'' - Warren Adler
Volume 161 - #4 * ''Robert, My Son'' - Henry Denker * ''The Bannaman Legacy'' - Catherine Cookson * ''The Cheetahs'' - Alan Caillou * ''This Shining Land'' - Rosalind Laker
Volume 162 - #5 * ''Voices on the Wind'' - Evelyn Anthony * ''Trauma'' - John Fried & John G. West, MD * ''The Donkey's Gift'' - Thomas M. Coffey * ''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'' - Margarete Corbo & Diane Marie Barras * ''Take Away One'' - Thomas Froncek * ''The Two Farms'' - Mary Pearce
Volume 164 - #2 * ''An Ark on the Flood'' - Anne Knowles (author), Anne Knowles * ''The Seventh Secret'' - Irving Wallace * ''Come Spring'' - Charlotte Hinger * ''Break In'' - Dick Francis
Volume 165 - M * ''Deep Lie'' - Stuart Woods * ''Bess Truman, Bess W. Truman: An American Courtship'' - Margaret Truman * ''In A Place Dark and Secret'' - Phillip Finch * ''The Summer of the Barshinskeys'' - Diane Pearson Volume 166 - #3 * ''Lie Down with Lions'' - Ken Follett * ''Tree of Gold'' - Rosalind Laker * ''The Deep End'' - Joy Fielding * ''Cry Wild'' - R. D. Lawrence
Volume 167 - #4 * ''Silversword'' - Phyllis Whitney * ''Texas (novel), Texas'' - James Michener * ''Bracken'' - Elizabeth Webster Volume 168 - #5 * ''The Judgment'' - Howard Goldfluss * ''Kaffir Boy'' - Mark Mathabane * ''Unnatural Causes'' - Mark Olshaker * ''Queen Dolley Madison, Dolley'' - Dorothy Clarke Wilson

1987

Volume 169 - #1 * ''A Matter of Honour, A Matter of Honor'' - Jeffrey Archer * ''The Golden Cup'' - Belva Plain * ''Stepping Down from the Star'' - Alexandra Costa * ''A Deadly Presence'' - Hjalmer Thesen Volume 170 - #2 * ''A Place To Hide'' - Evelyn Anthony * ''A Time For Heroes'' - Will Bryant * ''East and West'' -

* ''Nightshade'' - Gloria Murphy
Volume 171 - M * ''Carter's Castle'' - Wilbur Wright (author), Wilbur Wright * ''New Orleans Legacy'' - Alexandra Ripley * ''To Kill the Potemkin'' - Mark Joseph (author), Mark Joseph * ''Anne Frank Remembered'' - Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold 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 * ''Windmills of the Gods'' - Sidney Sheldon * ''Unholy Matrimony'' - John Dillmann * ''The Silver Touch'' - Rosalind Laker * ''Outbreak (novel), Outbreak'' - Robin Cook (American novelist), Robin Cook
Volume 174 - #5 * ''Patriot Games'' - Tom Clancy * ''Snow on the Wind'' - Hugh Miller (witer), 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 (book), Not Without My Daughter'' - Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer * ''The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall'' - Ridley Pearson * ''O Come Ye Back to Ireland'' - Niall Williams (writer), Niall Williams & Christine Breen
Volume 176 - #2 * ''Hot Money'' - Dick Francis * ''Jenny's Mountain'' - Elaine Long * ''Trespass'' - Phillip Finch * ''Sara Dane'' - Catherine Gaskin
Volume 177 - M * ''Wolf Winter'' - Clare Francis * ''Johnnie Alone'' - Elizabeth Webster * ''Man With a Gun'' - Robert Daley * ''Winner'' - Maureen O'Donoghue Volume 178 - #3 * ''Mortal Fear (novel), Mortal Fear'' - Robin Cook (american novelist), Robin Cook * ''Just Another Kid'' - Torey Hayden * ''Rockets' Red Glare'' - Greg Dinallo * ''Brownstone Facade'' - Catherine M. Rae
Volume 179 - #4 * ''Tsunami'' - Richard Martin Stern * ''The Harrogate Secret'' - Catherine Cookson * ''The Charm School (novel), The Charm School'' - Nelson DeMille * ''A Walk in the Dark'' - Joyce Stranger
Volume 180 - #5 * ''The India Fan'' - Victoria Holt * ''Mannequin'' - Robert Byrne (author), Robert Byrne * ''Lady of No Man's Land'' - Jeanne Williams * ''Wildtrack'' - Bernard Cornwell

