Reader's Digest Condensed Books

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] Frequently featured authors in the original series include Dick Francis (17 titles), Henry Denker (16 titles), Victoria Holt (15 titles) and Mary Higgins Clark (13 titles).

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] and scholarly attention has been sparse.^[7]^[8]

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 US 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

The Wooden Horse – Eric Williams
Home Town – Cleveland Amory
Visibility Unlimited – Dick Grace
The Way West – A. B. Guthrie Jr.

Volume 3 – Autumn

The Cardinal – Henry Morton Robinson
Long the Imperial Way – Hanama Taski
Roosevelt in Retrospect – John Gunther
Young Man with a Horn – Dorothy Baker

1951

Volume 4 – Winter

Anybody Can Do Anything – Betty MacDonald
Elephant Bill – Lt. Col. J. H. Williams
Signal Thirty-Two – MacKinlay Kantor
German Faces – Ann Stringer 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 – Felix Holt
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
Giant – 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 – Jefferson Young
The Intruder – Helen Fowler

Volume 15 – Autumn

The Bridges at Toko-Ri – James A. Michener
Beyond This Place – A. J. Cronin
Life Among the Savages – Shirley Jackson
My Crowded Solitude – Jack McLaren
Digby – David Walker

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 – Howard Swiggett
"The Duchess and the Smugs" (A Wreath for the Enemy) – Pamela Frankau
Tomorrow! – Philip Wylie

Volume 19 – Autumn

The Dollmaker – Harriette Arnow
The Anatomy of a Crime – Joseph F. Dinneen
Love is Eternal – Irving Stone
Around a Rusty God – Augusta Walker
The High and the Mighty – Ernest K. Gann

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 – Dick Pearce

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 – Geoffrey Hoare
The Searchers – Alan Le May

Volume 21 – Spring

Good-bye, My Lady – James Street
The Dowry – Margaret Culkin Banning
The Day Lincoln Was Shot – Jim Bishop
The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant – Douglass Wallop
Flamingo Feather – Laurens van der Post

Volume 23 – Autumn

This is Goggle, or the Education of a Father – Bentz Plagemann
Run Silent, Run Deep – Commander Edward L. Beach, USN
Marjorie Morningstar – Herman Wouk
Last of the Curlews – Fred Bodsworth
First Train to Babylon – Max Ehrlich

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 – Charlotte Paul
The Long Ride Home – Bonner McMillion

Volume 25 – Spring

Captain of the Queens – Captain Harry Grattidge with Richard Collier
Beloved – Viña Delmar
In My Father's House – Grace Nies Fletcher
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

The Nun's Story – Kathryn Hulme
Merry Christmas, Mr. Baxter – Edward Streeter
The Success – Helen Howe
The Diamond Hitch – Frank O'Rourke
The Sleeping Partner – Winston Graham

1957

Volume 28 – Winter

Bon Voyage – 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

The Scapegoat – Daphne du Maurier
The Last Angry Man – Gerald Green
The Muses Are Heard – Truman Capote
The Fruit Tramp – Vinnie Williams
The Enemy Below – Commander D.A. Rayner

Volume 30 – Summer

The Lady – Conrad Richter
A Houseful of Love – Marjorie Housepian
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

Lobo – MacKinlay Kantor
The Century of the Surgeon – Jürgen Thorwald
By Love Possessed – James Gould Cozzens
"Duel with a Witch Doctor" (The Spiral Road) – Jan de Hartog
Warm Bodies – Donald R. Morris

1958

Volume 32 – Winter

The Green Helmet – Jon Cleary
Dunbar's Cove – Borden Deal
The Twentieth Maine – John J. Pullen
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 – Alexander Klein
The Man Who Broke Things – John Brooks
Murder on My Street – Edwin Lanham

Volume 34 – Summer

Seidman and Son – Elick Moll
The Northern Light – A. J. Cronin
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 – John P. Marquand
Green Mansions – W. H. Hudson
Tether's End – Margery Allingham

1959

Volume 36 – Winter

The Admen – Shepherd Mead
The Rainbow and the Rose – Nevil Shute
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
The Ugly American – William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
The White Room – Elizabeth Coatsworth
Woman of Straw – Catherine Arley

Volume 37 – Spring

The Secret Project of Sigurd O'Leary – Martin Quigley
Dear and Glorious Physician – Taylor Caldwell
Collision Course – Alvin Moscow
Jungle Girl – John Moore
Epitaph for an Enemy – George Barr