1989

Volume 181 - #1 * ''A Gift of Life'' - Henry Denker * ''Daddy'' - Loup Durand * ''Norman Rockwell's Greatest Painting'' - Hollis Hodges * ''Murder in the Oval Office'' - Elliott Roosevelt (general), Elliott Roosevelt
Volume 182 - #2 * ''The Edge'' - Dick Francis * ''Alaska (novel), Alaska'' - James Michener * ''Thornyhold'' - Mary Stewart (novelist), Mary Stewart Volume 183 - M * ''Doctors (novel), Doctors'' - Erich Segal * ''Gracie Allen, Gracie'' - George Burns * ''The Giant's Shadow'' - Thomas Bontly * ''The Toothache Tree'' - Jack Galloway (author), Jack Galloway Volume 184 - #3 * ''Morning Glory'' - LaVyrle Spencer * ''Toy Soldiers'' - William P. Kennedy * ''Trail'' - Louis Charbonneau * ''Prospect'' - Bill Littlefield
Volume 185 - #4 * ''While My Pretty One Sleeps'' - Mary Higgins Clark * ''The Bailey Chronicles'' - Catherine Cookson * ''The Negotiator (novel), The Negotiator'' - Frederick Forsyth * ''Hallapoosa'' - Robert Newton Peck
Volume 186 - #5 * ''Killer's Wake'' - Bernard Cornwell * ''Blessings'' - Belva Plain * ''Grass Roots (novel), Grass Roots'' - Stuart Woods * ''Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, Alice and Edith Roosevelt, Edith'' - Dorothy Clarke Wilson

1990s

1990

Volume 187 - #1 * ''Tiebreaker'' - Jack Bickham * ''What was Good About Today'' - Carol Kruckeberg * ''California Gold'' - John Jakes * ''Monkeys on the Interstate'' - Jack Hanna w/ John Stravinsky
Volume 188 - #2 * ''Straight'' - Dick Francis * ''No Roof But Heaven'' - Jeanne Williams * ''The Evening News'' - Arthur Hailey * ''The Courtship of Peggy McCoy'' - Ray Sipherd
Volume 189 - M * ''The Lady of the Labyrinth'' - Caroline Llewellyn * ''The Himmler Equation'' - William P. Kennedy * ''Flying Free'' - Dan True * ''A Time to Love'' - Beryl Kingston Volume 190 - #3 * ''Harmful Intent (novel), Harmful Intent'' - Robin Cook (American novelist), Robin Cook * ''The Flight of the Swan'' - Elizabeth Webster * ''The Estuary Pilgrim'' - Douglas Skeggs * ''Manifest Destiny'' - Brian Garfield
Volume 191 - #4 * ''Cold Harbour'' - Jack Higgins * ''Circle of Pearls'' - Rosalind Laker * ''The Grizzly King, The Bear'' - James Oliver Curwood * ''Finders Keepers'' - Barbara Nickolae
Volume 192 - #5 * ''Harvest'' - Belva Plain * ''Purpose of Evasion'' - Greg Dinallo * ''Snare of Serpents'' - Victoria Holt * ''Coyote Waits'' - Tony Hillerman