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) – John H. Culp
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

Jeremy Todd – Hamilton Maule
"From the Farm of Bitterness" (Hawaii) – James A. Michener
Pioneer, Go Home! – Richard Powell
The City That Would Not Die – Richard Collier
King Solomon's Ring – Konrad Z. Lorenz
The Triumph of Surgery – Jürgen Thorwald

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 – William M. Hardy

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

The Light in the Piazza – Elizabeth Spencer
Half Angel – Barbara Jefferis
A Sense of Values – Sloan Wilson
"Warpath" (Northwest Passage) – Kenneth Roberts
Marnie – Winston Graham

Volume 45 – Spring

Fate Is the Hunter – Ernest K. Gann
Peaceable Lane – 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 – 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) – Oliver Statler
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! – Willard Temple
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 – Franklin Russell

Volume 50 – Summer

The Tuntsa – Teppo Turen 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

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
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
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

Naked Came I: A Novel of Rodin – David Weiss
Joy in the Morning – Betty Smith
The Peregrine Falcon – Robert Murphy
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
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 – Bentz Plagemann
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 – Rodello Hunter

Volume 63 – Autumn

Airs Above the Ground – Mary Stewart
Up the Down Staircase – Bel Kaufman
Those Who Love – Irving Stone
The Kon-Tiki Expedition – 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 – 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 – John Rowan Wilson
Avalon – Anya Seton
Children of Hope – Elsie E. Vignec
Congo Kitabu – Jean-Pierre Hallet with Alex Pelle
Power Play – The Gordons

Volume 66 – Summer

Rafe – Weldon Hill
Churchill: The Struggle for Survival – Lord Moran
Here Come the Brides – Geraldine Napier
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 – D.R. Sherman

1967

Volume 68 – Winter

The Town and Dr. Moore – Agatha Young
The Captain – Jan de Hartog
Flight from a Firing Wall – Baynard Kendrick
The Headmaster – John McPhee
I Start Counting – Audrey Erskine Lindop

Volume 69 – Spring

My Boy John That Went to Sea – 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 – Borden Deal
Currahee! – Donald R. Burgett
The Walking Stick – Winston Graham

Volume 71 – Autumn

Christy – Catherine Marshall
Life with Father – Clarence Day
The Fox and the Hound – Daniel P. Mannix
Nicholas and Alexandra – Robert K. Massie
The Gabriel Hounds – 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 – 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 – Charles Mercer
Mayo: The Story of My Family and My Career – Dr. 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
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 – 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 Martin
The Witness – Dorothy Uhnak

Volume 81 – Spring

Kim: A Gift from Vietnam – Frank W. Chinnock
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 – Gene Smith

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 – Winston M. Estes

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 – Rachel MacKenzie
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 – Ellen Bromfield Geld
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 – Mel Ellis
Event 1000 – David Lavallee
Bring Me a Unicorn – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Hearts – 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 – Gerald Green
The Shape of Illusion – Wm. E.Barrett
Duel in the Snow – Hans Meissner

Volume 91 – Autumn

The Waltz Kings: Johann Strauss, Father & 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

A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax – Dorothy Gilman
The Camerons – Robert Crichton
The Japanese – Jack Seward
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 – 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 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 – Mary Carter
The Kappillan of Malta – Nicholas Monsarrat
In Darkness – Roger Bourgeon
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 – Rodello Hunter

1975

Volume 102 – #1

Our John Willie – Catherine Cookson
Centennial – James A. Michener
Harlequin – Morris West
Eric – Doris Lund

Volume 103 – #2

Lost! – Thomas Thompson
Baker's Hawk – Jack Bickham
The Physicians – Henry Denker
God and Mr. Gomez – Jack Smith
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 – Spencer Dunmore

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

The Great Train Robbery – Michael Crichton
I Take Thee, Serenity – Daisy Newman
Bill W. – Robert Thomsen
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

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 – Sarah Patterson
The Olmec Head – David Westheimer
The Matthew Tree – H. T. Wright
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 – Sue Ellen Bridgers
The Glory Boys – Gerald Seymour
The Spuddy – Lillian Beckwith

Volume 113 – #2

The Slow Awakening – Catherine Marchant
19 Steps Up the Mountain – Joseph P. Blank
Ghost Fox – James Houston
In the Frame – Dick Francis

Volume 114 – #3

Tisha – Robert Specht
The Dragon – Alfred Coppel
Oliver's Story – Erich Segal
Majesty – Robert Lacey
Overboard – Hank Searls