1991

Volume 193 - #1 * ''Trial'' - Clifford Irving * ''September (novel), 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'' - Patricia Robinson (writer), Patricia Robinson
Volume 195 - #3 * ''The Firm (novel), The Firm'' - John Grisham * ''Payment in Full'' - Henry Denker * ''Final Approach'' - John J. Nance * ''Home Ground'' - Hugh Miller (writer), Hugh Miller Volume 196 - #4 * ''As the Crow Flies (novel), As the Crow Flies'' - Jeffrey Archer * ''Home Mountain'' - Jeanne Williams * ''MacKinnon's Machine'' - S. K. Wolf * ''Seal Morning'' - Rowena Farre
Volume 197 - #5 * ''The Eagle Has Flown'' - Jack Higgins * ''Aspen Gold'' - Janet Dailey * ''The Ice'' - Louis Charbonneau * ''Lightning in July'' - Ann L. McLaughlin
Volume 198 - #6 * ''Loves Music, Loves to Dance'' - Mary Higgins Clark * ''Lost and Found'' - Marilyn Harris (writer), 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 (Benchley novel), Beast'' - Peter Benchley * ''Dear Family'' - Camilla Bittle
Volume 200 - #2 * ''Comeback'' - Dick Francis * ''Scarlett (Ripley novel), Scarlett'' - Alexandra Ripley * ''The Deceiver (novel), The Deceiver'' - Frederick Forsyth Volume 201 - #3 * ''Acts of Faith'' - Erich Segal * ''Hard Fall'' - Ridley Pearson * ''Bygones'' - LaVyrle Spencer * ''The Stormy Petrel'' - Mary Stewart (novelist), Mary Stewart Volume 202 - #4 * ''Such Devoted Sisters'' - Eileen Goudge * ''Rules of Encounter'' - William P. Kennedy * ''The Love Child'' - Catherine Cookson * ''American Gothic'' - Gene Smith (writer), Gene Smith
Volume 203 - #5 * ''The Pelican Brief'' - John Grisham * ''Treasures'' - Belva Plain * ''Eye of the Storm'' - Jack Higgins * ''The Island Harp'' - Jeanne Williams
Volume 204 - #6 * ''Tangled Vines'' - Janet Dailey * ''Stalk'' - Louis Charbonneau * ''Anna'' - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles * ''The Leading Lady'' - Betty White & Tom Sullivan (author), Tom Sullivan

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'' - Robert Franklin Leslie
Volume 207 - #3 * ''Mrs. Washington and Horowitz, Too'' - Henry Denker * ''Point of Impact (Stephen Hunter novel), Point of Impact'' - Stephen Hunter * ''November of the Heart'' - LaVyrle Spencer * ''Shooting Script'' - Gordon Cotler Volume 208 - #4 * ''The Client (novel), The Client'' - John Grisham * ''Sweet Water'' - Christina Baker Kline * ''Slow Through Eden'' - Gordon Glasco * ''The Longest Road'' - Jeanne Williams
Volume 209 - #5 * ''Thunder Point'' - Jack Higgins * ''The Venetian Mask'' - Rosalind Laker * ''Final Argument'' - Clifford Irving * ''Whispers'' - Belva Plain
Volume 210 - #6 * ''The Cat Who Went Into the Closet'' - 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 novel), 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'' - Mary Pearce * ''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'' - Janet Edmonds * ''Hardscape'' - Justin Scott (writer), Justin Scott Volume 214 - #4 * ''Fatal Cure (novel), Fatal Cure'' - Robin Cook (American novelist), Robin Cook * ''The Wrong House'' - Carol McD. Wallace * ''Red Ink'' - Greg Dinallo * ''Having Our Say'' - Sarah Louise Delany, Sadie and Annie Elizabeth Delany, Bessie Delany
Volume 215 - #5 * ''Daybreak'' - Belva Plain * ''Disclosure (novel), Disclosure'' - Michael Crichton * ''St. Agnes' Stand'' - Tom Eidson * ''The Fist of God'' - Frederick Forsyth
Volume 216 - #6 * ''Hidden Riches'' - Nora Roberts * ''Phoenix Rising'' - John J. Nance, John Nance * ''Roommates'' - Max Apple * ''White Harvest'' - Louis Charbonneau