Volume 115 – #4

The Stone Bull – Phyllis Whitney
Enola Gay – 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

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 – 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 – Ken Follett
Orphan Train – James Magnuson & Dorothea Petrie
Overload – Arthur Hailey
A Dangerous Magic – Frances Lynch

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 – Marilyn Sharp
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 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
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 – 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 – 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
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 – 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 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

The Lord God Made Them All – James Herriot
An Exceptional Marriage – Jack Shepherd
Texas Dawn – Phillip Finch
Crossing in Berlin – Fletcher Knebel

Volume 138 – #5

Vermilion – Phyllis Whitney
Totaled – Frances Rickett & Steven McGraw
Ike and Mamie: The Story of the General and His Lady – Lester David & Irene David
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 – 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 – 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 – 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

Volume 148 – #3

Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station – Dorothy Gilman
The Brea File – Louis Charbonneau
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

Volume 150 – #5

Godplayer – 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
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 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
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
Murder and the First Lady – Elliott Roosevelt
Jennie About To Be – Elisabeth Ogilvie

Volume 156 – #5

Hanna and Walter – 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 – Arthur Hailey
Polsinney Harbour – Mary E. Pearce
Proof – Dick Francis

Volume 159 – M

The State of Stony Lonesome – Jessamyn West
At The Going Down of the Sun – Elizabeth Darrell
Callanish – William Horwood
Find a Safe Place – Alexander Lazzarino & E. Kent Hayes

Volume 160 – #3

In Love and War – Jim & Sybil Stockdale
Ringo, the Robber Raccoon – Robert Franklin Leslie
This Giving Heart – 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
The Seventh Secret – Irving Wallace
Come Spring – Charlotte Hinger
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 – 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 – James Michener
Bracken – Elizabeth Webster

Volume 168 – #5

The Judgment – Howard Goldfluss
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 – 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 – Gerald Green
Nightshade – Gloria Murphy

Volume 171 – M

Carter's Castle – Wilbur Wright
New Orleans Legacy – Alexandra Ripley
To Kill the Potemkin – 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 – Robin Cook

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 William Hoffer
The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall – Ridley Pearson
O Come Ye Back to Ireland – 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 – 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 – Nelson DeMille
A Walk in the Dark – Joyce Stranger

Volume 180 – #5

The India Fan – Victoria Holt
Mannequin – 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

Volume 182 – #2

Volume 183 – M

Doctors – Erich Segal
Gracie – George Burns
The Giant's Shadow – Thomas Bontly
The Toothache Tree – 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 – Frederick Forsyth
Hallapoosa – Robert Newton Peck

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 – 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 – 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 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 – 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

Volume 195 – #3

The Firm – John Grisham
Payment in Full – Henry Denker
Final Approach – John J. Nance
Home Ground – Hugh Miller

Volume 196 – #4

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
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 – Camilla Bittle

Volume 200 – #2

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 – Eileen Goudge
Rules of Encounter – William P. Kennedy
The Love Child – Catherine Cookson
American Gothic – 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

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
November of the Heart – LaVyrle Spencer
Shooting Script – Gordon Cotler

Volume 208 – #4

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
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

Volume 214 – #4

Fatal Cure – Robin Cook
The Wrong House – Carol McD. Wallace
Red Ink – Greg Dinallo
Having Our Say – Sadie and Bessie Delany

Volume 215 – #5

Daybreak – Belva Plain
Disclosure – Michael Crichton
St. Agnes' Stand – Tom Eidson
The Fist of God – Frederick Forsyth

Volume 216 – #6

Hidden Riches – Nora Roberts
Phoenix Rising – John Nance
Roommates – Max Apple
White Harvest – Louis Charbonneau

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 – Joan Brock & Derek Gill

Volume 220 – #4

Acceptable Risk – Robin Cook
Local Rules – Jay Brandon
Salem Street – Anna Jacobs
Fast Forward – Judy Mercer

Volume 221 – #5

The Rainmaker – John Grisham
The Carousel – Belva Plain
Wedding Night – Gary Devon
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 – 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 – 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
Icon – Frederick Forsyth
Capitol Offense – 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
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief – Lilian Jackson Braun
Beyond Recognition – Ridley Pearson

Volume 232 – #4

The Escape Artist – Diane Chamberlain
Airframe – Michael Crichton
Weeding Out the Tears – Jeanne White with Susan Dworkin
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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