1995

Volume 217 - #1 * ''The Chamber (novel), The Chamber'' - John Grisham * ''Remember Me (Mary Higgins Clark novel), Remember Me'' - Mary Higgins Clark * ''The Intruders (novel), The Intruders'' - Stephen Coonts * ''The Acorn Winter'' - Elizabeth Webster (author), Elizabeth Webster
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 (novel), Prizes'' - Erich Segal * ''Secret Missions'' - Michael Gannon (historian), Michael Gannon * ''Eyes of a Child (novel), Eyes of a Child'' - Richard North Patterson * ''More Than Meets the Eye'' - Joan Brock & Derek Gill (nonfiction), Derek Gill Volume 220 - #4 * ''Acceptable Risk (novel), Acceptable Risk'' - Robin Cook (American novelist), Robin Cook * ''Local Rules'' - Jay Brandon * ''Salem Street'' - Anna Jacobs * ''Fast Forward'' - Judy Mercer
Volume 221 - #5 * ''The Rainmaker (John Grisham), The Rainmaker'' - John Grisham * ''The Carousel'' - Belva Plain * ''Wedding Night'' - Gary Devon * ''Cloud Shadows'' - Elizabeth Webster (author), 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 (author), Harry Stein

1996

Volume 223 - #1 * ''A Place Called Freedom'' - Ken Follett * ''The Horse Whisperer (book), The Horse Whisperer'' - Nicholas Evans * ''The Apocalypse Watch'' - Robert Ludlum Volume 224 - #2 * ''Come To Grief'' - Dick Francis * ''Coming Home'' - Rosamunde Pilcher * ''Blaze'' - Robert Somerlott * ''That Camden Summer'' - LaVyrle Spencer
Volume 225 - #3 * ''The Final Judgment'' - Richard North Patterson * ''Nathan's Run'' - John Gilstrap * ''Dance of the Scarecrows'' - Ray Sipherd * ''Implant'' - F. Paul Wilson Volume 226 - #4 * ''Notorious'' - Janet Dailey * ''Snow Wolf'' - Glenn Meade * ''The Cat Who Said Cheese'' - Lilian Jackson Braun * ''Mirage'' - Soheir Khashoggi
Volume 227 - #5 * ''The Zero Hour'' - Joseph Finder * ''Rose (novel), 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'' - Elaine Clark McCarthy

1997

Volume 229 - #1 * ''The Runaway Jury'' - John Grisham * ''Critical Judgment'' - Michael Palmer (novelist), Michael Palmer * ''Icon (novel), Icon'' - Frederick Forsyth * ''Capitol Offense'' - Barbara Mikulski, Senator Barbara Mikulski & Mary Louise Oates
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 * ''A Woman's Place'' - Barbara Delinsky * ''The Unlikely Spy'' - Daniel Silva (novelist), Daniel Silva * ''The Cat Who Tailed a Thief'' - Lilian Jackson Braun * ''Beyond Recognition'' - Ridley Pearson Volume 232 - #4 * ''The Escape Artist'' - Diane Chamberlain * ''Airframe (novel), Airframe'' - Michael Crichton * ''Weeding Out the Tears'' - Jeanne White with Susan Dworkin * ''Infinity's Child'' - Harry Stein (author), Harry Stein These 1997 volumes were also published as ''

'', and all succeeding volumes were published as ''Reader's Digest Select Editions.'' RDCB-V21956.jpg RDCB-InARow.jpg RDCB-FastPaceLife.jpg RDCB-Dustjacket.jpg

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{{Reader's Digest Fiction anthologies Reader's Digest, Condensed Books Anthology series Book series introduced in 1950